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If you are like most small business owners, you spend up to 40 percent of your working hours on tasks that don’t generate income or that could be done by someone else. Is it time to hire your first, or another, employee so that you can focus your time and energy on growing your business? Can you afford to hire someone? How much does an employee really cost?

Performance management is really about holding employees accountable for doing the job that they are being paid to do. Performance management also requires the person supervising an employee’s work to communicate expectations and give timely feedback on job performance.