--- title: Small Business Coaching, Resources & Tools | EMyth Blog | EMyth Team (4) description: We share free resources and stories from our clients, Coaches and team members about how to build a business that serves your life. Our posts will give you updates on our business insights and free educational content. (4) --- ![Smart Business Coach](https://www.emyth.com/hubfs/Smart-business-coach.png?auto=compress&fit=max) ## Request a free coaching session with a Certified EMyth Coach [![Talk to a Coach](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/411995/14924c09-8a82-42d7-90b9-55a5c68c5989.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/411995/14924c09-8a82-42d7-90b9-55a5c68c5989) [Hiring Employees](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/hiring-employees) ### [The 6 do’s and don’ts of hiring](https://www.emyth.com/inside/the-6-dos-and-donts-of-hiring) Have you ever brought on a new employee only to later find they’re a bad fit? They didn’t match the company culture, or they dragged down the productivity of everyone around them. When this happens, it’s usually a result of moving too quickly or hiring for the wrong reasons—and whatever time and resources you migh... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Entrepreneurial Mindset](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/entrepreneurial-mindset) 2 min read ### [6 blogs to fuel your entrepreneurial mindset](https://www.emyth.com/inside/top-blogs-on-the-entrepreneurial-mindset) For over 40 years, business owners everywhere have been using The EMyth Approach to create a business that works. So, what’s at the heart of it? What’s the essence of our approach that supports everything else? Simply put, it’s having an entrepreneurial mindset: seeing your business—rather than the commodity that ... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Lead Conversion](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/lead-conversion) 5 min read ### [How to generate repeat business](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-generate-repeat-business) When you started your business, you likely had a vivid and promising picture of how gratifying it would be to satisfy your customers, to serve them in a way that not only met expectations, but exceeded them. In that way, they’d hopefully become “regulars”, returning again and again, and encouraging others to do th... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Business Systems](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-systems) ### [Here’s how to set goals for 2022—and actually achieve them.](https://emyth.com/annual-plan-2022) To realize your vision, you need to plan for it. Our new workbook will help you identify, prioritize and execute your annual goals in the new year. [Get Started](https://emyth.com/annual-plan-2022) [Business Systems](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-systems) ### [Need help building your business strategy?](https://emyth.com/create-your-business-strategy-ebook) Discover how to create a strategy that brings your best possible offering to the right people. [Get Started](https://emyth.com/create-your-business-strategy-ebook) [Managing Employees](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/managing-employees) ### [Build the perfect org chart for your business](https://emyth.com/guide-to-creating-your-organizational-chart) Designing an org chart is the first step to intentionally developing the systems your business needs to run as it should consistently—and without people dependency. Here’s our Guide to Creating Your Org Chart, so you can understand how an org chart works and start creating a company structure around positions and ... [Get Started](https://emyth.com/guide-to-creating-your-organizational-chart) [Business Systems](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-systems)[Free EMyth Resources](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/free-emyth-resources)[Start Now](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/start-now) ### [Which unproductive leadership behaviors are holding you back?](https://emyth.com/the-unproductive-leadership-behaviors-assessment) These eight unproductive leadership behaviors could be causing some of your biggest business frustrations. The Unproductive Leadership Behaviors Assessment will show you which negative habits you’re prone to and how to turn them around. [Get Started](https://emyth.com/the-unproductive-leadership-behaviors-assessment) [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [You have an annual plan. Now what?](https://www.emyth.com/inside/hitting-strategic-business-objectives) The first month of 2021 is behind us, and I’ve spent a good deal of it meeting with clients to revisit the annual plan they created late last year. If you haven’t sat down to review your own goals for the new year, now’s a great time to pause and check in. And it’s not necessarily to check progress on those goals,... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Hiring Employees](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/hiring-employees) 5 min read ### [Start employees off strong with a stellar onboarding process](https://www.emyth.com/inside/employee-onboarding-process) When you’re a small business owner, you know all too well that the only constant is change. And chances are, you’ve had to make some major shifts in your company in response to the pandemic. One of the biggest areas of change universally has been adapting how we build, train and manage teams—all remotely. And that... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Business Growth](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-growth) ### [Stop Doing It All: Shift from Tactical to Strategic Thinking](https://www.emyth.com/inside/strategy-vs-tactics) One of the most transformative ideas I help business owners understand is the distinction between working on your business and working in it. But what does that really mean? Put simply, it’s the difference between strategic and tactical work. ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Client Stories](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/client-stories) ### [How Joe built the team his company needed to grow](https://www.emyth.com/inside/client-story-dibbits-excavating-and-landscape-supply) Joe Dibbits grew up watching his steadfast father carry every role and responsibility in the excavating business he’d started with a leap of faith. “My father started with a used machine that broke down so many times,” Joe says. “He knew he either needed to buy a new machine and continue on with the business or ju... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership)[Client Stories](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/client-stories) ### [How Maren and Christopher built a partnership and a business that supports the life they want](https://www.emyth.com/inside/client-success-story-boothby-therapy-services) It was a warm Friday afternoon at the end of June when we spoke to Maren and Christopher of Boothby Therapy Services, their child therapy services company in New Hampshire that uses their surname. They’d prepared us for the fact that they might be a little late to our call. They needed time to dock their boat—chee... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Client Stories](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/client-stories) ### [How Scott and MJ turned a hobby into a successful company](https://www.emyth.com/inside/client-story-xtreme-event-group) EMyth Clients Scott Present and MJ Navara never expected to have their own events company. For years, party production was side work, a fun hobby that made them some extra money. But after college, both gravitated away from the corporate careers they’d prepared for and back to something they were passionate about—... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Client Stories](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/client-stories) ### [How Jason modernized his family business](https://www.emyth.com/inside/client-story-village-beach-market) EMyth Client Jason Keen didn’t always feel like a leader. But when his father and owner of their family business, Village Beach Market, passed away from a rare form of cancer, Jason had to step into the role of leader quickly and start planning for the business' future. Making the transition from Technician to Ent... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Business Systems](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-systems)[Free EMyth Resources](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/free-emyth-resources)[Start Now](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/start-now) ### [Navigate your business through the hardest times](https://emyth.com/the-emyth-guide-to-crisis-management) The EMyth Guide to Crisis Management gives you a five-step process to build a system for navigating short-term change with a future vision. [Get Started](https://emyth.com/the-emyth-guide-to-crisis-management) [Managing Employees](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/managing-employees)[Free EMyth Resources](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/free-emyth-resources) ### [Ask the right interview questions](https://emyth.com/the-interview-checklist) How do you run an interview that makes sure you find the employee your company needs? We can show you. [Get Started](https://emyth.com/the-interview-checklist) [Managing Employees](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/managing-employees) ### [How to go remote in a hurry: Lessons from an all-remote team](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-build-a-robust-remote-work-team) When EMyth went fully remote last year, we had the benefit of time to support our transition—time to research, develop and implement an action plan so that we could be as successful a remote team as we were an on-site team. In this current moment of the coronavirus crisis, when remote working has become at least r... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team