Painting business owners can hire their first production manager by documenting a week of daily tasks, identifying what to delegate, then deciding whether to promote someone internal or recruit outside. Mike walks through a free template and training video at paintergrowth.com/bfp.
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tackle that first step of getting a new production manager hired? The first step is a simple priority management exercise. You get clear on what you're doing throughout your day, exactly what the tasks are, what the outcomes are, and compile what tasks you want your production manager to do. And I actually have a priority management template and exercise and training video prepared for this. If you want to go through my priority management training for free, you can go to paintergrowth.com/bfp, Bookkeeping for Painters. Basically, you want to know what you're doing, figure out what parts of your day should be the production manager's responsibility versus your responsibilities. Then Once you go through your entire week, you have that list of things that you don't want to do anymore. You want your production manager to do. Now you can start putting those tasks into a job description, the outcomes that those tasks are representing. The next step, we look at our team. Do we have someone who can handle this, who wants to step in and wants to handle this, or do we need to start looking outside the business?
