This is for those that are ready to kick off the new year with that awesome business idea. We just want to share few tips on how to be successful in the entrepreneural journey. Please come with us and it would be quite exciting to see your comments at the end of your read.
Have a clear vision for that business as it’s one thing for one to have a vision and another for it to be clear enough to be achieved, if a business vision is stated and communicated correctly, formulation and implementation of strategies to achieve great results will be easier.
Build a reliable team, after defining the vision clearly, it is important to hire team members based on trust, culture fit and skill. You read right, skill comes last (a trustworthy and culture fit person who will learn the skill is more likely to deliver great results compared to a skillful person who isn’t trustworthy and ready to be culture compliant). Empower your team members by getting them involved in decision making, they see themselves as useful, reliable and will be eager to do better at every opportunity they are given.
We must include having a business structure which allows for clear communication, clear reporting relationships, growth and expansion, efficient task completion amongst others.
Dear Entrepreneur, please treat people right (team members, clients) be self-aware, socially aware which leads to the importance of being emotionally intelligent. (Emotional Intelligence will be discussed on the blog soon so watch this space).
Having the right mindset (stay positive, agile and resilient in the face of challenges and even failures) and you guessed right, an article on Agility and Resilience is hitting the blog soon.
This quote from Pearl Zhu sums it up “The creative work place is based on a triangle with three vertices – culture, method, and people.”