How to Kill Your Profits With Poor People Management
With four of us in the family who are all into health and fitness, we used to attend this particular practice.
The actual environment is lovely; however there was always a high turnover of physiotherapists. It’s only a small practice yet it seemed that apart from the owner and one other physio who looked after us, the rest seemed to come and go fairly quickly.
I could easily see what the problem was…the owner. He lacked fundamental communication and business skills. Sure he knew his ’stuff’ about how to help someone heal their body but he sorely missed basic skills in leadership and managing his own staff.
Managing Your People
I was listening to an interview with Jack Canfield, co-author of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series.
How to Manage People Effectively
I recently met up with a friend of mine who was telling me how little time he had working on his business due to the people problems he was constantly experiencing.
He always complains to me that if he could run his business on his own, he would. Unfortunately this is not a reality so he constantly wastes at least 50% of his working week trying to overcome staff issues.
The problem with Gary is that he’s a ‘know it all’.
He likes to do things his own way and believes that having been in business for 15 years, he knows all about recruitment.
Overcoming People Problems In Your Business
The no. 1 asset in any business is it’s people, yet when work with my clients generally that is their no.1 headache, apart from not having enough time and money!
Mary and Ken own a plumbing business employing 9 other people. They used to always complain about how irresponsible their ‘boys’ were. Not filling in the correct paperwork which caused many hours to be wasted by the two office girls and issues on-site due to basic carelessness.
