Many business owners aspire to grow their businesses but only a small percentage actually achieve the growth that they aspire to. There are many barriers to business growth and reasons why business owners may struggle to grow their businesses.
You may want to grow your business but are finding the reality quite different. Every business is unique but to help you consider where your barriers to growth are we have summarised below some of the potential barriers to growth that you may be encountering:
Mindset:Is your mindset holding your business back? What are you thinking that is stopping you growing your business? You may be afraid of success, lacking in confidence, unclear on how to grow your business, fear you may fail, look on the negative side of everything, worry about the consequences of your actions or feel that you cannot grow your business.
Be aware of how your thinking is acting as a barrier to the growth of your business and consider how you can think differently to enable growth.
Are you too busy working in the day to day of your business to set aside regular time to step back and focus on your business strategy and business growth? It is challenging to move from working in the day to day of your business to being more strategic.
To enable your business to grow and prosper you need to spend time working 'on' your business, not just working 'in' your business.