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How to Get the Right Help to Grow Your Business

teacher avatar Jordan Awori, Business Growth Specialist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      3:07

    • 2.

      Why you need help

      4:32

    • 3.

      What You Need Help With

      4:04

    • 4.

      The Help you Need To Get

      5:42

    • 5.

      Project Details

      3:01

    • 6.

      Conclusion

      3:07

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About This Class

Class Overview:

This course is dedicated to helping you figure out what kind of help you need to take your business to the next level.

What You Will Learn:

You will learn business and self-development strategies that will take you through a journey of introspection and discovery. To help you answer three main questions (that make up the three main lessons): 

Lesson 1: Why is it important to get the right help? 

Lesson 2: How do you figure out what you need to get help for?

Lesson 3: How do you figure out what kind of help you need to get?

With the main purpose is to find the right support system and team to grow your business to your own version of success.  

Why You Should Take This Class:

It's easy to say that you need to get help for your business, but as entrepreneurs, you and I know it's usually easier said than done. Whether it's:

1. reluctance to give responsibility to others, or

2. not knowing how to spot the right people, or 

3. figuring out what exactly you'd be better placed handling yourself, or the one most people tend to forget

4. figuring out what kind of help you need because help doesn't always equate to hiring people 

And this course is designed to help you figure all this out. 

Who This Class is For:

I've designed this course to be helpful to every entrepreneur. No matter how long you've been in business, what field you're in, where it's based or how you run it. You've found the perfect course as long as you are determined to figure out what help you need to take your business to the next level. 

Materials/Resources:

Workbook:

You'll receive a downloadable workbook where you'll have to fill in your answers/ideas/concepts during each lesson. 

Project:

I've specifically tailored a project to help you visualize the right help for a specific problem you are facing in your business. 

Ps: The best part about this workbook and project is that they can be used after the course every time you're considering getting any help in your entrepreneurial journey. 

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Jordan Awori

Business Growth Specialist

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Hey, I'm Jordan Awori

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I'm a business growth specialist. Dedicated to helping entrepreneurs such as yourself to build successful businesses on your own terms. How? By ensuring that you have the right business structure and entrepreneurial mindset to find solutions to your business's unique problems so you can create a steady income stream and feel fulfilled professionally and personally. 

