When fishing for high-quality team members, your organization needs to be your lure. Build a great organization, and you will be able to fish the future leader pool with confidence that your organization can attract the best. In his best book, The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley argues that the wealthiest Americans spend the least amount of time collecting high-status objects. The same principle holds true for most businesses. Most organizations can draw good team members without fancy gadgets, the latest desktop computers, polished words, or smoke and mirrors. They just need to be people oriented.

“If you have great confidence in your lure, you’ll fish with confidence.” – Thomas J. Stanley

Create a place where you team members brag to others about where they spend their day. Making sure your organization is family-friendly and allows members to design flexible schedules to meet family and childcare needs. Until health care stops being job dependent (I’ll touch base more on this in a separate post), offer the best health care, find a way to get the best group plan you can. Find other ways to reward and compensate, like flexible spending accounts or even things like group-plan pet insurance.

Create such a place where yourself and others can share ideas and collaborate.

There are many ways to be creative to make your organization a great lure to the community so that you can go fishing with confidence…and one of the greatest lures of all is to have a great group of people working together at the same goal within your organization.

How confident are you with your current lure and how do you see it helping others achieve their goals?