Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to do. That includes managing staff.<\/p>\n
As you know, I’m now a director and shareholder in a construction company.<\/p>\n
Recently it became obvious that not everybody understood what I expected of them.<\/p>\n
The guys who’ve been working and managing people in this industry for years have a certain way of dealing with people, and it’s a way that will never work for me. It’s just not who I am.<\/p>\n
When you’re in this situation, it means that you’ve got to find your own way to make sure people understand what you expect.<\/p>\n
It’s not a fun job, but it has to be done.<\/p>\n
Personally, I expect people to turn up and do the work they’re paid to do, without anybody having to chase, hassle and cajole them into doing it.<\/p>\n
If they don’t, then you’ve got to make sure that they understand they won’t be paid.<\/p>\n
Staff are the number one most expensive element\u00a0<\/em>of running a business. If they’re not producing a reasonable amount of work in a day, it’s going to start costing you, a lot.<\/p>\n When I first started I used to outsource all sorts of work. After all, you read everywhere about outsourcing and spending your days sipping drinks from a sun lounger.<\/p>\n What nobody writes about, is that the more people you employ, the more you have to manage them.<\/p>\n Never forget that the people working for you don’t own the business. They won’t have the same motivation as you, and they’ll not be as efficient as you.<\/p>\n That means…\u00a0that if you can do something in four hours, it may take someone working for you six hours.<\/em><\/p>\n And that = it costs more to your business than you were planning!<\/p>\n So, whether you like it or not, you need to make sure that the folk you employ work to your expectations or you need to let them go.<\/p>\n Ciao,<\/p>\n Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to do. That includes managing staff.\nAs you know, I’m now a director and shareholder in a construction company.\nRecently it became obvious that not everybody understood what I expected of them.\nThe guys who’ve been working and managing people in this …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}