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Build a Great Team by Building a Great Company

by Coach Frank Bonnin

Building a great team starts well before you actually recruit the team. The very first step in building a great team is building a great company that attracts and inspires great people. We like to say, “You get the employees you deserve.” If you build an average company, you get average employees. And you’re likely going to have continual turnover. But if you build a company that people want to engage with, that people want to work for in a culture that inspires them, you will get great employees. 

Building a great company

For example, here at Wasatch ActionCOACH, part of our company culture is having FUN. We want people to have fun, to enjoy their job and their lives.  This supports commitment to the job because we are committed to our employees. You must take the values that are important to the business and the team and put those in the company culture. The values that are important to your customers and the success of your business are also key to building a great company.

Once you have established a great culture and are building your team, look for people with the attitude and mindset that fits your culture. Don’t necessarily focus only on the skills for the job. (Well, maybe at least the minimum skills!) You can always teach those skills to new employees. It’s much more difficult to change a person’s attitude. Lead your job advertisements with your culture. Find the people who will like being there, who will work hard because they believe in what you are doing, what your business is doing for the community. That’s how you build a great team! Build a great culture and then recruit to that culture!

Here Coach Sterling shares tips on building a great company by recruiting great employees.

To learn more about building a great company, check out our YouTube channel.

Blog by Coach Frank Bonnin

Filed Under: Business Management Consultant Tagged With: Team

Blog by Coach Sterling Broadhead

In Utah there are so many job postings and not enough people to fill them.  Our unemployment rate is so very low here and so it is difficult to figure out how to recruit employees and find that talent you need. 

One thing Brad Sugars, founder of ActionCOACH, always teaches is that you need to recruit with your company’s culture, mission, and vision when you are trying to find people, especially if you’re using postings on job sites.  A lot of people want to list only the requirements of the job, but you’ll attract a better pool of applicants if you talk about the culture, vision, and mission of your company.  That way you attract people who will fit into the culture that you currently have or that you’re trying to cultivate.  Then you run a lower risk of losing that talent.  

How to recruit employees

You spend so much time, energy, and resources training someone in the tasks of a job and if they don’t fit into your culture, then you’ll ultimately end up starting all over.  It’s a big expense so keep that in mind when you recruit.  Really leverage your culture.  Maybe you need to ask yourself, “Is my culture defined?  What kind of culture am I cultivating?”  Poll your current team and ask what’s important to them.  Ask what they believe the culture is.  By looking closely at your culture before you start recruiting, you may save yourself time, energy, and resources. 

For further insight on how to recruit employees, check out Brad’s video on recruiting employees in the current market:

Filed Under: Business Management Consultant Tagged With: Brad Sugars, Hiring, Recruitment, Team

Blog by Coach Sterling Broadhead

I have a lot of passion around Team.  Principles of team, team building, and leadership.  A lot of that comes from my military background.  Leadership and cohesive unity are so very important.  I have spent a lot of time in extensive team training.  Whether with logistics or Military Competitions, team aspects are very important in the military. 

What I really like about ActionCOACH is they take a lot of these team building principles and apply them to business.  Team and Leadership are just as important in business for success. 

Team building

One of my favorite team building concepts from ActionCOACH is the Point of Power.  You may wonder what’s the Point of Power?  We like to utilize it when we talk Team aspect and team building.  Because it’s really all about taking accountability, responsibility, and ownership if you want the power to correct problems. 

How many of you know people who constantly use blame, excuses, or they’re in denial that there’s even a problem?  These are ways that we describe being below the point of power.  And we use the acronym B.E.D. on purpose because we say these people are in bed letting opportunities pass them by in life.  If you’re constantly using excuses, you’re trying to pull yourself out of that problem, but you are powerless, right?  You aren’t able to make corrections.   

Being part of a team and to be successful, all members, especially the leader, must be above the Point of Power.  We use the acronym O.A.R. (ownership / accountability / responsibility).  You have an ability or power to correct the ship.  If there are problems and everyone on the team is above the Point of Power you are making an effort to make the corrections and be successful.   

Another important concept we utilize happens to be one of ActionCOACH’s Fourteen Points of culture.  It is something that a lot of teams and business owners overlook.  That’s FUN!  At ActionCOACH we believe for businesses to have successful teams, they must instill a culture of FUN.  This contributes to successful team building.  People need to enjoy being part of the team or doing the tasks that they responsible for.  If you can incorporate fun into your team dynamics and into your culture this will help you find success. 

Another concept is the acronym T.E.A.M.  We say that it stands for Together Everyone Achieves More.  What’s important about this is that team dynamics can really have synergy if everyone understands what their responsibility is, what their role is.  And we refer to KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) for team members.  When everyone works together, the team achieve more.  Think about that.  In your teams as a leader, have you communicated well enough the expectations, priorities, and everyone’s role? 

Brad Sugars, founder of ActionCOACH, recommends an exercise where the business owner and each team member independently writes down their 10 most important priorities to focus on.  He says that you will be amazed at how rare it is that any two lists are the same.  The business owner may think these top 10 things are the most important for the team to work on / focus on and assume everyone knows it.  Communication isn’t always the best.

I challenge all of you to do the same.  If you feel like you do not have priorities all set, do this exercise along with your team.  Compare the lists and see how close you are.  Ensuring that everyone is on the same page, focused on the same goals and priorities, will promote team building and support a successful business.           

Key Principles of TEAM

If you’re working on team building in your business, download our whitepaper sharing tips on Attracting & Building your Dream Team: 

https://wasatch.actioncoach.com/download-building-your-dream-team

Filed Under: Business Management Consultant Tagged With: Fun, Point of Power, Team

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