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1. Introduction: Hi there. Now these are congruent least proverb that states a single brief lived as not jingle. And what this means is that there is strength in numbers. Think about it. Why brisket on your AML barely week in the sample when you shake your hand. But the more you have some more sound and impacted or mucus. And the same applies to your business. The more of a support system you have been into a team or mentors, the more impact your business will have. Designed this course to be useful too. Every interpret neuron, no matter how long you've been in business, what field you're in, weight-based, or how you run it, as long as you are determined to figure out what kind of help you need to take your business to the next level, then you found the perfect course. Now see that I don't want to come off as rude. I think it's best to introduce myself. I am children are worried and I'm a Business Growth specialist dedicating to helping enterpreneurs such as yourself to build successful businesses on your own terms now is squared and good to see that you need to get help for business. But as enterpreneurs, you and I both know that it's usually easier said than done. It's reluctance to give responsibility to add us, not knowing how to spot the right people, figuring out what exactly you'd be better police handling yourself on the one most people tend to forget figuring out what kind of help you need. Because help doesn't always equate to hiring people that see, this course is designed to help you figure all this out. How through the business and self-development strategies, I will share with you to help you answer three main questions that make up the three main lessons of this course. In lesson one, we'll be answering, why is it important to get the right color? In lesson two? How do you figure it out, what you need to get help for? Whereas in lesson three, we'll be answering, how do you figure it out? What kind of help you need to get? All with the main purpose of finding the right support system and team to grow your business to your own version of success. Now, if you're here to just lounge and listen to me speak, then you're in the wrong place. You need to be fully aware that this won't be all talk from my end and no action from yours. And that's why I've created a downloadable workbook that you'll find in the resources section where you have to feel your answers and ideas, concept during each lesson. And that's not just you also have to walk on a project. I specifically tailored it to help you visualize the right help for a specific problem you are facing in your business. And the best part about this workbook and Project is that they can and should be done every time you're considering getting any help in your entrepreneurial journey. With that, I'm excited for us to begin. Let's jump into it. 2. Why you need help: In this video, I'll be answering the question, why is it important to get the right help? And I'll also be showing you that the right help doesn't just mean employing people. Now a big part of running a successful business, whatever success means to you, is having the right entrepreneurial mindset. And one major way of nurturing the right intrapreneurial mindset is knowing and fully accepting. The two cannot, should not and will not do everything on your own. You need and a half to get help to grow your business to greater heights. And in your thinking, to be able to push your limits, you need to listen to me very carefully. Please don't try to be all things to all people or all parts of your business or personal life. So be it trying to running slowly or just loosening the range on a specific aspect, you have to learn to assess each situation and see if anyone better could do it. Yes, I know this is a course about business, but I'm also bringing up your personal life into this because you are more than just your business. If you are overwhelmed in your personal life, then your business will surely struggle, right? So you have to consider getting helpful all aspects of your life. And how do you go about doing this? First and foremost, you have to ask yourself, is it worth investing your energy, doing it yourself? Wouldn't it be better if you delegate it to someone else, thus giving you time for what you will be better. By doing so you learn to focus on your strengths and then gets helpful. The other tasks, whether you'd have to hire somebody fluid time, outsource the task part-time, get an intern who aren't experience, but be sure to give them a stipend loop, get advice from an expert, or ask a loved one for help. As you can see, how it doesn't only come in the form of paying someone to do what task. Seeking advice or assistance also counts as help, whatever form of help you choose to get. I can assure you that by doing so, you'll be able to achieve your goals. Because identifying, sampling to your strengths is an important part of getting into the right mindset. If you're not up with managing your businesses, social media or your alley walk mornings mean that you don't have time to make breakfast for your little ones. Ask, outsource, hire dedicated to this task to others instead of spreading yourself out to t. The best part of delegating is that once you reach a certain level of success, it will be an even more incredible feeling when you get to share it with all those who helped make it possible. With that said, I have an assignment for you in your workbook, which you can find in the resource section. You'll have to analyze why exactly you need help and any fears you may have the stopping you from getting it. In the first question you'll be answering. Why do you need help in your business and in your personal life? Temporal areas where you feel overwhelmed, would you know that you're not the best fit to be the one handling it. As this workbook is only for your personal use and allow yourself to be as vulnerable and honest as possible. The second question you'll be answering, what are your fears if you've got Didn't getting help in your business and in your personal life. Remember, brutally honest. In the third question, you'll be answering what hinders you from getting the right help in your business and in your personal life. The workbook assignment for this lesson may seem quite simple on the outside, but it forces you to dig deep to figure out two things. One, why are you taking this course in the first place? And whether you truly see the wealth of getting the right help to what has made you from getting and keeping the right help. Because it's all well and good to take this course and know why and how you should identify the right help. But I, you able to embrace this help when it comes your way and sustain it. So to challenge yourself with this assignment, with that said, let's head on over to the next lesson. 