Am I ready to Hire

The most common question I get from young entrepreneurs starting out is:

“How do I know If I am ready to hire?”

Here I will discuss a few tools that will help you clarify this question.

Take a moment to think, what is your future goal for your business?

Do you want to stay a Solopreneur forever?

That is great too!

Not having to oversee employees saves a lot of time and headaches.

A friend of mine sells appliances and she says she never wants to hire anyone. She only drop ships. It frees her to be able to travel, not account to anyone and not hold anyone else accountable. She’s willing to grow her business up to the degree where she can handle all the work herself.

It is so important to be aware of where you want to take your business (more on the Vision of business another time) because you don’t want to find yourself running a business that you are no longer passionate about and is taking up more time and energy then you wanted to give it.

f you are a solopreneurs and run a one person show or a owner of a 30 person company, If you are wondering if its time to hire, I suggest as follows.

Take a paper and write down all the things you do on a weekly basis in your business. Phone calls for sales, ad submissions for marketing, the steps it takes to execute the product or service, accounting..

Then use the “Delegate and Elevate ” tool by EOS (Click to download) to divide your list. What do you NOT like to do and are not good at? Like to do and are not good at, like to do and are good at and like to do and love!

You can read more about Delegate and Elevate here.

The things that you are not good at and don’t like to do, you should outsource or delegate as soon as possible! Those are the things that will wear you out and drag you down and make you regret running a business.

The next step is to take all these tasks and build your Accountability Chart .

Take a forward thinking look and plan what you want your business to look like in 6-12 months from now.

Crystallize which of your roles from your Delegate and Elevate Tool fall under Sales and Marketing, Operations, Human Resource, Finance and IT.

5 Tips for Building out your Accountability Chart

Whether you are a one person show, or a visionary trying to get everything done at once, those tasks and roles get blurred and all feels like one.

Clarifying how you want your company to look like, what hat you are wearing when, what work you love to do and are good at, can tell you where you are ready to hire.

The hat you wear the most and like the least!