Tomato Paste Leadership Part 3 of 3: The Final Jar and Delegation

 

The year was 1947.

Living in Boville Ernica, Italy, for the first 17 years, Annuciatina, with her mom, Mamma Maria, left their proud little town for a better life. 

With everything they owned, they took a ship and, a month later, landed in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Nicola, her dad, worked in the coal mines and saved enough money to bring them to the USA. Their life was hard; working was dangerous, language barriers, and making ends meet. But the love of family, the culture of love, happiness, and delicious food.
She met her husband, Antonio, moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and away we go with jarring tomatoes!!!

 

They also brought with them some 72 years ago was a vision, happiness, and a recipe.

What was that vision? She let you know the secret of making one of the most incredible Italian red sauce for her homemade pasta.

 What does that have to do with leadership?

Think about it, a vision of making the best pasta and the best pasta sauce, year after year, so that your family can have the best!

 

As a great business, they worked and produced the best service to clients and employees year after year, so that your clients and employees can have the best!

It is the choices leaders make and how they follow through with leadership.

And Annuciatina made the right choices to bring it here in the USA and hone it to perfection. She made the choices over the years to hone her recipe, use what works, keep it, or change what doesn't and improve it.

She discards what doesn't work—taking responsibility for correcting the course along the way. She knows what she wants and where she wants to end up. 

She communicated what the vision is and helps us get to the success of jarring the best tomato sauce, and to find

 Happiness!!!!

Now, let's talk about the real reason you are reading this Blog………….

The next step is the sealing of the tomato paste jars. You will be heating the seal jars for twenty to thirty minutes to seal the jars. Not to cook the tomatoes, more just to keep the tomatoes from getting bacteria. You have to be careful not the have the jars explode while boiling. 

Remove the jars with the handle, shake the jar to mix the ingredients, and store it upside-down, cooling them off before storing them.

 

Now you still must be wondering how leadership is related to jarring tomato sauce. 

I would be….

 

Let's face it; the feeling of stress and overload can be synonyms with you, the business owner, and your limited time. This infamous lack of time is the connection between system development tools and our limited time resource, which causes the feeling of stress and overload.

 

You only have so many hours in a day. And you can only really complete a finite amount of work in those hours. That is it period. Time is one limitation that no matter what you do or how you divide the volume up, it will not change. This one limitation also limits your success and the success of your company.

What this limitation creates is stress and overload, both in your business and in your life.

 

Systems and system delegation are the best ways to overcome time limitations. How well you delegate will dictate how successful you and your company are.

 

 

So how do you implement effective systems and then delegate?

 

System creation and delegation of the systems are the critical components in the development of your business: 

1. It helps your team grow and develop. Therefore, doing more.
2. It allows the best use of everyone's' time and skills, most importantly, YOURS. More control of work and best use of all skill sets.

 

"If you choose the right task to delegate, give to the right person to delegate to, and have the correct tools to do the task consistently, My company will have better odds of success."

 

                            Domenic A Chiarella

 

 

You have always done the many daily tasks as the owner of the company. Letting go of these tasks is downright frightening. But if you keep doing these tasks, most likely, you may be trapped forever doing these tasks. I have added a little tool to start the delegation process, something that will add more time to your life. 

 

 

 

Steps to Create the Playbook

 

1. Start by using your computer/phone or for us old-schoolers, carrying around with you a small spiral notebook. 
2. Tab sections or on top of individual sheets of paper. Write the various areas that you work in and want to develop. Examples of the titles are Sales, Service/Production, Accounting, Repairs, Facility, Education, Personal, etc.
3. The first column on each section, identify all the tasks you do in each area or department.
4. The second column identifies all the tasks you want to delegate.
5. In the third column, Who do you want to delegate this task?
6. With each task, create a simple one-page step-by-step method to do the job. Make it one page for the KISS method: Keep it Simple Stupid. Understand that if you can't write it down, you can't delegate it.

       a. Task Name: the what,

       b. Task Description: the why,

       c. Steps of the task: the how,

       d. Who is responsible for the task: the who,

       e. The resources to do the job: the where,

       and f. A Clear result to task

   7. Train, Train, Train the who of the delegated employee.

 

Finally

Great leaders do the same thing: they have a vision, and they teach and mentor to help all of us get to that vision. They make the course changes without pointing and accusing, without ego, without worrying about failure. 

It is the success of the team that matters to the leader. There are always bumps and turns to get to happiness. 

One sees the many weak leaders, the ones that look for very little real change and growth. They keep doing the same thing over and over but still get the same results. 

They talk about what they want, and when things go wrong, they look for a scapegoat for the reasons something didn't work. 

Failure to weak leaders is a significant blow to their ego, a blow to themselves. 

 

How do great leaders know what they are doing and where they are going? 

Growing your business or creating success in your life starts with knowing what you want in life. What is important to you? When you end up where you want to be, is it what you valued. To find your values, you find out what your primary aims are in life. 

 

And finally, the magic Annuciatina promised. 

Mamma Rosa, Annuciatina, and Mamma Maria ask Just what they do with jars of tomato sauce?

 

 

For now, the leader, Annuciatina aka Nancy, and I, her favorite son-in-law (her only one) have to lead her team to another great client success: 

 

From Nancy, the Italian leader, on the left, to her mentored group of new tomato paste leaders: Toni, Jessica, Angela, Rachael, Rosemary, Constantino, Jennifer, Anthony, Daisy, Dominick, and me, Domenic
Tanti Auguri!, Ciao Ciao Tutti