WORK ON YOUR BUSINESS Continued from page 73 Make sure when you delegate that you give staff the best chance to be successful. Don’t just talk about what you want done; show them what a successfully completed task should look like. Be patient and rid yourself of the notion that it’s just easier to do it yourself. You are making an investment in your own time – and in your own business. Also, there’s the matter of time management. How do you use your time each day? Every avionics shop owner in the country has the same 24-hour day. Why are some doing better than you? Chances are likely that you spend time each day putting out fires and handling other socalled emergencies as they arise. Part of time management is having systems in place to handle routine matters. Since so many tasks performed 74 avionics news • april 2013 in a shop are repetitive, working on your business means developing working routines to streamline those activities. For example, you might want to take the time to compose standard email responses so you’re not constantly creating and retyping a new reply. Working on your business also means providing you and your staff with the proper tools to get the job done. Whether it’s a bench technician who literally needs a specific tool or some new software that makes project management or bookkeeping easier, having the right tools frees you and your staff for greater productivity. Perhaps you already know how to work on, rather than in your business, but here’s a simple test. Could you leave your shop to run itself for four to six weeks? However unlikely that is, this scenario could happen. Your shop Continued on page 76http://freeflightsystems.com/dealers