Women Entrepreneur Week: Build A Better Team

The Texas South-West SBDC's have partnered together to bring you expert content to help your small business grow and succeed. The rise in women entrepreneurs tells us women are a force to be reckoned with. Beginning November 8th, we kick off 2 weeks of showcasing events geared toward women entrepreneurs and providing valuable resources to allow women to continue breaking glass ceilings.

Small businesses face a number of challenges related to inexperience, size, and lack of resources. However, few responsibilities stretch these businesses as thin as hiring. While it may seem simple on the surface, hiring the right employees can be overwhelming and taxing on many different levels.

Small businesses: hiring new employees is among top challenges.

• Current Landscape
• HR Strategy
• Key Position Hiring
• Culture By Design

Michelle Sledz

Business Performance Advisor @Insperity, LLC

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Corporate Communications with a minor in Business Foundation from the University of Texas at Austin, and she most recently completed certification from the Accelerated Management Program at the Yale School of Management. Michelle has a diverse background in business development and has earned various awards and recognitions over the past twenty years. Prior to joining Insperity as a Business Performance Advisor, she was most recently a Network Development Director within the commercial construction industry for eleven years. To Michelle, business is all about relationships and people. Having been raised by entrepreneurs, Michelle’s family instilled in her the fundamentals of business ownership as well as the ability to empathize with the challenges associated with it. She is passionate about bringing forward essential resources in front of business owners and guiding them to success.

Sheryl J. LaPlace, PHR

HR Consultant @Insperity

As a Human Resources Consultant with Insperity, Sheryl currently works on a team of professionals, providing HR guidance, training, and services to small and mid-sized businesses across the U.S. She has over 20 years of experience in human resources, training and development, recruiting, operations, business management, and consultative services. In former roles, Sheryl has prepared affirmative action plans, conducted internal investigations of discrimination complaints and employee relation issues, facilitated strategic planning processes, as well as provided recruitment support and HR guidance for business locations in the U.S. and Canada. Sheryl has experienced the business world as an entrepreneur, as the Operations Manager for a small partnership, and as the member of a large, multi-national corporation.