Staffing

When you apply for a job today, employers won’t only review your application and resume, they’ll look at your social media pages to weigh your character and gauge whether you’re a good fit. Here are some tips for managing your accounts and posting...

Once you’ve hired and trained a reliable, competent employee for your self-storage operation, you want them to succeed and stay on board. While there’s no one-fits-all approach to make every team member happy, here are four general ways to...

Imagine this scenario: You’ve hired the perfect manager to run your self-storage facility and spent significant time and money to train this person. Everything is going great until the six-month mark when they unexpectedly hand in their...

While employee evaluations can be uncomfortable, it’s a necessary part of being a supervisor. If you’ve shied from talking to your self-storage staff about their job performance, now’s the time to create a process that’ll benefit your team and...

Is hiring for your self-storage business a task that keeps you up at night? Taking the following tactical approach could help you get some better shut-eye. Read on for pointers on recruitment, job descriptions, interviewing and making the offer.

The so-called “Great Resignation” has created new staffing challenges for many industries, including self-storage. If your operation is experiencing shortages and service gaps, here are some strategies to help you overcome these and other...

As we barrel toward the end of 2022, many self-storage operators are wrapping up projects and setting goals for the new year. One task that’s common this month is employee evaluations, and with them, a discussion about wages and bonuses. These...