Multi Hat player!
Project Manager, Account Manager, Collection Officer, Sales Manager... Those are just job titles, choosing the "right hat" for the task is highly significant and tricky task that employee/business owner encounter every day.
Truth to be told, nowadays wearing each other’s hat in small business is drifting a trend in the whole middle east market, mostly for the sake of cutting cost, however; It’s more efficient to have a “Multi Hat” employee since such will prevent delays in getting a task done. Such skill is not something that you are born with yet learned and practised according to job requirements. If you decide to use the “Multi-Hatting” concept, then you need to make sure that it will not lead to getting over-utilised.
To do so, you should consider the following three tips in mind while taking such decision:
- Define your Hat
Before you start the tasks, you need to carefully analyse which hats you want to wear: define each hat, how you will perform in each hat and what the skills required for this hat.
- Pick the Right Hat
It’s really important to pick the proper hat for the task especially if you are engaging with focused or task oriented people; you need to meet those people using their hat, then you can wear theirs
- Know exactly when to hire out
Don’t risk your job by delivering bad performance or wrong deliverable; if you feel you are not enjoying or surpassing in one of the hats, then it’s the time to hire-out one or more of those hats to keep your business running on smoothly.
A.J.