When do you work on the business?

After working four years in the business, Andy has now found a team to run his business. He has suddenly found how poorly the business did when he worked on his own.

Now he spends at least one day a week working on the business - looking at opportunities, watching his competitors, reviewing the business goals and improving his business pr

Andy is a local entrepreneur who knows that he needs to employ people. The business is Andy's creation and the idea of managing a team is quite frightening for him.

He has struggled to do all the jobs but Andy is limited to 24 hours each day, he is working continuously without leisure time and he realises that he needs help before his health and sanity suffers.

What values and business ethos do you have?

Of course, he is protective - he has run the whole business for four years, no procedures are written down, his policies for taking decisions are held in his own head and he believes that no one can improve the job he is doing.

My uncomfortable task is to coach him to his goal "I want to grow, I want to delegate, I want excellent staff to multiply my efforts".

Before starting the selection process, we struggled to write job descriptions, create work procedures and set up the office administrative processes. Doing this on his own was too hard so we found some experienced HR people to do this preparation.

Who do you hire to replace yourself?

Next we used the same help to define selection criteria and set up a recruitment campaign. Andy wanted to select with the same skills as he uses. He was also tempted to employ people who are less skilled than he is.

I asked 'Why not go more skill and ability if we can afford it?' Andy knows he is the best at doing his job, so it makes sense when delegating parts of his job to bring in new people with different skills.

When do you work on the business?

After working four years in the business, Andy has now found a team to run his business. He has suddenly found how poorly the business did when he worked on his own.

Now he spends at least one day a week working on the business - looking at opportunities, watching his competitors, reviewing the business goals and improving his business pro

and business ethos do you have?

Of course, he is protective - he has run the whole business for four years, no procedures are written down, his policies for taking decisions are held in his own head and he believes that no one can improve the job he is doing.

My uncomfortable task is to coach him to his goal "I want to grow, I want to delegate, I want excellent staff to multiply my efforts".

Before starting the selection process, we struggled to write job descriptions, create work procedures and set up the office administrative processes. Doing this on his own was too hard so we found some experienced HR people to do this preparation.

Who do you hire to replace yourself?

Next we used the same help to define selection criteria and set up a recruitment campaign. Andy wanted to select with the same skills as he uses. He was also tempted to employ people who are less skilled than he is.

I asked 'Why not go more skill and ability if we can afford it?' Andy knows he is the best at doing his job, so it makes sense when delegating parts of his job to bring in new people with different skills.

When do you work on the business?

After working four years in the business, Andy has now found a team to run his business. He has suddenly found how poorly the business did when he worked on his own.

Now he spends at least one day a week working on the business - looking at opportunities, watching his competitors, reviewing the business goals and improving his business pr

ltiply my efforts".

Before starting the selection process, we struggled to write job descriptions, create work procedures and set up the office administrative processes. Doing this on his own was too hard so we found some experienced HR people to do this preparation.

Who do you hire to replace yourself?

Next we used the same help to define selection criteria and set up a recruitment campaign. Andy wanted to select with the same skills as he uses. He was also tempted to employ people who are less skilled than he is.

I asked 'Why not go more skill and ability if we can afford it?' Andy knows he is the best at doing his job, so it makes sense when delegating parts of his job to bring in new people with different skills.

When do you work on the business?

After working four years in the business, Andy has now found a team to run his business. He has suddenly found how poorly the business did when he worked on his own.

Now he spends at least one day a week working on the business - looking at opportunities, watching his competitors, reviewing the business goals and improving his business pr

eria and set up a recruitment campaign. Andy wanted to select with the same skills as he uses. He was also tempted to employ people who are less skilled than he is.

I asked 'Why not go more skill and ability if we can afford it?' Andy knows he is the best at doing his job, so it makes sense when delegating parts of his job to bring in new people with different skills.

When do you work on the business?

After working four years in the business, Andy has now found a team to run his business. He has suddenly found how poorly the business did when he worked on his own.

Now he spends at least one day a week working on the business - looking at opportunities, watching his competitors, reviewing the business goals and improving his business pr

When do you work on the business?

After working four years in the business, Andy has now found a team to run his business. He has suddenly found how poorly the business did when he worked on his own.

Now he spends at least one day a week working on the business - looking at opportunities, watching his competitors, reviewing the business goals and improving his business processes.

So growing his business is not only good for his health but his wealth too.