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Get Your Business Out of Your Head: A Practical Process Mapping Workshop

Nov
3
2026
Tue, Nov 3 11:00 AM to 12:30 AM

Could someone step into your business tomorrow and keep the wheels on the bus?

As businesses grow, processes often develop informally. Important steps live in the owner’s head, employees learn by watching others, and “that’s just how we do it” becomes the system. While that may work for a while, it can make it increasingly difficult to delegate, train employees, improve operations, automate, and scale.

In this interactive workshop, we’ll walk through a simple process-mapping exercise designed to help you get the day-to-day operations of your business out of your head and onto paper. You’ll learn how to uncover the small, often-overlooked steps within your processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, and begin building a clearer roadmap for stronger systems and sustainable growth.

By the end of this workshop, you will:

  • Learn a simple, repeatable exercise for identifying and mapping the processes within your business.
  • Understand how to uncover the “obvious” or assumed steps that often create inconsistencies and training gaps.
  • Identify bottlenecks, single-person dependencies, inefficiencies, and other areas that may be limiting growth.
  • Recognize when an employee challenge may actually point to a training or process gap.
  • Understand how process mapping creates a foundation for SOPs, delegation, automation, continuity, and scalability.
  • Begin mapping a real process from your own business and leave with a practical approach you can continue using afterward.
  • Start shifting critical business knowledge out of your head and into systems that can support the future of your business.

Fee: No Cost

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Phone: (615) 898-2745
Email: mtsu@tsbdc.org

Location

Murfreesboro | TSBDC of Middle Tennessee State University
Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce
3050 Medical Center Parkway Murfreesboro, TN 37129