How to stop being the bottle neck in your business

Are you stuck in the day to day running of your business?

Let’s face facts. You are ambitious, you run a successful business and work hard at it, always have. But now you want to achieve more for your business.

But you are so stuck in the day to day running, you can’t see how to extricate yourself without detrimental effects on your clients and profits! So…you carry on as you are, because you can’t see a way out. There is a lack of expertise in the team – a total reliance on you.  You want a business that has good, passionate, and reliable people in it who can just get on with things and do those things well! However, the process of making this happen is feeling a bit stressful and full of ‘what if’s’. You’re not risk averse, but big decisions can worry you.

You’re working too much, with not enough life! You want to release your time from admin tasks, but how?

How to release yourself from the admin tasks:

This is the most simple way to start.

Write down all the tasks that you do in a typical week. Now I know running a business rarely feels ‘typical’ but go with me here. Keep a piece of paper beside your desk and brain dump each task you’re involved with as they happen. By the end of the week, you’ll likely have a very looong list!

After you’ve done this, note alongside each one whether the task falls into one of these four categories:

Business Development activity (BD)

Client delivery – could be delivered by an other (CDO)

Client delivery – can only be delivered by me (CDM)

Technology could help (T)

Remember all established businesses, to maintain success and to grow, should be spending 40-60% of their time on marketing, this could easily read business development activity. Setting an implementing strategy for you, the team, the business.

How many of the tasks had BD (business development) next to them? Likely none to a few. Now, this isn’t a stick to beat yourself with – you’ve probably been doing enough of that already. This is a nudge to say, something must change. Where will you start..?

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