New employees can be productive more quickly if performance expectations are established at the outset. Regular follow-up is required to make sure the performance expectations are being met.
New employees can be productive more quickly if performance expectations are established at the outset. Regular follow-up is required to make sure the performance expectations are being met.
How you confront employee performance issues will depend on your type. To be more effective at confronting employee performance issues you need to know-yourself and the most effective confrontation and communication techniques. Each approach will only work if it is relative to your type and typical style of behaviour. Thus, knowing yourself is crucial.
To learn more about types of people check out the book CrazYZoo! Know-Thyself Made Easy by Fritz Glaus.
Here is a quick leadership tip about I picked up from a Rabbi who spoke about wise man who was questioning what an intelligent person is. He said there was four things that make a person intelligent and in this video, I speak about one of them.
Hiring family members into your business can be fruitful but it can also spell disaster if you do not follow best practices for hiring.
Here are a few do’s and don’ts.
Follow these best practices for hiring family members and everyone will win, you, the family member and the business.
Hiring a family member is like hiring any new employee except it’s not. We have a strong emotional connection with family members that we don’t have with strangers or people we may know through the business world. It’s tempting to forgo best practices when hiring family members and resort to making decisions based too heavily on emotion and then justifying it logically.
I grew up in a family business that my dad started when I was nine years old. I am familiar with all the don’ts that are listed above and the impact it had on me.
Follow these best practices for hiring family members and everyone will win, you, the family member and the business.