Advice for Business Owners and Managers

You need your employees more than they need you.

“Wait a minute that sounds like heresy to me! I’m the boss. It’s my business. I worked long and hard to get here, and you tell me I’m not important.”

Advice for Business Owners and Managers

I never said you are not important. What I said is that you need your employees more than they need

Many business owners become prisoners to their business because they never train their employees to become really effective. Have a human resources consultant show you how to break out of business prison and enjoy entrepreneurship.

you. Because if you have employees, it’s because your business has gotten to a point where you cannot do it all yourself. When you have employees they are closer to your customers, your products, and your processes than you are.

It just works that way.

As an example if you have seven employees and four of them don’t show up on a Monday morning you are in a situation where the synergistic efforts toward a common sustainable organizational goal are not going to be achieved (or using a very basic business term, you’re in deep do-do). If you do not show up on a Monday morning, my guess is that things will go ok for the day. If nothing happens because you are not there to give everyone their minute-by-minute instructions, then shame on you.

Getting Things Done Through Others

As managers we get things done through others. When it was just us doing the work it was easy. Our senses told us what needed to be done, our mind sent a message to our hands, and our hands did the work. Now we have to use someone else’s hands to get the work done. So our ability to instruct, communicate, encourage, coach, and support helps our employees and their senses, minds, and hands to get the work done. This is called management, and these skills can be developed. Some people take to this better than others, and some people really have to work at it.

Things get easier as a business if you spend the time to interview and hire good people, treat them with respect, and develop and apply good management skills with them.

It just works that way.

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Contributed by Dan Sell of Danumur Consulting, LLC who recently delivered a presentation to alive audience at a Small Business University event. Dan is an HR professional, executive, and consultant with over thirty years of extensive leadership and senior level management experience.

To learn more about Dan Sell, his expert qualifications and his consulting business, please visit his website http://dansumur.com/

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