More Time Wanted? Deal with Your Time-wasters Now!*
Focusing your time to be as productive as you can has never been
more important - yet many of us waste our precious time on
employees, who frankly don't deserve it.
They will never fit.
Solving this problem for you will almost certainly be solving a
problem for them - so don't be fearful. Want to know more - and
how? Read on...
Ever feel that you spend too much time shoring up the
performance of some of your people? More time with one or two
than with some of the others.
And doesn't that just drain you? So think about those employees
and how they are draining you and damaging the energy you have.
The energy that could well be directed much more productively.
There are people in your business who just seem to be way off
where you want them to be. They are behaving as they are and
it's perfectly their right to be the way they are. But
not in your business.
If it doesn't fit what you want, then you have two options
(apart from just tolerating it, which I'm sure you don't
want to do):-
1) Make very clear what your expectations are in words of one
syllable and write them down. Manage it closely and be prepared
for 2.
2) Work out a way to take them from your business (remember -
you are doing them a favour, because if they are in an job which
is way different than they are, they will be very unhappy
underneath).
3) There's a 3. Recruit a lot more carefully in future.
Ask yourself these questions urgently...
- What do you observe in your team today?
- Who are the 'keepers'?
- Who are the 'losers' (the ones who suck you dry of
energy)?
- Who are the 'Oooops, I should never have taken them on in
the first place'?
Great learning too!
And just think about what you will do with the time! One of my
clients, when asked to note the people who wasted his
time in one week, found that one person alone accounted
for 30% of his time!
Solving that issue, which required a little focused attention,
within two weeks had created that space for him. Space that he
used to build his business way above target.