3. What You Need Help With: In this lesson, we'll be answering the question, how do you figure out what you need to get helpful? To answer this, you need to identify what your strengths, weaknesses, and extended opportunities. And how do you do this? Well by conducting a good old-fashioned swot analysis on yourself in both your professional and personal life. What is the swot analysis? Well, swot is an acronym that stands for strengths, which an internal weaknesses, also internal and opportunities and threats which are both external. I'll take you through each one so you can better understand them. Strengths. To help you understand your strengths, picture yourself as a competitive product in a marketplace. So imagine that you're an iPhone being sold in an app called screw. A strength is an asset to you as a product and can be used to differentiate yourself from others. So if you want an iPhone, it would be how you are different from all the other iPhones in the store. Now let's come back to the real world. Your strength is how you differentiate yourself from others when running your business are in your plasma length. Now, examples of strengths could be that in your personal life, you are empathetic, whereas in your professional life, you have strong project management skills. Weaknesses. A thickness is a liability or an area of opportunity for growth and is usually the best place to get someone to help improve you, handle the issue for you. No weakness examples could be in your personal life that you feel or others have told you that you're not depended. Whereas in your professional, you're disorganized. Not seeing that we've covered the internal factors, that is strengths and weaknesses now to the opportunities and threats, which are both external factors. When thinking about your opportunities and threats, I always find it easier to begin with the threats. Then as objectively as possible, judge your threats and determined possible ways to overcome them and those become your opportunities. Here's some examples. And entrepreneurial threat could be excessive government bureaucracy. On the other hand, and interpret neural opportunity you could identify that helps you deal with the threat. Could be networking groups for enterpreneurs in your area. And from them, you can learn how they're handling to go about the bureaucracy. A personal threat, on the other hand, could be, let's say you have family issues with a personal opportunity being that you have access to a good, familiar therapists that can help your family. Now let me record show that when analyzing your swot for your personal and enterpreneur, if you need to do it on yourself. And also get at least two people you trust to do a swat analysis of view. This way you can view your swot objective and get a different perspective on things to cruise to realize. Now why is this important? This is because the problem with using a list of strengths and weaknesses that only you've compiled is that you'll have a biased opinion of yourself. You see most people think too highly or too little of themselves. And if you're like me, you somehow manage to do both at the same time without saying, we all need a Sunday board to help us gain clarity and get closer to the truth about ourselves. And that's where other people's opinions come in handy. As you'll see in your workbooks, you'll not only have to do a SWOT Analysis on yourself, but you also have to get others in your professional and personal life to give the objective opinion. Or, you know, I know this exercise can be quite tough, so I encourage you to enjoy the journey, minimalistic and objective, but don't be so hard on yourself when it comes to the weaknesses and the discounts that you may find. Because in the next lesson, we'll be looking at how you figure out what kind of help you need to deal with them. With that said, let's get into the next lesson. 4. The Help you Need To Get: Hi there. Now in this lesson we'll be answering the question, how do I figure out what kind of help and need to get? And we'll be using two strategies to help you answer it. Opportunity costs and help analysis. Let us begin with an opportunity cost. After you've conducted your swot analysis, you need to consider the Help you would need to deal with the weaknesses. If you're facing either on a long or short-term basis. That's what opportunity cost comes into play. Opportunity cost is usually an economic term, but it's a valuable concept for considering your weaknesses. The idea is pretty simple. Given a limited set of resources, opportunity cost represents what you lose out on when you choose to spend your resources on one alternative over another. Let the record show that business resources are the components that are business needs in order to do business. This could be Monday time employees walking, space, equipment, etc, etc. Now that we're on the same page, let me give you an example of how opportunity costs when choosing which resource to usable by another and how that helps you figure out what type of help you should get. Let's say you have lack of sufficient sales ability and lack of sufficient bookkeeping ability listed in the weakness column of your swot analysis. But unfortunately, you cannot have both tasks yourself because you have unlimited amount of time. And on the other hand, you cannot pay for someone to help you with both tasks because you have unlimited amount of money. What you will then have to decide is based on the limited resources, that is time and money. Which task will you be able to hire someone to help you with? The opportunity cost of that is that you will have to do the other task yourself. It could be that because you despise all aspects of sales, have some basic bookkeeping knowledge and identified a free online booking costs to sharpen your skills, you are willing to handle the bookkeeping for a year until your business can afford to hire someone? Yes. If you are getting help to better your skill, but it has helped that will only use up your time and not your money. The opportunity cost of deciding to handle the bookkeeping yourself is that you will not have enough time to learn to better your sales skills, right? So with that said, you will have to spend your other limited resource money to hire someone to handle it. Now that you're fully aware of the importance and benefits of getting help. And you've identified by analyzing opportunity costs, which task you'd get, what type of helpful The Help analysis is? What will help you identify the right help to deal with the task at hand. So what exactly is the health analysis? While it is a set of questions you have to answer, let's say you're trying to determine the right person to hire. The questions you have to answer would be detailed job description of the task. You need to be done. Skills, strengths, and personality of the person, where to find them? Well they belong or short-term specifying timelines. How much would you pay them? What additional benefits apart with you offer? What will they require to do their job? So be technology information, additional staff, etc, etc, and their costs. What should the output be? So for example, number of plants they bring in, profit, they should generate, the business goal should help you achieve etc, etc. As you can see, by taking the time