Whiteboards are most often associated with an educational setting or maybe even with boring sales seminars. You rarely associate them with anything else. It's amazing how very few entrepreneurs have a whiteboard in use at their home office. It's an essential business tool!Why would a business person working from home need a whiteboard? That's easy to answer with one single word - organization. A whiteboard gives you
single best way you can have to stay organized in a hectic world.
You all know how it goes. You get a phone call or have a sudden brainstorm of ideas. The idea or note gets scribbled on a piece of paper and left on your desk. It may or may not get actioned by you. Later in day you have another idea which also gets scribbled on a scrap of paper and left on top of your other notes on desk. Tasks, jobs, callbacks and customers get lost, missed and forgotten.
Now switch things around. If you had a whiteboard in your office next idea or appointment you have gets put up there instead. No matter where you sit in your office you can see it. You're constantly reminded of it. You have to do something about it. One thing is certain you most certainly won't forget it.
You can easily section off your whiteboard into two columns and a single header row. The header row can contain one or two long term goals so you're constantly reminded of where your business is going and why you're working so hard. Column one then contains urgent appointments or tasks. Column 2 contains ideas for new products, service or promotions. The act of actually standing up and writing on whiteboard stimulates even more ideas so your biggest problem might be running out of space.
