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Growing Your Team Podcast

The Growing Your Team Podcast with Jamie Van Cuyk is designed to empower women business owners and leaders to expand their unique businesses by teaching them to master the hiring process. The Growing Your Team Podcast is the place to learn tips and techniques designed to teach you to become a confident leader who hires right and leads your team well every single time.
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Customer Service Training
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Woman Business Owner
Hiring Process
Client Experience
Excellent Customer Service
Unique Business
The Client
Training Plan
Three Examples of Why Customer Service Training Matters
How you treat your customers will set the tone for your organization and can make or break your business. After all, without customers, you have no revenue. This is why every employee in your company must understand what it means to deliver excellent customer service. Yes, every employee, not just those with customer service in their title or main responsibilities. If an employee interacts with a client, they must understand how they impact the client experience.
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Small Business Owners
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Small Business Owner
Business Owners
How To Run Longer
How Small Businesses Can Afford Legal Support with Michelle Bomberger
All businesses should have proactive legal support. In the long run, legal support provides a competitive advantage that can save companies money, ensure the right decisions are being made, and help grow effective and productive teams. The question is, how do small businesses add this type of support to their extended teams without breaking the budget? Learn why General Counsel should be a part of every company’s team and how to properly navigate the cost vs. benefit of this type of support.
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Team Members
Great Team
Team Member
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Business Owner
Small Businesses
A Team
How to Retain High-Performing Employees with Shelli Warren
How do you retain great team members when you don’t have extra dollars in your budget? While pay is very important, is more money even the best way to retain great talent? No. Money is only one part of what it takes to retain top talent. Shelli Warren joins the Growing Your Team podcast to share ways small business owners can retain their current top-level talent without needing to break the bank.
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The Common
Let Go
Too Much
First Time
The Help
How to Avoid Delegating Challenges
Delegating. We know we should do it, but it can sometimes be hard to let go. As a small business owner, delegating challenges can often stop us from getting the help we need. Not delegating might seem like the easy short-term answer when you face delegating challenges, but it’s not the long-term answer. Keeping too much on your plate can stunt your company’s continued growth and cause you to reach burnout. Learn the common delegating challenges and how to avoid them.
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What It Takes
Great Leaders
Small Business
Budgeting
How to Retain High-Performing Employees with Shelli Warren
How do you retain great team members when you don’t have extra dollars in your budget? While pay is very important, is more money even the best way to retain great talent? No. Money is only one part of what it takes to retain top talent. Shelli Warren joins the Growing Your Team podcast to share ways small business owners can retain their current top-level talent without needing to break the bank.
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Job Offer
Red Flag
A Job
Flag
Red
Should You Tell Candidates They Would Be Your First Employee?
You’re finally ready to hire your first employee. You’re excited about making this big step, but at the same time, you’re nervous because managing a team member in your business for the first time will be new. Even if you’ve managed people elsewhere, this is the first time you’re stepping into the manager role with no other leaders to guide you internally. The question is, should you warn candidates that they will be your first employee during the hiring process?
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Interview Format
Working Parent
Interview Process
New Employee
Interview Tips
Why We Fear Delegating in Our Growing Businesses
You have a choice: you can be a front-line worker for your business, or you can be a CEO. If you want to be the actual CEO of your business, there comes a time when the reigns must be let go. While you might fear delegating, as many business owners do, delegation is the key to success. In this episode, we break down why you fear delegating and how to overcome this fear so you can get the right help in your business.
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Virtual Assistant
How to Avoid Delegating Challenges
Delegating. We know we should do it, but it can sometimes be hard to let go. As a small business owner, delegating challenges can often stop us from getting the help we need. Not delegating might seem like the easy short-term answer when you face delegating challenges, but it’s not the long-term answer. Keeping too much on your plate can stunt your company’s continued growth and cause you to reach burnout. Learn the common delegating challenges and how to avoid them.
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Attract People
Know Your Name
Help Wanted
Job Seekers
Job Posting
Job Seeker
How to Attract Great Employees Without a Job Post with Melissa Rose
As a small business owner, bringing on your early team members can be extremely intimidating. Where do you start? How do you know someone will be a good fit? And most importantly, how do you attract people to your company when most people don’t know your name? Melissa Rose has perfected the art of becoming known, even as a small business. Her use of SEO allows small businesses to be seen as the only option in town and attract top job seekers before a business even posts a help-wanted sign.
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How Small Businesses Can Afford Legal Support with Michelle Bomberger
All businesses should have proactive legal support. In the long run, legal support provides a competitive advantage that can save companies money, ensure the right decisions are being made, and help grow effective and productive teams. The question is, how do small businesses add this type of support to their extended teams without breaking the budget? Learn why General Counsel should be a part of every company’s team and how to properly navigate the cost vs. benefit of this type of support.
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Good Employee
The Interview
The Culture
Business Women
How to Easily Access a Candidate’s Cultural Fit
There are two things you must determine during the interview process. Does the candidate have the minimum skills to do the job? AND Will they fit in with the culture you’ve created inside your business? If a person doesn't align with the values of your business, you could be setting yourself up for extreme management challenges by hiring them. Learn how to use the interview process to evaluate a candidate’s cultural fit, so you always hire the best employees for your small business.
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Two Jobs
Working Parents
Second Job
How to Retain Working Parents in a Small Business
Let’s face it: being a working parent is not easy. It’s like having two jobs that too often overlap, even when you try your best to balance both properly. This struggle often leads to many people leaving the workforce or reducing their hours once they have children. And when that team member is also one of your top employees, their decision can significantly impact you and your small business. The good news is that there are things you can do to increase your ability to retain working parents.
Many small businesses are hiring remote team members who reside in different cities, states, and even countries. But did you know that hiring an employee or contractor in a different location is not always the same as hiring someone in the same city as you? Laura Tolhoek helps business owners understand the requirements of hiring international workers and why it’s important to know what’s required of you whenever you hire a team member outside your city.
What to Know Before Hiring International Contractors or Employees with Laura Tolhoek
Many small businesses are hiring remote team members who reside in different cities, states, and even countries. But did you know that hiring an employee or contractor in a different location is not always the same as hiring someone in the same city as you? Laura Tolhoek helps business owners understand the requirements of hiring international workers and why it’s important to know what’s required of you whenever you hire a team member outside your city.
As a business owner, not everything will go your way as you begin to delegate, and employees will sometimes get things wrong. However, that doesn’t mean delegating is a mistake, and you should take back all the ownership of tasks. Elizabeth Lotardo joins the Growing Your Team Podcast to share how business owners can be the leaders in their company instead of the workers while simultaneously lifting up and empowering their new hires and existing team members. Take Back, Women Empowerment
Take Back
Women Empowerment
How to Empower Your New Hires with Elizabeth Lotardo
As a business owner, not everything will go your way as you begin to delegate, and employees will sometimes get things wrong. However, that doesn’t mean delegating is a mistake, and you should take back all the ownership of tasks. Elizabeth Lotardo joins the Growing Your Team Podcast to share how business owners can be the leaders in their company instead of the workers while simultaneously lifting up and empowering their new hires and existing team members.
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Marketing Department
How Can a Fractional CMO Help Small Businesses with Brooke Janousek
Have you ever considered working with a Fractional CMO? A Fractional CMO is a part-time marketing executive responsible for leading a business’s marketing team and strategy. As a small business owner, this could be an excellent resource for fulfilling your company’s marketing department needs while maintaining your budget by avoiding hiring full-time senior-level help. Fractional CMO expert Brooke Janousek gives insight into her experience providing this level of work to small businesses.