How to Hire the Right Person and Find an Ideal Team Player

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once you know</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">when</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">you need to hire, the next question is</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">who</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">do you need to hire?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this micro-episode, host Jeff Mask walks through a simple, but effective, model you can use to determine whether or not a person is a good fit for your company. The bottom line? You can do all the research, all the due diligence, and still mis-hire. Then you’ve got someone who doesn’t fit your team or culture, and you have to fire them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in as Jeff takes a dive deep down into some frameworks that he’s loved over the years that are super powerful and help you know exactly who to hire for the long term.</span></p> <p><strong>Don’t Hire Too Quickly</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once upon a time, Jeff was tasked with growing a brand new team from scratch. He had to go from zero to six people in 4-6 weeks. He let the urgency get to him. “I’ve got to hire people, get things going, meet this massive revenue target, and make sure we’re being wise stewards of resources,” he told himself. He quickly looked at resumes and skill sets and figured out job descriptions and did all the right things. Or so he thought. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He realized later that he had let the urgency to hire by a certain time trump the necessity of hiring the right people for the long term. His short-term focus translated into a lot of turnover, wasted effort and time, and frustration for people. Ultimately, they ended up keeping only two of the six hires long term. He knew he could have done better. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’ve hired too quickly or don’t have a hiring process, hopefully you can learn from his mistakes. Years later, he stumbled across an awesome book by Patrick Lencioni c