You can't always just hire A-players. You also have to build them.
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You've got to put in the resources and the dollars to give your people the support, the training and the development that is going to take them to the next level and ultimately your company. At Peterman Brothers, we trade training and development to a whole new level. We have a 5,000 square foot lab with all working equipment. And this here is one of our classrooms where students spend part of their time. They spend a third of their time in the classroom, a third in the lab, and then a third out in the field with our technicians. Our training program runs eight to 12 weeks to get a technician from no experience to running their own calls. If you're a company out there looking to find a players, what I will tell you is a lot of the times you have to develop your own.
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