The Right Seat On The Bus.

In any small business, the mode of operation is often all hands on deck. This means that as you grow, your employees job description will often move them into areas that are beyond their strengths. Too often members of your team can be promoted into incompetence in their job description. So when you realize that members of your team are operating outside of their real strengths, how do you begin the process of helping them refocus what they are doing and shine?

There are two different approaches to helping your team members operate at their full potential. The first approach is to sit down with them and help them acknowledge the areas that are not in their wheel house of strength. Offer to help them grow in these area if they are willing.  The second approach is to help them identify their strong areas and give them the option to double down on these by removing other areas from their plate and reassigning them to another team member. Understanding how to communicate with your employees what their strengths and weaknesses are and how to address them will build stronger relationships and a clearer direction for the whole company.

Musings on a Tuesday...

Just a few simple thoughts:

If you avoid failure, you will never find success. If you’re frightened by what you can't explain, you will never change the world. 

A process will make you very good. 

The willingness to risk failure will make you a world changer.

Focus on the technique, rather than just on the recipe. The technique is really the most important part of any recipe. Whether you are talking about food, music, leadership, business or anything else. All the right ingredients and a perfect recipe are only as good as your technique to implement them well.

A difficult but necessary part of growth is to let go of patterns and paradigms when it becomes apparent that they no longer work. And most likely, never really did.

A rabbi friend once told me this story: 

Three blind men came upon an elephant one day. 

The first man came to the trunk and proclaimed, 

"Ahh I see this animal is long and slender and flexible with a snout that is wet"
The second man came to the tail and proclaimed, 

"Nonsense obviously this animal is thin and wispy with coarse bristles at the end!"
The third blind man came to one of the feet, and proclaimed, 

"you are both wrong this animal is round and rigid like a tree!"
And all three blind men argued and argued becoming more convinced 

That their piece of the puzzle was the whole picture, 

instead of realizing that they had come upon the same creature 

but from different perspectives.