How to build (and keep) a rockstar team, with CEO Darrin Jahnel


With all the recent talk about labor shortages and a chaotic job market, organizations worried about recruitment and retention aren’t alone. But there is plenty you can do as a leader to ensure you attract the best of the best, grow your company sustainably with top talent, and retain the cream of the crop.

 

In this episode, host Carl J. Cox talks to Darrin Jahnel: he’s the founder and CEO of Jahnel Group, a 150-person software consulting company headquartered in upstate, Schenectady, New York. He’s also learned all the lessons associated with growing a company from 1 or 2 employees to triple digits.

 

Tune into the full episode for more on those lessons, tips for top-level employee recruitment and retention, how to maintain productivity with a team full of remote workers, and more.

 

Here’s a Glimpse of What You’ll Learn: 

 

  • More about Darrin’s business, Jahnel Group, and how his background led him to co-founding the software company with his brother
  • What Darrin learned in the early stages of his company, plus the hiring milestones that happen along that journey (and the lessons to take from each of those)
  • One fact about the human mind and its capacity to remember — and how that impacts company growth
  • Jahnel Group’s approach to remote work, and how that has changed during or after the Covid-19 pandemic
  • How Darrin’s company has evaluated effectiveness within remote workers 
  • Why Jahnel Group’s “recruiting engine” takes a similar approach as a college football program
  • The secrets to employee retention, after a wine-and-dine recruitment cycle 
  • Why zero turnover at an organization isn’t always a necessarily good thing
  • How Darrin measures success in both his personal life and his company
  • Some of the personal habits Darrin has integrated into his daily life to maintain his productivity and effectiveness 
  • Why habits and the journey are more important than the goals you set 

 

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