Whether you are the owner of a small business or manage a team, there are some questions to keep in mind that will ensure that the way you manage those under you is helping and not hindering overall productivity.
1. If you’ve hired quality employees, let them know what you want done and not necessarily exactly how to do it (within business guidelines of course). If you have time to micromanage every aspect of how someone is doing something maybe you as the manager don’t have enough to do. And if you have to micromanage to in order to ensure things are done the right way, it means you need better employees. Usually an employee should be better than you at that specific thing you hired them to do, otherwise why did you hire them?
2. Figuring out how to fix a problem is worth more than figuring out who is to blame, as far as your bottom line is concerned. With that said however, if the same problems persist despite fixes, it may be time to get to the source, which may mean figuring out who or what is to blame.
3. Take the time to ensure new processes get off to a good start. Sometimes a good idea gets off to a bad start due to a lack of planning and it is abandoned, when in fact it may have made money in the long run had it been given a good opportunity.
4. It’s good to learn from your mistakes, but learning from other people’s mistakes can help you avoid them to start with.
5. Have definable goals, not just “more sales” or whatever the case may be, but actual numbers, then know which plan or plans you have for meeting those goals, then know current metrics for measuring progress toward that goal or goals. You should be able to relate these three elements to anyone in three sentences or less at any time.
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