Posts Tagged ‘Hiring’

Finding Those Who Have IT

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

It is good to be back in the office today after a huge week in Sun­river. Some of you might know that we just fin­ished The Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence, which is the real crown jewel event for our com­pany.  It con­sists of four days of busi­ness and life coach­ing with over 225 atten­dees, and it‘s a ton of fun for our team!

Dur­ing the Expe­ri­ence, there are main-stage lessons and small break­out ses­sions on top­ics rang­ing from life plan­ning to excep­tional cus­tomer ser­vice to best prac­tices for strate­gic think­ing. With this wide range of top­ics, there was one ques­tion I was asked more than any other dur­ing the week, and it is the basis for this post.

“How have you assem­bled such an amaz­ing team of car­ing and incred­i­bly tal­ented people?”

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They Must Leave Better Than They Arrived

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

This has been a mis­sion of ours at Build­ing Cham­pi­ons since the incep­tion of the com­pany back in 1996. Recently, I have been giv­ing this much thought as we are in the process of adding a new mem­ber to our team.

I believe that most lead­ers have a desire to see that the expe­ri­ence they help to cre­ate in their orga­ni­za­tions causes peo­ple to grow. They want their team mem­bers to be bet­ter equipped and more skilled as a result of their time in the orga­ni­za­tion, which will lead them to make a greater dif­fer­ence in their future ventures.

What I am unsure of is how many of us actu­ally do this well.

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