Tips for growing your Business 1

Here are some tips on how to grow your business. I have picked up these little gems over the years while working, doing consultancy and training for several companies here in the Philippines and abroad.

1. Start a training program for your employees. During the start-up phase, most entrepreneurs have to be a superman and do practically every job. But, as the business grows you have to delegate these jobs. To whom can you delegate? Can anyone in your team do the job as well as you can? This is where training comes in. Without the extra hands, your business cannot grow. You need a team. You need to train your team. You need to think strategically about what your employees need to learn.
   
2. Formal training programs are only part of the picture. The real learning occurs on the job. Do you have a coaching and mentoring program in place?
   
3. Do you set a good example? Your pleasant attitude and good work habits, as well as those of your senior staff, will influence your workers. These values are often reflected in the quality of customer service your team delivers. Your team will do as you do and not as you say they should do.
   
4. Develop your employees develop problem-solving skills. Most of us learn best by doing. Do you challenge your team’s ability to think? Or do you spoon feed them? I’ve found that if you do all the thinking for your team, they soon lose the ability to think at all. You end up doing all the work and wonder why on earth you are paying a bunch of morons.
   
5. Do you give your employees an opportunity to grow? If they cannot grow with you, they will grow with someone else. Then, you will have to find a replacement and begin all over again.

These are just a few tips to get your creative juices running. I’ll post more in the coming weeks. I hope you find them useful.

Rafael M. Pefianco

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