My company has several employees whom I've spent hundreds of hours training. I've documented most of the training, and the people I have are doing well.
But I'm curious where other business owners draw the line and just say, "I'm just going to hire someone who already knows all this stuff".
At what point do you decide you need to hire someone else, rather than train existing staff?
byu/erickbigmarketing inEntrepreneur
Posted by erickbigmarketing
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Been leading and training people for years & years now I do marketing strategy, and honestly, same principles apply.
You can teach skills, but you can’t train hunger or attitude.
I’ll always invest in someone who’s curious and values-driven over someone “experienced” but entitled.
Leadership’s not about fixing people it’s about guiding the ones who *want* to grow
1. When the timeline to learn is far too long to fill the need sufficiently. (Such as when the skill requires learning pre-requisite skills that will consume their own time)
2. When there’s an opportunity to hire someone who is a good fit, that already knows the skills, and wants to learn what the team is already good at.
3. When the team needs a completely new conceptual model for doing a task.
A simple answer is to limit how much time your training takes when it interferes with other important matters. Today, you can hire a fractional trainer and pay for coaching periodically. I had to stop training because I didn’t have the patience, and the employees started to resent me.