lot to learn from taking a year off and working on my business. that would be equally as valuable as what i could learn in a year at school. it is time now to answer some of your business questions. michael and yanic are with us once again. the first question is about new employees. what are effective training strategies for new employees to get them into the mix of the company and make them as productive as possible in the beginning? well, for both of you, this is particularly interesting in the context of this show, because once you get somebody in, you want the train them in their tasks and in the culture of the company, so yanic, what are ingi strategies? well, we are wrapped up about the great employee and forget about them when we bring them n and it is just as important to have a first 100 days or the
not just one question. and do you believe that silicon valley is great with a tech company because of the resources or no? well, exactly like michael said. it is conditional and depends what you want to do and who the marketplace is and why you are starting the business, but as far as i know, there s been successful businesses in all states of the union here. i think that we will continue to have it that way. and what you could do then is to list down what you need and can you get it in the city or the town that you are going in. and i like michael s idea about lifestyle, what is important for you and make that list, j.j., exactly. thank you guys for all of the advice and this is incredibly helpful. if you have a question for the experts go to the website, and the address is openforum.com/your business, and there hit the ask the show link to ask a question for the panel. and again, the address is openforum.com/your business.
this company will become. we asked everyone if they d come back again and every single person told us as soon as possible. tough mudder! you heard me. what are you about. now, we are probably all not going to be bringing harvard business school cases to work or running through fire, but there are definitely things that we should all be doing to make sure we have a strong company culture. let s turn to this week s board of directors. yawnic silber is head of the business ventures and we are also joined by author of build yourself solid, michael salder. this is so much fun, and one, it is the most fun i have had, but two, because will has created a incredibly strong culture and has a group of 20-something-year-olds, and i went to business school and
spoken to each other. and you can bring them into the decision-making process. i send an e-mail to the team, what is working and what needs to improve? they feel comfortable saying, michael, you are totally messing this thing up, you are hard to work with here and whatever it is. if you don t feel like you can do that with the people you work for, it is not a good place to work. good for you, because that is something about your personality, too. okay. going to the next question, we are service providers for a canine service to find pests. and we need to increase branding and success, and what would you have to help us achieve this business goal. so to explain that in english, i believe this company uses dogs to sniff out bedbugs, and yanic, for people who don t know about the service or know that you can do this, how do they get the message across? the branding and the
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