Hiring. There are so many nuances and pieces, and lately, I’ve been helping my clients do a lot of hiring and that’s a wonderful thing. There’s a lot of amazing talent out right now, especially with the craziness that’s going on with the loss of jobs, but what that means is we have to do… View Article
Today’s quick tip is actually a recommendation from my good friend Keith Krance from Dominate Web Media. Now hiring is so tough, at least that’s what we hear all the time. So I love using assessments to be able to help understand if a candidate is actually telling the truth or if they’re a good… View Article
Mistakes, yea, we all make them, myself included, and one of the tough things about having a team or even children or whatever it is, a relationship, is that when there are lots and lots of mistakes, if something happens, we start to focus on the negative. It’s just the way our brains work. We… View Article
I just had a call with a prospect and one thing that cames up, which I get asked over and over and over again, especially in one-on-one because nobody wants to share this stuff when it’s not one-on-one, is, “Do I need to fire someone on my team?” Right? And it’s a tough decision and… View Article
What are my three tips to create a great company culture? Well, this tip comes from Julbert Abraham. He was a client of mine. He’s amazing. He does LinkedIn Strategy. And I want to hit you with these three tips really quick. So number one is making sure you have your company values. If you… View Article
One quick process that will get you more referrals. Well, I was chatting with a new client the other day and I was asking them how they sort of work their referrals and it’s sort of hit or miss, right? It’s this “Oh, well when I realize I am not at capacity and I need… View Article
Do you have an employee performance plan? Now, what this means is you have employees. Ideally, we want to be able to help those employees the best humanly possible. Whether that means working them out of their current job or role because they’re not necessarily good in that specific role, or helping them get better… View Article
The problem always stems from this. I was actually interviewing Mike McDermott from Freshbooks the other day and he quoted an amazing quote. It says, “No matter what the problem is. It’s always a people problem.” And that’s actually by Gerald Weinberg’s writing. What he meant by that is not like fire your team. He… View Article
Onboarding in a box. I just wanted to share a really cool resource that I found, that LinkedIn actually provided. And it’s onboarding new employees, in a PDF, in a box, not in a box. But one of the reasons why I wanted to show it to you is because it has value packed information… View Article
Want better-qualified prospects on the phone? Well, are you actually pre-qualifying them? We had an issue where we’ve even had people lie on the online forms to fill out just to talk to me on the phone, which is very interesting. And so now, what we’ve implemented is what I called “human qualification.” So, we’ve… View Article
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