10 creative ways to retain employees to scale your business
- E60
- 27:12
- July 8th 2020
In this episode, Nathan Hirsch, co-founder of Freeup and Outsource school, shares creative ways to retain employees to scale your company. Insights he shares include:
- The difference between an employee and a virtual assistant (VA)
- How to approach recruitment to scale your business
- How to interview candidates to find people worth retaining
- Creative ways to retain employees
- How to factor in an employees personal ambition and goals into your employee retention plans
- What we need to keep in mind when hiring experts
- Aspects of communication that employers often get wrong
- How to get to know individuals even in remote work scenarios
- How to address issues around clarity with expectations and performance
- What you need to look for in every VA you hire
- The mistake most companies make in hiring VA's
- Tools that Nathan recommends to enable hiring and retaining of employees
- and much more
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