Thinking of hiring? Now let’s be completely honest.
Businesses sometimes don’t hire because they’re clear on what they need.
They hire because:
They’re busy.
Things are taking longer.
Costs are creeping.
People are getting frustrated.
Even – they think this it will answer all their problems.
So the decision becomes:
“we need someone.”
But do you actually know what you need?
Or are you guessing aka ‘winging it’?
Most are.
They think they know what’s missing.
Create a role around it.
Hire that ‘position’
And nothing really changes.
Now you’ve just added cost….while money’s still leaking and your profits are flowing out like a colander .
No one’s actually looked at what’s already there
What people are doing.
What they’re not doing.
Who’s covering what they shouldn’t be.
Who’s got a title but not the capability.
Work being picked up twice.
Or not at all, the old ‘hot potato’.
And then very often..
Everything’s still sat at the top.
Decisions.
Control.
Responsibility.
Not being passed down.
Changes blocked.
Processes not improving.
It’s not a people issue…it’s a control issue,
That’s where things slow down.
That’s where money starts leaking….every single day……every week…….pulling away from your profit.
And this is just one place it goes
This is just one example.
Money leaks out of a business in all sorts of ways not just here.
If you’re only seeing just one issue, you’re missing the rest……everything has an impact.
Then there’s the “let’s go back to how we used to do it”
Things aren’t working…we used to make money so you go backwards.
“back to basics” “how we used to do it”
But the business isn’t the same anymore
It’s grown.
Has more people.
Bigger overheads.
Different economy.
More moving parts.
What worked before doesn’t hold it together now.
So you end up here, creating:
Confusion.
Blurred roles.
Everything pulled back to the top again.
Feels like control.
It’s not.
It’s pressure building…..and profit being squeezed without you really seeing where.
THEN the other mistake
Not hiring at all…..’managing – aka squeezing more out of good people or doing it yourself’
Thinking you’re saving money.
You’re not.
You’re slowing everything down.
Becoming the bottleneck.
And again…..money’s going.
Just hidden in delays, decisions, and things not moving…..stagnant.
A business that plateaus is in danger of being overtaken by it’s competitors.
Same problem both ways
You don’t actually know what’s going on.
Not properly.
Not across the business.
What I do
I go in and pull it apart properly.
What you think the issue is.
What’s actually going on.
Where money’s being lost……..across the business, not just in one place.
Then it’s clear for you to see.
If you want me to continue………Then it gets fixed.
That’s where the profit shows up…not from doing more,but from stopping what’s already costing you.
Bottom line
Before you hire
Are you fixing something, or just winging it?
Because right now,
money’s already going.
The question is…..
are you seeing it,
or just absorbing it?