Hire Before You’re Desperate: Build a People Plan for Growth | Peter Boolkah

Send us Fan MailIf your business is growing quickly, your biggest constraint may no longer be revenue or strategy. It may be the number and quality of people available to execute the plan.The problem is that recruitment takes much longer than many owners expect. Finding the right person, completing the interview process, waiting through their notice period and helping them become productive can take many months.If you wait until the business desperately needs somebody, you have already waited too long.In this solo episode, Peter Boolkah explains how to create a practical people plan by designing the future organisational structure and working backwards from when each person needs to be fully effective.You’ll discover:Why another exciting growth strategy may not be what the business needsHow people and capacity become the real constraints on growthWhy you should create organisational charts one, two and three years aheadHow to identify the positions your future business will requireWhy recruitment and notice periods must be included in the planHow onboarding time affects the real hiring deadlineThe three actions required to build a people planWhy hiring from desperation produces poor resultsOriginally recorded in January 2018, this episode contains references to that year’s planning cycle. The underlying lesson remains highly relevant: build the team before growth turns a predictable recruitment requirement into an operational emergency.CONNECT WITH PETER BOOLKAHWebsite: https://www.boolkah.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boolkahInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pboolkah/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoolkahX: https://twitter.com/boolkahABOUT PETER BOOLKAHPeter Boolkah is a business coach, author and speaker who has spent more than 20 years helping business owners build stronger, more valuable businesses that do not depend on them for everything.He is the creator of The Hamster Wheel Trap® and author of Your Business Sucks: Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life.Peter works with founders and leadership teams on the issues that ultimately determine whether a business creates freedom or becomes another job: leadership, founder dependency, people, profit, execution, scaling, exit readiness and enterprise value.His approach is direct, practical and built around one simple question:Do you own the business, or does the business own you?Learn more at https://www.boolkah.com