Hiring, firing and managing

Your business is up and running and now you need to deal with the everyday concerns of managing a business, including hiring and firing staff.

Find out more about:

• Building a support team: Working in a small business doesn’t mean having to make every decision without input from others. Access to a good support team can be vital to success.
• Learning how to hire right: Research shows that businesses that recruit smarter tend to grow faster. By taking a systematic approach to recruiting, training or developing staff you can reap the benefits of growth.
• Be good to your staff and they will be good to you: Happy employees mean good customer service and high retention rates. Find out what you can do to encourage your employees – for their own growth as well as for your business.
• Getting to grips with outsourcing: Not every small business wants or needs to employ staff. For many businesses outsourcing to contractors is the way to go.
• When it’s time to go: Retrenching staff is a difficult but sometimes necessary part of owning a business. If you need to retrench staff make sure you’ve ticked all the boxes.