Your new job…

When you started your business you were by yourself.  Then you were one of three employees.  Working harder and longer was a strategy you used to get ahead.  You could do the job of two people….

But now you are one of 15 or 30.  Can working harder and longer yourself make that much difference besides killing your personal and family life – and maybe even you?

Better to spend 8 hours getting all your team members to work effectively.  Then go home.

Assume Control

Who’s in charge of your business?  Who is monitoring the progress of your employees and acting quickly to get them the training and resources they need to get the results you and your customers are looking for?  

Who is “all over it”?

Make work fun!

Not rollercoaster like fun, but rewarding and satisfying with smiles kind of fun.

If we like going to work and doing the work, we won’t mind doing it.

You’re the boss.  How can you make your job fun?

Smooth it forward

Business can be tough.  As the “Chief Smooth-it-Forward” officer you can take chaos, confusion and uncertainty and transform it into usefulness, value and results.

Show your skills today by smoothing things in a forward direction.  Your team and customers will love you for it.

Another day, another chance

What you didn’t get done yesterday awaits you today, along with a host of other challenges and tests.

Isn’t it wonderful you “get to” be the one to make it all work?  

Blessed you are.

“Braveheart”

Running a business is not for the timid.  Only those courageous souls who dare to risk everything and step into the arena to test their mettle will be in the glory game – if they survive.

So you think you have what it takes?  Congratulations – braveheart.

“Make me feel important”

Today, let us remember that all human beings have the desire to feel important and significant.  Making our employees feel this way is a great way to keep them – and unleash their highest contributions.

Make them feel important today – and tomorrow, too.

Knowing a good solution when you hear it

A good leader doesn’t have to have all the answers (and can’t). Just the brains to know the right one when it is presented.

Waste what’s cheap to save what’s valuable

What’s cheaper – This employees labor or that ones?  These materials or those materials?  Hardware or software?  Office space or lack of supervision? This persons time or that ones?  These materials or the technicians labor?  The gas or the hotel?  The customer credit or the complaint on the internet?  

There are reasons to make decisions.  Using a criteria of financial efficiency, we must know and consider the costs involved, and use liberally what is inexpensive to save what is more expensive.

Your business and your job

Your business and your job in it are two different things.  There are lots of jobs in your business that have to be done.  One of the luxuries of being the owner of a small business is that you get to chose which jobs you will do or not do.  

Building your business and all it’s important functions is something you have to make sure gets done.  But building and reinventing your job in it so you are happy each day is another part of it you should get right.

What “job” did you assign yourself so far?  Are you happy doing it?