Lyons Leadership

A lot of you out there may be self employed specialists such as a doctor or an accountant thinking of turning your small practice into a full fledged business.  You may be used to yourself and maybe a couple of staff, but my guess is that you do quite a bit of the work - and that is something I need to talk to you about.

If you read books about business, you will find that they usually pick on the self-employed person.  People that are self employed usually do most of the work themselves to make sure that it is done right.  Now, that is an idea you need to get rid of if your business is to succeed.  I would say this is one of those big hurdles for you.

Basically, you need to reprogram your brain to ask the following question: can I hire someone to do this task? 

For example, if you were a doctor starting up a clinic and you needed a couple more doctors, you could hire a health recruitment agency to find the specialists you need.  When you do hire those staff members, you could do the payroll right?  Wrong.  Hire one of the many human resources companies to do that for you.  In fact, they could come up with the necessary training programs to get your new employees up to speed.

This mentality can even apply to the online presence of your business.  Instead of trying to create your own site, you could hire a web design company to do it for you.  Not only will it look professional, but they will be able to share their expertise with you to help your business grow.

So, if you are self-employed and you are transitioning to a business be sure to follow our advice.  The less time you spend micro-managing your business, the more time you will have to develop your business.  Simply put, if you could hire someone to do the task you are doing - do it.  You have more important things to do.