On today's episode of The QSR Guru Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you become a quick service restaurant leader you were meant to be. Matt and Tricia are going to discuss the things that they wish they would have learned earlier in their career.

If you've been in this industry for any amount of time, you picked up a lot, and there are a lot of things that you might have learned 5, 10, 15, maybe even 20 years into your career that you wish oh my gosh, I wish somebody would have told me about this earlier. It would have made my life so much easier.

So Matt and Tricia are going to discuss one topic that they each wish that they would have learned earlier in their career.

And for Tricia, that is the importance of teaching and by teaching, she doesn't mean training. She means passing along the skills and the knowledge the leadership development that she has. She didn't realize the importance of passing on those skills to everyone around her to help them grow until the last few years.

And for Matt, it is time management. Matt has over the last couple of years realized the importance of not working those 50, 60, 70 hour weeks. He works 40 hours a week in the restaurants or in the office, and maybe sometimes take some things home but he takes time for himself. He takes time for his family. He doesn't dedicate his entire life to his work. When you dedicate your entire life to your restaurant. That's when burnout happens. That's when you stop being effective. And that's when you just give up.

Matt feels that he has left jobs. He has possibly even sold businesses because of burnout and overworking himself.

So what do you wish you would have learned earlier in your career? There are a lot of things that every single leader can discuss that they just wish they would have known 5, 10 years ago. What's that for you? And what are you going to do to make sure that all the people around you learn that earlier in their career than you did so that they can turn into the leader that they would like to be.

For that and so much more listen to today's episode of The QSR guru Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you become the quick service restaurant leader you were meant to be.

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