How to detect the 4 types of workers you need in your Dream Team

For your Dream Team to work in creative harmony, you need 4 types of workers.

Step 1: Project Categories

In One Minute Millionaire, Hansen and Allen describe how Allen Fahden and Marie West divide project-oriented work into four main categories. These are:

• Solutions: It is about identifying ideas and options to solve problems and take advantage of opportunities
• Strategies: It’s about taking your highest priority idea and deciding on a plan of action
• Analysis: This is the ‘Devil’s Advocate’ part! Brainstorm what could go wrong with your solution
• Results: This is where you create a system to carry out your action plan and then do it!

Step 2 – Match the worker to the category

Hansen and Allen describe four types of workers that correlate with the four categories above.

These are:

Hares: These are the types of creative ideas. They often prefer to leave the ‘follow-up’ to others.

owls: These are of the “Give me an idea and I’ll show you the plan and strategy” type. They also love to make connections.

Turtles: These are the traditionalists. They don’t like to take chances and have a talent for anticipating problems, thus saving the team time and money by addressing problems early on.

squirrels: These are the types of organizations that love detailed, step-by-step work.

To build a dream team, you must have people of each type to perform the duties and tasks within each of the four categories.

Hansen and Allen state that if your team is missing a guy, you’ll be in danger. If your team is missing two of the guys, you ‘face disaster’!

You’ll also find that most people, including yourself, have a primary work style, say the Hare, and a secondary work style, say the Owl.

If your team consists of two people, you and one other person, ideally you should have a mix of all four types between you; for example, Hare/Owl plus Tortoise/Squirrel or the combination of Hare/Turtle and Owl/Squirrel.

So this is what HOTS stands for… Hares, Owls, Tortoises and Squirrels!

Step 3: Take the HOTS test!

The way you match yourself and each team member to the type that fits one of the four categories is by identifying the strengths that match each one.

This is easy because Hansen and Allen have designed a free diagnostic tool, available on their website, that reveals people’s strengths.

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So go to the One Minute Millionaire website, click on Tools and then select the HOTS Survey and identify your strengths. So make sure every one of your team members does too!

I am a hare. What are you going to? What difference will it make to you now, knowing what other types of people you need to look for to build your dream team?