It’s a good sign when your business is doing so well you can hire additional staff. However, it also can raise your blood pressure a bit as you are venturing into new territory. How many do you hire? Who do you hire? What qualifications should they have? How do you make sure you hire the right staff? Great staff can be tremendously beneficial to your business. Define the job and the ideal employee: If you are really under the gun you may be thinking I just need someone to help. But, you want to clearly define what role you need to hire for. For example, if the phones are ringing off the hook and the paperwork is overwhelming you need an office manager. But, that is a broad term so you will w

Being a manager means you necessarily must work with other people. In other words, you need to be a team leader – hence, a team builder. The end goal of team building is a team that works effortlessly together as one united, cohesive unit. You may wonder if team building is really all that important or relevant. How you approach or even think about this idea of team building will determine whether you are successful or not. Why? Because without a successful team, your best efforts fall flat. Let’s take a look at 4 reasons why team building is more important than you may think. Your team is more than mere employees It’s easy to go to work and look at our “team” and see them as just “employees

Introduction Many managers and employers would like to be able to just hire employees and then assign them work without really worrying about how they’re interacting with their colleagues. Some employers are fine with hiring and firing employees, but they don’t like trying to find new roles for employees within the same organization. Running any organization does sometimes involve working with individuals and not just the group as a whole. Firing employees is certainly not always the best solution, and it isn’t always the easiest solution. Helping New Employees Become Part of the Team Too many managers ,more or less assume that new employees will just adjust to a new company independently. T