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BUILDING
YOUR
TEAM E
veryone knows the success of your business is
hand them a stack of receipts, and ask “How much
directly related to the quality of your team. And
did I make?” Instead, they include these individuals in
every good team consists of players with a variety of
their monthly closeouts, quarterly budget discussions,
skills. At NiteHawk, we’re fortunate to have incredible
and annual strategic planning. They speak regularly
assemblers and welders in our production facility,
about the company’s progress, and they are constantly
skilled technicians in customer support, and tenacious
looking for ways to improve. Successful owners also
salespeople out on the road. But in business, there
meet with their insurance agents regularly to receive
is more to every team than the regular full-time
recommendations on policy improvement, reducing
employees.
premiums, and decreasing risk exposure. They have
As we work with our customers on fleet management,
relationships with bankers that understand their
new market growth, and operational efficiency, we have
business’s capital requirements. They have trusted
found a pattern among the most successful companies.
people both in and out of the industry with whom they
All the best conversations start something like this: “I
brainstorm; sometimes these are friends, sometimes
spoke to my accountant and she recommended…”
they’re colleagues, but all of them share an interest in
Owners of the most profitable companies do not meet with their finance professionals on April 14th,
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your success. It takes real relationship-building to find the best
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