“The People Growth Zone incorporates how you hire people, train them, motivate them and even how you make the decision when it’s the right time to grow or shrink your team. It also relates to your extended team – consultants, designers, copywriters – your book keeper – all the people that support you in getting things done and whom you need to lead and motivate.
Leadership was a challenge for me – I didn’t know how to manage well and I found it hard to let go and I also was not confident managing people older than myself having difficult conversations and taking on the role of leader.
I remember the fourth time I had to hire a receptionist that didn’t work out — I had to look at the one common denominator – ME! I had to look at my communication, my leadership, our training and our systems.
I developed a system on ‘how we do things here’ and this was the start of our operations manual.
Then everything go systemised so that training was easier. At the height of our growth as we were bring on staff we got out of control – we had to bring in systems for management reporting etc, we had to bring in a layer of staff between me and the more junior staff as I was managing too many direct reports.
And you may have experienced some of these challenges in your business as well. Or perhaps you are on the brink of hiring a team and you want to know how to avoid the heartache and expense that can come when you don’t get this right.
Because you can’t do everything yourself. You do need to bring a great team around you, whether that’s full time staff or a mix of part time staff or virtual assistants. Even your team of contractors and suppliers need to be managed.”
— Suzi Dafnis, CEO – HerBusiness
Study these programs if you:
- Stop doing everything yourself
- Move out of ‘technician’ role (where you do everything) to manager or leader role
- Spend more time working ON your business than IN your business
- Stop doing unimportant work and want to use you time to the best advantage of your business
- Get away from BEING the business, you want to RUN the business.
Your People Growth Zone Resources
Watch these Webinars:
Here are just a few of our recommended webinars for getting the most from a team.
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Your Bonus Downloads and Resources
- 10 Strategies to Avoid HR Disasters
- 10 Easy Mistakes that Employers Often Make – Do You?
- The People Manager’s Toolkit: How You Can Get the Best From People
- Motivation: How to Increase Team Performance and Produce Better Results
- Writing the Right Job Ad
- Orientations and inductions – More HR fluff stuff?
- The contractor – employee continuum
- Quick Reference: Job Analysis
- Quick Reference: Types of Interview Questions
- [VIDEO] Get Started with OUTSOURCING and VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS
Check out the entire Summer School library here.
