Building the Team

Should you hire your nephew to run reporting? What does each role cost, what should each seat deliver, and how do you grow the team without losing the program? This session answers all of it.

Every reporting effort has a team — even if today that team is just you. The question is who should be on it, what each role costs, and what you have a right to expect from each seat.

We cover the full complexion of the team: how to source the labor, how to build the team, what to tell them about their own development, and how to grow the function from a one-person show into a department — without losing the program in a handoff.

What's included

People change. The thing that keeps reporting alive through every hire and every handoff is the system — and that's where the workshop lands. Installing the System

Session 3 of 4 · People & roles

Building the Team

Should you hire your nephew to run reporting? What does each role cost, what should each seat deliver, and how do you grow the team without losing the program? This session answers all of it.

Who's actually on this team?

Every reporting effort has a team — even if today that team is just you. The question is who should be on it, what each role costs, and what you have a right to expect from each seat.

We cover the full complexion of the team: how to source the labor, how to build the team, what to tell them about their own development, and how to grow the function from a one-person show into a department — without losing the program in a handoff.

What you'll cover

Inside session 3.

Team composition

Who's on the team at each stage — from a company of one to a company of a thousand.

Role expectations

What each seat should deliver, and how you'd actually know whether it's being delivered.

Sourcing the labor

Where to find reporting talent, what it costs, and how to hire it without guesswork.

The nephew question

Should your brother, sister or nephew do this job? How to answer with a clear head instead of a family dinner.

Developing the team

What to tell the team in terms of development, and how to grow people into the roles the company needs next.

Surviving turnover

When the person who runs reporting is replaced — and they will be — the program stays on target.

The handoff

People change. The thing that keeps reporting alive through every hire and every handoff is the system — and that's where the workshop lands.

Next session: Installing the System

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Building the Team is one of four sessions in the Reporting Secrets workshop — $997, live, all four included.