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Sketchy Ideas Episode 36: Upgrading Your Team

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1:36 Intro

  • Intro/Opening remarks
  • The topic is: Upgrading Your Team

    • 2:30 Sponsors

    • SPEARity (SPEARity.com)
    • Cream City Marketing (creamcitymarketing.com)

      • 4:15 Diving in

      • Upgrading your team → Talent development
      • How we got here:
        • How to grow your business through things like process, delegating, leadership, responsibility vs. accountability
        • Don’t send your employees to class
          • Traning is only the answer when one of these things is true
            • Can’t
              • Skills issue
              • Won’t
                • Motivation issue
                • Don’t know how
                  • Training and development
                  • “Training isn’t always the answer” -M

                    • 7:08 Ways to develop your people

                    • **Things we won’t be talking about**
                      • Classroom training
                      • On the job training
                      • Structured/Fixed
                      • One time/checkbox
                      • Just like a VHS tape, training wears out and becomes outdated
                      • Buddy System
                      • Simulators (Will touch on this in a future episode)
                      • Throwing in the deep end
                      • Different ways to mentor/teach (Will touch on this in a future episode)
                      • Training shouldn’t be a beginning and end process
                        • More of a mindset thing
                        • Iterations of process will need iterations of training
                        • “You want to develop your internal people consistently” -B

                          • 12:25 Michael’s additions to the list

                          • Learnability
                          • Learning agility
                          • “We sketch about the sketchy ideas that we’re going to sketch about on the Sketchy Ideas show” -B
                          • Hire for less and reinvest
                          • “Less of a ‘go do this’ thing, but more of a ‘see if they work for you’ thing” -M

                            • 15:48 Talent Mindset

                            • You need to think about the talent of your team more than just the people on your team
                            • Old school mindset
                              • Training those who you think will be there the longest
                              • That thinking is flawed!
                              • You are no more loyal to your employees than they are to you
                              • If your company is known for exporting good talent, what do you attract? TALENT
                              • Top talent wants to be taken care of and get better
                              • “Calculating how much money you’re spending in training is missing the point” -M

                                • 18:25 The Buddy System

                                • When you hire, you hire in two
                                  • Doesn’t have to be the same position
                                  • Part-time split or contract work
                                  • When the training starts, they start to ask each other questions and become self-reliant on each other
                                  • You can then challenge them by throwing them in the deep end together
                                  • People in classrooms are more likely to ask classmates for help instead of asking a teacher - same concept here
                                  • Starting together creates a learning bond
                                  • Accelerates the ability to learn and become part of process
                                  • One of the top engaging things in the workplace is having a friend at work
                                    • Helps people stay longer too
                                    • If you can’t hire two people, a temp job may be a better route


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