As you grow your business, the key that will lead to success or failure is the performance of your team. Before you consider that next hire, be sure that everyone on your team is pulling in the same direction.
Here are 5 ways to build and maintain a winning team.
5 Ways to Enhance the Performance of Your Team
Most of us are in business to make money. And there are as many ways to make money as there are businesses. But there are quite a few ways to lose money, as well.
Here are five sure-fire things to avoid.
5 Ways to Lose Money in Business
The more powerful your team, the more powerful your company. It doesn’t matter if you have a team of two or 2,000 here are five ways to build a stronger team.
5 Ways to Enhance the Performance of Your Team
If you treat your employees well, they will not only be happier and more productive, but more satisfied with their current pay, as well. Here are a few things that employees value even more than money.
One of the biggest challenges women business owners have is hiring the right kind of talent to grow their businesses. A lot of factors are involved in making these decisions, but when you’re hiring, keep in mind that there are a few things you cannot teach people.
No matter how hard you try, here are five things that you just can’t teach.
5 Things You Cannot Teach People
When someone on your staff has a performance problem, it will have a negative effect on every member of your team. (Note here that I don’t say “can” but “will.”) Correcting that problem creates a win for you, a win for the employee with the problem, and a win for every other employee who works with that person.
Here is a five-step process to address employee performance problems.
Five-Step Process to Address Employee Performance Problems
Even in a good hiring market, it’s often difficult to sort out good job candidates from great ones. Here are a few things you might consider in making your next hire.
Five Things to Look for in Hiring Great Employees
There are three key components to a successful business: Product/service, customers and employees. If you’ve got all the customers in the world and a great product, but your staff doesn’t have the right stuff, your business will never be totally successful.
Here is a five step strategy for creating a recruiting process to guarantee a great team.
5-Step Recruiting Strategy
Last week we looked at some questions to ask your customers. This week, research your company from the inside out by asking your staff what they think.
Be sure they know that you’re not looking for the “life is wonderful” answer here, but the real truth—the good, the bad and the ugly!
Here are a few questions to start with.
5 Questions to Ask Your Staff
One of my fondest memories in business was a period of four years when I had zero employee turnover among 40+ employees. This was in a technical business in a highly-competitive market.
One of the keys to my zero turnover was recognizing that every member of my staff was looking for something different, whether it be career growth, income growth, work/life balance or recognition. Once I determined the most important factor for each individual, I just provided that.
Here are a few of the specific tactics I used to retain my best employees.
5 Ways to Keep Your Best Employees
