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•17 April, 2025
Workforce: The Easiest Way To Put Role-Specific Training on Autopilot
Let’s talk about your fifth hire.
Not the first one—you trained them yourself. Not the second; you hovered, corrected, maybe sent a few late-night texts to check on things. But the fifth? That’s when things start to slip.
They shadow someone who shadowed someone who was mostly trained by someone who left last summer. The SOPs have changed, but no one told them. Suddenly, your once-tight crew is drying five basements five different ways.
It’s not that your people don’t care. It’s that no one’s
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Let’s talk about your fifth hire.
Not the first one—you trained them yourself. Not the second; you hovered, corrected, maybe sent a few late-night texts to check on things. But the fifth? That’s when things start to slip.
They shadow someone who shadowed someone who was mostly trained by someone who left last summer. The SOPs have changed, but no one told them. Suddenly, your once-tight crew is drying five basements five different ways.
It’s not that your people don’t care. It’s that no one’s
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