My experience with hiring the wrong people
Hi, my name is Beau Crabill
leading expert for selling products online
And in this video, I wanna talk about my experience
with mistakes I've made, hiring the wrong people
issues going on with hiring friends, and everything in between
Got wisdom way beyond his years
The real deal
He's like a prodigy
So as a business-owner, what I've learned from myself
is that at the end of the day, it is always my fault
if someone does very poorly in my business
Then I always try to think about that
how can I improve as a person to
motivate to get the person to work where they want to be
In this past year, I spent so much time on growing my team
If you follow me on YouTube for the past couple of years
you know, I was doing pretty well myself
running my business, being a one-man show
And most people probably my age, or most people at any age
would probably say, okay
let me just chill back and do nothing for the rest of my life
But understanding where I wanna go and just max out the limits
When I was a cross country runner
I wanted to max out the limits as much as possible
I know I needed a team
So I couldn't do this by myself
And there's been quite a few people on my team
And even when I was doing everything by myself
I still had people in my team, like VAs, like accountants, et cetera
And every single person who's been on my team
for pretty much an entire time
and just stayed there, month after month
year after year, and just been here forever
I've found some strong correlations with them
And the first thing is people on the team
not solely motivated by money
And one way to really find this out
And sometimes, if you're hiring VAs
or hiring people that you are not with every single day
You sometimes can't tell this, but
when you give the first couple of paychecks
try to see what people are spending their money on
That could be a huge
or see how they're spending their time differently
I believe money makes you just more of who you are
And I'm a firm believer that you should really kind of overpay
or not necessarily overpay, but pay more than average
of what someone's worth, and what the value they're giving you
So the first thing is really
the mistakes that I've made is not quickly realizing
on how the money is value to my employees
Which, a lot of in my business is talking about
you know, money, selling products online
It's all just money-focused and whatnot
I mean, we're not a non-profit
even though non-profits are very profitable businesses
So that's one thing
The second thing I've learned is that when hiring desperate people
it can be either very, very good, or very, very bad
So, and this all comes down to having people
work where they should be focusing on their strengths
Maybe because I'm young, and you know, I left school
I had some friends I wanted to work for me
And so, actually, my best friend asked me for a job
It was about literally less than a year and a half ago
or more than a year ago
And it's pretty hard for me 'cause I actually
The whole thing, I've had him hired
I know that, okay, I want people focusing on their strengths
I want people focusing on their strengths
So I hired him, got him on a job
And the first three months, the entire goal for him working
'cause I had no idea what he was gonna do
I just wanna kinda help out a friend, it was
Okay, here's 1,001 different
Not actually 1,000, but here's literally 30+ tasks
that you can be doing every single day
Spend a couple of weeks doing each of 'em
and tell me which one you like best
And just every single thing that I, like had the person do
my best friend, he just couldn't fully get it done
He just had to keep asking me questions
would not fully complete it, and it was just a complete mess
And what I learned through that experience
is that it wasn't because he wasn't skilled
or necessarily didn't wanna work hard
It's that where he's been brought up in his life
He was very, kinda wanting things handed to him
And again, I blame everything on myself
because I should've realized that at the start
and never should've hired at that point
So it's my fault for choosing that position
And that kinda comes down to the last point
is that the main mistake I've made when hiring someone
or putting someone in the right or wrong position is
Kinda comes down to just
is the person expecting more out of it?
I mean, I have overpaid people
and people still think that they deserved more
So many issues with people that
you know, you pay 'em $5,000, they want $5,001
You pay 'em a dollar, they want $1.10
You give 'em 5 hours of work, they wanna do 4 hours
Or like, you give 'em 2 weeks to get it done
they want two and a half weeks to get it done
It just never ends
And with those types of people, I realize
it just comes down to, you know, where they've came from their life
If they think they deserve more, just something handed to them
then they're just gonna always act like that
So what I like doing a little bit
We don't do it as much as we should, is actually kinda
hiring a lot slower
And especially if you don't know the person that you're hiring
If you have no background on them
What I've learned within my company when hiring whoever it is
doing a psychology test
and actually trying to get to know where they wanna be
A good example for this is
I have a friend of mine that I went to Tokyo with
he's a huge Amazon seller
And he taught me this little exercise he does with all of his employees
And the whole basis here is trying to just to
get to know your employees
'Cause I don't think everything should just be business-related
And when people are like, oh, he's gotta be super stern
super business only
I don't think that actually works
At the end of the day
I love selling products on Amazon, but
for me, growing a team, it's much bigger than that
And the exercise he has 'em do
You get a piece of paper, jot down 4 squares
One square represents family
And you have them just kinda portray
what is the ideal situation?
Where do you wanna be with your family?
Then you have 'em write down, financially
What's your ideal dream financially?
And family can also relate to relationships
The third one is your job
What is the ideal thing you wanna be doing for
your job and work every single day
What's the freedom you want, the hours you want?
Where do you wanna go?
And the last one is just kind of an "other" thing
It could be relationships
it could be like, if they're passionate about veganism
passionate about exercise, whatever it is
And just have 'em write down, just open up to you on what they want
And the main basis with that
is you're kinda able to understand more on how
someone gets motivated
And that's really all I gotta share in this video
I've talked a lot about my bad experiences with hiring friends
At the end of the day, it's my fault
Putting people in the wrong situation
So getting to know what you actually need inside your company
understanding what your weaknesses are
So here's a little bonus, never do anything
or never expect someone to get something done better than you
or as good as you if you've never done it yourself
So if I wanna go hire someone
to go source products out for my Amazon business
and if I've never sourced out products for my Amazon business before
I can't expect 'em to do a good job
So do something, get on the trenches before hiring out
Unless it's like commodity stuff like accountant, taxes
Just, I mean, I don't handle any of that stuff
That's about it, thank you so much for watching this video
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