Hiring, Onboarding & Managing Your First Team
Hire your first employees without learning it the expensive way.
About this course
Going from solo operator to employer is one of the highest-leverage and highest-risk moves a small business makes, and most owners learn it by expensive trial and error. This course teaches the whole employee lifecycle: defining a role and its scorecard, writing a job description that attracts the right applicants, sourcing and screening, running structured behavioral interviews that predict performance, making a compliant offer and completing I-9, W-4, and E-Verify paperwork, onboarding with a 30-60-90 day plan, setting SMART KPIs, running effective one-on-ones, coaching with the GROW and SBI models, and managing underperformance through to a clean, lawful exit. Every step is tied to real tools, real costs, and the documents and conversations you will actually use.
Curriculum
Module 1: Defining the Role and Attracting Candidates
- From Overwhelmed to a Defined RolePreview
- The Role Scorecard: Defining Success Before You Hire🔒
- Writing a Job Description That Attracts the Right People🔒
Module 2: Screening, Interviewing, and Selecting
- Sourcing and Screening: From Many Applicants to a Short List🔒
- Structured Behavioral Interviewing with STAR🔒
- Scoring, Checking, and Avoiding Legal Traps🔒
Module 3: Offer, Onboarding, and the First 90 Days
- Making the Offer and Getting the Paperwork Right🔒
- The 30-60-90 Day Onboarding Plan🔒
- Setting KPIs and Clear Expectations🔒
Module 4: Managing, Coaching, and Performance
- Running Effective One-on-Ones and Feedback🔒
- Coaching for Growth and Delegating Well🔒
- Handling Underperformance and Parting Ways🔒