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289: How to Lead Part-Time Staff, with Chris Deferio

Too often we create this customer service model where we care for the customer but at the expense of our staff.
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Chris Deferio: Keys to the Shop

Chris Deferio is the host of Keys to the Shop, a podcast that helps coffee service professionals to advance their careers by discovering more about barista work, management, leadership, and the operational knowledge to run a coffee shop.

Chris has decades of experience managing teams of part-time staff in a high turnover industry. In this episode, he shares the most practical tips his team has discovered for helping leaders be most effective with part-time employees.

Key Points

  • You can only go so far with positive feedback, you should also seek feedback on how you can improve.
  • If you have a failure, just learn the lesson from it and apply that knowledge in the future.
  • When hiring, focus on finding people who share your core company values.
  • A lot of people know how to give good answers for the normal interview questions, so you have to ask different, more creative questions to really get to know them.
  • Rather than view scheduling as a burden, look at it as a way to serve people.
  • Doing a great job scheduling employees is a good way to show employees that you care about them.

Resources Mentioned

  • The Leadership Challenge* by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
  • Mindset* by Carol Deck
  • It's Okay to Be the Boss* by Bruce Tulgan
  • Keys to the Shop podcast
  • How to Master Your Workflow on Keys to the Shop
  • Leadership & Management Master Class on Keys to the Shop

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