Just like a great athletic team, having a great team around you is critical for your success. The importance of your internal team needs to be a high priority for you as a leader and your organization. It is important to attract and gather your team, and it is important to maintain and grow it. Here [...]
To start - for you small business owners or entrepreneurs just starting out, you’re probably looking at this article and thinking to yourself, “yeah, sure, I’ll get an attorney when I need one.” Guess what? If you’re doing anything right, and you’re doing something successful, you’re going to need one - probably sooner than you think. [...]
Our team at OnlineAdvisor.com has done a lot of informal research the last 20 years. One of the most common questions that we’ve asked successful entrepreneurs and executives is this: what made your business or organization a successful one? The overwhelming answer: a personal executive team. Executive teams increase successful results. After speaking to a number [...]
It would seem really odd that you wouldn't trust your own advisors. When you consider that you get to pick them out and decide if you want to work with them, the idea of not being able to trust them doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. However, the lack of trust in your [...]
The first step of building your own executive team is to determining team roles you will have on your team. This may seem like the most difficult part of the process, but it’s not too hard. Think about who you are, what you are working on, and what you want to be doing in the future. [...]
The last step is to make the candidate selection for your team. Carefully evaluate your notes. Call references and referrals. Feel free to send additional questions or concerns to your prospective executive team members after you complete your appointments. And if you need to do some follow-up appointments with a candidate, make it a priority to [...]
A key step of building your executive team requires job descriptions. You need to determine the skills, experience and personalities for your team. Make it Personal Your job descriptions can be as specific as a particular person, or as broad as a general summary. For me, it was a blend of both - there were specific people [...]
The next step for building your own executive team is to start the interview process. Interviewing prospective team members is an important process. Contact them and see if they are willing to meet with you. In the vast majority of situations, an initial appointment is free of charge, so don’t worry about what will be charged. [...]
A key step in the process of building your own executive team is to do some research to find the people you’ve found in your search and complete a deep search on your best candidates. With the global economy and the convenience of the Internet, you can do a lot of research on your computer or [...]
You may be reading through this series of articles and thinking, “this is great for someone with a lot of money and a lot of friends, but not for me.” You think you can’t have your own executive team because you have a thin budget - or no budget at all. And that would be wrong. [...]
