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Applying The Football Season Strategy to Get A-Players on Your Team with Danny Kerr

📅 October 28, 2020 ⏱️ 1:06:33 🎤 Danny Kerr, Tommy Mello

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  • 0:00
    Meet Danny Kerr of Breakthrough Academy
  • 3:13
    Wanting your own destiny
  • 6:27
    The recruiting mentality that wins
  • 9:40
    The three-applicant hiring reality
  • 12:53
    Why half your team won't make it next year
  • 16:05
    Drilling every aspect of the operation
  • 19:17
    Track every technician's standing
  • 22:30
    Where the rubber hits the road
  • 28:56
    Building the workplace new hires walk into
  • 32:09
    The football-season A-player strategy
  • 38:33
    Why your techs should recruit for you
  • 41:48
    Be brutally honest about your strengths
  • 57:48
    Betting on the future (Tesla, Moore's law)

Speakers

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Danny Kerr
Co-Founder, Breakthrough Academy
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Tommy Mello
Host; Founder & CEO, A1 Garage Door Service

Key Takeaways

Recruit A-players like a football team drafts talent — build a system that constantly scouts, tries out, and signs the best, not one that scrambles when someone quits.

Half the people who made it onto your team this year won't make it next year — that's normal, so your recruiting engine must always run.

Track every technician's standing with a number by their name; visibility of the ranking drives performance.

Your best techs should recruit for you — when they understand a new A-player makes their own job easier, they bring people in.

Printing and stacking resumes is useless — the win is an active, ongoing recruiting process, not a reactive one.

Be brutally honest about what you're good at and what you're not; self-awareness is the foundation of building the right team.

A great workplace is engineered on purpose — you're building the environment next month's new hires will walk into.

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