Grab the duct tape and mentally prepare yourself or yet another mind-expanding knowledge bomb from America's number one business coach Clay Clark.

Oh yes, Thrive Nation today. We are going to be bragging on the Thrive team. Many of you who've just discovered the Thrive time show on iTunes.

Hello and welcome the difference between myself and a lot of other podcasters is that I actually own a own and partner with real companies that you can can visit.

Real businesses you can see they're tangible.

And so on today's show we have Luke Owens a guy that I partner with with his gym the hub gym and a beautiful downtown broken arrow.

And Luke I want to get your take on this as we're talking about the the A team and the four E's.

You and I reconnected about two years ago you attended one of our Thrive time show workshops and when you came into the workshop can you describe the kind of people that work for the Thrive time show and the kind of personalities that you met.

The people apart for myself I mean everybody outside of of me because I'm probably the least intelligent and least kind member of the team but can you explain what it was like at the conference and the people you interacted with who actually work as full time employees for myself.

Yeah so immediately it's just high energy you definitely get that feel and they're just genuine people you know that they say that you you're known by the people you hang around with and I'll have to say that.

And I said this to you in Z before I left the conference I said I don't know what it takes but I have to start doing life with you people.

And so yeah I mean it had that much of an impact to me I just knew that that if I wanted to have life and and and be affected and you know by you guys I just had to do life with you however however that was going to happen so here are the four ways the four steps you have to take to build an all star team to build an A team these are the four steps you have to take step one.

And she'll put this on the show notes you must do a group interview every single week every single week you have to interview all of the candidates at one time and do it at the same time every single week we do it every Wednesday at five I don't care if you're applying to be a coder a graphic designer a photographer we're going to interview you Wednesday at five and look how has the group interview changed the way that you now can run your business the hub gym and broken air well I can tell you this I don't remember the last time.

Remember the last time I sold a membership right nice before what would happen you know with the with the employees they would decide not to show up and then who's back behind the desk.

So you got to do the group interview every week every week step to if you find a candidate you like have them shadow you just have them shadow you don't just be with you don't commit to hiring them just have them spend two to three hours in your office have them shadow you have them come to work.

So you can see whether they are in fact a good fit alright step three when you have good people you must embrace the idea you must step three you must commit that management is mentorship you absolutely must mentor your people every single week chop every single week we do at the thrive time show and at the elephant in the room and all the businesses make your life epic we have a group and all staff meeting a team meeting.

Where we mentor up the employees we teach them how life works we teach them time management we teach them every week it's ongoing training we're teaching them photography skills.

Videoography skills coding skills we hire character and we train skill chop wise that's so important for people to feel happy with their happy about their jobs to have a culture of ongoing mentorship.

It's not a hard concept when you pour yourself into people people people will pour themselves into your business and so when you show them that you do care and you want them to have a life.

Clay there was about a year ago maybe maybe six months ago we took I don't remember how many weeks but the art of getting things done you wrote a book the art of getting things done and we went week after week over every single move in that because there's a lot of young people that work with us.

Right and they don't know these life skills they don't know how to optimize their life like you said time management and all that stuff and so it's powerful whenever you're teaching them how to do entrepreneurial skills business skills but also literally teaching them how to live their life in the best way.

So step one you must do an interview every single week a group interview chop when I make sure put that we must do a group interview every single week do not do individual interviews.

Look you used to do individual interviews and what happens to your business when you take 10 hours out of your week to interview 10 individual candidates.

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