Description

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• Just like a VHS tape, training wears out and becomes outdated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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