The challenges you must overcome!
Any working business owner trying to assume additional management responsibilities will confront a variety of challenges to this adjustment. These challenges will conspire to prevent you from becoming the manager your business needs you to be.
These challenges include:
- You may enjoy your current work activities and not want to change.
- You may not see yourself as a manager type, which may become self-fulfilling.
- You may believe that you are the only person who can perform certain tasks (and you may be correct), and that you can’t stop doing these things to make time for management activities.
- Outside distractions and demands may consume all your time and interrupt your efforts.
- You may become bored, discouraged, etc. with some of the management tasks.
- You may need coaching about what to do as manager, and how best to do it.
But you can’t let these challenges stop you from creating the business you want.
Make arrangements to overcome these challenges
As you commit yourself to becoming the manager your business needs, you will have to make appropriate arrangements to provide the necessary space for this new role. These arrangements may include:
- Creating a new vision for yourself as the manager of your business. This is central to your success, and requires that you leave behind any delusions that your active management is somehow not needed. Also, you have to embody the necessary confidence for the position. The directions in this website will help you develop the appropriate confidence in your ability to perform this role.
- Relieving yourself of enough other obligations to perform the management function. This may require building capabilities in others to perform some of your old tasks.
- Understanding which tasks need to be performed by you, and which tasks can be performed by others. Certain administrative tasks might need to be delegated to others to provide you sufficient time to perform the higher-level management tasks.
- Creating regular time periods in each week, and possibly each day, to perform your management function.
- Creating sufficient protections from the distractions and demands of others so you have the time to properly perform the necessary management tasks.
- Getting appropriate direction about what management involves, and how it should be done (such as in this website).
- Finding a way to perform your management role so you stay energized and fulfilled. If you hate your work, you won’t do it. This will require experimenting with the management activities, and it may include delegating certain tasks to others.
- Being persistent, especially early on when you are learning the management role and the management tasks. The value of this work may not be immediately apparent, but the time and energy you apply to this job will not be wasted.
If you are ready to become the manager your business needs: