I was recently speaking to a friend, and he told me about a person he recently let go.
Within two weeks of hiring her, he was frustrated.
“She’s not fixing anything,” he told me.
“What did you expect?” I asked.“
She told me she had 15 years of experience, and I expected her to know what to do.,” he explained.
The problem wasn’t the VA. It was him.
He had hired someone as a patch. Someone to fix the chaos, not to solve for capability or capacity. Without a system in place, the new hire became another layer of confusion. And instead of freeing him up, she created more work.
This is one of the most common mistakes I see business owners make when they start building a team. Heck, I made the same mistake. So I’m speaking from my own street education. It’s easy to hire too soon, for the wrong reasons, or without a plan.
So let’s talk about the right reasons, the wrong reasons, and how to know if it’s time to add your next team member.
Read more at: https://scotttoddwrites.substack.com/p/my-new-hire-was-terrible-but-the