Tag - Hiring Staff

Leading business expert, Jim Collins, says it is more important to “get the right people on the bus” than it is to get the right business idea. People are the most important contributor. Therefore, hiring staff is a skill every business needs to perfect. Learn about how recruiting is similar to Sales and Marketing. The concept of the Sales Funnel applies. Ensure that you have clear goals in place for the person you are hiring. Learn how to do this. Then you will learn about getting leads; ranking candidates; interviewing; checking references and more. Once you have finished hiring staff work through the other sections in “Manage Yourself, Staff and Others

Hiring First Managers

This article discusses hiring your business's first managers and supervisors.This typically starts to happen in what we have called the Small Business (5-19 Staff) phase of your business growth journey.We begin with refreshing your mind on some of our other discussions on the affordability, timing and budgeting for staff. Then...

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Hiring Staff: When and Who

Learn about hiring staff, the decision about when to hire your next member of staff and what positions to consider first.  This article is aimed, primarily, at owners hiring their first few staff members. But additionally, it suggests a thought process and habits that will be useful even when your...

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Human Resources Tip Bits

Human Resources is one of the essentials that make your business work.  Without people, it is most unlikely that your business will scale to any size.  This is a collection of pearls of wisdom, about employing and getting the most from people, distilled from many sources.  Yellow belt

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Peter Principle: Promotion to Incompetency

Laurence J Peters in his book “The Peter Principle” (Peters & Hull, 1969) argues that people are likely to be promoted until they reach a point where they are unacceptably incompetent.  At this point, they are unlikely to be promoted any further (at least in a well ordered organisation) because...

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