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Applying The Football Season Strategy to Get A-Players on Your Team with Danny Kerr

πŸ“… October 28, 2020 ⏱️ 1:06:33 🎀 Danny Kerr, Tommy Mello

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  • 0:00
    Meet Danny Kerr of Breakthrough Academy
  • 3:13
    Wanting your own destiny
  • 6:27
    The recruiting mentality that wins
  • 9:40
    The three-applicant hiring reality
  • 12:53
    Why half your team won't make it next year
  • 16:05
    Drilling every aspect of the operation
  • 19:17
    Track every technician's standing
  • 22:30
    Where the rubber hits the road
  • 28:56
    Building the workplace new hires walk into
  • 32:09
    The football-season A-player strategy
  • 38:33
    Why your techs should recruit for you
  • 41:48
    Be brutally honest about your strengths
  • 57:48
    Betting on the future (Tesla, Moore's law)

Speakers

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Danny Kerr
Co-Founder, Breakthrough Academy
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Tommy Mello
Host; Founder & CEO, A1 Garage Door Service

Key Takeaways

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Recruit A-players like a football team drafts talent β€” build a system that constantly scouts, tries out, and signs the best, not one that scrambles when someone quits.

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Half the people who made it onto your team this year won't make it next year β€” that's normal, so your recruiting engine must always run.

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Track every technician's standing with a number by their name; visibility of the ranking drives performance.

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Your best techs should recruit for you β€” when they understand a new A-player makes their own job easier, they bring people in.

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Printing and stacking resumes is useless β€” the win is an active, ongoing recruiting process, not a reactive one.

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Be brutally honest about what you're good at and what you're not; self-awareness is the foundation of building the right team.

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A great workplace is engineered on purpose β€” you're building the environment next month's new hires will walk into.

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