How We Work With You
Aligning & Developing Team
One of the biggest problems facing small business operators is how to recruit and keep good people. The people who work for you are your most valuable resource. They represent your business and their workmanship. Service and attitudes will affect your success in attracting and maintaining a strong customer base.
One of the disadvantages of a small business is that you can rarely offer the sort of career opportunities that a large organization can, and small business generally has a reputation for failing to offer long-term job security. We can help you counteract this by working with you to build and develop a working environment that is highly appealing to employees, and highly productive.
To build a loyal and effective team you must devote considerable time and effort to hiring, training and managing your employees.
We can help you craft and implement a people plan that will dramatically improve your chances of long-term business success and includes:
- Assess the business needs and determine if it is appropriately staffed.
- Identify the jobs you will employ people to do and clearly setting out the conditions in a job description.
- Help you clarify what type of people you're looking for in each position.
- We'll help you determine what skills need to be developed in order that your team performs to the best of their ability.
- We'll identify future training needs.
- We'll help you determine whether you have employees who are underutilized and others who are overworked.
- We'll assess if your employees are highly motivated or simply "going through the motions".
- We'll meet with your existing team members and learn what they like about the job, and what they'd improve if they could.
- Develop team performance standards so your employee's know very clearly what is expected of them and what will build a great business.
- We'll help you implement strategies to obtain team member buy-in and commitment.