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How to Find Future Leaders for Your Snow & Ice Company
If you’re like most business owners, you want to grow your snow and ice company to reach new heights. To build up your snow management company, though, you need money, time, and a willingness to grow in your self-awareness.
8 Ways to Plan, Discover and Develop Future Leaders for Your Snow and Ice Company
Most small business owners want to advance their companies to the point of rising to CEO level with key department heads at the helm. Three top positions you should fill first:
- Sales
- Operation
- Administration
But how do you get to that level? Only with determination, time, money, and the willingness to grow in your self-awareness. Here are eight tips to consider:
- You want future leaders who’ll be relational, emotionally intelligent, and willing to learn. Your future leaders should participate in the company’s culture as well as advocate your company’s mission and values.
- You want to partner with budding company leaders by coaching them to make goals and by encouraging them to reach those goals. These benchmarks should be attainable and something your employee wants to do.
- You want results-driven leaders. You want them to initiate ideas and proactively solve problems. You want confident leaders who’ll make decisions that benefit their departments as well as the company as a whole.
Learn more: 10 Tips for Hiring the Right Person for Your Snow and Ice Removal Business
- You want your leaders to take their departments to the next level. If you’re in the process of growing your company, you’re used to wearing many hats as a business owner.
However, you want your department heads to pick up where you left off and take their department to the next level.
If you have current employees who you trust and have leadership ability, then you want to mentor them to take a specific department or to be your right-hand man or woman.
- You need to invest in your own business development as well as your leaders’ business growth. Books, coaches, consultants, classes, and online webinars help you and your future leaders evolve into department heads that gives your company the growth spurt it needs.
Not only does this learning better your future leaders today, but it also prepares you and them for the future. For instance, if there’s an emergency where you can’t run your business for a while, you know whom you can trust to take over during your absence.
Read more: 13 Tips for Successfully Marketing to Millennial Property Managers, HOAS, and Other Decision-Makers.
- You need to make sure that your manager has the ability and desire to take on a leadership role. There are times where you find the “perfect” person to be your backup. Yet, you learn later that they didn’t want that role, or they couldn’t function in that role.
It takes time to get to know your employees, but if you want to promote someone for a leadership position, you need to be sure they’re up for the challenge.
- It all starts with you. You need to mature emotionally in your leadership position, whether you have a large crew or just a few subcontractors. It takes time, patience, and practice to become a business leader yourself.
- You need to let go. As your snow management company evolves, you need to start letting go of control. It’s scary. But if you have people you can promote within that you trust, like and have mentored, then the letting go process goes smoother.
Why You Need SnowWolf to Lead Your Pack
At SnowWolf, we’ve grown and evolved over the years. And we prove it with our state-of-the-art snow pushers and plows.
Winter is coming. How’s your snow fleet?
If you need some cutting-edge plows to clean up parking lots faster, visit your local SnowWolf dealer. You can also direct any questions or comments by calling our customer service at 1-800-905-2265 or fill out our contact form.
Sources:
Crandell, Jon, “Building You 2.0”
Ibid, “I’m in the People Business.”
Huffman, Rick, “Flipping My World Upside Down.”
Rorie, Mike, “Growing Pains.”
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