Are you hiring and retaining staff out of sheer desperation? Sound familiar? Keep reading. You’re not alone. 

The life of a small business owner in Australia ‘attempting’ to build a team currently looks like this;

The constant slug to attract new clients to your business and hand their hard-earned cash over is exhausting because the price of lettuce is the same as about 50 km worth of petrol. 

Once those precious clients are in the door, the effort to razzle dazzle them is the next obstacle the size of Mount Everest because your staff are p!ssed off about having to work a whole hour to earn enough to pay for their lettuce. 

Despite selling a kidney on the black market to pay for multiple Seek ads, the employer has a very dried-up pond from which to fish to find quality employees because…. Well, ‘housing crisis’.

So everyone’s angry, and the small business community is on the verge of collapse as employers pay their employees ten times what they pay themselves to keep them happy. 

Except nobody is happy. 

Nobody. 

Except for Coles and Woolies, and remember Qantas. Those guys have got it fully sweet!

So we settle for a subpar team culture and desperately search for ways to incentivise and convince our staff that having a job is ‘good for them’ and apologise profusely to our customers, whilst we long for easier times….

When having employment was a win, and buying lettuce was 20 cents. 

Elsa Mitchell; your Perth business coach