161: What it REALLY Takes to Attract A-Players to Your Team (Part 1)

If your business is growing, chances are you will be hiring either now or sometime in the very near future. In today’s episode, Dr. Sabrina shares the key to successfully hiring A-players for your business.  This content is based on Dr. Sabrina’s book, How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members, and is a companion book to her soon-to-be-released book, The 4 Week Vacation. After all, if you want to be able to have a business that can run without you, you NEED A-players on your team! In this special 2-part series on How to Hire the Best, Dr. Sabrina will be sharing what it really takes to attract A-players to your team and that requires understanding the psychology of A-players. Don’t miss part 2 in next week’s episode, where Dr. Sabrina walks you through implementing a system to attract those A-players to your team based on the psychology and behavior of A-players. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business ConsultingGroup. Show Highlights: Hiring the best team players is not a modern-day problem, but it is more challenging now. The 3 core issues surrounding hiring: Women have been forced out of the work place to stay home with children. People’s valuation of time has changed. The overall mindset. The difference between hiring challenges pre-COVID andnow. It is very costly to mishire. Costs of employee turnover can range from 100% - 300% of the replaced employee’s salary. Traditional hiring practices are out of alignment with the behavior of A-players. The State of Entrepreneurship: the health of your business in relation to your own well-being as an entrepreneur. Dr. Sabrina dives deeper into this in her upcoming book, The 4 Week Vacation! Have you taken YOUR assessment yet? Various “symptoms” you will notice when you don’t have an A-player hiring system. Dr. Sabrina shares a personal story about her passion behind teaching business owners how to attract, hire, and retain A-players. One of the best perks to having a team full of A-players? They can run your business without you! Dr. Sabrina details the psychology of A-players. NEXT WEEK: The 3 simple steps you can take using this knowledge of A-player psychology behavior to create a way to attract, hire, and retain A-players in your own business! Are you ready to become an employer of choice? Check out our 5-week How to Hire the Best course, which teaches small business owners like you how to use a recruitment and hiring system that attracts the A-players and aligns with A-player psychology. Links and Resources: Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour Join Dr. Sabrina in our Entrepreneurs Take Your Life Back! Community Mentioned in this episode:Jumpstart Your Business!You’ve built a successful business—but it’s still running you. Join us to reclaim 10 hours a week and finally step into your role as the owner—register now: https://www.tapthepotential.com/jumpstart.