Do you train, motivate and protect your staff like they're the greatest asset you have in your business? 

You put so much work into finding the best people for the job and then training them. But don't assume the team development work ends when their job starts. If you hire an employee and then never speak to them again, you are wasting time, money and potential talent. It creates a  work culture that feels like "come and go" and can lead to high turnover & poor morale.

Here are a few tips to ensure that’s not the case in your business:

• Training is the foundation that will set the tone moving forward. Take the time to share the company's mission and the role they play in that bigger vision.
• Keep morale high among your staff so that you get the best work out of every employee.
• Invest in staff from the beginning and you will have experienced and confident team members to grow with your organization. 
• Develop a career ladder with each employee to allow you to...

Have a weekly team meeting. This one piece of advice I give leadership teams every time I speak with them is also the one thing I seem to get the most push back on. Now, often this is because the meetings they are having are unstructured and therefore unproductive so the idea of doing more of them seems like a waste of time. 

Having and sticking to an agenda will add structure to your management team meeting. It’s the difference between sitting around talking about the business and having a purposeful conversation where you leave with actionable steps. 

Here are some helpful hints and tips for a successful weekly team meeting:

• Have a set agenda (topics for the agenda)
• Good news
• Company scorecards (tracking system)
• Employee and customer headlines
• IDS (identify, discuss solve) issues
• Cascading message (what do we need to communicate to the staff)
• Have a leader for the meeting
• Assign specific tasks to each person prior to ending the meeting.
• Have it at the same time...