Let’s face it, sometimes it happens. Your drive and love for your own business begins to fade. Much like personal relationships, in the early days everything is amazing and fun. Over time, and with relentless demands, the love dilutes and soon becomes replaced by stress and pressure.

This loss of love in your business begins to impact your ability as a leader to perform and direct your team. We then begin to ask ourselves “Is it really worth it? “

Take some time out to go on a date with your business and consider how you can implement the following three suggestions to improve the relationship.

1. Define your vision and map your direction

The first step to falling back in love with your business is to define your purpose and vision. Investing in your ‘why’ will make the hard work required to get things back on track easier. When you have a reason, hard work doesn’t seem so hard.

Document your vision and map the steps required to get there. Share this with the team so they become unified: one team with one dream.

2. Get the right people in your business so you can delegate and elevate

How are you going to achieve your vision if you have the wrong people in your business? As a business owner it is easy to blame staff for poor performance. With the right people you can achieve the impossible.

To effectively delegate and elevate yourself as a business leader you need to have the right people in your business. This will give you more time in the captains’ seat working on the activities you are good at and driving the direction of the business forward.

Consider creating a staff matrix of everybody in the business - you included. Outline their roles, current key performance indicators, and their alignment to your business values. Consider who is performing and who is not.

3. Create a clear business structure and set goals across your business to measure your progress and keep you motivated

Create a clear and documented divisional structure across your business. Specifically outline each division’s key performance metrics and lines of communication.

Untangle the wires and assign responsibilities, so your team clearly knows their role in the newly implemented business structure, and what is expected of them. All good loving relationships have clear responsibilities, communication lines and expectations.

By defining your vision, aligning the right team to you direction, and creating clear structure in your business you will begin to feel the love again.

To find out more on HOW to fall back in love with your business, join us at a Gallop Discovery seminar at Leichhardt. WSBC members can be eligible for complimentary tickets.

Contact Roger Vertannes to be qualified:

M: 0488 335 589  

E: rvertannes@gallopsolutions.com

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