 Growing a brand takes a lot of work and you wear a million hats. With so many time sensitive deadlines, it can feel overwhelming to slow down and train new team members so you can delegate some things off your plate. However, by not training your team members properly you actually miss out on optimizing their role to its fullest potential, or worse, they could be doing tasks that are counter productive to your growth goals and actually set you back. Here's 5 Tips to train new team members. 1 | Create Clear Job Responsibilities An obvious but important step. Creating clear job responsibilities will help you attract the right applicants, delegate better, and keep both of you accountable to what areas of growth you should be seeing as a result. 2 | Create a Goal Sheet for Each Position Now that you know the areas of responsibility this team member is absorbing, you want to be able to track progress. By tracking progress you can assess what strategies work for hacking growth and which do not so you can quickly abandon time sucks and double down on what works. For social media or marketing positions, key KPI's will be engagement rates on social, lead generator downloads, open and click rates on emails, and website traffic. 3 | Schedule Quarterly Goal Check ins With clear responsibilities and goals articulated you want to be also provide your team with regular check ins so they know where they stand with you and how they're performing in their role. This gives them a clearer path to run in and succeed or alternatively a feelings-free outline of why it's not working out if you must part ways. Of course the goal is that, this equips your team members to be superstars for your brand! 4 | Utilize Team SaaS Platforms There are great free resources out there today to better work with your team and meet your goals. A few key platforms we use at THR3EFOLD also helps us for remote teams.
5 | Equip Each Team Member with Proper Training Each position has best practices for success and as you are sprinting you may not have time to fully stop and train your team members. Especially when they are interns or entry level and could use more of your help getting started. For extra training support, our online brand courses are a great resource. Buy once and use forever, so you can train every new intern and team member in key areas for success for marketing, press, and sales! If you aren't sure if this is a good fit for you, schedule a call. We'd love to chat with you about your team needs to give you the best advice to maximize your potential! Even if it's not with us, our rolodex is full of great resources and we'd love to point you in the right direction!  Comments are closed.
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