What Does It Mean to Work IN Your Business?
Working IN your business achieves results for your clients!
Working IN the Business:
You are an employee of your own businesses, firefighting, doing everything yourself. Employees work in the business. Most have specific duties or tasks to accomplish regularly. Most know what to do. They know what is expected of them.
Working IN your business (Tasks)
- Seeing clients/Pricing Jobs
- Doing Quotes
- Answering queries
- Paying invoices
- Invoicing Clients
- Scheduling Jobs and workload
- Fighting fires (dealing with crises)
Warning signs you are working too much IN your business
You take on the mantle of doing everything yourself, “super-person” sales, debts, people, operations, technical, and every decision.
Even when you delegate to other people, some you know do not have the capability to do the task, and you check it after they have done it, sometimes late at night.
You manage by lurching from one thing to the next; any thought of long-term plans doesn’t happen in the day-to-day running of your business. ” Too Busy”.
You are working long hours and stressed, but you’re still not making the money you expected or should expect.
You don’t really know where your business is going, the unclear vision of what you want to build or the strategy to build it.
What Does It Mean to Work ON Your Business?
Working ON your business achieves results for yourself, your clients and your business growth.
Working ON The Business:
You are the BOSS, the business owner of the business. Educating yourself, setting, and defining business goals for the business, planning for the future, learning to delegate responsibilities to your staff, and having a clearly defined vision, values, and purpose for the business.
Working ON your business (Tasks)
- Education – Books, Podcasts, Blogs (about business)
- Creating business systems (technical and non-technical)
- Planning for the future
- Setting and defining business and personal goals
- Measuring and celebrating success
- Automating business processes
- Talking with business mentors and having a business coach
You will be doing this in your workbook exercise next.
