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Sketchy Ideas Episode 37: Upgrading Your Team Part 2

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0:42 Intro

  • Intro/Opening remarks
  • The topic is: Upgrading Your Team Part 2

    • 1:50 Sponsors

    • Shoutout to a fundraiser Michael is working with: Girls On The Run
      • Team SPEARity is raising funds to help empower girls
      • Donate here: spearity.com/giveback/michael
      • SPEARity (SPEARity.com)
      • Cream City Marketing (creamcitymarketing.com)

        • 5:30 Diving into more ways to upgrade your team

        • Learning agility
          • Critical for any role that will operate with ambiguity
          • Ability to understand
            • what I don’t know
            • What I need to learn
            • How I’m going to go learn it to address the situation it’s currently under
            • Point back to a previous episode to learn about VUCA
            • “Unknown and ambiguous is kinda our thing” -M

              • 9:45 Learnability

              • Breaking down your processes and finding the competencies
              • Get your processes down to the micro-level
              • When a valuable team player leaves…
                • Break down their role and see what you can delegate to others and what you can potentially outsource
                • What are you going to miss about them?
                  • What is something you can’t just hire for?
                    • Example: Deep Communication
                    • Ability to not only understand what you’re saying but making sure you understand what you’re saying
                    • Don’t just replace the role that is leaving
                      • Look at the opportunity to upgrade your talent
                      • Upgrade your talent by splitting up your functions
                      • Don’t replace what you’re losing, upgrade with the open spot
                      • Sometimes people move on when they feel they are now “overqualified” for the role
                      • “Don’t look at what you need now, look at what you need next” -M
                      • It’s not often that you get to replace a valuable role at your company
                      • “We’re not saying the traditional approaches don’t work” -B
                      • Different generations learn and teach differently
                        • Traditional roles are going to shift
                        • New sketchy ideas are going to come in
                        • People learn in different ways
                          • Example: youtube, other people, google

                            • 18:13 Solving problems

                            • Just because you’ve learned something before, doesn’t mean you need to know the answer every time. You have a supercomputer in your pocket.
                              • “If I have to solve something, the first thing I do is grab my supercomputer” -B
                              • Search “how to do X”
                              • Your talent now has to be agile
                              • If your team doesn’t have the skills to operate in the current environment, you’re setting yourself up to struggle from the beginning
                              • How-to videos are a good thing!
                              • “We are now living in the application world of training, rather than the nuts and bolts” -B
                              • Great talent takes their knowledge with them unless you have an ongoing system in place to capture that knowledge as it’s created
                              • Make process documentation part of the company culture

                                • 24:50 Throwing people in the deep end

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