to correctly answer all these questions, you'll be able to figure out what exactly the right person needs to do, what characteristics they should have, where to find them, how to keep them when you do find them. And most importantly, what you need to ensure that they can help you efficiently. And please note that you can also use this Help analysis for other forms of health, not just hiring someone. Let's take the example of getting a mentor. You can still until the questions by looking at detailed description of the mentorship you need skills, strengths, and personality of the person, where to find them. How often or long you need the mentorship, specifying timelines, how much you will pay them, if at all. How could you be of benefit to them too? So maybe you have a skill or some knowledge they require, what they will require to mentor use of technology, time, etc, and their costs. And lastly, what should the output of their help be? For example, connections that they made offer you? So as you can see, you can slightly adjust the questions to fit the type of help you looking for. As long as you ensure that the core of the question is left intact with that seed, you have a section in the workbook where you can conduct the opportunity costs and help analysis on all the weaknesses you indicated in your swot analysis. And that's not just it. This causes project. I have prepared for you a practical exercise that will help you solve any issue in your business using the opportunity costs and help analysis. So let's head there now. 5. Project Details: For this course project, you will be practically implementing what you have learned in lesson three, opportunity cost and the health analysis. Now I chose this project not only because it forces you to look at health as not just hiring people to do it for you, but it can also be getting help to improve your skills. This project also helps you figure out what you need. I will give to those you do decide to hire white to ensure that you attract and keep the right help to grow your business. Okay, Let's get into it. The first step will be to identify to actual problems in your business that you are struggling with and that you have limited resources to get the same help for both of them. It can be money, so maybe you can't afford to pay for both tasks, time, space, etc, etc. The second step will be to conduct the opportunity costs by deciding which one of the two with you Get Help 200 yourself. So for example, do a course on Get mentors to advise you. And which one would you get someone to handle it for you. The third step, you are to conduct the Help analysis to figure out detailed job description, skills, strengths, and personality of the person helping you where to find them? Will they be long or short term specifying timelines. How much would you pay them? What additional benefits of parts do you offer? What will they require to do their job? So be technology, information, additional staff, etc, and their costs. What should the output be? So for example, number of plants they should bring in, Prophets, they should generate the business goal they should help you achieve, etc, etc. Lastly, you should upload a document with your answers onto the project gallery for me and the other students to give a comment and share with you more ideas. Now because I have your back, you will find a project example in the resources area. Additionally, at the end of the project description text, you will find a list of online articles that will help you with this project. Remember that you're only conducting this exercise on your business and not on your personal life. And let the record show that there are no perfect answers. All you have to do to successfully complete this project is to ensure that your answers are as detailed and honest as possible. Remember that this is an exercise that isn't just for this project, but that you will use throughout your entrepreneurial journey when you are thinking of getting any form of help. So download the project example and start walking on yours. I can't wait to see where discoveries you make through this exercise. Now let me to the next video for a recap of everything you've learned. 6. Conclusion: I'm so proud of you for completing this course. You are amazing. Now, it's been an absolute pleasure to give you the strategies to help you figure out what is the best help for you and your business in all honesty, thank you for this opportunity to share my knowledge and I hope it was worth your while. Now here's a quick recap of the strategies of offered you to answer these three questions. In lesson one, we were answering, why is it important to get the right hill? We looked at the importance of getting the right help and talked about the different types of health in your workbook assignment, you have to dig deep and answer questions that force you to analyze. It is vital for you and your business. And what may hinder you from getting and sustaining the Help you may get. In lesson two, we were answering, how do you figure it out? What you need to get helpful? Here we conducted a SWOT analysis on your personal and entrepreneurial journey. In your workbook, you have to conduct a SWOT analysis on yourself and have a trusted few to analyze you, so you may get biased feedback. In lesson three, we were answering, how do you figure it out? What kind of help you need to get? We looked at using opportunity costs and the health analysis to figure out what kind of help you need and how to secure seat help. The exercise in the workbook will make you do precisely that. Now that you're all done with the course, It's time to walk on the workbook if you're already working on it as we went along, I want you to go back and review your answers to condemn any new ideas who have. Also don't forget to post your project in the project gallery. Remember that there are no perfect answers and back to successfully complete this project, all you have to do is to ensure that you answer all the questions as detailed and honest as possible. And just like with a workbook, the project is an exercise that isn't just for this course, but it is an exercise that you will use to out your entrepreneurial journey. Invest the time and effort it needs to try it out and must have the ability to visualize the kind of help you need. Now be sure to follow me here so you don't miss out on all my other courses. When you're in the following mood while not head on over to my Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook. And on my 100 Jordan are worried to follow me there, to be sure to check out my website.com, to find out about all the work I do helping enterpreneurs such as yourself grow in your entrepreneurial journey. Before I officially say bye, I want to let you know that I'm celebrating you and I honestly have a deep respect for you. You know, how many people say that they want their businesses to be successful but never go the extra mile to ensure that they do. You've gotten this training and I want you to think about how amazing that is without sin. See you in the next course.