Are You Bringing In The Right Employees?
Your employees can make your break your business. This makes hiring employees and building the right team essential to the success of your business.
The right employees can take your vision and not only turn it into a reality, but also elevate it to something more than you ever imagined.
There’s something akin to magic that happens when an amazing team comes together to make your business amazing. Of course, there’s always the other possibility.
If you’re unlucky, then you could end up with employees who do the exact opposite. The wrong employees can drag your business down into the dirt.
Not only can they make life more difficult for other employees but they can actually damage your business, taking your vision and grinding it into nothing. Plenty of businesses that had huge amounts of potential because of employees who weren’t willing to work with everyone else to achieve a common goal.
So how do you make sure that you get the first kind of employee and not the second? In reality, it all starts with recruitment.
You might get lucky and find that you can turn a problem employee into an ideal one but that’s hardly the most likely scenario. Instead, you should focus on getting the right people for the job at the very start.
Here are a few simple things that you can do to help you go about doing just that.
Use external agencies for hiring employees
Trying to wade through the sheer volume of candidates for any given role can be exhausting. You spend the vast majority of your time dealing with applications from people who are clearly unsuited for the role.
By using agencies to connect you with potential candidates, then you skip an entire chunk of that process. Agencies search through applications and send you only the most qualified and suitable candidates, meaning that you simply have to decide who’s the best of the bunch.
Whether it’s temp agencies or agencies like Steve Trautman dedicated to helping you find specialists, there are hundreds of agencies out there whose sole purpose is to connect you with the very best candidates possible.
As long as you let the agencies know what it is that you’re looking for, they can separate the wheat from the chaff and help you avoid wasting your time on candidates who are never going to be a good fit with your business.
Be selective while hiring new employees
Once the time comes to start selecting and interviewing candidates, give yourself a lot of time. There’s nothing worse than trying to find a new member of staff while working to a looming deadline.
That extra level of pressure is just going to lead you to make rushed decisions that you’re eventually going to come to regret. You should be as selective as possible when interviewing candidates.
Make sure to not only learn about their skills and qualifications but their personality as well. What kind of person are they? Is this kind of person guaranteed to fit well in your company as it stands?
Not only that but are they willing to help shape the company as well? How well do their principles align with your own? These questions might all seem incredibly specific, but they’re crucial to help you figure out whether or not someone is going to be a good fit within your business.
It’s definitely easier to spend a little extra time and effort finding the right person for the job than hiring the wrong person and trying to mold them into what you want, or worse, having to fire them and start all over again.
Avoid hiring new employees that drag your small business down
Hiring candidates can be a laborious and difficult process. But make no mistakes, it’s far more difficult to deal with an employee who isn’t willing to pull their weight and is actively dragging down your business.
By taking that extra time and effort to find the perfect candidate, you save yourself a lot of trouble further down the line. Once you find the right person for the job, then make sure that they are well supported and cared for.
The last thing you want is to find the right candidate and then lose them because you weren’t able to nurture and develop them in the way that you should have. Look at hiring new employees like an investment.
The more that they grow and develop the better off your company will be. Don’t worry about an employee potentially leaving you. That could happen no matter what you do.
However, investing back into your employees, will create more loyalty and the likelihood they will leave goes down. One key factor to understand is that the more your employees grow the more your business grows.
I’d suggest having your employees take part in personal development to improve themselves and your business. Be sure to check out this post on the top personal development books I recommend.
Look for a person of education, not just degrees when hiring employees
One thing that could lead you to miss out on great talent while hiring employees is only looking at education and not the whole person. Most people stop their education after they graduate and never pick up a book or take a course again.
These are not the kind of people you want to hire as employees. Certainly they may get the job done in some cases, but if they aren’t continually growing and improving what more can they bring to the table.
This is why you want to look for a person of education, or that focuses on their own development and growth. Most people don’t really have 10 years of experience, they have 1 year of experience they’ve done 10 times.
Look for people that are focused on becoming masters of their craft. Having a specific degree is great, and it certainly is an accomplishment, but in many cases it’s almost like judging a book by it’s cover.
A degree or certification is great, but it’s more about what a person does with that than simply having it. Look for action takers, who make things happen not just those that did something in the past.
Provide incentives and growth opportunities when you hire new employees
After years of dealing with business owners, one thing you start to notice is that you often can’t motivate people, you just have to find motivated people. This is true while hiring employees as well.
Often you might not be able to tell right away if a new employee will be a good fit for your business or not. However, when you set up incentives or opportunities for growth for them, they can start to show their true colors.
While these incentives could be a quick thing to set up for a position in sales, it is just as applicable in other departments as well. The core idea is to celebrate what you want to duplicate.
Take whatever department you are looking to expand and determine what are the top income producing results you want your new employees to focus on. Then you want to create incentive programs built around this.
Creating incentive programs to motivate new employees
Not only can incentive programs lead to higher levels of employee motivation, but it can also weed out the new employees that are a fit for your business. You could create incentive programs that mimic the productivity results your company wants to accomplish.
If certain employees aren’t performing up to the standards, or they are the lowest in the incentive programs on a routine basis, it might be time to let them go.
Another thing to keep in mind is that as you are hiring new employees, or bringing in new leaders to your team you want to make sure your contests are congruent with the effort. For example don’t give away a full all expenses paid trip for those who show up on time consistently.
You may want to set up a type of program where you do offer travel incentives for your employees, but make it congruent for their efforts. Another thing to keep in mind is that if you do set up results based tracking programs, don’t just use it for negative enforcement.
Nothing is more annoying to employees than having programs that only point out what they are doing wrong. No one likes that boss, leader, or employer. Use results based programs for positive enforcement, and only track negative actions for correction if necessary.
The last thing you want is your incentive programs to lower moral. Implement these steps for hiring employees and use these incentive plans to keep them around.
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