In order for your Dream Team to work in creative harmony, you need 4 types of workers.

Step 1: Project Categories

In One Minute Millionaire, Hansen and Allen describe how Allen Fahden and Marie West divide project-oriented work into four main categories. These are:

• Solutions: It is about identifying ideas and options to solve problems and take advantage of opportunities.
• Strategies: It’s about taking your highest priority idea and deciding on an action plan
• Analysis: This is the ‘Devil’s Advocate’ part! Think about what could go wrong with your solution
• Results: This is where you create a system to carry out your action plan and then you do it!

Step 2: Match the worker to the category

Hansen and Allen describe four types of workers that correlate with the four categories above.

These are:

Hares: These are the types of creative ideas. They often prefer to leave the “follow up” to others.

Owls: These are the “Give me an idea and I’ll show you the plan and strategy” guys. They also love to make connections.

Turtles: These are the traditionalists. They don’t like taking risks and have a talent for anticipating problems, thus saving the team time and money by addressing issues early on.

Squirrels: These are the types of organization that love detailed step-by-step work.

To build a dream team, you must have people of each type to perform the duties and tasks within each of the four categories.

Hansen and Allen claim that if your team is missing a guy, you will be in danger. If your team lacks two of the types, you will face disaster!

You will also find that most people, including yourself, have a primary work style, for example, the hare, and a secondary one, for example, the owl.

If your team consists of two people, you and one other person, ideally you should have a combination of all four of you; for example, Hare / Owl plus Tortoise / Squirrel or the combination of Hare / Tortoise and Owl / Squirrel.

So this is what HOTS stands for … Hares, owls, turtles and squirrels!

Step 3: Take the HOTS test!

The way that you and each team member match yourself to the guy who fits one of the four categories is by identifying the strengths that match each one.

This is easy because Hansen and Allen have designed a free diagnostic tool, available on their website, that reveals people’s strengths.

Koool!

So go to the One Minute Millionaire website, click on Tools, and then select the HOTS Survey and identify your strengths. So make sure each of your team members does, too!

I am a hare. What are you going to? What difference will it make to you now knowing what other types of people you need to look for to build your dream team?