"I want to fire my employees!"

As a business coach, I hear this a lot. As early as now, I’m telling you, there is hope. It doesn't have to be this hard.

For most of us, when we started our business, we wore a lot of hats as we manage our day to day-to-day operations. We did sales, provided our service, did the bookkeeping, and if we had the time, we engaged in business planning.

We quickly realized that there just wasn't enough time in the day to get everything that needed to get done to grow the business.  Some days it felt like we were just spinning our wheels going nowhere. We started to fall behind and now we had to deal with unhappy customers.  These are the customers that we worked so hard to get.

So then, we did it.  We hired our first employee to get to the things we could not get to during the day. At first, it looked like things were starting to get better, so we hired another employee, and then one after the other, to do the stuff that we couldn't get to.

What we didn't realize was that we didn't have a team, we had a group of individuals doing stuff.

Just when it seemed like our problems were going away, different and more problems started to arise.  Employees not showing up on time, not finishing jobs or projects on time, poor quality, employees not getting along, and still more customer complaints or give dissatisfaction.

We are now ready to throw up our hands and fire them all and go back to when things were much simpler.

Does that sound familiar?  There is a better way.

Imagine how great it would feel if your employees are working not as individuals but as a cohesive team who are aligned to your company goals.  They are now an engaged and motivated team that is growing your business for you.

Because recruitment is marketing, discover how to find your next superstar for yourself and begin to recruit and develop your dream team.  Join my webinar on Recruitment is Marketing: 7 Ways to Find Your Next Superstar tomorrow, March 24, 2022 at 4:00 PM EST.

Register here: https://actioncoachwebinars.com/

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