2016 is almost here – and with it comes the chance to make a fresh start for your company.

No matter what sort of business challenges you struggled with last year – hitting production goals, managing turnover, controlling expenses – the New Year brings new opportunities to reinvent your organization, re-energize your team and turn over a new leaf.

Don’t miss your chance! If you’re ready to shake things up, here are 3 pieces of advice from the Exact Staff team to help you make a fresh start in 2016:

Get out of your box.

The same approaches, the same products and the same services will yield (you guessed it) the SAME RESULTS. The best way to get out of your rut? Try something different! Here are two suggestions for you and your team:

• Get outside your comfort zone. You never know where your company’s next great idea or source of inspiration may come from. It could be from reading a new book, visiting a museum, attending a thought-provoking presentation, taking a class or even talking to a stranger. Challenge your employees to try new things – it’s a sure-fire way to get their creative juices flowing and spark innovation.
• Test a new idea. Should you expand your offerings? Enter a new market? Diversify your business? You’ll never know unless you try. Exact Staff can provide project support to try out a new idea or free your core team to test new concepts.

Make it okay to fail.

To make a new start, you need to take risks. So build a culture that supports calculated risk-taking and outlines parameters for doing so. And when your employees fail, don’t punish them. Support them, learn what you can from their mistakes, and use that knowledge to create a roadmap for future success.

Don’t let perfection paralyze you.

Striving for excellence is admirable, but if pursuit of perfection blinds you to pursuing other smart opportunities, it can actually thwart your growth and change. Be smart about what things actually require “gold plating” in your business – and then create guidelines for areas of your business in which “great” is good enough.

Make your fresh start a success with help from Exact Staff.

No matter what you want to achieve in 2016, Exact Staff can help you get off to a great start. Whether you need short-term assistance, project professionals or talented people to grow your core team, we have the resources and national reach to help you attain your business goals.