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My client Greg was feeling totally overwhelmed with running his business; ensuring the quality of his products, managing his staff, keeping his clients happy, keeping up with the invoicing, admin, marketing and all the other essential things.
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When you have a business challenge is your first thought, ‘How can I fix it?’ or ‘Who can help me fix it?’
I’ll bet you generally go into the solve-it mode, I used to do that too…and being totally transparent sometimes I still do!
As an entrepreneur, it can be difficult to release the reins and allow others to work on your ‘business baby’. You’ve put so much into building up your business you want everything to be perfect.
The whole idea of hiring and building a team is to free you up to do the high-value stuff, like speaking with potential clients and delivering excellence to your paying clients.
Get our tips for getting the help you need, so that you can focus on taking your business to the next level.
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Do you remember those days?
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Read moreIt is really hard effectively recruit, set objectives and monitor success without having an up to date job description as a foundation document. Also when dealing with under-performing staff it is important that their job descriptions are correct, as you could be disciplining then for under-performing a task that they morphed into with no training or support.
Read moreAs small business owners we don’t focus so much on the culture internally but the brand externally, especially as initially we don’t have a team, but if we consider the environment we wish to cultivate before we begin adding to our teams, it will influence the way to recruit, who we recruit and how we communicate.
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