How To Find and Hire Great People for Business Growth

You’re trying to scale, but hiring keeps failing, so you’re dragged back into delivery, firefighting, and doing the work yourself.
Your “growth plan” turns into a longer to-do list, and the business starts to feel like a trap.

MentorBusiness.com by Dr. Lewis Haydon breaks down the real reason hiring isn’t working and why most founders need business coaching and business mentoring around recruitment systems, not “better luck” with candidates. This episode is a boardroom-level reality check on attracting, hiring, and leading people who can actually run the business without you being in the weeds.

Takeaways:

• The problem usually isn’t “talent” it’s how you hire, pay, and lead
• Your hiring beliefs create your hiring outcomes (you’ll find proof for whatever you believe)
• Recruitment is marketing: your job ad is the “bait” and your business is the “offer”
• Stop fishing in the wrong pond: role, location, and market matter more than wishful thinking
• Candidates are “internal customers” build an internal funnel the same way you build a sales funnel
• Your offer isn’t only salary: status, title, flexibility, commute, lifestyle, growth, brand reputation
• Hiring wrong is expensive: wasted ads, recruiter fees, training time, lost momentum, culture damage
• Retention is the real win: define what a “5-star win” looks like for the employee
• Align the win-win-win triangle: employee win, company win, customer win
• Don’t fear paying strong salaries, fear under-committing and then blaming people when it fails
• The business won’t “grow without the owner” if you disappear, leadership still matters
• Your job: build the system once, then get paid forever through repeatable hiring and accountability