 a lot of you are asking, now that you're starting to build a team around you, how do I manage my employees? How do I lead my team? And there's a really long answer to that. There's a lot to get into leadership, but if you're just starting to build a team around you, if you're a first-time manager, or you're just starting to hire the first people, your first employees into your business, there's three things that I think can really help you build that team and make it strong for your business. The first one is that you wanna set clear expectations with the people on your team. One of the worst things we can do as business owners is just think that the new people on our team know exactly what we want them to do. So we wanna make sure we're setting really clear expectations with our team, telling them what it is we want them to do. This takes more time up front, which is one of the hard things about bringing new members of the team is we have to invest time training them and making them part of the team and understanding what the expectations of them are. But we need to make sure we do that. We need to make sure they know what's expected of them, let them know when they are meeting expectations, falling short of expectations or exceeding expectations and then setting new expectations as they get better at what they're doing, setting new expectations for them and giving them an opportunity to grow. That's the second piece of managing your team is when you bring in a new team member, you don't wanna think about just what you've got them coming in to do today, but where they might grow into future potential in your business. Thinking about that one, it lets them know that you're interested in their future in your business and growing them as an individual and employee and growing them throughout their career. And that's really important. People wanna feel like that you are invested in their future, you are invested in their success, not just your own success. The second part of this is as your business grows, you're gonna need more help. And if you're thinking about the potential future for those first employees you have coming in, these are going to be your first set of managers. These are gonna be your first set of senior leaders as your business grows if you do this right. And the third thing you wanna do, one of the ways you wanna hold onto these people so they don't leave is you wanna recognize them for the good work they do. You wanna recognize them for when they exceed expectations. We talked about that in the beginning of this. When someone exceeds expectations, you wanna recognize them for doing a great job. And there's a number of ways to do this. There could be financial incentives, bonuses. Sometimes it's just good enough to tell them, hey, you did a great job, keep it up. I really love what you did here. You really blew my expectations away. And that's what we wanna see here. Now people like to be recognized in different ways. It's important to understand the people on your team. Some people don't like to be brought up in front of a huge crowd and recognize. Some people just wanna be told, hey, you did a great job. Some people don't care about financial bonuses or tangible benefits. And there's a whole thing about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, but that's for another day. But what you wanna make sure is you're recognizing people and you wanna make sure, even if you don't do it in a big public showy way, that the rest of the team sees that someone's getting recognized for doing a great job, because they'll see when they do a great job, they get recognized as well. So if you're a brand new manager or brand new business owner who's just starting to hire your first employees, you're just building a brand new team about you. Just make sure you think about those three things. Setting clear expectations and holding people to them. Investing in a path for the people on your team's future. Thinking about what their future potential is working for your company and giving them a recognition when they've earned it. There's a lot more to this as always, but I hope this was helpful for you for bringing on those first couple of people on your team and making their first few months or years on your team successful ones for both for you and for them.