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Hiring - What Position Should You Add to Your Team

You need to delegate and get work off your plate, but what position should you add to your team? Learn how to identify what type of team member you need and how to select which tasks should be added to their job description.
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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.
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Personality Tests
Personality Test
Team Members
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Great Leaders
Are Personality Tests Disqualifying your Dream Candidates?
Many business owners like the idea of using personality tests throughout the hiring process. While the proper tests can tell you a lot about a candidate, most people don’t know how to use the tests properly. Unfortunately, if you use the tests incorrectly, you might be accidentally disqualifying your ideal employee. Listen and learn the right time to use personality tests properly during the hiring process and how to use the results to lead you to your perfect-fit team members.
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Customer Service Skills
Job Titles
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Customer Service Experience
Why Every Employee Needs Customer Service Training with Samantha Irwin
Customer service skills are not just for employees with Customer Service job titles or employees whose primary responsibility is interacting with clients. All employees need customer service skills. Why? Because each employee has the potential to cross paths with a client or has a job that impacts that customer’s journey, even if it’s indirectly. Samantha Irwin discusses why business owners need to prioritize the customer service experience to retain both employees and clients.
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Leading A Team
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Skill Set
Successful Business
Trust Yourself
How to Successfully Lead a Team Outside of Your Area of Expertise with Jenny Townsend
Leading a team invites new challenges that you might not be accustomed to. It can be incredibly challenging when your employees complete work that requires a skill set that is in an area outside of your expertise. Jenny Townsend started a highly successful business in an industry where she had no working knowledge or the skill to serve clients herself. Jenny shares with us how to release control, trust your people, and give them the tools they need for support.
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Business Women
How To Become
Small Business
Do You Have the Right People In the Right Seats? with Melanie Bowman
Two things are essential for building a great team within a small business: having the right seats on your team and filling those seats with the right people. One of the core aspects of successfully achieving these items is understanding your company values. Your company’s values should be the framework of your business, not just words on paper. When you hire team members who naturally operate in a manner that reflects your company’s values, your business can achieve greater success.
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How to Build a Team to Support Your Personal Brand with Laura Bull
Is your small business a personal brand? If so, you might feel an extra hiring challenge – how can you delegate work within your business when people hire your business for you? Brand strategist Laura Bull joins the Growing Your Team podcast to share how to understand and identify the core elements of your personal brand and how to use those elements to find the best team members. She also shares how to balance ego when you’ve built a brand that is centered around you.
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Building A Team
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When to Transition from Contractors to Employees
Did you build your business by having a team of contractors and are now wondering if you should transition those positions from contractors to employees? Or is having employees ever something your business needs? Contractors and employees are different ways of building a team, and both can provide great value. Some positions can always be contractor and some will always have to be employees. But then there are the roles that can start as contractors but later should transition to employees.
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Small Business Owners
The Question
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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How To Hire The Right Person
How To Handle Difficult Employees
How To Hire A Contractor
Join Our Team Hiring
Employee Performance Issues
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Good Boss
How to Have Clarity on Who to Hire & Why with Mitch Gray
Before being able to run a good business, you first need to learn how to be a good boss. Taking on a strong leadership role helps mold the basic structure of your company. It will determine what hires work well within your team and how they will work within their roles. As Mitch Gray highlights, you simply reflect your own experiences and if you don’t know how to do something then you must learn. The best way to prepare your team for success is to begin with yourself first.
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How Delegation is the Key to Efficiency with Melissa Leon
The power of delegating is often overlooked in many small businesses. While we might not resist delegating some smaller tasks, it can be hard to let go of a lot of authority and responsibility. But did you know that failing to let go of select tasks might be preventing your company from growing and making your business less efficient? Melissa Leon help us understand why we should stop holding onto select tasks – even when they are in our area of expertise.
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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.
Picking the right people to represent you and your small business is important. Even if they are not employees, those outside your organization still see them as a part of your team. Selecting the wrong people to be at the forefront of your company can impact your image as a business leader and a company overall. When you pick a person to represent you, and they do it poorly, it’s not just a bad investment in them but could also negatively impact your revenue path. Good Image, Wrong People, Image Fun, Training Plan
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How to Not Let the People You Hire Hurt Your Reputation with Julie Fry
Picking the right people to represent you and your small business is important. Even if they are not employees, those outside your organization still see them as a part of your team. Selecting the wrong people to be at the forefront of your company can impact your image as a business leader and a company overall. When you pick a person to represent you, and they do it poorly, it’s not just a bad investment in them but could also negatively impact your revenue path.
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Relationship Rules
Four Ways You’re Treating Your Contractors Like Employees
Are you treating your contractors like employees? Many business owners need to hire help, but they don’t want the responsibility of having employees. Contractors seem like the easy solution. While having contractors can often be just what a business needs, contractors and employees provide different kinds of help and require different relationships. When the relationship rules are not followed, contractors become misclassified employees, which can lead to financial consequences.
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Do You Have the Right People In the Right Seats? with Melanie Bowman
Two things are essential for building a great team within a small business: having the right seats on your team and filling those seats with the right people. One of the core aspects of successfully achieving these items is understanding your company values. Your company’s values should be the framework of your business, not just words on paper. When you hire team members who naturally operate in a manner that reflects your company’s values, your business can achieve greater success.
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How to Afford Management and Executive-Level Employees with Hannah Smolinski
Hiring team members comes with a cost. When not all positions carry the same cost, it’s easy for a small business owner to gravitate toward positions with the littlest financial impact. But as your business grows, are the lower-cost positions best for your team? Or have you reached your capacity for individual contributor positions, and now the positions you need are the more costly management and executive positions?