Ready to be the manager or the leader?
Presumably your next question is ‘what’s the difference?’
In some ways there are quite a lot of things that separate a leader from a manager.
A manager develops performance – utilising individual strengths to delegate tasks for example. They make decisions, take ownership and prioritise objectives. Slightly risk averse perhaps but a good manager delivers. It’s about a consistency of approach. No matter what you throw at them a good manager rises to the challenge. Able to learn from mistakes, a manager seeks feedback and reacts positively. Good with the team. Gets things done. That’s a good manager.
But a leader? That’s different. A leader sees the big picture. A leader sees how to structure the team from the start. A leader takes a more strategic view, sees new initiatives and explores their potential, long before the detailed objectives are set. It’s about creating the environment in which innovation will thrive. Taking the risks and breaking the rules.
Let’s get down to it. When you start up your own recruitment business you’re probably going to have to be both. Leader and manager. At the same time.
And time is the problem. While you’re leading – forming the company, branding it, giving it an identity, establishing the systems that managers will operate, finding the clients that managers will service – you will probably also have to, and you can see where this is going, operate the systems and service the clients as a manager yourself.
Its early days and you’re not going to have ranks of staff. You are though going to have lots to do. And it’s all got to be done while you’re balancing the pressures of starting up your own business with the demands, and risk, of paying your own mortgage and bills – without that regular pay check you just walked away from.
Relax. There is way through all of this.
At The Recruit Venture Group we like to think that our way is your way. Your way ahead is to start your own recruitment business. Our way is to provide you with the finance and freedom to do it. Your way needs capital to launch and shares in your own business. Our way is to deliver all of that – and then support you with a full back office system.
Your way has a risk. Our way removes it.
At the start, we’ll be the leader. Big picture stuff. You bring five years’ experience in recruitment and a good business case. The details.
Fully funded by us, and risk free, you pay yourself a salary for even greater peace of mind. Then you get on with running your own business. And you do it with the freedom to think – to be a leader.
Soon of course you could be thinking about taking on managers who you will lead.
Apply Now, Our solution could give you the best of both worlds