How to Build Your Team: Recap 6 Tips fpr Building Your Team
The key to building your team is to “surround yourself with people who believe what you believe, but don’t think the way you think,” stated Gib Mason to a room full of student entrepreneurs. 

Mason’s workshop, How to Build Your Team, held in entreSpace on November 24, aimed to help students do just that. But this wasn’t about team building. It was about building a team that brought all the skills to the table. Some of these relationships are formal, like those with a banker or lawyer, while others can be informal. Mason loves to play golf and will occasionally have meetings on the links. But these are much less formal meetings, but help build rapport. These shared experiences are part of the foundation of building a successful team. 

Networking is another area that Mason was quick to provide some tips on. Networking isn’t about meeting as many people as possible, “it’s about meeting that one person who will provide the greatest connection with. It’s about depth of connection more than quantity.” 

Mason also recommended that every entrepreneur find a mentor and consider joining agencies that will provide new businesses with resources to help spark ideas and build connections. Some local agencies are the MCE, Maryland Non-Profits, and SCORE. He also suggested utilizing the SBA when getting started as well. 

6 Tips for Building Your Team:
  1. Surround yourself with people who believe what you believe
  2. Make sure team members don’t think the same way you think (there is no conflict in which to spark ideas)
  3. Surround yourself with youth. Their energy and enthusiasm is infectious. 
  4. People with high EQ is just as, if not more, important as high IQ
    1. IQ is what will get you in the door, EQ is what will keep you there
  5. Find a mentor!
  6. Network. Put yourself out there. But concentrate on finding the person who you want to connect with the most and do so at length. 

For an audio recording of this workshop, visit: How to Build Your Team (Gib Mason).mp3. You will be prompted to download this file. 

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We got a lot of great responses from our Fall Workshops survey. We compiled the data and below are the top 4 workshops selected. 

The first event is scheduled for next Friday. 

All events will be held in the entreSpace in the old Theater Building, room 139 at Noon. 


Fall Workshop Schedule

October 3
Framing Your Business/Business Plan Development
Taught by: Stephen Auvil (Sr. Vice President, Technology Transfer and Commercialization at 
Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO))

October 22
Social Entrepreneurship:  Doing Good AND Doing Well in Business
Taught by: Jamie McDonald (Chief Giving Officer at Network for Good) 

October 24 
Financing Your Business
Taught by: Jason Pappas (Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Antson Capital Partners, and ENTR Instructor)

November 24
Building a Team
Taught by: Gib Mason (Serial Entrepreneur, ENTR Instructor, COO and VP of Administration and Finance at UMBC Training Centers) 
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If you've been lucky enough to take a class with Gib Mason, ENTR Instructor and serial entrepreneur, you know the wealth of knowledge he has to share. 

If you have questions about starting your business, growing a business, or just interested in entrepreneurship, Gib will be holding office hours as our Entrepreneur In Residence beginning Monday, September 8. 

You can find him in entreSpace every Monday from 3:00 - 4:00pm. 

Just in case, entreSpace is located in Academic Services Room 139. 
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