As your business grows, so too can your responsibilities as a business owner. Staying organized as your business expands is going to require serious thought, and nowhere is this more immediately apparent than when it comes to your employees. Here, we’re going to look at what it takes to handle a growing team, and how you can make sure that the burden isn’t slowing you down from your other responsibilities.
Hire the self-sufficient
You can’t avoid having to take on the role of an employer, leader, and manager if you’re hiring new team members, but you can make sure that you are, at least, finding the right talent so that they’re not going to require constant hand-holding. Experience, motivation, and self-sufficiency should be some of your priorities when you’re looking at potential team members to hire. The better your team is able to look after themselves, the less they’re going to need you to do it for them. Of course, effective onboarding is just as important. Offer them the directions they need from the get-go, and they might not need them from you as often in the future.
Finding your management team
Of course, the reality is that a team of workers is always going to need some management and direction, no matter how self-sufficient they might be. If you find yourself growing increasingly unable to deal with that responsibility, then it might be time to find the people who can. Whether you hire externally or raise team members internally, finding the right managers for your team can ensure that you have the middle-man that can handle a lot of the day-to-day management such a team might require, while ensuring that they are aligned with the company goals.
The right HR processes
It’s not just the processes of communication and interpersonal management that can make taking on new employees a burden worth lightening. It’s the responsibilities that come with them, too, from managing their payroll and taxes, to ensuring that they have access to HR in place that they can use to address grievances. Understand the rights of your employees and what you need to do to stay compliant with them, and find the tools like a human capital management system that can it much easier to manage them. You can’t entirely automate away your responsibilities as an employer, but you can make them a lot less work to manage.
Considering outsourcing
Of course, one way to make sure that you’re not spending more and more of your time managing employees is not take on more in the first place. By working with outsourced teams, you don’t have to deal with as many of the responsibilities as an employer. Of course, maintaining clear contact and goal alignment with your outsourced service providers is clear, but at least if you’re working with, for instance, a ready-built marketing agency rather than an in-house marketing team, you have only one point of contact to keep up with.
Running a business means that you can’t be bogged down with managing a team all day. The tips above can help you ensure that you don’t have to do that.
