You can't discuss building a business without discussing building a team. But there are some interesting questions worth exploring before plunging into a fixed system for hiring, training or firing team members.
In this episode, we dug into some questions to define the who and the how - the trade off between finding skilled people versus the skill of creating a simple process. Not least, we draw on Jason's corporate HR background, which, added to the ecommerce experience both hosts bring, gives added depth to the discussion.
You’ll learn
* Why Elon Musk can spend 80% of his time doing the job he loves the most - and run a massive business at SpaceX!* "Who vs. How" - is it as simple as - hire great people?* Who your first employee should be - it may not be what you think!* How quality standards impact your hiring and management* Why you have to know yourself first* When NOT to delegate* Classic delegation mistakes Jason and Michael have made!
Websites
* Freeeup.com - ready-trained e-commerce-ready VAs/virtual team members* Outsource School - how to find, hire, train & Manage VAs/virtual team by Nathan Hirsch and Connor Gillivan
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TEAMS INTRO
[00:00:00]Teams INtro RAW 1 Michael_V: Ladies and gentlemen, we are here to talk about teams today. So Jason, I know you have got a lot of experience in this. I didn't realize until we'd had a conversation about this recently, that you started your career in human resources and you had over eight, 10 years experience in that outside of the eCommerce space.
So I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topic. Tell me about teams.
I love this topic. Um, yeah, I did, uh, start my, my career as a compensation analyst and mostly I was writing job descriptions for a couple of years and then became what's called HR generalist where I worked with, uh, marketing department managers in a large [00:01:00] organization and help them hire fire.
Uh, team bill. Do you know, uh, problem solving in terms of org chart work and that kind of thing? Lay offs. Uh, I was a hatchet man. It was the best of times and the worst of times in many ways. And I love the topic of teams a lot. Uh, it's one of the most challenging aspects of, I think a building. One organization is how do you do your, your staffing, right?
How do you do your teams? And so I'm, I'm excited for us to jump into it. Um, little anecdote to get us started. I think maybe it would be helpful, my, uh, hero in a way, I guess lately as Elon Musk, just because of what he's creating.
