{"id":1096,"date":"2022-12-02T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graphicwarehouse.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:22:41","slug":"my-story-when-business-owners-need-extended-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graphicwarehouse.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/my-story-when-business-owners-need-extended-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"My Story – When The Business Owner (MD) Needs Extended Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I had to take almost 3 months off for personal reasons this year. I had a family crisis and for the first time since starting our business I simply forgot about anything to do with work and focussed on the matters at home.<\/p>

The reason I am sharing this is that it demonstrated several things I had probably taken for granted:<\/p>

  1. The cost of not having a great team around you.<\/li>
  2. Developing robust systems and processes for the business to run without the business owner.\/MD.<\/li>
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    The Team Around You...<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    When we start our businesses, we usually don\u2019t have 2 pence to rub together, quite often a \u201cmarketing budget\u201d was an open, empty hand.\u00a0 As the business developed, I realised I could not be the kingpin holding the wheels on, and I realised we needed to surround ourselves with the best staff, but this comes at a cost and to be honest, it took a long time to be able to support this.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Systems and Processes...<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    So I think you need a couple of things to make your business successful.\u00a0 The first, of course is the people and the second is the processes which the great team will run.<\/p>

    It took us a long time to develop systems and processes to run our business well.\u00a0 It’s not perfect but everyone in our company is encouraged to continually seek improvements.\u00a0 These are not big changes but a multitude of micro-changes that all add up to bigger outcomes.\u00a0 This is called “marginal improvements”\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Look After Your Team...<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    After my part-time return to work, I received a call from a team member in the evening.\u00a0 This person\u2019s life had also been changed overnight.\u00a0 With myself coming off the back of my own family crisis my instant reaction was to remind this person that family comes first and he must deal with matters at home.\u00a0 However, what was most impressive was the way our team all reinforced this message without prior acknowledgment or discussion.\u00a0 Shifts and patterns of work were moved around to accommodate the absence and support flexible working arrangements.<\/p>

    To me, this was a testament to a winning and supportive team, I felt really proud of that response.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Anyway, I suppose I am trying to communicate that more than ever I am very grateful to the team around me.\u00a0 They have been exemplary in supporting me and family, and each other when things do not go to plan or when we receive unexpected life-changing events.<\/p>

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    Conclusion...<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Look after each other, we don\u2019t know when we will need each other\u2019s support.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    I had to take 3 months away from work… find out what happened and why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[103,178,177,176],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-improvement","tag-business","tag-crisis","tag-support","tag-team"],"yoast_head":"\nMy Story - When The Business Owner (MD) Needs Extended Leave - Graphic Warehouse - Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graphicwarehouse.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/my-story-when-business-owners-need-extended-leave\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Story - 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