Creating Your High-Level Team
One of the toughest aspects of running your business is wearing the many hats it takes to run your company.
However, to get yourself out of the spin cycle of your days, investing in building a high-performing team can elevate not only the space you can gain in your business to focus on strategy and goals, but it can also elevate your company’s results.
Through my work with my clients who are successful business owners and founders, we’ve been able to elevate their impact and overall company performance by embracing three core steps in building high-level support in their businesses:
Focus on Ownership: Being clear on who owns what - What do you own in a given process, task or outcome and what will they own? Some areas you, as the Founder or Business Owner, will own are to share the process, give access and train. They will own the task or an outcome of the task (post on social vs. grow social following).
Determine your acceptable Transition Time: Decide (or work out with your team member) how long the ramp-up time is needed to learn a new skill or task: from learning to complete takeover. This creates clarity on the runway they have to learn and get up to speed.
Reporting: Establish the reporting cadence as part of the task or outcome. This is an opportunity for your team member to demonstrate their ownership and progress by reporting back to you on their task/outcome daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly - whatever is appropriate for this task or outcome. They are responsible to report any barriers or to share new ideas, opportunities they see and make recommendations.
Often I see owners stumble or miss one or two of these steps (and sometimes all three) when hiring, bringing on new contractors or developing their existing employees.
Consider this framework as you build and work with your team.
You’ll soon start to see the ROI in your investment.
NOW is YOUR time.
Ariana
Emerging Outcomes Coaching & Development - Business Coaching in Canada, Canadian Business Coach, Executive Coach