Jen Kem, author of "Unicorn Team" and founder of Master Brand Institute, specializes in team building and leadership. In this discussion, she reveals the three essential skills—visualization, strategizing, and mobilization—and how to combine them effectively for a powerful team. Kem emphasizes the importance of identifying your own skill type and hiring accordingly. She also introduces nine key roles needed for success, providing practical insights on balancing these roles to enhance productivity and drive innovation.
Jen Kem emphasizes the importance of assembling diverse teams with the right mix of vision, strategy, and mobilization skills to enhance effectiveness.
Understanding each team member's motivational energy is crucial for fostering collaboration and overcoming challenges in the workplace.
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Empowering Business Ownership with Huntington Learning Center
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Understanding Team Dynamics through Vision, Strategy, and Mobilization
The podcast discusses a framework proposed by Jen Kem, which categorizes team members based on their dominance in vision, strategy, or mobilization skills. These core pillars—Vision (V), Strategy (S), and Mobilization (M)—are crucial for identifying individual strengths and building a balanced team. Each type is defined by their motivational drivers: visionizers focus on ideas, strategizers prioritize results, and mobilizers excel in execution and collaboration. This approach emphasizes that successful teams are composed of diverse skill sets that facilitate the development of ideas into actionable solutions.
Harnessing Energy Management for Team Effectiveness
The framework introduced encourages entrepreneurs to think beyond conventional hiring by assessing not only skills but also the energetic dynamics of team members. Jen Kem highlights the significance of understanding each person's motivational energy, which helps in assembling a team capable of tackling challenges effectively and driving projects to completion. The interview process can be enhanced by exploring how candidates respond to obstacles and their ideal conditions for work, fostering a more meaningful connection to team dynamics. By applying this energy management concept, leaders can create an environment where each member feels valued and inspired to contribute their best efforts toward shared goals.
There are three types of skills, Jen Kem says: The ability to visualize, strategize, or mobilize. Everyone has these skills in different combinations — and when you can assemble a team with the right mix of combinations, you've built something unstoppable. On this episode, Kem (author of the new book "Unicorn Team") explains how it works, how to identify which combination of types you are, and how to hire the right people.