“Who Wants A Winning Staff Team”?

The First 3 Steps To Creating a Money Making Team.

Impossible I hear you cry, employees are an absolute pain. “Trying to get the right staff, motivate them and make sure they do what they should be doing drains my energy and my passion”.

Okay, let me ask you this, have you ever been in a team that won something important? When I suggest something important I am talking about a State Title, or a National Title. If you don’t believe in teams, it’s because you have never been in a team where you really learnt the power of “Mateship”, “Camaraderie” and felt the power of a United Purpose. There is not one successful person in this world that didn’t have a great team of people around them.

“I never got very far until I stopped imagining I had to do everything myself.”

Frank W Woolworth
The founder of the Woolworth’s retail chain.

Leading researchers suggest “Teams and good performance are inseparable and you cannot have one without the other”. So if you want to perform as a business owner you need a great team around you and one that performs. As Sam Walton The founder of the giant Walmart retail chain in America said “The secret is we are working together”.

Step One: Understand you can’t create great wealth alone.

Step Two: Understand you need a team that knows how to perform individually and as a team.

“How do I get that sort of team?”

By using a good selection processes. Great managers and business owners know how to select great staff. But here is a crucial point great managers have great teams. You can’t obtain A Grade staff with a B Grade selection process, it just doesn’t work. Those people who hire star performers are often well trained in recruitment and selection procedures. Those people who have never learnt to recruit and select properly never hire A Grade staff and are ALWAYS the people who moan about staff the most. It is just straightforward and downright common sense, if the team around you is not building you wealth, then either your selection process is B Grade, or your selection knowledge is B Grade. Sorry, but you can see the connection, if the team isn’t right look in the mirror.

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbour’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean”.

Confucius

Step Three: Understand that if your team is not creating wealth, you need advice.

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard, and just because the applicant has been to TAFE, looks good and says the right words for one hour on one day, it does not mean they are the right person for you.

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”

Erica Jong

So here is some advice: You need to learn or adopt a selection process that works, and stop ignoring the facts. Business can be hard enough, why stumble along when you can have a winning team, and remember all the greats only really got ahead when they realised they did not have to do everything themselves.

Committed To Building Your Business With The Right Staff.

David Osborne

www.profitablepersonnel.com