Jamie Van Cuyk is the owner and lead strategist of Growing Your Team. She is a speaker, podcast host, and an expert in hiring and small business team building and people management with small businesses. She inspires people through her work and her podcast which is a must-listen for micro-businesses.

In this episode, Jamie shares how she discovered her love for small business team building and helping small business owners with hiring and managing teams. She explains the processes she takes her client through in making sure they do need to hire and hire the absolute right candidate for their organization.

Listen in to learn the importance of looking at your employees as a return on investment rather than a liability.

“I have goals, I have things I want to achieve and being a small business and where I want to go whether it’s one year, five years from now, I want my business to be much bigger than it is now.”Jamie Van Cuyk

What You Will Learn:

Jamie explains how she learned to become a business owner by doing what she loved doing. That is when she found her love for building teams and helping small business owners become good managers. [1:04]How business owners commit their biggest mistakes when hiring by copying others and their lack of knowledge on who to hire. [3:35]Are there lessons to be borrowed from winemaking to apply in hiring? Jamie explains what the two processes have in common. [5:00]How not to look at hiring as expenses but as a return on investment. The common fears she helps her clients work through when hiring. [7:22]Jamie gives tips on how business owners can ensure that they’re inclusive of diversity. Learning to give a level playing field to all candidates without biases based on ethnicity, race, gender, or and religion. [11:35]What is the process she takes her clients to recognize if they need to hire or not? She also tells her clients what they need to look for in a candidate. Three things that must qualify a candidate! [18:44]The onboarding process. How she helps the team member be part of the organization with timed progression. [23:52]The growth she’s seeing for her business in the next 12 months. The importance of looking at the achievements and not just the finish line. [25:46]

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

Relevant Links:https://jamievc.com/https://growingyourteam.com/https://www.facebook.com/GrowingYourTeam

Episode 3: Jamie Van Cuyk Interview Transcript

Robert: My next guest on the AIDtoNAV podcast is Jamie Van Cuyk. Jamie is the owner and lead strategist of Growing Your Team. She’s a speaker, podcast host, and expert in hiring and building teams, and most importantly, people management with small business. She inspires people through her work and through her podcast, which is a must-listen for micro-businesses.

Welcome back to the AIDtoNAV podcast. Jamie Van Cuyk, how are you doing today?

Jamie: I’m doing well. How are you?

Robert: I’m doing absolutely fantastic. You have taken a focus of moving from your corporate world to helping small and micro-businesses grow their team and particularly focus on hiring and building up that team. Tell me how did that come about?

Jamie: Yeah, so it’s kind of a path that got me there. The short version is I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, but I didn’t really know what I wanted to do. So, I went into corporate saying, I’m going to learn everything I can while working from someone else so I can be better once I figure out what type of business I want to run. So, did that for years went down the management path, because I said, I can hire someone to do everything else in my business. I’m never going to hire someone to run the business, so I need to learn what it means to be a good leader. Finally, I got up the nerve to leave. Corporate started a business with my husband and software development realized I hated it about six months in and said...