Dotty Scott discusses self-employment and small-business management, debunking myths about wearing all the hats. As a business grows, you need to decide which roles to keep and which to delegate, and be intentional about switching between them. Clear systems and expectations help your team work without you.
I call it truths and myths about self-employment is that we wear all the hats. And in the beginning, that's true. But as you— your business grows and matures, you have to know which hats to let go of and which ones that you can streamline and make run more efficiently and that type of thing.
There are times when you have to wear every hat, and I have an image with like a person with all the hats on at the same time. And sometimes you do find yourself in a position that you have to wear every hat in your business. But the most important thing you can do is when you are doing that, be clear about what hat you're wearing at what time and what's required for that role at that time. Not only is it important for you so that you're being effective in how you're using your time, but down the road when you are able to delegate and to have different people in your business helping you to run your business, as you should, um, you wanna know what is expected and required from that role. You know, You know, one of the things that frustrates me more than anything is when people bring team members in and basically they just allow them to do whatever they think is the right thing to do in that role. Well, that's not how it should work. You're bringing someone to help you with your business and they need to be able to operate while of course giving input and sharing feedback, but operate and run your business according to the systems that have been set up that are right for your business and the results that you want for you and your clients.
