What If I Don’t Have Time to Train Someone To Help My Interior Design Business
Updated September 2023
You don't have time to train someone to help you manage the day-to-day in your interior design firm, yet you know you need help. But at this point, you don’t have time to put together a job description, post the job opportunity, schedule interviews, check references, or prepare a comprehensive offer.
If you’ve felt this way, you know this way of working isn't sustainable. And it’s definitely not getting you any closer to the work-life balance you dreamed of when you started your business.
But how can you bring someone into your business?
YOU HAVE ZERO TIME TO TRAIN SOMEONE
Does that sound familiar? Do you wish you could bring someone on but the thought of interviewing, hiring, onboarding, training, and then managing is just too much to even think about?
I’m sharing two stories about clients who felt this way and how we worked together to alleviate this struggle. This is also why I created the Designed to Scale® Hiring Blueprint so designers can have all the tools, templates, and resources needed to hire with confidence.
CLIENT A:
Business was BLOWING UP.
She had reduced her work hours by 50% and wanted to keep it that way.
She was resistant to bringing someone on even though I had been suggesting a full time employee for a very long time.
FINALLY--she said yes.
So then:
I created the job description.
I posted the job opportunity online.
I interviewed candidates.
I made recommendations to my client so she could move to second round (or I did second round video interviews).
I made the job offer once my client made her decision.
I onboarded the new person and trained them.
I managed all the questions during the training period.
My client was amazed by how well the new hire was able to just "jump right in". She told me "She just speaks the company brand and knows exactly how I like things done."
***WIN WIN WIN***
I was able to manage this whole process for her because I was familiar with her business, her preferences, and the exact type of help she needed. My client spent about an hour on the whole process and now has a fully functional person on her team who has taken tons of work off her plate, and has given her a major sense of comfort and confidence in her ability to take on more clients.
By hiring the right person, she can now take on better projects. In this specific case, the new employee has already provided a 4x return on investment (and that’s just looking at the tangibles). Be sure to check out the Designed to Scale® Hiring Blueprint for all the tools, templates, and resources we used with our 1:1 clients so you can hire with confidence.
CLIENT B:
Nervous to hire someone
Nervous to manage someone
Nervous to train someone because she wasn't totally sure how to use her system herself
Didn't have time to do any of the above
So I stepped in:
I created the job description.
I posted the job opportunity.
I interviewed candidates.
I made the job offer once my client approved.
Handled the onboarding and training.
A few months in, my client received an email from their new hire...let’s call her Megan.
My client forwarded the email to me and said "Who's Megan?"
I know this sounds odd, but in reality, it was a HUGE WIN!
The entire process was so streamlined and effortless that my client had forgotten about the stress she thought hiring would bring. Instead, she had a fully trained team member handling work she never had time for.
HOW TO PREP FOR A HIRE—WITHOUT WASTING TIME TRAINING
If you’re putting off hiring because you don’t have time to train someone, here’s the thing: the right hire shouldn’t require endless hand-holding.
The key is preparation. Instead of scrambling when you finally need help, take small steps now to set your future team member up for success.
Inside the Designed to Scale® Hiring Blueprint, I give you the exact tools to do this:
The steps to prepare your business for hiring
The job descriptions and interview questions
How to determine what tasks to offload first (so you don’t over-hire or under-hire)
The templates & processes that make training almost effortless
By following the framework inside the Hiring Blueprint, you’ll have everything in place before you even bring someone on—so when the time comes, your hire can jump in and start adding value immediately.
WHAT WOULD IT MEAN FOR YOU TO HAVE MORE TIME?
Hiring isn’t just about delegating tasks—it’s about freeing you up to focus on what actually moves your business forward.
If you could free up 2-3 extra hours every week, what would you do?
Take on better, higher-paying projects?
Finally have time to work on your business instead of being stuck in it?
Spend more time with your family, without worrying about what’s slipping through the cracks?
→ Get the Hiring Blueprint Now and take the first step toward a business that runs with you, not just because of you.
Talk soon!
