Delegation and Growth
I had a meeting with one of my members who was sharing his frustration about the way his vision for the business just wasn’t happening. He kept getting bogged down in things that didn’t allow him time to work on creating the vision. He came to realize that although he had job descriptions, he had not fully delegated all of the work to the people he had hired.
Small business owners often ignore the need for an organizational chart. This is a mistake, because when you detail all of the roles and/or positions necessary to profitably manage the business and spell out the systems/functions for each role you are then properly positioned to grow. This is the structure that Michael Gerber talks about in The E Myth Revisited. He refers to the fact that an orderly business provides customers with a level of trust that the product or result they want can be delivered.
It also delivers a message to you, the business owner, that the business can grow without you. Your decisions on how to handle growth, will be easier, when you have worked out what is necessary to run the business. Leveraging your time, so that the high priority, high pay off activities have consistent focus and other things can be handled by employees, virtual assistants, subcontractors or by part time people.
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Marketing Tactics That Work
Marketing is a never ending subject at Mind Masters. This week after planning for the month, there was and always is a question of needs. Everyone wants more business leads, but that is not our direct mission – Mind Masters members support each others personal, professional and financial growth with ideas. So there was much discussion about what kind of groups would be best to join and prospect in.
For some it is the weekly kind of networking, the whole purpose of which is to exchange leads. Our discussion expanded to what to look for in these groups, specifically people who market to the same demographic.
Then there are the civic groups that have a wider scope of people, not just business owners. These groups seemed to fit one person’s business focus but generally require time and participation in fund raising. Someone else asked about Toastmasters, the organization that can enhance your speaking abilities. At that point we were no longer talking about marketing but about personal development. Check out some of these organizations for yourself and see how they might support you. Here are some suggestions (www.BNI.com ,
www.Toastmasters.org, www.Rotary.org. )
