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With the right team in place, small businesses grow into large ones. The right people help the business owner move towards his or her goals.
By: Mark Bergman
By: Mark Bergman
The goal is to build up a team of effective people, all operating effectively in unison. The big issue is how to employ the right people for your team to achieve your goals? Detailed planning is the answer.
Use a top down approach, thinking strategically at first to get a clear understanding of the ultimate goals that you may have for your business. For example, you may want your business to have revenues of 10 Million within a 5 year period, or you may want to have expanded to 3 cities within X amount of time.
Then drop down a level and start thinking about how you would get there and who you would need to have around to help you reach this ultimate goal.
Then step down to the next level. To put the right team in place you must be very clear as to what you would like the team to look like. What roles and functions do you expect each team member to fill and perform on a daily basis to achieve the goals that you have laid out?
You must have a clear picture of these goals, what it would take to achieve them and what would be required of each team member.
At all stages of the business, it is essential to keep this plan in mind. This applies whether you are just starting out with no team in place at all or are expanding the team you already have to take your business to its next level. Also take into account those people whose expertise you would need on a part time basis or in an advisory capacity. These may include lawyers, accountants and mentors. These people are as much part of your team as your permanent employees and just as important.
Every so often it may be necessary to revisit your initial strategic plan and make adjustments. It is also necessary to keep track of where you are and adjust the team of people to ensure that you remain on track. So some form of schedule or timetable is required to keep track of progress made against planned objectives.
The key is to have a road map of where you want to be going and an understanding of the steps that it would take to make the journey to get there.
Mark Bergman has 25 years in business experience, covering areas of consulting in strategic planning and software and general business consulting. He also has started up a number of small businesses which he successfully ran and sold off. He has formal qualifications in both business and computer science. To learn more from Mark you can visit www.startupmysmallbusiness.com/blog.
Use a top down approach, thinking strategically at first to get a clear understanding of the ultimate goals that you may have for your business. For example, you may want your business to have revenues of 10 Million within a 5 year period, or you may want to have expanded to 3 cities within X amount of time.
Then drop down a level and start thinking about how you would get there and who you would need to have around to help you reach this ultimate goal.
Then step down to the next level. To put the right team in place you must be very clear as to what you would like the team to look like. What roles and functions do you expect each team member to fill and perform on a daily basis to achieve the goals that you have laid out?
You must have a clear picture of these goals, what it would take to achieve them and what would be required of each team member.
At all stages of the business, it is essential to keep this plan in mind. This applies whether you are just starting out with no team in place at all or are expanding the team you already have to take your business to its next level. Also take into account those people whose expertise you would need on a part time basis or in an advisory capacity. These may include lawyers, accountants and mentors. These people are as much part of your team as your permanent employees and just as important.
Every so often it may be necessary to revisit your initial strategic plan and make adjustments. It is also necessary to keep track of where you are and adjust the team of people to ensure that you remain on track. So some form of schedule or timetable is required to keep track of progress made against planned objectives.
The key is to have a road map of where you want to be going and an understanding of the steps that it would take to make the journey to get there.
Mark Bergman has 25 years in business experience, covering areas of consulting in strategic planning and software and general business consulting. He also has started up a number of small businesses which he successfully ran and sold off. He has formal qualifications in both business and computer science. To learn more from Mark you can visit www.startupmysmallbusiness.com/blog.
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