John Wetmore walks through how he delegates administrative work to staff like Amanda so he can focus on recruiting and sales. He lists everyday tasks, assigns them, and trains by doing the work himself first to make sure it's done right.
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A lot of people go like, what do I have my staff do? The thing I've learned is the closer I work with my staff, the better everything runs, the more I understand the pieces. And again, when I hired her, her job was to take over the things that I was doing that would allow me to do more productive activities, talk to more agents, recruit more, help more people, see more families, all that stuff. Think of all the things that you do today that are administrative duties. The notepad in your phone, the If you spend the next week, you just write down in your notepad all the stuff you do relative to the business. I call carriers to get this. I print leads, I order leads, I sort leads, I post job ads, I print resumes, I call resumes, whatever it is. All the little things you do throughout the week. I just put all that stuff in a notepad and that became Amanda's job duties. And little by little, I just started giving her those pieces and I was able to train her because I did them all. I talked to a lot of people and, you know, they want to train their staff on how to recruit, but they don't recruit. I'm like, that's going to be really difficult.