Essential personnel for a successful enterprise.
Every business needs good people to run it. Even the most successful entrepreneur requires a great team around to aid and assist them, you simply can’t do everything yourself.
Picking the right team is absolutely essential from the outset, people who get along both professionally and personally, who can work together as a tight-knit unit, furthering the interests of the company. Tensions or personality clashes can rob that team of a unified cohesion and disrupt its smooth operation so it’s vitally important you pick the correct personnel with talents and skill and allow them to flourish.
Along with the right people, filling your team with the right positions is also essential to success. Different companies are differently structured but there are some positions, both on a personal and professional level, that are simply invaluable to a successful business, and in this article we will list 5 positions that any good company needs to succeed.
1. Book-keeper
Probably the very first person you hire should be a professional book-keeper to keep track of and handle your financial affairs. The importance of this position cannot be overestimated as finance is literally your company’s lifeblood, so pick someone who is absolutely trustworthy, a dynamo with numbers, and can give you sound, unbiased, and honest financial advice.
2. Chief Executive Officer
No matter how strong your work ethic or how many hours you spend at your company, there’s only so much of you to go around and you simply can’t do everything and be everywhere all the time. That is why you need a great right-hand person to manage the day-to-day operations of your business so you can concentrate on the bigger picture of growing your business. Picking the right person with the right temperament is key, this person must know the in’s and out’s of the business, who does what, and how everything should effectively function. You need to be able to trust this person innately and give them freedom to be a firm but fair manager.
3. A Supportive Spouse
Family is everything in life and for a successful entrepreneur, having a supportive spouse to hold down the fort at home is essential to striking a suitable work-life balance. Without that anchor of marriage and partnership, you can easily lose your way at work, get too invested or even obsessive about the business, work too hard and suffer eventual burnout. But having a spouse allows you to let go at the end of the day, relax, enjoy time-out, and return to work feeling rested, loved, supported, and appreciated.
4. Editorial Team
There are so many miniscule tasks that any business needs to operate effectively that it can be a little overwhelming sometimes and mistakes can easily occur in the heat of battle. In such a scenario, you need at least one if not more good people with sharp eyes, even sharper instincts, and the ability to work quickly and accurately. These people ensure everything is above board, mistakes are corrected BEFORE they reach the client, everything is prepared as it should be, tend to the smaller technicalities, and ultimately ensure effective deliverables.
5. Seasoned Professionals
When founding a business for the first time, you are obviously inexperienced and learning the ropes as you go. This is why hiring some experienced professionals to key positions is so important, people with longstanding experience in the field you are working in and can not only enable your business to flourish but also help you avoid the traps and pitfalls of the commercial marketplace. Hiring people who know their job well allows you to concentrate on other important matters, safe in the knowledge these seasoned pros are handling matters efficiently without need for constant supervision.
In aviation, there is a saying that goes “it’s not the plane, it’s the pilot” meaning what matters is the person flying the plane not the plane itself. In business, this matters equally so, with the right people in the right positions are what ultimately makes the company what it is.
