Holding on doesn't make your company more valuable
Our vision is to see more purpose-driven companies excel and sustain through generations, making a positive lasting impact on the world.
How does my company contribute to this?
We coach founders & owners to grow by adding transferrable value, create a succession platform and take a vacation.
Part of lasting through generations is capturing the brilliance, savvy and know-how of you, the founder and owner, to ensure you don’t leave a knowledge gap when you decide not to be directly involved in your business anymore.
Your knowledge is gold and is the foundation of how your company started and what contributes to its ongoing success.
Even if you are aren’t thinking about passing your business to another in the future, or at the point where this has even entered your mind; capturing and transferring knowledge is a skill that takes practice and planning. It’s possible and it doesn’t have to be perfect or complex. And, it can be a process that evolves.
This is also for you if you’ve ever thought of adding to your team through contractors, part-time or full-time employees.
One of the biggest hesitations I see from owners & founders who want to expand their team is thinking that others can’t do what they can do.
It may come down to trust or belief in the individual, but by getting over this hurdle, you nurture the important skill of teaching and developing others that can help you build capacity in your company and allow it to go beyond where it is today.
Your people can be trained and developed to the point where they can handle more complexity and responsibility.
It first begins with capturing how something is done and documenting it.
If you’re a photographer: How you take your photos.
If you are a product-based company: How you sell.
If you are a builder: How you plan construction.
If you’re a training company: How you plan your curriculum.
As an example: If you’re a company that sells products and service packages and you’re the only one who does that, then eventually you’ll get to the point where you can’t sell any more because you’ve reached your limit. A person only has so much time in the week!
If you train others to sell, you instantly increase your capacity to bring in revenue and customer contracts.
How do they learn?
By being trained in your process.
Whether you believe your company will last through generations or you’re more concerned with the next 5 years, either way, the path can be the same. Leaving it all on your shoulders limits your potential.
Document how you do what you do as a company. Train others. Increase your capacity.
Lighten the load you carry.
If you want to learn more about how to minimize knowledge gaps and raise the bar of your team’s output, then you’ll want to read this resource on capturing your operating procedures.
NOW is YOUR time.
Ariana