Welcome to the 10-minute Entrepreneur Podcast, intended to equip and encourage business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs,

taught by active business owner, best-selling author, and teacher, Sean Castrina.

All right, Sean Castrina with the 10-minute Entrepreneur podcast.

Buckle up because we jump right into this.

We only have 10 minutes and I want to give you the most valuable information for those who are looking to start, grow, and or fix an existing company.

What we're going to talk about today is how to reward employees because everybody

says, well, just pay them more and that's never enough. I know that's going to surprise you,

but I say that, you know, one of my superpowers is the ability to identify, recruit, and retain

talent. I have the most amazing staff and they're so crazy talented and I know

they get job offers every month. Now I just know it because I know talented people,

they just do. Talented people don't ever have to put their resumes out. People come to them.

If you ever want to know if you're really good, you don't have to put your resume out.

You just have offers or emails waiting for you.

And I recognize that I know my staff does.

And because they do and they're talented, I just want to share with you things that I have

done over the years and continue to do and will continue to do.

First thing is, and we're going to talk about money because money has a little bit of a play in it,

but it's not everything. It's not even, it makes up about 20% of what it takes.

Okay, first thing is a big financial bonus. This is a one-timer.

Okay, you want to reward an employee. You put them on a big project.

They hit it out of the park.

You made profitable revenue on it.

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