{"id":4428,"date":"2020-06-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonusbenefits.com\/the-power-of-starting-small\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:06:42","slug":"the-power-of-starting-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonusbenefits.com\/the-power-of-starting-small\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Starting Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Chances are if you&rsquo;ve been working at your company long enough, you&rsquo;ve developed some fantastic ideas for growth and improvement. No matter what department you&rsquo;re in, there is always room for growth, and inevitably there are those big beautiful dreams that get talked about wistfully but with no real commitment.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You know what I&rsquo;m talking about: those pipe-dream projects, ideas that would be amazing if only there were&nbsp;<\/span><span>*fill in the blank*<\/span><span>&nbsp;to make it happen.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Every company has&nbsp;<\/span><i><span>at least<\/span><\/i><span>&nbsp;one of these projects. Take a moment to think about your company. What projects has everyone agreed would be fantastic if only there were&hellip;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>enough time&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>enough human resources<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>someone with the experience<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>add excuse here<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>&hellip;to make it happen.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You might be feeling a little defensive thinking, &ldquo;<\/span><i><span>Those aren&rsquo;t excuses if they are real issues getting in our way.&rdquo;<\/span><\/i><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let me tell you something. There will always be real issues that stand in the way of getting a project successfully implemented. What makes them&nbsp;<\/span><i><span>excuses<\/span><\/i><span>&nbsp;is the switch from seeing them as challenges to&nbsp;<\/span><i><span>reasons not to proceed<\/span><\/i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Reframe the problem&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p><span>While there may be plenty of challenges created by a big project that has halted it in its tracks, those problems often stem from one source.&nbsp;Not enough time, not enough people, not enough experience, are all results of looking at a project from a macro point of view.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>What. What? How is a lack of time connected to my point of view?&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><i><span>And<\/span><\/i><i><span>&nbsp;why would my point of view affect my resources?<\/span><\/i><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When you dream up a big project&mdash;improving your customer experience, for instance&mdash;you see every aspect that needs work. You see the processes to be developed, templates, emails, updated web pages, and follow-up campaigns. You see new training for the sales team and the audit of what you already have.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What you see is a birds-eye-view of the entire project&mdash;all the work, all at once.&nbsp;Who has time and energy to do all that? No one.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><span>Now let&rsquo;s experiment. Pick one aspect of that project&mdash;we&rsquo;ll use customer follow-up for this example. To get the ball rolling, write one follow-up email for customers who&rsquo;ve tried a specific product, taken a quiz, or attended a webinar. Easy enough, right? You have time in your day to write one email.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now save that email to use repeatedly.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And just like that, you see the problem. It isn&rsquo;t that you don&rsquo;t have the time or the workforce; it&rsquo;s that you&rsquo;ve been looking at the project from a wide-angle point of view.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Small steps&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p><span>Whether you&rsquo;re a&nbsp;<\/span><span>one-person<\/span><span>&nbsp;company or have 100 people on your team, this process can be applied almost every time. Start by creating your big picture. Write down all the&nbsp;<\/span><span>beautiful<\/span><span>&nbsp;things you want to complete&mdash;don&rsquo;t be stingy. Include your goals for each part of the project. What are you trying to accomplish?<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now step back. Take a nice long look at the whole thing and pick one aspect to start. The trick is to break it up into bite-sized pieces and spread it out over a reasonable amount of time.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You don&rsquo;t have to do everything all at once. In fact, you really can&rsquo;t. So don&rsquo;t try. Set small, achievable goals.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Use each small step as a brick in the tower of your dreams. Don&rsquo;t allow yourself to become bogged down by the greatness of what you imagine. Every great accomplishment is built out of a thousand small achievements.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So go ahead, dream big. Just do yourself a favor and start small.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><em>Content provided by&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.q4intel.com\/employers\/\"><em>Q4iNetwork<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;and partners<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.123rf.com\/profile_denisgo\">Yuliya Rosher<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=1652561&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Finsights.q4intel.com%2Femployers%2Fthe-power-of-starting-small&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Finsights.q4intel.com%252Femployers&amp;bvt=rss\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are if you&rsquo;ve been working at your company long enough, you&rsquo;ve developed some fantastic ideas for growth and improvement. No matter what department you&rsquo;re in, there is always room for growth, and inevitably there are those big beautiful dreams that get talked about wistfully but with no real commitment.&nbsp;&nbsp; You know what I&rsquo;m talking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4431,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[30,39],"tags":[32,40],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Power of Starting Small - Sonus Benefits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/insights.q4intel.com\/employers\/the-power-of-starting-small\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Power of Starting Small - Sonus Benefits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chances are if you&rsquo;ve been working at your company long enough, you&rsquo;ve developed some fantastic ideas for growth and improvement. 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