Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast Reverb, a conversation that

digs deeper into this month's podcast topic, all designed to help

leaders go even further faster. I'm your host Susie Gray and today we're continuing our

conversation from last week on how to build high performance teams one of my

favorite topics. I would love to encourage all of our listeners to go back and listen to that

episode before diving into today's episode because they're going to build on

each other in a way. But Andy to get us started let's give a quick recap of the four essentials to building a high performance team that we talked about last week.

Yep, real quick. Number one, select performance-oriented people and position them for maximum impact.

Select performance-oriented people.

If it's a team that's doing something, you need to hire doers, not just thinkers.

It's easier to educate a doer than to activate a thinker.

Very offensive.

We talked about that last time.

Number two, so that's number two,

so again, number one,

select performance-oriented people,

position them for maximum impact.

Number two is to clarify the what and the why. What are we doing? Why are we doing it?

What are we doing? Why are we doing it? Whether it's the division you lead or department or the entire organization

or an industry

there's an answer to the question what are we doing

why are we doing and taking the time to boil it down to something simple

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