3 Tips for start-ups (who want to employ and keep actual humans working with you)

The best piece of advice I can give to anyone being invested in or investing, is the WIN WIN. (Habit number 4) Reciprocate worth and value of your employees through acknowledgement and pay. If you are being invested in and you do not invest in your employees, what mind do you have to assume you will have a committed employee?

1. Human Capital: the skills, knowledge, and experience possessed by an individual.

You cannot ‘do it all’ think of this start up as your baby, why on earth would a new mother assume to do it all? She would eventually get to the point where she would not know the boob from the bathroom and a nap from a shower.

2. Delegate based on skills, strengths and communication. Use Gallop’s strengthsfinder, it may be slightly general, but the platform test does somewhat isolate a person’s skills and allows them to feel confident in the well suited employment roll. This is the most for your monetary way to go, a true win-win. You are paying someone for doing something they are good at. You both can set the bar. Is your employee an introvert, extrovert? Where on the axis are they creative, industrious, lazy or methodical.

The baby is in toddler stage, and you are not sure how to manage the tools you have to keep the baby healthy, learning and growing. I suggest you learn how to use the tools. Tools as in humans, we are here with specific strengths to excel for specific outcomes. You cannot use a hammer to blend a cake. The same way you cannot fluidly use an industrious methodical person to choose paint colors that bring a ‘feeling’ to a room.

3. Be an example, in real-time reality, in-person.

There is no way you can expect teamwork if you are not leading by example. Teamwork is a culture. To build a culture, you must express values and concerns, methods and concepts IN REAL TIME. The last part is imperative, which means you need to be around, so you are not micromanaging in hindsight. Micromanaging in hindsight is the antithesis of teamwork. It’s essentially being the coach and not even showing up for the game. Do not expect a team to work if you are not letting your dreams known to the humans who-are-keeping-the-energy-alive-in-your-start-up IN REAL TIME.

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