The A-Player Hiring Method (For Every Studio)
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👉🏼 Got someone on your team with potential but no idea how to get them there? The A-Player Blueprint is the exact 4-step framework Ben, Ryan, and I walk through in this episode. Grab it here: Grab The A-Player Blueprint
👉🏼 Or if you’re about to hire again and want to get it right this time, skip straight to it and Book a Strategy Call with my team, and we’ll map out exactly who you need and how to find them.
If you’ve ever hired someone who just didn’t get it, you know what happens next. You end up back on the floor covering their classes, you decide good people are impossible to find, and you start hunting for someone who’s already perfect. My COO Ben and I did the same thing for years, until we realised that person doesn’t exist.
A-Players aren’t found, they’re built. Ryan managed a studio at around a million-dollar run rate for eight years with a target, no how-to and a $250 gift card as his thank you, and now he leads our Queensland team.
Today Ben, Ryan and I teach you the four things every A-Player has, how to write the job ad they actually respond to and, more importantly, how to spot someone who could be an A-Player. Then we hand you the 4-step framework that gets them there.
You'll learn:
- The job ad we wrote for one specific person (and why the best candidate wasn't even looking for a job)
- The ground-floor filter we apply before we look at a single scorecard
- The first conversation we have with a new hire, and it has nothing to do with the job
- The two good-hearted habits that quietly stop your team from growing
- Why high challenge with no support turns a good boss into the villain
- What you can do from Monday
Chapters:
00:00 Why "good people are hard to find" is the wrong problem
01:23 Eight years running a 300-member studio and going nowhere
04:28 A target, no how-to, and all of the blame
06:30 The job ad we wrote for one specific person
10:56 Step one: why we hire on values before performance
14:51 Step two: the bigger future
18:07 Hawaii, a first passport and why your team needs you to care about their life
21:13 Step three: clarity, not control
24:42 The lifeguard who rescued one swimmer and left everyone else at risk
28:42 Step four: the challenge that forges A-players
30:49 Where Ryan would be if he'd stayed
33:13 The phrase Ryan can't stand hearing (and why it works)
37:39 The Melbourne Summit: 250 studio owners and a team that carried it
39:11 What to do on Monday morning
Resources mentioned in this episode:
If you liked this episode, go and listen to 'The Job Ad That Will GUARANTEE You the Best Applicants You've Ever Seen '. It shows you how to write the ad that pulls the right person out of a job they didn't know they wanted to leave: [Listen on Spotify], [Apple Podcasts] or [Watch on YouTube].
Ryan went from eight years stuck as a manager to leading our Queensland team. That's the shift. Book a Strategy Call with my team and let's build yours.
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