Patrick Comer – Get over yourself – How to hire, train, and develop a high performance team.

GET OVER YOURSELF How I hire, train, & develop a high performance team Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Why me?
Just started Jackson Square Group in Launch Pad. Just hired core team of 5 with 2 more internships opening for the summer.
Left top research firm OTX where I hired/developed team of 30 with $15M revenues
Hardest hiring – 200+ employees in 9 months at govWorks.com during the first internet bubble.

Key Skills or Capabilities
What are the key ‘things’ that make you special and that have gotten you to where you are today?

HIRING

HIRING IS LIKE DATING
You can’t bat 1.000
Trust other people’s judgment
Work is a relationship. A person’s ‘relationship’ with work won’t change.

TRAINING

MAKE YOURSELF IRRELEVENT
You cannot scale yourself
You are the limiting factor to growth
Trust your team to excel
Lead by example - you are the corporate culture

Develop

MENTORING THE TEAM
High performers are usually good at a set of skills or capabilities
To grow, often those same skills become a hindrance to success – they get in the way
Management isn’t about ‘doing’ anything well
People are harder than processes

Thanks
Patrick B. Comer
CEO, Jackson Square Group
[email_address]
AIM | Twitter | Skype – comerpatrick

Patrick Comer – Get over yourself – How to hire, train, and develop a high performance team.

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