#42: Tim Schurrer—How to Keep Your Team Focused On Your Big Goals
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Are your employees always busy, but your business still doesn't seem to move forward? Do you feel like you're always stuck micromanaging? Without a management and execution system, this is the arena you can expect to play in. But if you want employees who are focused, productive, and happy in their jobs, then today's conversation is for you! Donald Miller and Tim Schurrer, Vice President of Talent Management and Culture at Business Made Simple, coach you through the simple but effective management and execution framework you need to empower your employees, stay out of the weeds and leave you feeling confident as a leader knowing your team is tracking toward your big goals.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to The Business Made Simple Podcast, where we help you discover what's |
| 0:05.7 | wrong with your business and show you how to fix it. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm your host, Donald Miller. |
| 0:10.8 | The problem with your company is probably the fact that not everybody knows what they're |
| 0:15.5 | supposed to be doing, and zero people will tell you they don't know what they're supposed |
| 0:21.1 | to be doing. |
| 0:22.1 | None of your employees are going to admit that what you and I need then is a system. |
| 0:27.8 | We need a system to be able to explain to people what their job is, and even decide what |
| 0:32.1 | that job is, and then we need a system of routine meetings in which they are affirmed |
| 0:37.3 | and encouraged, and roadblocks are removed. |
| 0:40.5 | It's called management and execution. |
| 0:43.5 | It's going to allow you to grow your company, and without it, I don't think you're going |
| 0:46.7 | to be able to grow it past where it is. |
| 0:48.5 | My guess today is from in-house Tim Schur. |
| 0:52.2 | Tim was the very first person I hired at this company. |
| 0:55.2 | Technically, he was a project manager, but since then, has worn a million hats. |
| 0:59.2 | Now he is our vice president of talent management and culture. |
| 1:03.4 | He is responsible for getting people in the door, the right people in the room, in the |
| 1:08.0 | right position to help the company win. |
| 1:09.9 | I call him the Billy Bean of Business, and if you know what I'm talking about, Billy |
| 1:13.6 | Bean manages the Oakland A's, and he was just a savant at getting the right people on |
| 1:19.1 | that team. |
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