With the new calendar year many people have continued the old traditions of making resolutions or cleaning out the closets. This is also a great time to do the same in our professional lives. Pick an area of your organization, or a process in your company, and review it for effectiveness. Clean out some of the old and inefficient procedures and start a fresh approach to some of your processes with the beginning of the new year.

Since many business organizations operate on a fiscal year, this can be a great opportunity to make some changes and test run them for the remainder of the year. Maybe you can find something that is unique and previously had been overlooked by examining your business in the middle of the fiscal year instead of at the end, when everyone is clamoring for reports, project deadlines, and final results.

You also may want to take a look at the assets of your business. What tools or vehicles are being underutilized? What facility projects would provide an attractive ROI in the topsy-turvey economic climate today? Do we have any green initiatives that may be financially viable due to the high cost of energy now?

Clean your closets out literally and figuratively this New Year and see what exciting things may happen.