194 - 3 Things To Consider When Hiring

Business Legal Lifecycle Podcast

It's an exciting time in your business. You’re bringing on someone new. But there's a number of things you need to consider. We've come up with three that we're going to talk about today. Create an onboarding process It's really important to have a process or procedure that actually takes them through what your business is about. If you have a business that has any sort of systems, then you need to train the person on that. Make sure that you've got an onboarding process and that you take each new employee through that process. That way there's consistency in how they're being trained Set your expectations It's very hard to go backwards and try to set expectations after a period of time. You’ve got to do that at the beginning. Set out your expectations for how the job is to be done. It is very hard to undo things like that if you don't get on to it right at the beginning. Remember how to create a team You've got to remember that there are four stages of team formation. it's not just going to click straightaway. It just doesn't happen like that. It doesn't matter whether you do who you bring together, people do things differently. you're going to go through that process. We’re going to do a whole podcast on this topic in the near future!