Three Easy Steps To Building A Winning Team

Patrick Goldman
The Startup
Published in
6 min readMar 22, 2020

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How to build a team that produces and makes you look like a rockstar

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So you’ve found yourself in charge of a team with the task of making them a well oiled machine that can take on any task. Perhaps you have in front of you a team that is entirely new to each other or they could have been working with each other for an extended period of time. Whatever the case may be, it is vital you access the quality and caliber of a team you have while additionally finding out who among them are the natural leaders, or who will become the leader with a little bit of encouragement and guidance.

Building a winning team is a labor of love that, done properly, will create the greatest tool you will have in your managerial arsenal. I will detail in three steps the way to build a winning team each and every time. This can be applied to a group of people or to a single individual, but tried and true these three steps will position you to have a top notch and high performing team.

CRAWL

Much like a baby, you must crawl before you walk. In this stage there is not a lot of expectations placed upon the individual. They have the prerequisite training or experience to have a set at the table, but all you can really expect of them is to show up on time and ready to learn.

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Patrick Goldman
The Startup

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