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Are You Looking After Your Business’ Number 1 Asset?

Posted: July 19, 2022

If you’re an entrepreneur or small business owner, you probably have a plan which defines what you plan to invest into your business. This usually includes things like materials, equipment, staff costs, and a marketing budget.

But what about investing in yourself? Do you have a budget for that? If not, you could be failing to invest in the most important tool for growing your business– YOU!

Remember, you are your business, and a business grows in direct proportion to the amount you grow as an individual.

In the late 17th century, Louis XIV of France, also known as The Sun King, is reported to have declared “L’etat, cest moi” – which translates into English as “I am the State”. In part, Louis was simply saying that he oversaw everything – no surprise in an absolute monarchy! But he was also saying something else – that the state depended on him for its wellbeing: when Louis thrives, the state thrives, when Louis has a problem, the state has a problem.

If you’re an entrepreneur, sole trader, or director of a small business, it would be very true to say, “The Business is Me”. Without you driving things forward, in the early stages, nothing happens.

 

So, the question we have for you today is:

“How much are you currently investing in your business’s number one asset? You.”

To grow your business all you need is four things:

This is good news – but it’s also bad news.

The bad news is that as an owner/director, all of these things depend on your knowledge and mindset. If you don’t have that knowledge – or you have incomplete knowledge – your progress will be extremely limited.

The good news is, that the knowledge you need can be acquired quite easily – it’s not rocket science. But it needs an investment – of time and money, to learn what you need to learn, in an efficient way so you can start making a difference in your business quickly.

You may be thinking “Can’t I Just Delegate or Outsource?”

A key skill in management is the ability to hire people with the skills you don’t have, and make them responsible for delivering what’s needed, whether that’s products and services to your customers, or growing the business. But in the early stages if you are the only person in your business, who are you going to delegate to?

The ‘growth trap’ is a common problem for a lot of businesses: you can’t grow the business until you employ more people but you can’t employ more people until you grow the business and make money to pay them.

Outsourcing is a good idea for ‘housekeeping’ functions like accounting, IT or cleaning but how do you outsource your vision for the company, set strategic goals and win new business? These are things that really cannot be delegated to someone else. Investing in your number one resource is key. It’s essential to stop thinking about business training as an indulgence or an add-on extra ‘when you get time’ and to start thinking about it as a vital investment in your business.

Counting the Cost

When you’re starting it’s understandable to try and avoid unnecessary business costs. But you need to weigh up the benefits that business training will bring against the cost to your business of NOT training. One way to evaluate this is to ask yourself how much you would pay to see your business growing the way you want it to grow? The answer should give you a clue as to how much your self-investment budget should be.

Return on Investment Longer Term

Remember when investing in yourself the long term skills acquired can pay you back for many years to come, take marketing for example if you invested to improve in this area, the skill sets stay with you for many years to come and can add value in future business ventures by expanding your knowledge it always provided long term gains.

Becoming a Person of Value

A final thought that can help you to gain more success and growth in your life, is that in order for you to gain more success you have to become a person of value to others, with every skillset added you become more valuable to others because people buy solutions and results, you add to your ‘value’ with every new skill set you acquire. Remember when you have more value to add to others, gaining recognition for your value brings you new clients and ultimately more sales for your ventures become easier and more simple.

Learn how Business Owners And Entrepreneurs Can Use A 4-Step Process To Get More Leads, Clients, And Sales From Social Media Without Wasting Money.

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