Whatever your business is, whether you’re a software company, an advertising agency, or a company that develops products for the medical industry, there are plenty of ways that you can make it better. If you’ve decided to start your own business and want to be your own boss, it’s never been more exciting than that! However, as with any new venture, there are risks and challenges that come from making it on your own. It can be easy to get caught up in the moment and overlook the many long-term benefits that come from working with someone else. We’d like to take this moment to specifically discuss one of the most negative aspects of running your own business: system companies. This term generally refers to any company that has an internal system where all employees work towards a common end goal. While this may seem like common sense on the surface, it’s not something we ever thought we’d be talking about as managers. We constantly wonder how other companies build their systems so we aim to make sure we have some answers at least!
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## As humans, we all want to be able to work towards a common purpose and work towards a common goal. However, when it comes to running businesses, it can be easy to forget that each employee is working towards their own unique goals. This leads to bad outcomes for all parties. When employees feel that they have little to no control over the aspects of their working environment that affect their job performance. When managers who don’t know how to run their own business manage their employees, things can get messy. They may never get the chance to run their own company because they never get a chance to run their own jobs! When employees feel that they have no control over the decisions that affect their work, they can end up doing work that they don’t want to do. Or worse, they can end up working for a company that doesn’t want them and isn’t even doing the job they want to do! ## The key to effective management is transparency. If employees feel like they don’t have control over their working environment, then their only real option is to worse their position in the company. That is never a good thing! If transparency is a big issue in the company, then you’ll have to ask yourself – does it help to be hidden behind a computer screen? Or is it actually a negative aspect of working with a manager who doesn’t want to be known as the “manager”? To be effective in business, you have to be upfront and transparent with your employees about what’s going on in the business and what they can do about it. You also have to be upfront and upfront with your managers about what their roles are in the business, and how they are going to play a key role in making the business successful. ## We hope that this article was an encouraging opportunity for you to start considering whether or not you have the administrative skills and experience to manage your own business. If so, congratulations! You’ve just made the leap from “armchair management guru” to manager of your very own business! ## System companies take many different forms but they all have one thing in common: They’re run by the same person (usually only one) who has been operating their company for years. These types of companies tend to be more highly effective when it comes to winning customers’ business over and retaining them . They tend to make business decisions quickly and with great friendliness, which makes them easy to work with as they understand how things work at their companies. ## They often have poor communication channels and poor internal processes – which means they don’t really know what services are available or how they’re going to make them workable. These types of companies don’t have effective recruitment or retention strategies in place. With no communication, no internal processes, and no way to make sure new employees are getting the right training, they can’t be expected to do a great job. Top-notch communication can go a long way in helping your employees feel comfortable working for you, but it’s not the only way to go about it. You also need to be upfront and upfront with your managers about what their roles are in the business, and how they are going to play a key role in making the business successful. ## They struggle to recruit the right people because they feel like they need a year before they know where they want their employees’ jobs. This can be incredibly frustrating for employees because it often means that they have to take a job for which they aren’t qualified. It can also mean that the company is losing customers because those jobs are going to someone else. If employees feel that they need a year to get to know the company and their new manager, it can often feel like a discrimination lawsuit is on its way. We love to see businesses that are proactive in hiring employees – they often show up with the right skills and tools to succeed while they’re still young. In these situations it can feel like you’re doing them a big favor by hiring them at such a young age! That said, there is another way to go about it – and it’s a much less popular way than it should be right now – is to bring in an employment law attorney. You may be surprised at the amount of support that you can get from a good employment lawyer in a relatively short time. ## Bottom line As humans, we all want to be able to work towards a common purpose and work towards a common goal. However, when it comes to running businesses, it can be easy to forget that each employee is working towards their own unique goals. When employees feel like they have no control over the decisions that affect their work, they can end up doing work that they don’t want to do. Or worse, they can end up working for a company that doesn’t want them and isn’t even doing the job they want to do! The key to effective management is transparency. It can be hard to tell whether or not your employees are doing a good job because it’s such a close thing between you and the people you’re managing. If you want to do the best job possible, you’ve got to open up the lines of communication so that everyone can see what’s happening in the business and what they can do about it. You also have to be upfront and upfront with your managers about what their roles are in the business, and how they are going to play a key role in making the business successful. The end goal is to ensure that your organization is working to principles that will benefit your employees for years to come. ## System companies take many different forms but they all have one thing in common – they’re run by the same person (usually only one) who has been operating their company for years. These types of companies tend to be more highly effective when it comes to winning customers’ business over and retaining them . They tend to make business decisions quickly and with great friendliness, which makes them easy to work with as they understand how things work at their companies. ## They have poor communication channels and poor internal processes – which means they don’t really know what services are available or how they’re going to make them workable. These types of companies don’t have effective recruitment or retention strategies in place. With no communication, no internal processes, and no way to make sure new employees are getting the right training, they can’t be expected to do a good job. Top-notch communication can go a long way in helping your employees feel comfortable working for