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.