A client of mine gave me permission to share this story with you from a recent coaching call that we had. Details are of course changed to protect confidentiality. My client, let’s call him Mike, has had interns working for him for the past few years. It’s a great way to keep his payroll costs [...]

As a small business owner, you must remember that your employees are not your friends. Don’t get me wrong – of course you want to be friendly and create a relationship based on mutual respect and trust. But so many small business owners fall into the trap of treating employees like friends (or worse yet, [...]

As someone who has been providing small business consulting services to small business owners for the past eight years, I have had the privilege of seeing what works and doesn’t work in many small businesses. Not to mention the 20 years I spent in small business before that, owning and running companies. In order to [...]

One of the most difficult areas in any business is successful hiring. Whether you’re hiring your first employee or you’ve been hiring employees for years, you want to remember to hire first for how the person will fit with the team and second for how experienced or skilled they are. You know that it can [...]