Up until now the usual way of thinking when deciding which tasks to delegate and which staff to hire has been to try to employ someone opposite to you who compliments your strengths and weaknesses and to pass on tasks which you find unrewarding or difficult. However, Steve disagrees with this and shares why it's often a good idea to relinquish responsibility for doing tasks you enjoy and are good at.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

 

• When you are hiring it is often difficult to find someone to do tasks that you are unfamiliar with yourself as you cannot pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses required to complete the task successfully.
• Remember you are a business owner not an employee. You are not someone who should be actually doing the work. The only way to grow your business is to let go and allow other people to come in and take over producing product so you can concentrate on the overall operation.
• Take a look at the tasks you and add up how long it all takes. Identify the tasks that are relatively easy and delegate those tasks first. 

BEST MOMENTS 

 

‘If you try and get other stuff done, that peripheral stuff, all the stuff you just don’t do very often because you hate it or you’re not very good at it that’s just going to add to your existing workload.’

‘I am a bit of a systems geek so I can easily find people who are good at systems because I know what to look for. I’m basically looking for someone who’s a bit like me and I want someone who likes a lot of the stuff that I like because then they’ll be good at it.’

‘Being a great plumber isn’t a skill you need to run a successful plumbing business. You need time to be a business leader and to grow the team of plumbers.’

‘You can always take it back later when you’re rich and famous and you’ve got a big team and you can selectively do whatever you want, but you’ll probably have found more fun things to do in business than do what that one thing was right now.’

 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/ 

Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday   

The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day  http://bit.ly/sys-10

 

ABOUT THE HOST

Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.

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