Hello Richa,
Like Simhan has repeated, unless you give more details it not only makes 'giving any suggestions' tough, but also could lead to wrong ones being given.
Though I had guessed that your's was a wife & husband team, I didn't realize that the 'friends' too could be the same.
Frankly, as it is, a combination of wife & husband in any work environment is usually tough to persist in a long-term context, UNLESS there's a very clear demarcation of RESPONSIBILITY & AUTHORITY. And here you have TWO such teams under the same roof.
I am not sure if each of you have very clearly defined responsibilities & authorities--when I say 'clearly defined' this is what I mean: when the Accounts person decides something, IT HAS TO BE OBEYED & FOLLOWED......PERIOD. No arguments or personal logic into play. So too with the others. If it boils down to: I am the husband...so you need to agree & follow me [it may work @ home], they you have a sure recipe for disaster--the worst-case-scenario being: the company going for a toss, which I presume none of you want it.
Given the delicate situation, I guess you could be hesitating to bring out more details into a public domain like CiteHR. In such a case, I would suggest you send private messages to Archna & (Cite Contribution) giving the details--hope they don't mind. I am sure a solution will be found. Like the saying goes: There's no problem without a solution...we only need to find it.
However, whatever suggestions emerge, I can see one thing very clearly: All the 4 of you will need to sit down coolly & mark-out the responsibilities & authority structure clearly between all of you--and like I mentioned above, the others WILL HAVE TO follow what the person assigned with a particular role/responsibility decides in his/her area--wife & husband may be @ home, but @ office, all of you are officials & professionals. Once a decision is taken after discussions, then there has to be only ONE STEP--Follow & Implement it. No more discussions after that.
Rgds,
TS
From India, Hyderabad
1637Like Simhan has repeated, unless you give more details it not only makes 'giving any suggestions' tough, but also could lead to wrong ones being given.
Though I had guessed that your's was a wife & husband team, I didn't realize that the 'friends' too could be the same.
Frankly, as it is, a combination of wife & husband in any work environment is usually tough to persist in a long-term context, UNLESS there's a very clear demarcation of RESPONSIBILITY & AUTHORITY. And here you have TWO such teams under the same roof.
I am not sure if each of you have very clearly defined responsibilities & authorities--when I say 'clearly defined' this is what I mean: when the Accounts person decides something, IT HAS TO BE OBEYED & FOLLOWED......PERIOD. No arguments or personal logic into play. So too with the others. If it boils down to: I am the husband...so you need to agree & follow me [it may work @ home], they you have a sure recipe for disaster--the worst-case-scenario being: the company going for a toss, which I presume none of you want it.
Given the delicate situation, I guess you could be hesitating to bring out more details into a public domain like CiteHR. In such a case, I would suggest you send private messages to Archna & (Cite Contribution) giving the details--hope they don't mind. I am sure a solution will be found. Like the saying goes: There's no problem without a solution...we only need to find it.
However, whatever suggestions emerge, I can see one thing very clearly: All the 4 of you will need to sit down coolly & mark-out the responsibilities & authority structure clearly between all of you--and like I mentioned above, the others WILL HAVE TO follow what the person assigned with a particular role/responsibility decides in his/her area--wife & husband may be @ home, but @ office, all of you are officials & professionals. Once a decision is taken after discussions, then there has to be only ONE STEP--Follow & Implement it. No more discussions after that.
Rgds,
TS
From India, Hyderabad
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