As you know I have been on the road over the last few weeks. Firstly I had a week unplugged Musketeering in the south of France and then I had a whirlwind trip to San Francisco to attend the annual conference of the Association of Horse Assisted Educators. So time has become an even more valuable commodity to me than usual. Of course, we all have the same number of hours in the day, so I got to reflecting on how come some people seem to achieve more than others.
When I dug into this further I realised that those that get more done have an amazing team supporting them. One of my mentors used to live in a small town and what she realised was that: in a small town:
- You don’t have every talent and skill you need to do well, or even survive
- Few do
- Even those individuals who (seem to) know how to do everything don’t have enough time to do it
- If people work together, talents and time can complement each other, then the whole can be stronger than the sum of the parts
- By working in teams, you learn how to teach people how to treat you, and how to treat others with respect
When people collaborate together as a team, they collectively can achieve more and as a result everyone gets more time. Just think about the millions of tasks you do everyday as a business owner. I’m sure there are some you love and some you’d rather not do. I know that is the case for me. In fact, have you ever noticed how you procrastinate about the tasks you hate doing and then how they take even longer than you thought!!!
How would it be if that task that you hated doing someone else loved doing? You could outsource the task to them and hey presto you have created more time for yourself. Now when I suggest this to my clients the initial comment is often: “Julia, I can’t afford to do that”, and my response is, “You can’t afford not to”.
Just think about it like this. Say your time is valued at £100 per hour and it takes you three hours per month to do your book-keeping. That’s a monthly cost of £300. Do you think you could outsource it more cheaply? I bet you could, and the best thing is that the book-keeper would probably take less than three hours to do it. Now, what else could you do with that time? If you use it to do revenue generating activities, not only have you created time but you have also created the revenue to pay for outsourcing. It becomes a win-win.
So how are you going to start leveraging the power of team to help you create time.? If you’d like my help with this then please book in for a complimentary strategy session to explore the best activities for you to outsource and how you can find the best team members to help you grow your business.
Julia Felton (aka The Business Wrangler) is the founder of Business HorsePower. Business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives hire her to accelerate their business performance by harnessing the energy of their people to work more collaboratively together. By aligning purpose with actions the team achieves exponential results as everyone starts pulling in the same direction.
Julia believes that business is a force for good and through designing purpose-driven businesses that leverage the laws of nature, and the herd, you can create businesses founded on the principles of connection, collaboration and community that make a significant impact in the world.
