Quite a lot of your time will be spent helping business owners develop their management team. In a small business, your client may have had limited management training and the potential managers even less – so they are coming from a long way back in terms of becoming capable and accountable managers. The effort is worthwhile. Not only are the people concerned loyal and passionate about the product but it avoids the huge risk of hiring senior people from outside the company. Managers from larger businesses in particular can be fish out of water when they move to a more senior position in a smaller business, with disappointment on both sides the result. Like any coaching, this approach requires some simple and repeatable method - in this case, to develop management skills that can be applied quickly to free up the business owner’s time (usually, the biggest constraint on growth). One approach is to think of business processes as “units of delegation”. Each process to be delegated has a c