Time to make mistakes or do it faster

First of all

We build our business according to our skills and abilities and are content with the results for a while. But in most cases after the beginning, there won’t be a day that we can’t do it better, faster, or with someone else. Founders often catch themselves with the thought that they are not sure if their personal and the team’s decisions were useful and effectively changed the business at all. First of all, we realize deeply and accept that time is lost and that it is impossible to earn more money if only our people were more decisive.

Founders often take information about someone’s success from social networks or attend meetings. There is always a successful Instagram picture or story that substitutes our self-perception as a leader and our business’s successful existence for worse. We start to compare our successes with the Instagram successes of other founders and beat ourselves up about our lack of understanding of some tricks. Often we wonder why we didn’t succeed like he or she did or why we didn’t have a team like he or she did because they were a lot better.

What’s wrong?

Tendency to compare, sense of missed opportunity, waste of time—these are the most painful dopamine addictions of business owners. At some point in time, it was easy to build a business quickly, which gave us maximum euphoria and no debts or loans. But after meeting the competitor or losing a qualified employee, you start to remember who generated the significant contribution to the company. You start to be annoyed, frustrated, and deeply upset because of the lost opportunities and weak economic future.

In this article, we will talk about consulting and how it helps most business owners to become not kind but strict, Heads to get tougher; and even individuals to achieve their goals.  It’s much more than new Excel tables or new Notion notes!

Once my wise friend told me, “Don’t sell your future to yourself; sell strategy.” This motto has turned my planning horizon upside down. And it was at the right time. I realized it was time to stop living in illusions of ideas and businesses that I intended to launch jointly or individually, selling my future to myself. It was clear that the absence of an understandable strategy, division of responsibilities, and expectation of results over a period of time are characteristics of a fantastic Instagram and blogger world, promising $100 first and a million-dollar-business later. It may seem obvious or even trivial to many. But if we are critical of this statement, we will find out a very useful core: get away from the illusions and avoid the traps of adventures that steal our energy and time.

Your imagination about a successful future life should be divided into small tasks and planned for 2-5 years ahead, followed by 3-month periods with clear monitoring of successes and failures. It’s actual, especially today when we live in an atmosphere of war!

Build a company

When you build a company with experienced business partners, it’s both a perfect synergy and a pleasure.  All of you cooperate as one organism on a business solution making it better and having more sober mutual expectations. In most cases, it’s an ideal but infantile image. In real life, most qualified people gather to try a startup and earn money. Together, you spend time getting to know each other, finding strong and weak points, breaking up, finding new partners, and so the circle many times until the finest hour.

It’s good if you look into the world and understand that it’s circular but not isolated. It would be much better for you to ask for assistance in order to understand the reality of yesterday.

External consulting is good at sobering and unstucking—we’ll just launch the company, and it’ll enrich us, for sure. It can also preserve common sense in recruiting ideal candidates for you:

• Sales Consulting can integrate teams because quick results give power and strengthen personal and collective confidence.
• Sales Consulting will help you make the work more transparent, understandable, and predictable.
• Sales Consulting will help you avoid unnecessary expenses on new initiatives and give you the opportunity to make a decision slowly but gradually.
• Sales Consulting, in most cases, is a motivator, but not like the couple-hour effect after a whisky shot, but as a long-playing set of measures for every single department of your business.
• Sales Consulting creates a healthy atmosphere in your company and gives you new energy, tasks, and perspectives!
• Sales Consulting helps to identify weak points in the  team and company as quickly as possible, especially if there are toxic people who break away from your energy bubble faster and go to other places.
• Sales Consulting reveals their constant strikes and resistance to change.
• Sales Consulting helps to achieve goals—it’s true. If it is not possible to achieve a goal in consulting, this means that the team is very ambitious and has chosen a goal that is not in size or capability.
• Sales Consulting can become a source of constant knowledge for you because consultants have a constant exchange of knowledge with the market and know many successful combinations. They can give you a conclusion and the right direction faster.
• Sales Consulting can save as much of your budget per year as possible by optimizing unprofitable processes, or vice versa, your expenses will increase because you were afraid to go into a new experience and hire people for further growth before.

Who doesn’t need consulting in most cases? Consulting does not work in teams where everybody knows exactly how to do it right! Sellers of the future without a strategy, analysis, conclusions, and new plans who know everything but don’t try a thing! Consulting will not work without a strategy or with excessively high requirements that your colleagues and solutions do not have, not will consultants. Consulting is not a solution for you to settle scores with someone; firing them due to negative feedback of consultants without your direct order. Consulting will not work with those who do not want to understand the facts and try to implement something new for themselves and the company. Consulting does not work with inflexible people who do not react well to feedback or constructive criticism. Consulting will not affect those who think that it may change the old, unprofitable, but cozy company beyond recognition.

How do you distinguish good consulting from bad? Consultants who promise a lot are already not a good sign. They are trying to sell the future to you. Your whole investment in consulting is not just to double-check what you did right or wrong or to assert yourself. Consulting provides full assistance in the implementation of a more realistic and thoughtful strategy. Bad consulting is a chaos of tasks and a lack of plans. In this way, you add additional efforts that you will need to remove from the agenda. Incorrect consulting is when the team cannot alter the fact that consultants come to fire us, and we need to be in rivalry with them for love and respect for authority. Wrong consulting is a demonstration of expertise in everything. Wrong consulting is a demonstration of a poor level of interaction and communication.

With this article, you should realize and understand that consulting is okay, is implementation, and is about autonomy, results, and new insights. If these concepts resonate with you, come for ours with Alexey consultations! We don’t make big promises, but we have a lot of expertise in launching IT companies with 10 to 500 employees, including a deep study of details concerning sales.  We are the owners of IT businesses and we are constantly involved in the development of companies from scratch. We have analytical skills because we have made a lot of mistakes ourselves; thus, we have a library of knowledge and can sell it to you! We are consultants, and we transform departments and companies that are eager to change.

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