Your employees are the life of your business. But what happens when you must operate in a tight labor market with increasing costs? How do you attract and keep employees during a labor shortage?

Let’s look into the reasons we are having a labor shortage in the first place, then how to deal with it related to your employees and how it impacts your customers. We then look to the future to predict the long-term impact on Small Businesses.

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It’s a new year and a good time to reflect on how things went for your business in 2021. If your company is structured as a corporation or LLC, you will also want to create notes (AKA minutes) from the annual meeting requirement of your managing board.

An Executive Summary is what you need.

Join your hosts Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton as they discuss the value of the Executive Summary and how they each use it in different ways to help run their businesses.

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Small Business owners are forced to play all kinds of roles in their company. They must be leaders to attract talent and to create a vision for the business while at the same time they need to understand the importance of managing people to get things done.

Are leadership skills and quality management mutually exclusive? Let’s find out today on episode 364 of The Small Business Show!

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Small Business owners understand the importance of building a strong team of employees and a company culture that creates a great place to work. But how do you go about managing employees in different age groups?

Do you have to alter the way you interact and manage people based on their expectations, their outlook, and their values? Join your multi-generational manager hosts Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton to get their take on trying to serve the needs of all employees while serving the needs of your Small Business

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Can you create a subscription or other recurring revenue program based on your existing products or services? Join us today on The Small Business Show as we discuss why recurring revenue can help both your business and your customers.

Listen to your hosts Dave Hamilton and Shannon Jean as they discuss creative methods to add recurring revenue to your Small Business.

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Small Business owners are problem solvers. But what happens if you or your team are focused on the problems instead of solutions? Join us today as Dave Hamilton and Shannon Jean discuss the importance of solution-based thinking and action over ideas to keep your business moving towards success.

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Everything is more expensive this year. With record-setting inflation hitting all of our wallets, how can Small Business owners manage increasing supply costs while still keeping their customers happy?

We included some tips about managing inflation in episode 351 back in October, but with inflation sticking around longer than first anticipated, it’s worth revisiting and expanding on that topic. The Producer Price Index rose to 9.6% year-over-year, the largest increase in history. Let’s figure this out together on episode 360 of The Small Business Show with your hosts Dave Hamilton and Shannon Jean.

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Are you using Apple products for your Small business? Listen in this week as we talk with Jeremy Butcher, Enterprise and Education Product Marketing at Apple about how the suite of device management, support, and services in the Apple Business Essentials bundle can keep your Mac and iOS devices running strong so you can focus on your Small Business instead of your technology.

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To be a successful Small Business owner, you must embrace accountability. Not just for yourself, but for your employees, contractors, partners, and suppliers. So, what do you do when people don’t match your expectations of how hard they should be working, how fast they should be getting things done, and how high the quality of work being completed is?

Join your hosts Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton as they discuss ways to manage those expectations and how to shift our own thinking to increase the performance of others.

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Want to find flaws in the systems of your Small Business? Today we discuss the concept of requiring employees to take time off to expose problems that may be getting overlooked or worse, hidden. We also discuss the benefits to your employees that get a chance to step away from work to refresh and bring back new ideas.

Then your hosts Dave Hamilton and Shannon Jean jump into a conversation about how sick days are treated for employees that are working from home. Listen in for this and more!

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