Stop Taking Your Foot Off the Gas: Bridging the Human Capacity Gap

The fastest way to kill momentum in a growing business? Run out of people right when your revenue expansion is creating new opportunities.

If you’ve done the work to build your Quarterly Plan (insights into how HERE), you know where you're going. But if you don't have enough of the right people, with the right training, in the right positions, that plan will likely fall apart before April.

Question 6: Who Does What?

Now, imagine your business has doubled. Draw out the organization's structure you will need for that 2X business. Draft titles and departments. Some of your existing team might fit nicely in future roles. Other positions won't have names yet. 

This isn't fantasy planning; it’s preparation. The human capacity gap is what makes owners take their foot off the gas right when they should be xcelerating. And here's what most owners miss: your humans have more potential, it’s your job to show them the path and sow the seeds for their next breakthrough.

If you have followed along in this Strategic Planning Made Simple series, you are now in the rare 5% of SMBs that actually have a plan…IN WRITING. Download our Critical Personnel Inventory HERE to assess your current lineup and start placing names in that Future Org Chart.

You are the captain of the ship. Your team won't create new capacity if you don't lead them there. Plan and invest in your humans, then you won't be tempted to take your foot off the gas.

Welcome to the Xtra Mile.