Why Building Your Team Can Make or Break Your Business

Peter Bubel
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

When building a team for your business, it’s extremely important that you take the time necessary to find not just people to fill the job openings, but the right person to step into each position. Although you might be a fresh, young business and you want to fill your employee roster quickly so that you can kick operations into full swing, you absolutely cannot discount the importance of taking the necessary time to find the right workers for the position.

Think of it in terms of baseball: if you set out to build the best team that you could, would you find the first nine men you come across and recruit them? Would you hand them positions at random without first determining which roles will best allow them to capitalize upon their strengths? When you build a team, you want to find talented individuals who are best suited to manage the task at hand.

The team of workers you choose can either make or break you as a business. If you have dedicated employees who are focused on doing the best job they can on a daily basis, you’re going to find that you accomplish a lot more and even exceed expectations over hiring people who are only concerned with putting in the minimal effort every day that will still allow them to make a paycheck.

Avoid people who like to assign blame and point fingers when problems arise. People who are too focused on finding who did what wrong will not be the ones working to create a solution. Instead, look for those who will own their mistakes and try to make processes better as a result of them.


Originally published at https://www.linkedin.com on July 21, 2017.

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Peter Bubel is the owner of PANA Rentals. Passionate about affordable housing, education, entrepreneurship, & his Pennsylvania community. http://peterbubel.com

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