Columbus Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs’ Meeting: It’s All About the People

The International Bootstrapping Association (IBA) is a membership organization of entrepreneurs who meet in facilitated peer forums to discuss business successes, failures and techniques for moving their businesses forward. IBA Members are entrepreneurs who find support and inspiration and energy in meeting with other like-minded entrepreneurs to talk about business challenges and solutions.

As much as you might like to, you can’t do all by yourself!  You have to have a good team of people helping you succeed, so at February’s peer meeting, our Members and Guests will be exploring their People challenges and successes.  Here are just a few examples of the topics our Members will be discussing:

“I need to hire my first employee but I can’t afford to have anyone who can’t or won’t perform – I feel like I’ve got one shot to get it right.  What experience do you have with hiring employees?  What techniques do you use to determine/decide whether they’re going to be good workers?”

“Our business is seasonal, and revenue and workload fluctuate dramatically from month to month.  I need to staff the business so that I can flex up and down as the business dictates.  What experience do you have creating and managing a flexible workforce?”

“I have a difficult employee and other employees have complained about his/her behavior.  I hate dealing with these petty employee relations issues and feel they should be able to work these issues out on their own.  What experience do you have dealing with employee relations problems?”

“When we first started out, my staff was gung ho and willing to do anything to make us successful.  But now it seems like everyone is just going through the motions.  What experience do you have re-igniting a fire under your team?”

“One of my employees is a family member.  His/Her performance has become lackluster and I am having a hard time addressing the problem.  What experience do you have working with or employing a family member? “

If you’re facing similar issues, and would like to find out how other bootstrapping entrepreneurs have dealt with those issues, please join us.Non-IBA Members can attend their first IBA monthly peer meeting, as our Guest, free of charge.