A-Player Hallmark: Pattern Recognition

My job is to help CEOs and leadership teams scale profitable companies and we're going to talk for a second about A players. And A players, those are people that they live your core values, they're highly productive, they hit KPI driven goal often. One of the things that they tend to have is a skill and I don't talk about skills often. I mostly talk about behavior, how they treat others.

Those are usually what, you know, start you on the path of becoming an A player. But one skill that they have developed or have inherently is pattern recognition. And what I mean by pattern recognition is they can see patterns of inefficient or suboptimal work, meaning things that take too long, a waste of effort, a waste of time, and they will go out of their way to recommend and make changes to that work so that it is one simpler, they automate it, they eliminate parts of it. That is the hallmark of the A-player.

And as an organization, what you're going to find, you probably haven't seen this in other videos, but most organizations have about 25% A-players and Believe it or not, we can grow that percentage dramatically. And one of the big focuses we want to have is getting to doubling the percentage of A players in all of our companies within one year. Because that skill of pattern recognition, imagine if you have multiple people that have that skill within your organization, not only is it going to make work more efficient and save you money and be able to redeploy that time towards more highly valuable things, it is going to optimize output as well. And this is what we see in teams of A players.

Not only do they economize, they optimize. So what we end up with is a massive increase in profit when we have more A players and we move on from those C players and those low performing B's. If you want to learn more about this, there's a free growth assessment link in my bio. Take that and submit it and you can have a free follow up with me after.