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One thing I love to talk about all the time is building my team. It’s something I learned about years ago when I lived in New York City. It seemed like all the people I admired and reached out to for various reasons—jobs, reviews, advice, etc.—always had a “team.”
“Someone on my team will get back to you…”
“My team and I will take a look and let you know our thoughts…”
“The team is a little overextended right now, but please sit tight…”
How did everyone have a team, and where did they get them?
I learned a few things from all this team talk I absorbed during that time:
Some people who referred to their team didn’t have much of a “team” at all, and that in fact, it was really a rag tag skeleton crew running the operation, but “team” sure sounds a hell of a lot more professional than “rag tag skeleton crew,” doesn’t it? One sounds like a group of people, ready to kick ass. The other sounds like a handful of loners, desperately trying not to sail their ship into the rocks.
Teams are actually really a neat concept that looks something like this:
We all have teams in our lives, whether we know it or not. Sometimes those team mates are family members, friends, and co-workers. Sometimes our teams include people outside of our immediate group, that we’re not even really thinking about.
This might include the representative who handles your banking needs, the lady at Staples who has, in a sense, become your friend since you see her all the time, your Amazon delivery person, a neighbor who always comes to your shows, your friend’s lawyer who answered a legal question for you once, your accountant, your babysitter, your state representatives, your doctor, someone you occasionally hire to design your posters… and of course, you have me.
When you look at this group from a teams perspective, all of a sudden, you have a financial advisor, a print department, a shipping department, community support, a legal team, an accountant, a nanny, political associates, a medical team, a graphic designer… and a comedy coach.
In regards to your comedy coach at $70 / year, you’re getting a major bargain, by the way…
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