|
|||||||
| |||||||
|
||||
|
Re: How important is working on your strengths? -
20-06-2007, 11:17 AM
Absolutely no doubt - but there may well be some weaknesses that you have to improve on if you are to grow your business. This is particularly relevant if you are a one-man-band.
Knowing your own strengths is important - as is putting them to the fore when marketing yourself. It is also important to you, however, to highlight your weaknesses, identify those which are holding you back, and then improving on them. |
|
|||
|
Re: How important is working on your strengths? -
20-06-2007, 11:57 AM
Hi Comspec,
Mind if I disagree (slightly) with you. I've owned a few businesses over the last 15 years and have found that the single biggest problem with any of these has been me. I've tried to know everything and do everything. Obviously if you want to own a business (as opposed to making a living from self employment) you need "business owner skills" but if you're not careful it doesn't take long until you know how to do everything and find yourself spending all your time doing the stuff that doesn't actually make money. It feels good and can be very rewarding but as the owner you have to focus on making the business work rather than doing the work of the business. Cheers Pete |
|
||||
|
Re: How important is working on your strengths? -
20-06-2007, 04:03 PM
Oh no Peter - I agree with what you are saying totally. I am talking from the Sole Trader perspective only in my previous posts.
That can become a major problem and I have met it before personally - where the business manager/owner is too caught up in the actual work provision rather than actually 'managing' the business. Once your business had made the leap from you actually providing the manpower by yourself, to employing staff to carry out specific functions - then if you cannot let go of these functions to the staff, you are heading for trouble. I hope this is a problem I have to deal with at Comspec before too long ![]() |
|
|||
|
Re: How important is working on your strengths? -
26-06-2007, 11:49 AM
IMHO the important thing is knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Without that info you can neither play to your strengths nor cover for your weaknesses. All sorts of things can be brought into play to bolster a weakness - from skills training to life training to outsourcing. But you can't act until you know what to act on.
|
|
|
![]() |
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| The 12 Working Days Of Christmas | Matt@Xposure | General Discussion | 0 | 04-12-2006 05:53 PM |
| Why Stock Control Is Important For Small Businesses | aslack | General Discussion | 3 | 22-04-2005 11:07 AM |
| Content optimisation for the search engines | ARTzWeb.net | Internet Marketing Forum | 2 | 02-01-2005 08:31 PM |
| New working time practices | peterjhale | Small Business News | 1 | 24-09-2004 06:10 PM |