Rob Gill, founder of EPIC Wealth Management in Red Bank, New Jersey, and Kuda Biza, co-founder of Nunbelievable and #ThisIsMyEra, discuss the power of a team and offer insightful tips on how to build a successful team for your business. 

Kuda was born in Zimbabwe, where he started his first business at the age of nine. It was a window cleaning business. He saw a need in the market, was able to provide a service, employed two friends, and they became a team of three walking around the neighborhood cleaning windows.

This is how you build a successful team. 

Kuda saw a need that was different from what his competition was doing

He brought on some friends who were able to help him create a successful business, even at the age of nine. 

He started a second business in the United States when he moved to Florida to go to college, a T-shirt business where 20% off profits was donated to educate children in Africa. Kuda grew up witnessing poverty in Zimbabwe firsthand and wanted to give back.

“I didn’t wait until I was wealthy to give back, I started now. I define “now” as ‘no opportunity wasted,’ so that is the reason I started the second business,” explains Kuda.

Out of college, Kuda was hired by a Fortune 500 company to create new businesses including the successful online food company Crockpot Cuisine. 

Start Building Your Team with These Tips in Mind

Drawing from his own experiences, he shares with us here his top tips for building a successful team.

#1 Determine and Clarify Your Objective

When you’re building a team, you need to have clarity on what it is you’re trying to achieve.

What is a team?

A team is a group of people that comes together to achieve a particular objective.

With clarity and an objective, you’ll be able to identify the roles your team needs to meet your objective.

#2 Practice Clear, Effective Communication

Clear and effective communication is vital so that everyone knows their role on the team and what needs to be done. 

Communication is a two-way street. As a leader, if you open up the lines of communication with your team so that they can communicate back to you, team communication becomes effective. 

#3 Create a Positive Company Culture

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” explains Kuda. 

If you have an excellent strategy but your culture is terrible and your team doesn’t want to wake up and work on your clear objective and goal, you’ll never achieve your goal. It is vital to build a culture that keeps people excited and motivated to work together.

Your team members:

• Want to feel empowered that they can achieve their roles you’ve set up 
• They don’t want to be micromanaged 

Empower your team members to be able to do their job in a fun and engaging way to achieve success together.