How To Stop Dealing With Rats and Mice in Your Family Business

29 Sept

You gave someone a title. Manager, team leader, whatever it was, it felt like a win. So why is everything still landing back on your desk?

Mark and Caroline break down the three simple questions every leader needs answered before a title actually means anything, and why skipping them is the real reason you're still dealing with rats and mice instead of running your business.

A title without a framework isn't leadership. It's just a fancier way of staying the bottleneck.

In today's podcast you’ll discover:

01:17 — Why handing out a title without a real framework sets people up to fail
03:04 — The three simple questions every leader needs answered before a title means anything
04:24 — What happens when you give people real decision-making authority
06:09 — The "rats and mice" test
08:23 — Why expecting a first-time manager to perform like a veteran is actually on you, not them
11:59 — The six-day, six-week, six-month story that shows what real leverage looks like

Quotes

“One of the mistakes you may be making right now is granting a title by name only, with no clear picture of what that title actually means. That's the question you've got to ask.” - Mark Creedon

“With a great title comes great responsibility. So ask what the responsibility is, what the outcome is, what they're going to answer for.” - Mark Creedon

“There's a massive difference between management and leadership. Managing is just a role or a responsibility. Leadership is managing people.” - Mark Creedon

“The ultimate goal of having leaders in your team is to leverage your time. If you've got leaders in your team where you're having to put just as much time into it, you've got the wrong leader.” - Caroline Creedon

“It's about setting your team up to succeed as a leader, to be better people than they are, and to get better results than they're currently getting.” - Caroline Creedon

The Mastermind for Business podcast is powered by Business Accelerator Mastermind, a coaching program that helps service business owners and professionals double their revenue whilst halving their time in the business. Each week, Mark Creedon, a Business Coach at Business Accelerator Mastermind, speaks with some of the best business minds in the world and shares simple, practical steps you can take to create the business you always wanted.

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Mastermind Business Accelerator is a hands-on practical program aimed at driving results fast. Spearheaded by Mark and Caroline Creedon and a range of highly qualified experts, the program will give you back the freedom you hoped for when you first started your business or professional practice. With his coaching program, Business Accelerator Mastermind, Mark helps business owners maximise their time, set and achieve goals, while remaining accountable.