Restaurant Managers Must Learn Three Essential Lessons to be Empowered in an Independent Restaurant

Restaurant Managers Must Learn Three Essential Lessons to be Empowered in an Independent Restaurant - In this episode of The Restaurant Prosperity Formula podcast, host David Scott Peters talks about owners of independent restaurants and their tendency to overwork themselves while also freeing their management team of accountability. David teaches you how to put yourself in a place of leadership and three lessons you must teach your managers and supervisors to empower them to do their job so you don’t have to. Managers play a critical role in the most successful restaurateurs’ businesses. To further set the path to success, David teaches five critical steps to successful delegation and why holding restaurant’s managers accountable is so important.

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Lesson one is what does trying get you. Are you allowing your managers to continue to make excuses? Trying doesn’t get results. Finding solutions gets you results. Trying leads to excuses.
Lesson two is don’t tell me why it can’t be done; tell me how it can be done. There is no “can’t” when it comes to figuring things out. If your managers tell you can’t do something, what they’re really telling you is they “won’t” do something. Same thing for you. Instead of saying you can’t get your managers to do the work, switch the word out and say, “I won’t get my managers to do the work.” Isn't that what you’re ultimately telling me and they’re telling you? Maybe there are legitimate reasons something won’t work, but nothing can be done if you don't explore the possibilities. If you put up a wall and say it can't be done, well, then guess what? It won't be done.

Lesson three is to not let your manager come to you with a problem. They need to come to you with a solution. The level of responsibility affects the level of solution, but the goal is to get your managers to try and figure out a solution to the problem they're facing and ask your permission to use the solution to solve the problem.

There's really two missing pieces for implementing these three lessons into your daily routine, and it's your ability to successfully delegate and hold your management team accountable. See, without successful delegation, it doesn't matter what those lessons are, because ultimately people will excuse it away and won't learn. You'll still fix everything. They'll still come to you with problems, they'll still tell you why it can't be done.

So what you've got to do is put them on a path to success, not only teach them those lessons, but ultimately learn how to successfully delegate and hold them ultimately accountable. Here are the five critical steps to successful delegation.
1. Be specific and clear - what you want done
2. Define success - when it’s completed
3. Let it go - milestones
4. Continued communication - show me
5. Recognition and reward

I give a complete explanation on these five steps in the podcast, so be sure to tune in for the whole picture.

And the next part of empowering your managers and truly removing responsibilities from your own plate is you have to be willing to hold your management team accountable, and that should not be thought of as a negative when done correctly.
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