Managed IT Services
Intelligent remote monitoring, proactive maintenance, and behind-the-scenes remote support.
Our mission is to help Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia businesses increase productivity and get more out of the technology you invest in.
We specialize in solutions that safeguard and protect your data and keep operations running smoothly.
Intelligent remote monitoring, proactive maintenance, and behind-the-scenes remote support.
Protect your business from threats like malware, viruses, phishing attacks, hackers and other threads.
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There are a lot of computer shops out there that you can call up to fix an issue or install a piece of equipment. They might be able to get you out of crisis mode, but they aren’t looking at the full picture.
At Patriot Tech Services Inc., we understand business. We consult. We provide solutions to solve everyday challenges. We just happen to fix computers as well.
We believe (and have proven) that if you proactively manage technology, run maintenance religiously, and monitor a business network, everyday issues and downtime will be greatly reduced.
This is what makes us different than your typical tech support company. Sure, we can fix computer issues when you have them, but our specialty is preventing them in the first place.
Are you looking for a partner you can trust your IT with? Sign up for a FREE IT Assessment to get started today.
If you tend to make business decisions with complete independence and minimal delegation, you meet the criteria to make you an autocratic leader. This leadership style can be immensely helpful when control and decisiveness are necessary, as decisions can be made and acted upon more quickly.
Still, autocratic leadership has some drawbacks: it can lead to micromanagement and stifle creativity. These drawbacks can be mitigated somewhat by adding different leadership styles to your team.
If you defer to the rules and traditions, maintain a clear chain of command, and generally adhere to proven and traditional methods of doing things, you most likely exhibit a more bureaucratic style in your leadership methods. This can be extremely effective—particularly in well-established businesses, as it helps make operations more predictable and consistent. That said, this level of commitment can also stifle innovation amongst the team and is often not well suited to a company invested in rapid growth.
If you structure your internal teams by considering each employee’s strengths and capabilities, you likely follow a coaching (or conscious) leadership style. By assigning team members new tasks and providing feedback to help them improve—particularly through collaboration amongst their peers—you help grow the skills your business will need to succeed. This form of leadership can also infuse your business with a strong company culture that sometimes lasts longer than some people’s employment.
However, this approach doesn’t necessarily work with every employee and often requires a significant time investment. However, succeeding in these efforts can help boost performance to significant levels.
A team where everyone has a voice and is encouraged to collaborate is one where the leader follows a democratic leadership style. This allows numerous perspectives to play into the equation, which both helps keep employees engaged and ultimately improves outcomes. That said, this approach to leadership can be time-consuming and runs the risk of some decisions being swayed by people without the perspective to make informed choices.
Laissez-faire leadership (literally translating to “let them do” leadership) is based on trust, empowerment, and autonomy. Instead of guiding every single step of a process, laissez-faire leaders hold their team members accountable for their roles and responsibilities while focusing on the higher-level tasks required to keep the business running. Many employees feel valued while working under this management style, but it can leave new employees without the guidance they’d like and established employees working in silos.
If someone spends time “in the trenches” with their team, setting a high example and holding their employees to an equally high standard, they use a pacesetting strategy to guide their leadership. This approach significantly supports morale and helps encourage a team to feel motivated and gratified.
However, it is important that the pace isn’t unrealistic, which can demotivate a team and accelerate burnout, and that leadership is still willing to accept input and feedback.
With so many different personalities and circumstances present in most businesses, there’s rarely one approach to management that works all the time. A situational leader adjusts their style to reflect the reality they are operating in, enabling them to be flexible and communicate more effectively to better lead their team.
There are some challenges to pulling this approach off as well. These kinds of leaders need to be able to balance short-term and long-term business needs while also maintaining some level of familiarity with effectively every function within the business.
Strategic leadership combines executives' interests with those of the rest of a team. It focuses on seeing everyone succeed in accomplishing the standard business goals—being more productive, collaborating more effectively, and increasing accountability are just some examples. This approach can work great, as it helps raise all ships, but it is also important to balance a focus on the future with attention to the present.
Regardless of which of these approaches resonated with you the most—or if you’ve decided to try a different one—having the right technology for your business will help you optimize its operations even more and become an even more effective leader.
That’s where we come in. If you’d like to learn more about the IT solutions and services we provide to help make your business more efficient, secure, and productive, call us at 877-874-4629 today.
You cannot leave IT support to your employees, especially when they have not been trained and lack the technological experience to solve specific problems. Sometimes, businesses might leave it to their employees to solve their own technological challenges, but this is counterintuitive. By giving your employees someone to ask about IT-related issues they might experience, you can make your team more effective and efficient.
Help desks used to essentially make their fortunes by charging by the hour or by contact. In essence, their business model was based around indirectly exploiting your employees who would contact them for assistance with any small thing that was challenging them (and sometimes taking too long to solve the problem). If employees know they are costing the business too much money by asking for help, they might not seek out the help out of fear of retribution. A comprehensive managed help desk, on the other hand, provides a consistent billing structure that you can easily budget for. If your employees know it’s okay to ask for help, they will be more likely to do so.
One big challenge that comes from failing to ask for help in a timely manner is the downtime that can occur as a result. If your employee is responsible for maintaining their own desktop, you can bet that they will have questions that they don’t immediately have the answer to. Instead of just hoping they will figure it out, give them access to someone who knows unequivocally how to solve all of their problems: an outsourced help desk.
Offering your employees a help desk is one of the best ways to improve your organization's operations. It ensures that your team stays productive and gives them more time to do what you hired them to do. The extra productivity and efficiency might be just what your business needs to get the edge over your local competitors.
If you are ready to commit to a managed help desk solution, Patriot Tech Services Inc. can provide you with our best-in-the-business services, designed to save you money while improving efficiency. Call us at 877-874-4629 to learn more.
Outsourcing technology management and maintenance can be a valuable use of your available capital, as it provides a direct return on investment in the form of time. You have more time to focus on running your business rather than worrying about whether your technology will continue to run as intended.
Let’s explore some of the ways outsourced IT will save your business money.
Before the advent of managed services, businesses would often have to “go big or go home,” so to speak, with their technology management. They would either have to hire in-house help like a dedicated IT manager, or they would have to resort to their other employees performing IT maintenance and management that they are not qualified to do. With an MSP on your side, you get professional expertise at a much more affordable cost compared to hiring an in-house technician.
When you have someone around who can reliably perform technology management and maintenance for your business, you get to reap the “invisible” rewards that manifest in your technology generally running the way it’s intended to. You’ll experience greater uptime and fewer technological hiccups that would otherwise derail productivity. Your risk of a hardware failure and other downtime-related events also drastically decreases.
SMBs can go through periods of extremely fast growth, particularly when just starting out. This can make planning for the future difficult. Thanks to outsourced IT solutions from Patriot Tech Services Inc., your SMB can instead make adjustments to its contract to scale according to your business’ specific needs at any given point of its life cycle. This helps you worry less about affording your future needs so you can focus on being more productive with what you have now.
The right approach to technology management can make a world of difference for your business and its profits. Patriot Tech Services Inc. offers a comprehensive suite of managed services for small businesses in the TriState community, and we can use our expertise to help you focus on what matters most: running your business. Get started today by calling us at 877-874-4629.
Leadership can take many forms. As a leader in your own company, it can pay to understand what form of leadership you tend to express when working with your team. Let’s review some leadership styles to see if anything resonates.
Patriot Tech Services Inc. is proud to announce the launch of our new website at www.patriot-techs.com. The goal of the new website is to make it easier for our existing clients to submit and manage support requests, and provide more information about our services for prospective clients.
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