Otherwise known as your skills gap!
✔ It's critical to be honest with yourself about your skill gaps if you want to lead a successful team or organisation. So, how do you go about conducting a skills gap analysis? 1. Make a list of the abilities and attributes required for success. 2. Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest. 3. Determine which ones will have the greatest immediate impact. Mark your 'low hanging fruit' with a *. 4. Ask yourself honestly if you are capable of learning this skill. If the answer is no, develop a plan to look into outsourcing options. 5. If the answer is yes, establish a strategy for how you will learn it. 6. Then begin! Get started! Every day, do one thing to close this particular skill gap. Nobody is born knowing how to lead a team, write a blog or understand a P & L. 7. Work your way through your list gradually. Re-score and re-prioritize your goals once a month or once a quarter. Go ahead and try it... I dare you. Please let me know if I can assist you!
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Loads of my clients have really struggled with recruiting good people recently.
Whereas pre-covid they’d get 30 decent applicants, nowadays they are lucky to get a couple. If that, in some cases! One business owner I spoke to recently said he’d started the recruitment process with a huge list of essential & desirable skills but would now be happy with just about anyone! (I did remind him about the age-old wisdom - never fill a hole with an a#%hole! That’s never good for business!) Anyhoo… it got us on to the subject of “is it time to invest in underperforming team members rather than struggle to recruit new ones?” In my experience, most people actually want to do a good job. They don’t want to go home every night feeling rubbish about themselves because they’ve done a bad job at work that day. The main reasons why people underperform are… 1. Lack of skill 2. Lack of training 3. Lack of support 4. Lack of Will 5. Bad attitude Numbers 1-3 can be fairly easily solved with the right development/coaching/training programme. Also, if this employee doesn’t seem capable of learning a specific thing, then perhaps they could be moved around to a position better suited to their skill set? Numbers 4 & 5 can be a bit trickier but can still be solved with the right coaching. What’s your biggest team issue right now? Recruiting or getting your team to do what you pay them to do? If it’s the latter… I can help!
…but thankfully now, I’m one of the fortunate people who get to do what they absolutely love.
Helping people become the best version of themselves personally and professionally. That’s what makes my heart sing. So I’ve built a brilliant team who shares my passion and brings this type of transformation to more businesses and organisations the world over, in a hands-on, friendly, results-driven, professional but also deeply personal way. In my entire career, I’ve never met a person or organisation that wouldn’t benefit from a good coach, mentor or trainer. Whether you already know what you need or want some help figuring it out, I would love to talk to you. No obligations: just an open and honest discussion to understand your problems and ambitions and see what we can do for you, your team and your business. So, tell me … what makes your heart sing? 🎶 Do drop me a message below to arrange a chat. #thoughtleadership
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