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10 Tips for Running a Great Meeting With Your Self-Storage Staff

Company meetings are often perceived as boring, ineffectual and even a waste of time. To conduct a meeting that boosts your credibility and helps you achieve your self-storage company’s goals, keep these top 10 meeting tips in mind. ...More
October 22, 2012
Posted in Articles, Management
Fighting the 'Cancer' of Poor Management Philosophy in Self-Storage

Facility managers are the lifeblood of the self-storage businesses. But this industry has a cancer of poor management practices and philosophy. Here are a few practical elements owners can plug into their operation to make it healthy and propel their business up the ...More
September 6, 2012 By Benjamin Burkhart
Posted in Articles, Management
Re-Energizing Your Self-Storage Staff: Methods of Coaching and Motivation

Finding that perfect team member to operate a self-storage facility is only the beginning of what owners hope will be a long and profitable relationship. Continued encouragement and guidance from management is also necessary to ensure managers stay motivated and engaged on ...More
September 4, 2012 By Linnea Appleby
Posted in Articles, Management
7 Tips for Hiring a Great Self-Storage Manager

Self-storage managers must have a number of skills including sales, customer service, technology and more. Finding the right candidate who embodies all of them can be difficult. Here are seven things facility owners should consider when hiring their next self-storage ...More
August 13, 2012
Posted in Articles, Management
Evaluating Self-Storage Employees: Strategies for a Positive, Productive Process and Better Business

Self-storage owners who aren’t conducting some sort of employee-performance appraisal at least once per quarter are doing a large disservice to their employees and their business. Here's an overview of the employee-evaluation process, pointers for your role as supervisor, ...More
June 16, 2012
Posted in Articles, Management
Former Self-Storage Manager Charged With Embezzling $34K from Virginia Facility

The former self-storage manager of Abingdon Mini Warehouses Inc. in Abingdon, Va., has been arrested for felony embezzlement on allegations that she took $34,000 from the business over a three-year period. ...More
May 18, 2012
Posted in News, Legal Issues, Management
One Solution for Solving Self-Storage Staffing Needs

Self-storage operators do their best to predict how each quarter is going to be, but it doesn’t always go as planned. One of the hardest things to predict is how many people they'll need for any given season to run the business. Here's one way to solve this problem. ...More
April 25, 2012
Posted in Blog, Management
Keeping Things Copacetic in an Intergenerational Office

Today’s self-storage environments are staffed by intergenerational employees including Baby Boomers alongside Millennials. The age difference and work style can often create challenges between the groups. Here are some common differences and solutions. ...More
April 9, 2012
Posted in Articles, Management
Florida Self Storage Association Presents Free Webinar on Employment Law

The Florida Self Storage Association (FSSA) will present a webinar discussing human-resources issues in self-storage at 2 p.m. EDT on April 10. The event is free for association members. ...More
March 14, 2012
Posted in News, Legal Issues
Are Managers Underpaid? Everyone's Got an Opinion on Self-Storage Talk

It's no surprise that Self-Storage Talk, the industry’s largest online community, is hosting a popular and heated discussion on the thread "Wages and Salaries Part II." The thread's Part I was so popular it exceeded 100 posts. ...More
February 6, 2012 By John Carlisle
Posted in Blog, Management

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