More constructive criticism!
My boss Jason was in town for the last two days. I kinda feel like a big load has been lifted off my shoulders, and feel a little less stressed out. Tired, but better. He pointed out a lot of things that he said he noticed weren't running smoothly in the office. And while that may seem like a negative thing, I was actually super glad to hear the criticism. Mostly because all of those things I knew and noticed myself but couldn't put into words. The main things were the distribution of time and tasks between the 3 people we have working there (including myself).
I've been kind of working 12 hours a day + some weekends for the past however long since I moved here. I have one kid that's working for me that is pretty decent, but he comes in around 10, on average doesn't show up or takes off early for some reason or another at least 1 day of the week. And likes to leave around 5:30 every day. Plus lunch. So, really not a lot of hours being put in. My secretary has nothing to do about 75% of the day, on a good day. She watches a lot of netflix and a lot of sitting around.
Jason figured out a lot of ways for me to keep them busy and shift some of the workload that I'm doing, which I thought was pretty necessarily to be done by me into ways where I can make it be able to be done by anyone - them. So I'm happy about that. It seems pretty simple and basic, but I'm realizing that managing people is a whole different kind of job than my previous job of buying and selling houses. And it is actually more difficult in times, and takes different skill sets. I can buy and sell houses really well. But managing people I think I have a lot of learning to do.
I think a lot of the stuff he said kinda calmed me down and gave me direction as far as what to do in the upcoming weeks to get the office on the right track. Not that we aren't on the right track, I think we are doing well, but he thinks about it differently - from a people management point of view, as opposed to from just hey let's buy a bunch of houses and try to sell them point of view. I think he helped me realize that I need to start thinking about it like that too.
I've been kind of working 12 hours a day + some weekends for the past however long since I moved here. I have one kid that's working for me that is pretty decent, but he comes in around 10, on average doesn't show up or takes off early for some reason or another at least 1 day of the week. And likes to leave around 5:30 every day. Plus lunch. So, really not a lot of hours being put in. My secretary has nothing to do about 75% of the day, on a good day. She watches a lot of netflix and a lot of sitting around.
Jason figured out a lot of ways for me to keep them busy and shift some of the workload that I'm doing, which I thought was pretty necessarily to be done by me into ways where I can make it be able to be done by anyone - them. So I'm happy about that. It seems pretty simple and basic, but I'm realizing that managing people is a whole different kind of job than my previous job of buying and selling houses. And it is actually more difficult in times, and takes different skill sets. I can buy and sell houses really well. But managing people I think I have a lot of learning to do.
I think a lot of the stuff he said kinda calmed me down and gave me direction as far as what to do in the upcoming weeks to get the office on the right track. Not that we aren't on the right track, I think we are doing well, but he thinks about it differently - from a people management point of view, as opposed to from just hey let's buy a bunch of houses and try to sell them point of view. I think he helped me realize that I need to start thinking about it like that too.