Employee Solutions: Reduce Re-Work

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How many times have you delegated something, only to have your employee turn the work in and you are disappointed in the quality of the work that was done? Here's a quick employee solution to help you with this problem that plagues so many small business owners.

51QIWA1fCNL._SL160_LargeBlogIn her ProfitCon interview earlier this week, JJ Ramberg, host of MSNBC’s Your Business and author ofIt’s Your Business: 183 Essential Tips that Will Transform Your Small Business shared this tip to help you maximize your investment in employees:

Ask your employee: “Is this your best work?”  If not, ask the employee to not turn the work in to you as complete until he or she can answer with a resounding “yes” to that question.

Right off the bat, this will save you time from reviewing the work and providing the employee with feedback on ways to improve the work that was done. It ensures that when you do review the work and give feedback, you can focus only on what is most essential to improve for next time around, rather than giving feedback on all sorts of “little details.”

Best of all, this question raises the bar for performance in your business. You are letting employees know you only want the best from them. Every time your employees step it up a notch, you’re getting more out of your investment in employees, quality goes up, and so does morale.


Dr. Sabrina Schleicher recognizes that employee problems can be one of the biggest stumbling blocks for any business owner. With her background in psychology, and years of coaching small business owners to extraordinary results, Dr. Schleicher knows what it takes to find, keep and get exceptional performance out of your biggest investment–your employees. Access her comprehensive video training 5 Secrets to Exceptional Employee Performance (her gift to you!) at www.tapthepotential.com

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About The Author

Dr. Sabrina Starling, The Business Psychologist and international best-selling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation™, is the founder of Tap the Potential and host of the Profit by Design podcast. At Tap the Potential, we work to free business owners from the constant demands of a growing business.

We believe work supports life, not the other way around. Clients in our Better Business, Better Life coaching program have more time for what matters most and more money in their bank account than they’ve ever had. Next, we send them off on a 4 Week Vacation™ to celebrate their hard-earned journey to take their life back!

Dr. Sabrina and her team at Tap the Potential are on a mission to change the story of entrepreneurship from one of long hours, grinding it out, to one of sustainably profitable businesses that support and enhance life. The Tap the Potential Solution™ and our Tap the Potential Family of Business Owners are disrupting small business as usual. We are on our way to making the Tap the Potential Solution™ the mainstream model for growing business.

By 2023, 150 Tap the Potential clients will have taken 4 Week Vacations. These are the trailblazers, role modeling what’s possible for entrepreneurs. In many entrepreneurial circles, it is becoming more and more common for one entrepreneur to ask another, “Have you taken a 4 Week Vacation™?” (as opposed to asking “How many employees do you have?” or “What is your annual revenue?”). Taking a fully unplugged 4 Week Vacation is rapidly becoming the recognized symbol of entrepreneurial success.

Never one to accept the status quo or back down from a challenge, Dr. Sabrina’s How to Hire the Best series grew from her desire to solve the toughest hiring challenges interfering with her clients’ growth and profitability. What sprang from her experience working with entrepreneurs in rural areas catapulted her into becoming the world’s leading expert in attracting top talent in small businesses—no matter what hiring challenges those businesses are facing—and earned Tap the Potential’s reputation as the go-to resource for entrepreneurs committed to creating Great Places to Work with thriving coaching cultures and highly engaged team members working from strengths.

As The Business Psychologist, and with her years of driving profit in small businesses, Dr. Sabrina knows what it takes to find, keep, and motivate exceptional performance out of your biggest investment—team members.