Hiring Your First Employee – What Held You Back or Pushed You Forward?

I love this topic, even more so after I met with the CHR officer of The Ritz Carlton for their training course last year. 

Honestly I been burned enough times that I had to build my own lesson plan lol.

When it comes to hiring, I stopped leading with skill set. Those help short term, and only had bad habits we had to train to undo. But they don’t build culture or future leadership.

Now I hire based on Character, Trust, and Vision.
These three traits that tell me if someone is worth investing in long-term.

We’re building a team around shared pressure and shared responsibility, 

If you’re stuck deciding who to hire first, or how to afford it, we built visual tools that help break it down, I am at your service. 

Thank you and good luck. 

Good questions.  When I could not handle the cleaning workload on my own that is when I decided to hire my first employee.  I started by making a list of everything that I do when I am cleaning a client's home.  From that I created a job description and started asking friends and family if they knew of anyone that was looking for a job.  I had to make sure that I trained them to my expectations and my client's expectations.  So many people said they wanted to work and that they were really good at cleaning.  I finally started to do interviews by having them clean a kitchen or bathroom.  You would be amazed at how many could not figure out to clean from top to bottom...

I found a few employees that were good at cleaning, but they were always late.  (Being late is one of my triggers that I do not do well with).  If you need help with job descriptions, let me know and I would be happy to help out.

Good Luck!