The Intrapreneur Every Entrepreneur Needs with Emily Smith | Ep 016

For insights into starting, growing and optimizing your real estate team, we're talking with Emily Smith.

What do you need out of this? Listening to your people and really asking, are you chasing a dollar? Are you chasing recognition? Are you chasing some award?

I'm not aware.

You're chasing a few fun facts before we get going. She serves as chief operating officer at Weimert Group Realty in Central Florida.

I've been with Jenny eight and a half, almost nine years. It'll be nine years in May. Jenny and I, they call us Gemmalee.

Sometimes it's a joke because we've sort.

Of melded into a human. For us, it's now it's not just what Jenny's building, it's now what Emily's helping Jenny build. And as a leader, I can't imagine how that feels when this has been her thing for over 20 years.

She, like me and team leader Jenny Weimert, who is our guest on episode four, is a native Michigander and Emily, like me, has a degree from the University of Michigan. Thanks so much for talking team Os today, Emily.

Oh, go blue, Ethan. It's exciting to be here. I'm honored. You've had so many fantastic guests over the last several episodes. I always feel like I need a pen when I sit down to listen because of the wisdom that you're able to pull from your guests. So I appreciate that.

Awesome.

I appreciate the positive feedback.

I'm super glad to hear that. It's so useful with regard to your time and energy and attention. There are a lot of demands on those things for you personally as there are on most folks as accomplished as you. And so it's just a privilege to be of service to you in that way. Appreciate that. So I guess I probably don't need to ask the opening question because I think you know it's coming, but I will anyway. Emily, what's a must have characteristic of a high performing team?

So I spent some time thinking about this, knowing it was coming.

And so many of your previous guests have listed some amazing qualities. Jenny Wiemer. I'm a little biased because I work with her and I do believe she's the best in our industry. Saying servant heartedness, I'd agree with that. I also really loved Howard Taggart talking about having a diverse community around you to really help you think. I loved Lauren Bowen talking about consistency and I think all of those things are so important. But what I'd like to add to the conversation is that I really believe you need to be solution based and so for me, no matter what seat you're sitting in, being solution based means you are working in collaboration to fix the things in front of you that need to be fixed to get deals to the closing table. That can be systems, that can be people, that can be any, anything. If you are a solution based person, then you are seeking outcomes that are going to build that collaboration.