Cameron Herold says managers fail at basic skills like interviewing, onboarding, and delegation because nobody trains them. He walks through five concrete problems that slow companies down and recommends courses and communities to fix them.
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Business is not difficult. You're making it difficult for yourself. You're like Johnny going off to Little league baseball and saying baseball sucks because you haven't been trained in the skills. All of your management team, all of your directors, they have to solve problems, they have to manage projects, they have to deal with conflict. And they've had no training on how to deal with any of those three things. Business is not as difficult as we make it out to be. And I'm getting tired of hearing entrepreneurs complain about it in mastermind communities, on coaching calls, at in person events, and on social media. Entrepreneurs are making a couple of huge mistakes. Business is easy if you follow the shortcuts and the cheat sheets exist. And one of the biggest things that you can do for your company is to train your people. And here's the thing. I would bet a gazillion dollars that if you took any child and sent them to play Little league baseball without teaching them how to hold a bat or how to catch a ball or how to toss the ball to somebody, they would come home from Little League baseball and say, daddy, baseball sucks. But the reality is, no, Johnny, you suck at baseball. Well, here's why business is difficult. You're not giving your team the skills that they need to do the job. I'll give you a couple of very, very specific examples here, and maybe I'm right. I want you to think through this and think about it as it pertains to your company right now as well. So here's the thing. Everyone who works for you that manages people, whether it's a manager, a director, a vp, all of these people actually do interviews. They interview and hire and onboard people into your company. And I can guarantee that 95% of them or more, and probably even you, have had no training on how to do an interview. So of course you end up with shitty people. Of course you end up with high turnover. Of course you've got lots of expenses on recruiting and interviewing because you don't know how to do interviews. I'll give you another example. Now that you have the people onboarded, right, or you've hired them, do you have a solid onboarding process? Most of you don't. Most of you just drop the people into the fire, hope that they do well, and at 90 days you decide if you hired the right people or not. But you should actually have a solid onboarding process in place. And it's easy when you train people on how to run the onboarding process. I even have a course called Invest in your leaders. Where I go into all this stuff. Another good example, you've got these people, you've hired them, you've onboarded them, now you're coaching them. Do you know how to coach? Do you have systems in place for coaching? Do you have systems in place for delegation? Have you trained your managers and directors in VPs on how to run one on one coaching or one on one goal setting reviews, or even just the one on one meetings that they have with direct reports? Because they all do it. They all have one on one meetings with their team, but they have no training on how to do them properly. Have you actually trained all of your managers and directors on how to run meetings? Have you trained your employees on how to show up and participate and attend meetings? Again, you probably haven't. So you keep complaining that business is difficult. Business is really easy when you have the proper skills in place. All of your team manages slack, all of your team manages email. Have you trained them on this? Have you brought in a consultant? Have you found an online course? Have you made them watch videos and read books to learn how to be highly effective with email management? If you've had employees or people say, oh, I, I lost the email or I didn't see that they have a shitty system for managing emails and I guarantee you that almost everyone in your company has never been trained on inbox zero. If you went and looked at my inbox right now, the only emails that would be there are the ones from this morning. Because everything else is triaged properly using a proper system. Again, it's in my course. Invest in your leaders. I'm not trying to sell you my course. It's got all the shortcuts you need. But what I'm trying to do is illustrate a point that business is not difficult. You're making it difficult for yourself. You're like Johnny going off to little league baseball and saying baseball sucks because you haven't been trained in the skills. All of your management team, all of your directors, they have to solve problems, they have to manage projects, they have to deal with conflict and they've had no training on how to deal with any of those three things. Business is hard for you because you've not given your managers, directors, VPs and your CEO and any of your C level team the skills to actually do their job. Here's another great example of why your business is so difficult for you and why it's been so easy for me to build companies like 1-800-GOT Junk, Gerber Auto Collision College, Pro Painters, and even in coaching all my clients, why they're so hyper successful and why you're struggling and saying business is difficult. Most entrepreneurs are in mastermind communities, right? You're in ypo, you're in Vistage, you're in the entrepreneur's organization. Maybe you're at Genius Network or Baby Bathwater Maverick. There's so many groups for entrepreneurs. But have you plugged your second in command, your COO into the COO alliance to grow their skills, to grow their confidence, to grow their network? And have you put your employees, your managers and directors and VPs, have you put them into a mastermind community like the OP spot to grow their skills and confidence and and their network? Again, business is difficult for you because you're making it difficult on yourself. The shortcuts, the cheat sheets. Sign up all of your people into the invest in your leaders course. It's called investinyourleaders.com. get all of your managers, directors and VPs to join the op spot. It'll be huge for them. Get your COO into the COO Alliance. Get yourself into my group Mastermind. Or for God's sake at least train your people in whatever way you want to do it with books and videos and consultants, coaches, however you want to do it. Train them in the core skills that they need every day in their roles. Skills like situational leadership, coaching, delegation, time management, project management, managing conflict time management, email management, executing against a vivid vision, situational leadership, interviewing, running meetings. Give them the skills, the executive functioning skills to run your company. Because right now every single early stage manager or mid level manager's solution to every problem is hire more people. And that is almost never the solution to the problem. So your business is difficult, your business is hard. And no, it's not because your industry is different or your city is different or whatever the excuses are. You're making it hard for yourself. Try it. Try it my way and watch how fast your company will scale. So don't stop now. Click here. There's more great videos that you can keep learning from and together we're unlocking amazing leadership lessons together.
