3 Self-Owns That Perpetuate Overstaffing

About this episode

This episode discusses the three self-owns that lead to overstaffing in businesses and how to address them.

Overstaffing is as big a problem as understaffing in our industry, and it's much harder to fix. The more people you have, the more work it always takes. In this episode, I break down the three lies that keep your headcount too high: your pricing is fine, word of mouth works, and everybody's working hard so you must be busy. None of them hold up under scrutiny. Listen now and learn why companies with six to nine people can outperform teams of 20 or 30, and how to change the self-talk that's inflating your overhead. Visit trstimson.com for more resources. Follow Tom on LinkedIn

People in this episode

Host: Tom Stimson

Topics covered

• overstaffing
• business management
• team efficiency
• pricing strategies
• self-talk
• industry challenges

Keywords

• overstaffing
• understaffing
• team performance
• business efficiency
• pricing
• workload
• self-talk

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Stimson Group, trstimson.com

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