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Dan Lok Show

#1 Secret To Motivating Your Team

Dan Lok Show

Dan Lok

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Management

4.9824 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

How do you motivate your team? How do you develop that healthy business culture? How do others lead a successful team? Listen to this episode to discover the #1 secret to motivating your team. Here’s a hint: Hire for ____, train for ____.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How do you motivate your people?

0:15.0

You don't.

0:17.0

You find motivated people.

0:20.0

You find people who are already motivated, and that's it.

0:23.6

In the beginning, you would want people, you would want to hire for attitude and train for skills.

0:29.6

When your business goes to a certain stage, then you want more skills.

0:35.6

I wouldn't bring on someone who actually doesn't have the experience.

0:39.3

I need someone with it.

0:40.3

Because I don't want, I don't have time to train that.

0:43.3

Depends on the role, but I'm in senior position.

0:46.3

I need someone who's done that.

0:47.3

Just like I'm not going to hire someone to manage my books

0:51.3

who doesn't have accounting.

0:53.3

It's the same idea, right?

0:55.3

But in the beginning, you want those,

0:57.4

when you're smaller, motivated attitude,

1:00.2

because they could get the skills, right?

1:02.4

You cannot train them on the attitude.

1:04.2

Even without tools, it is your interview process.

1:10.0

If you ask them about, like, you know, tell me about yourself and all of that

1:14.0

stuff, you don't get the, you know, you don't get the, it's the lie. Right. One thing I do, a number of

1:22.6

things I do is I need to test them. I call them do first steps. You test them ahead of time.

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