How to determine which skills your business needs next.

Finding the right skills to help your company grow can be a difficult and stressful task. Often businesses look at current trends or recruit skills and roles they are comfortable working with. However this isn’t always the most effective for business growth, it can also lead to bad hiring decisions or excessive costs tied to these recruitments.

To determine which skills your business needs next, you can start by analysing your current business operations and identifying areas that could be improved or streamlined. Look for the areas that are most critical to your business and where you are experiencing bottlenecks, delays, or inefficiencies, this is where additional resources would have the greatest impact. 

You should also take a look at your company's goals and objectives and determine if there are any roles that would help you achieve them. Additionally, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on industry trends and emerging technologies that could impact your business, then try and anticipate skills that could help you be ahead of the game.

Once you have identified your areas for improvement, you can then assess the skills and knowledge required to address them, and make a plan to acquire those skills through training, hiring, or outsourcing. 

If you want to confirm your hypotheses you can conduct surveys, or interviews with current employees, to get their input on what skills they think the company needs. Also, you could consult with industry experts or competitors to see what roles they have in their teams.

Ultimately, the skills you should onboard next will depend on your specific business needs and goals. If you aren’t certain where these lie, or hesitate on working with profiles you aren’t used to, then look to fractional expertise to help you confirm and kick off specific elements and help you understand your business potential, without all the hassle.

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