{"id":5021,"date":"2018-05-22T12:59:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2018-05-22T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:59:24","slug":"evolution-of-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/business-growth\/evolution-of-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of a Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When Lada and I opened Fred Astaire Dance Studio of Michigan<\/a> more than 12 years ago, we were hands-on with the day-to-day activities. She devoted her energy to teaching and to leading the teachers, and I helped the studio run every day.<\/p>\n

Over the years, we\u2019ve evolved as the business has grown. The best business owners work ON their business, not IN it, empowering others to run the day-to-day activities and tasks so we can focus on growing the business and looking at the big picture. It\u2019s an evolution, and we are on the precipice of our next stage of expansion.<\/p>\n

Now, as we expand to open more studios in Michigan, I have to take yet a different role. It\u2019s time to delegate more of the day-to-day responsibilities to our talented team. I must cultivate new talent, attract leaders, empower others to make sure our students are satisfied, that everything runs as smoothly and professionally as possible.<\/p>\n

For most of my career, I\u2019ve excelled at marketing, and led the charge in sharing our message and expanding our brand footprint. Now, I must help others to open studios under our umbrella within the state of Michigan, and oversee their success. That\u2019s a big transition, but one that I am excited and poised to make.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This means we\u2019ll constantly be looking for new dance instructors and entrepreneurs who may not know the dance world but who are great at running a business.<\/p>\n

It can be hard when roles change to maintain the same synergy we\u2019ve always had. For instance, there are times people just want to deal with me, because that\u2019s the way we\u2019ve always done things. I have to gently explain that while I love working with them, it\u2019s time to hand the torch to someone else who can and will focus on their needs as well (maybe better!) as I have.<\/p>\n

A huge part of being a successful entrepreneur is learning to focus on the bigger picture in order to truly grow. You cannot work IN the business while you work ON it. They are two different roles, and you must decide which one you\u2019re going to be \u2013 a person doing the work or a person creating opportunities for so much more work, to touch more lives, and make more people happy.<\/p>\n

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Lada and Evan Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m excited for this new stage of Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Michigan. I\u2019m always looking for new challenges, new opportunities to grow and succeed. It\u2019s exciting to say, \u2018OK, we\u2019re going to the next level, working with new people and helping them become successful studio owners vs. just us being successful.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time. Time to let go of control and welcome other people into leadership roles, to bring this brand and all it offers to so many more across our great state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Lada and I opened Fred Astaire Dance Studio of Michigan more than 12 years ago, we were hands-on with the day-to-day activities. She devoted her energy to teaching and to leading the teachers, and I helped the studio run every day. Over the years, we\u2019ve evolved as the business has grown. The best business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-growth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}