Nothing is more important to a business than a strong and motivated team. If you are blessed with dedicated and loyal employees, who are excited about what they are doing, you have a huge advantage over the competition. So how do you make sure that you have a great team? There are many principles involved and I can’t cover them all here at this stage, but the single most effective measure you can take is to be genuinely interested in your employees. Find out what makes them tick, what are they excited about? And what do they find a real pain? When you know them as individuals - their strengths and weaknesses - you stand a better chance of developing them as a team.
A good team will thrive with a strong leader, whom they respect. If your team isn’t coming together as a unit, you may want to look at questioning where you can grow and develop personally, in order to become the leader they can all look up to. Be the kind of leader, who can inspire a great team!
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In the vulnerable start-up phase finance is probably the biggest threat to survival. We often need to inject considerable amounts of working capital to keep the business floating until the sales take off. A lot of us like to focus on immediate rewards and put all our efforts into the day-to-day running of the business. However, it is well worth taking some time before, or during the initial start-up, to really get to grips with the finances. You might not find it exciting and you may have a real phobia about figures, but get over it. Finance is the lifeblood of your business and you need to be in control of it - anticipating all possible outgoings and surprise expenses, and being absolutely clear about how your business needs to perform in order to meet those outgoings during the start-up phase, until you have built up some emergency capital resources.
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Henry Ford once said: “Whether you believe you can, or you believe you can’t - you’re probably right.”
When we are thinking about doing something we haven’t done before, the single biggest factor deciding whether we are going to do it or not is the level of our belief. If we think we might succeed, it is likely that we will give it a go. If we believe that we are not capable of successfully doing what we want to do, the chances are that we won’t even try. The truth is, that we don’t know what we are capable of doing until we try, and it is so sad that many people choose the “safe” option of doing nothing. When you come to choose what to do, just remember that most people won’t regret what they did do, the majority regrets what they didn’t do.
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I have been waiting to launch FARMtasticWOMEN.com for so long, hiding behind excuse after excuse: “the kids were to young”, “the farmwork to demanding”, “maybe when the children are both in Secondary school..” “I need to finish the MSc first..”, “I’ll start tomorrow - next week - in the summer”, but you know what? There will never be a right time, so I’m just going to start right here, right now.
I have no products yet, but they will come.
I have no structure, but that will develop.
I have absolutely no visitors to my blog, but I do hope you’ll all turn up and join me for this exciting ride into the world of entrepreneurial rural women.
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