Growing your biz through great employees

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Growing Your Business Through Great Employees

• Discover The Secrets Of Worlds Most Successful
  Businesses

with Travis Lane Jenkins and Dr. Sabrina
Schleicher http//theentrepreneursradioshow.com/99
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• Most common problems of a business are
  employee-related.
• Employee problems are the biggest stumbling block
  for any business owner

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Tips on hiring employees

• In hiring someone, think in terms of the ideal
  customer or the ideal client that you're serving
  and what it is that you're delivering to them.
• Think about the role that you want that employee
  to fill for you.
• Think about what personality is going to be best
  suited to excel in that role.

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Tips on hiring employees

• Don't put somebody into a role where they're
  constantly drawing on their weaknesses
• There's no amount of improvement that's going to
  be significant enough for you to be happy with
  their performance if they're operating primarily
  from their weaknesses.

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Tips on hiring employees

• Know your natural strengths that is, your wins
  and successes.
• Look at what's going well in your business and
  where things are working, and become more
  intentional and deliberate about doing more of
  what works.
• Hire people to compensate for your weaknesses in
  the business.

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Know your ideal employees

• Need to let go of employees that are not wanting
  to learn and improve
• Find youre A-players in your group. A-players
  are the type that are resourceful and motivated
• Motivated to learn and grow

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Know your ideal employees

• (more on A-players..)
• A-players have networks
• A-players tend to hang together
• Good quality people hang together in networks
• Tap on their networks

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Know your ideal employees

• Know your best employees better and understand
  why they like working for you?
• What makes them tick, how they see their job?
• What are some of the intangible benefits that
  they perceive in working for you?
• Have that employee fill a position that fits them
  most

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Tips on building a network of ideal employees

• Let your best employees know the kind of person
  that you're looking for to fill the position
• Provide an employee referral incentive program
• Start building up that pipeline of potential
  employees for your business.

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A, B, C D PLAYERS

• A and B players are usually pretty good employees
  
• They are what is called superstars of the
  company
• They are highly productive folks.
• They become quickly annoyed and frustrated with
  people who underperform and who do just enough to
  get by
• A-players can do the work of 9-12 of C or D-
  players.

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A, B, C D PLAYERS

• C and D players see those A players as a threat
  to the status quo.
• So if you have a business full of C and D
  players, and you bring in an A player you can bet
  your C and D players are going to complain about
  that because that A player is rocking the boat.
• But that's a good thing.

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How to clean house

• Start with the folks who are the naysayers, the
  whiners, the complainers.
• They do need to go because they are very damaging
  to the morale of a company.
• Have your company core values, what are the
  things that employees have violated?
• Replace them with people who are a better fit,
  and better performers overall.

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Setting up a compensation program

• Not everybody gets a trophy
• Rock star employee gets more attention and more
  intangible perks
• There is value in playing favorites with your
  employees
• It encourages other employees to step up.

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What really matters

• One of the things that you got to start paying
  attention to is the question of, What do really
  matters to your best clients?
• That's for you and anybody who works for you
• Do your absolute best. But there's so much that
  doesn't matter and you've got to be able to let
  that stuff go. 

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