A simple way to find more leaders in your business.

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We all struggle to find great trainers, supervisors and junior managers to work in our restaurants.  Grabbing them early is key to long-term engagement and teaching values that are critical to your brand.  Many owners and operators lament how hard it is to find good people and yet they regularly miss a simple and effective way to find them.  Just ask them!

It sounds simple yet all too often owners and operators see recruitment of hourly positions and salaried management positions as mutually exclusive.  A key reason is hiring only when a need occurs.  Owners will have a cook quit or a manager that gives two weeks’ notice and are now scrambling to covers shifts.  It is short-term thinking, not long term development of bench strength and focusing on who can grow with the business.

Test this simple process for your next hourly hire.  Ask the question of “Have you considered going into management?” Make it a goal to only hire the next candidate that answers yes and set a quota of hiring a certain number of future candidates that express an interest. You will find it starts a dialogue around the company’s development plans.  They may not want to be a manager right away but could be a trainer, fulfill some supervisory duties or get involved in local marketing initiatives to start.  The problem is we often just don’t ask.

Doubters will say they can’t be that choosy, smart operators will immediately see their bench strength of leaders increase.

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