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As a business becomes increasingly successful, an entrepreneur must examine herbusiness’ changing needs and implement a system for meeting them. Booming successoften means hiring a team of people to see to the details so the entrepreneur hastime to run the business. Creating a winning team is a bit more complicated thanjust asking a bunch of people for help – is there a right way to do it? Is there away to go about it that will leave members of the team, as well as the owner,feeling fulfilled while the business thrives?A new study from Jane Out of the Box, an authority on women entrepreneurs,recently revealed there are five distinct types of women in business. Each ofthese five types has unique approach to running a business—and as a consequence,each of them has a unique combination of characteristics and factors. This articleprofiles three of the Jane “types” and the different ways they may handle hiring ateam.Jane Dough is an entrepreneur who enjoys running her business and makes goodmoney. She is comfortable and determined in buying and selling, which may be whyshe’s five times more likely than the average female business owner to hit themillion dollar mark. Jane Dough is clear in her priorities and may beintentionally and actively growing an asset-based or legacy business. It isestimated that 18% of women fall in the category of Jane Dough.To Jane Dough, business is business. In her world, systems and efficiency sharethe throne. When hiring a team, she is likely to choose members based on theirspecific skill sets and how those skill sets and their exacting implementationwill affect the system she plans on using.Pros and cons:•Pro: Because Jane Dough is a pragmatic business owner, she’ll choose teammembers who know what they’re doing, and do it well.•Con: Because Jane Dough is so focused on pragmatism, she may hire teammembers who don’t get along well with each other – personalities aren’t asimportant to her as efficiency and a job well done. But down the road, conflictingpersonalities may negatively impact the system she loves.•Pro: Jane Dough’s fast pace means she gets a lot done and doesn’t waste toomuch time waffling on decisions about whether to hire someone.•Con: That fast pace is enough to make anyone’s head spin, and if Jane Doughisn’t careful she may overlook a candidate with better long-term potential infavor of someone who fits the bill right now – putting her future self at adisadvantage.Merry Jane. This entrepreneur is usually building a part-time or “flexible time”business that gives her a creative outlet (whether she’s an ad agency consultantor she makes beautiful artwork) that she can manage within specific constraintsaround her schedule. She may have a day-job, or need to be fully present forfamily or other pursuits. She realizes she could make more money by working longerhours, but she’s happy with the tradeoff she has made because her business givesher tremendous freedom to work how and when she wants, around her othercommitments.Because Merry Jane is “freedom-focused,” she’ll need a team that allows her tocontinue working as many or as few hours as she wants to, which means that she’llhave to be flexible with their schedules, too.Pros and cons:•Pro: Merry Jane loves her freedom, so she’ll hire dependable people who cando their jobs without a ton of direction.•Con: Loving her freedom can come at a price – Because her business may notbe her first priority, communication may slip from time-to-time. If her team is
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