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Senior Partner at The Mullings Group

Championship teams have championship teammates. I am an old coach and love hearing sentences like this. Tony Vitello is the head coach of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville baseball team. They won the college world series last night in dramatic fashion. Their team has been #1 a good portion of the year and he is an extraordinary coach. Take a peek at your team. Whether you are winning or losing much of the reason is because of your teammates. When we hire here at The Mullings Group, we look for individuals that thrive at being on a team. People that love to practice and play - together. You can see it when people celebrate for someone else or support them when things do not go their way. It perpetuates our high retention rate and encourages others to want to join. What questions can you ask during an interview to determine if someone is a championship teammate? Ask for specific examples of times they were on teams personally or professionally. What was memorable about that experience? What role did each person play? See how much they speak about themselves vs the team. What did the team do well? Where were there areas for improvement? What were the teams' successes? How? What were the teams' disappointments/obstacles? Why? How did the team make decisions? What did you feel when you joined that team? What did you feel when you left that team? Wondering what impact this person had on the team during their time. All of this coming from a #Gator fan. Congratulations #RockyTop. #teamfirstsecondandlast #medtech #baseball Here is the clip:

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Rob Bahna

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Matt Kaufman, very valuable - thank you. Baseball is one of the sports that requires a strong team for true accomplishment but has traditionally had a major focus on individual statistics. A balancing act like business leadership. Championship teammates are led by championship coaches. Those who focus on people. Those who recognize and reward individual performance yet create a vision and get buy-in for what it takes to win team championships consistently. Coaches today may be frustrated by the transfer portal, but business leaders of champion caliber players/teams (sans non-competes) have been dealing with the same challenges forever. Great Leaders hire, inspire, train, empower, retain and promote world class teammates.

Jeff Shepherd

Chief Commercial Officer at Nanovis

4mo

There is nothing better than being part of a winning TEAM! Great teams are filled with great teammates. Grateful for this at Nanovis! Together - Everyone - Achieves - More

Great questions to probe on team play!

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