Helping up, or helping out?

You've started your business; you've got busy, and you're looking to grow.  Now what?

The classic next step is to simply start looking for people to help out.  It's a trap.  Here's how you'll fall into it.  

You'll recruit friends of friends who know something about such and such.  You'll surround yourself with a group of well-meaning people who are unsure about their accountabilities, and you will end up responsible for everything.  They will be all care, minimum responsibility.  You'll end up all frustrated and left wondering why everyone is working from their own agenda.

We want you to avoid this trap.  

Find people who can help you up, rather than grabbing people to help you out.  It's about working smarter; it needs a more strategic approach. 

​You can follow a sound and proven process:

1. Clearly articulate why you do what you do;
2. Imagine and document what your business looks like in its perfect form;
3. Develop a business structure based on the things that need to be done to deliver that perfect form;
4. Create absolute clarity of the required outcomes for each position in your business structure;
5. Find people with the skills and aptitude to deliver the accountabilities  as you need them;
6. Instil a culture of accountability by having regular and meaningful conversations about performance; and
7. Allow your skilled and capable people to run it like they own it.

We created The H Factor system for small business owners so that they can grow their businesses faster, and more profitably, by getting people who help up, rather than just randomly getting people to help out.  

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