A speaker reflects on misconceptions about real estate team growth (the 'mega team' idea) and emphasizes the realities of hiring and retention—noting attrition ("for every 10 agents... three are going to leave") and advocating investing in a smaller, cohesive 'SEAL team' of aligned agents to provide higher service and stability.
Just from hearing people on podcasts like this and stuff like that talk about their teams, it was like. It seemed very simple to me. Teams are glamorized a lot, you know, and you go to a conference and you hear, okay, if you hire agents and you hold them to standards and you have them sell 24 homes a year, you know, you could just have 10 agents selling 24 homes a year, and you sell 240 homes, you're making seven figures, and life is great, right? But they don't always dig into the. You know, you have to have tough conversations and you have to let people go. And for every 10 agents you hire, you know, three are going to leave. And, like, all of those things that happen along the way. And so over the years, you know, and having hiring and firing and people leaving and my. My mindset, I guess, around all of, you know, having a team and what that looks like has definitely changed. And so, for me, the decision was to pour into the people that we have and really focus on kind of that SEAL team, right, of people that are kind of moving in the same direction. And, you know, we just provide more service and, you know, things like that for the team that we have.
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