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binge right along with them, often requiring the employees 2. Have your employees and team members follow a daily
or team members to stay late or come in early. tasks and process schedule. It is much more difficult to pull
your team off of their tasks when the tasks are an everyday
4. Binge leadership usually results in high staff turnover part of the culture of your business.
since success measurements change from moment to
moment depending on the mood of the binge leader. 3. Have a set schedule (day and time) for your leadership
tasks to get accomplished. Schedules help control binges
5. Binge workers and leaders try to perform too many task and emotions.
and projects that they are not qualified, educated enough,
or have the technical skills to do, which result in a lot of 4. Have a mentor and/or a board of advisors that you talk
“started but never completed projects.” to on a regular basis. A good mentor and/or a board of
advisors will help keep your binges under control and help
6. Binge leaders often (very often) pull their employees you identify your weaknesses.
and other team members off of their schedules and tasks
because they want their binge ideas to take priority over 5. Outsource tasks and processes that you tend to screw
everything else. This generally disrupts the entire office up. Be honest with yourself, if you are not good at a task,
or organization and leads to an immense amount of get the hell out of the way and let someone that is good at
frustration. the tasks, do the dang task!
7. When a binge worker or leader comes off of their binge, 6. If you hired bad employees that can’t learn to properly
they leave a mess for others to clean up. Often when a perform a needed task or process, that is your fault, and
business comes to us for mentoring, it is to clean up the you have to make a business decision: either train them, or
mess that a binge situation has caused in the business. get rid of them. This is one time where your binge could
actually come in handy, since you will probably fire them
8. If the binge worker is the owner or leader in the while you are ticked off.
business, they are generally the reason their business never
moves forward. 7. Find your happy place and your energy makers! Usually
binge working is a result of dealing with stressful issues
It’s hard to move forward when the majority of the outside of the work place such as people or finances.
employees’ work day is spent fixing problems a binge (Though usually your money problems are a direct result
leader causes. I could go on and on but I think you get the of your binge working and the problems it causes.) Prayer,
point. reading motivational books, and surrounding yourself with
high energy people will help you find your happy place.
How to Not Fail as a Binge Leader
Billy R. Williams, Ph.D., is the President of Inspire a
If you are a binge leader here are some things you can do Nation Business Mentoring, an insurance agent and small
to “get the hell out of your own way!” business owner mentoring company that mentors 1000’s
of insurance agencies and small businesses annually on
1. Use as much automation as possible in the day to day the best tools, processes, and workflows to grow their
operation of your business. Automation isn’t afraid of enterprise.
your binge tirades and it will not call in sick just to avoid
you. Using automation such as drip email schedules,
automated phone tools, and tracking tools will help with
the consistency of operating your business.

BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF

If you are not good at a task,

get the hell out of the way

and let someone that is good at the tasks,

do the dang task!

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