As a dental marketing consultant for two decades and prior to that working 15 years in the hospitality industry around the world, I have not seen any business person who has made it in his business without a team – of employees and coaches and spouse and friends etc — behind him and supporting him.
Even though there is a lot of talk regarding millionaires who started out with nothing and about two or three guys rocking the world, they all had a team backing them up. After all it only takes two or three guys to make a team.
So, if having a team was so imperative to success in addition to being infinitively more fun, then words about how to choose your team members would be a right way to start off.
First of all I would like to remind you that a team is not only the people whom you hire or the people you consider being your partners, but also your bankers, your suppliers, your dental management consultant if you are a dentist—everybody related to you.
It is impossible to be really good at everything. Being good at even a few things is still a huge accomplishment.
However, even if you’re great at all the jobs that need to be done, the amount of jobs that need to be done will keep you overworked and underpaid and tie you down.
Too many small business owners, after having been burned a few times with employees and partners, try obsessively to keep lean.
Lean they will stay – lean income and mean because of even more frustration than if they would have a team.
However there are tools to get a better idea of who fits which position or task.
This fact of realizing whether a person supplements you and your team with attitude, or knowledge, or emotions could possibly be the single most important ability you might need to succeed.
You see, to put a team member on the exact task which he not only knows by education, but which fits his character or his emotions, and or his inner feeling of being in the zone or doing exactly what he has been put on earth for, will catapult you into the upper stratosphere.
Personally I think there is no bigger error than when young and not so young people to seek professions or business for the predicted economical future by experts and newspapers.
If the predicted profession happens to also rock your world just thinking about it then that is different. Go for it.
But just for potential income? Even if you learn the how to do of this job very well, it will rarely ever take you to top. Rarely ever will it work out, and if it does, then usually with a fair amount of unhappiness.
Anyway, you should take some time to figure out if the person’s basic personality fits the character of the tasks at hand.
For instance I personally like change, and get rather easily bored with repetitive tasks even if I have had the fun of my life developing and codifying them just a few weeks ago.
On the other hand I know, and so do you, that people would quit on the spot if you threw them into different activities every six months.
What about the detail oriented guy who perhaps could be called an annoying perfectionist who needs every comma in place and wants ample time to perfectly plan things? Do you think he will be a good Public Relations guy?
Hmm, maybe not, but the guy does have its value in gold no less than the impromptu guy.
Oh no, all characters or personalities are needed.
I mean, who would count all of the money I make while I’m out there wheeling and dealing?
I can keep accounts straight, and I do mathematics quite acceptably. After all I am a machine engineer, by my first profession.
And it yet it was the predictability coupled with the amount of repetitive jobs, and the ability to deal with people as much as I liked, which drove me away from it literally the day I graduated.
Therefore, I need to find people who not only can stand, what I see as tedious, repetitive, and terribly boring book keeping, but who really love it.
Can you see the potential value of knowing who fits where?
What about being able to determine to a high degree the level of trust, and the level of possible potential of persistence on a task, especially when things go rough?
Did you ever think of the fact that it would help to be able to have a good idea of whether someone might have a tendency to be lying just a bit more than the average social lies?
Perhaps you have wondered why some managers are better at hiring the right people.
Some of those managers know what to look for on a very conscious level, while yet others do it on an unconscious level and call it intuition.
There are ways to get a grip of all this. There are rather systematic methods that probably could even be called scientific. If you want to know how to hire the best you will have to learn these systematic methods and they are available by searching online for them. On our website www.MyBusinessExpansion.com covers some of these tools
Remember: Whether you are a dentist trying to improve your business through dental advertising or a business owner trying to make it in your field, engage the help of a team – even if it is only 2 or 3 person. It will make all the difference in your business!
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