Growing Your Team with Jamie Van Cuyk

Hiring the wrong team members is a mistake that many business owners make. They think they found the best person to assist with their business, but then they end up regretting their new hire. Not only does that relationship not work out as planned, it sometimes even makes them want to avoid hiring altogether. However, growing a team is needed in order to continue growing any business. So, how do y...

In this episode of the Growing Your Team podcast, we're talking about not hiring. Wait! Hold up a minute! Are we really talking about not hiring on a podcast designed to help small businesses find and manage their ideal team members? Yes, we are. Why? Because sometimes hiring is not the right move – even though you feel overwhelmed.  Brandi Mowles is an expert on growing online service-based busin...

The last thing you want to hear your team members say is that your place of business is a toxic workplace. Why? Because, when your team members enjoy working for you, they are more likely to produce higher quality work and will stay a part of your team longer. However, many small business owners make mistakes from the moment they go to hire a new team member that leads to a toxic workplace. These...

What happens to your business when you don't work? Maybe you're not working because you're taking a much-needed vacation. Maybe you're sick. Or, maybe there is an emergency that takes you out of the office for days or weeks? Will your business continue to thrive? Will your business even survive? The best way to answer yes to either of these questions is to hire a team you can trust. In this episod...

Do you know what type of support your business needs? Not what title your new team members should have or whether they should be an employee or contractor. But do you know if you need to hire a teacher, a strategist, or an executor? Do you know the real difference between the three and what each can do for your business? If you're like many business owners, you never thought of it. This leads to h...

"Your financials are trying to tell you a story. It's your job as a business owner to listen to that story." - Danielle Hayden. When it comes to trying to decide if it's the right time to hire a team member, do you know if you're in the right financial place? This is a question that stops many business owners from hiring. And that's not because the answer is no. It's because they assume the answer...

One of the top reasons small businesses hire new team members is because there is a lack of time. More hands are needed in the business because you and the team you might have can no longer do it all. However, many small business owners don't gain time when they hire. Why? Because they replace the time they were once taking doing tasks with overseeing their new team member(s). The question many sm...

Are you ready for your business to make a social impact? Whether it's supporting the local homeless shelter, supporting organizations that fight for human rights, supporting environmental or animal causes, supporting health-focused research or charities, or more, many business owners want to use a part of their business to drive change and make an impact. The question is, is your small business to...

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about giving your employees vacation time? If you're like most small business owners, you think about the expense. You think about the hours and days you will be paying a team member when they are not producing work. However, did you know that while vacation time benefits the employee, it benefits you and your business too? Your busine...

As business owners, we all want one thing when we start hiring teams. We want team members who will help us build a better and stronger business than we can do on our own.  In this episode of the Growing Your Team podcast, Christy Villasenor is sharing her tips on how you can lead your team to success by knowing more about yourself and leading your team in a way that promotes collaboration and gro...

Did you know that  black applicants receive 36% fewer calls for interviews than equally qualified white applicants? Both are qualified to be invited to interview, but one is knocked out of the running simply because they are assumed black based on their name. It's not a fun statistic to hear, but it's true.  It's also a statistic that has not changed in over 30 years! ​ As business owners, we have...

Do you want to know one of the top hiring mistakes small business owners make?  It's not hiring the talent their business really needs. Typically, this is caused by jumping into hiring before organizing internal processes or evaluating where you really need help.  Kristen Diaz is on a mission to stop this behavior. While she supports businesses as a Virtual Assitant, one of her passions is to help...

"But what if something happens and I have to fire an employee?" Many small business owners have asked this question as they think about expanding their team. While their business is doing well now, they worry about the what-ifs .   What if my current revenue trends don't continue, and I cannot afford an employee? What if there is a recession/downturn/force closure that impacts my industry, and I h...

As you start to grow your team, you will notice that there are two types of team members within your business; those who work directly with your customers and those who function behind the scenes. Both are essential to moving your business forward and serving your clients, but the one set gets no external recognition because the customer doesn't really know they are there. However, as the business...

Are you asking the right kind of questions when you interview candidates for your open positions? While there are many questions you can ask, there is one type of question that is essential to ask. That type of question is behavioral interview questions. Listen to this episode of the Growing Your Team podcast to learn more about behavioral interview questions and why you're putting yourself at ris...

As a business owner, what are your first thoughts when you think of interviews? If you're like most business owners, one of the first things you think of when going through the process is finding the best candidate for your opening. You think of yourself interviewing others.  However, interviews are a two-way street. Not only is the candidate making an impression on you, but you are also making an...

Feelings and emotions tend to drive most of our decisions. However, when it comes to hiring team members, we need to avoid letting ourselves hire based on emotions.  When we let emotions lead our hiring decisions, we run the risk of hiring the wrong person. Hiring the wrong team member can lead to a waste of resources and the need to start the hiring process over again to find the right new hire. ...

Like many small business owners, you were probably once an employee. And, chances are, you at one point felt undervalued and lost your motivation to keep working hard for your boss.  Many of us have stories about why we left corporate and started our own business. For those of us who left because of a bad manager or leadership, we need to strive for one thing: to be the boss we wish we had. We hav...

Do you have hiring mindset challenges that are holding you back from adding the support you need to your small business? If you do, you're not alone. Too many businesses resist hiring even when their business is showing them that there is a need to add a new team member. In this episode of the Growing Your Team podcast, you'll hear about two of the most common mindset challenges that stop small bu...

There are many aspects of being a great leader. One part that we often don't hear much about is gratitude leadership. Being a leader that shows you are grateful for your team and the work that they do can not only help you retain team members but also help you scale your business to the next level. Leadership expert, Jen McFarland, shares with us why gratitude leadership is essential for business...

As business owners, we want to come off to our team members as the perfect leader who knows everything that is needed to lead our team to success. But, the truth is, no one is the perfect leader. We can only strive to keep becoming a better leader each day.  One way to become a better leader is to be transparent with your team. While we can't always tell our teams everything, there are so many opp...

Chances are, you started a business to do what you love. However, as you quickly discovered, running a business takes a lot more work. In order to get everything done, delegation is needed.  In this episode of the Growing Your Team Podcast, Anna De Salvo is sharing with us her tips on what to delegate within your business, and how to grow effective teams. One of the top ways of growing effective t...

**Bonus Episode** Chris Pinault is back to talk about how to learn how to conduct better interviews.  Back in episode four, Chris briefly told us about one of the things he did to learn how to become a better interviewer. His process included going to job interviews with the intention of learning and not because he was hunting for a job.  This comment left Jamie with many thoughts, good and bad. ...

In your small business, do you embrace remote work or do you require all employees to come to your business location? Whether you have ever considered letting your employees work remote before, the current events related to the Coronavirus (which is highly impacting the world at the release of this episode), has forced the idea of remote working upon us. This might leave you in one of three places...

We all have strengths. However, most of us are not fully aware of what our strengths are and how to use them. Too often, we view our strengths as something that everyone has because if we enjoy something or can do something well, everyone else must too. However, each individual has different strengths. Guest Jenni Schubring is a certified life coach and is sharing  with us how by knowing your stre...