Leading a Team of 700: What Emil Juresic Learnt About Team Retention + Why You Lose Good People

How do business owners manage hundreds of people… and most of them actually want to stay in the company in an era where people only stay 1 year?

Emil Juresic is the founder of multiple businesses (including NGU Real Estate) with over 700 people across his companies. And within that, team members are staying for 5, 10 even sometimes 20 years.

How has he become a leader that incredible people want to work for?

What did he have to learn to be able to hold onto his talent?

Today we’re talking about how great leaders think about responsibility, how to set expectations early in your team (including when you’re hiring CEOs) and how to create teams that naturally grow into leadership roles without needing to be replaced every couple years.

You’ll hear:

0:00 - Why I got Emil on 

02:40 - Emil’s perspective on employees after 27 years that quietly changes how long people want to stay working for you

06:15 - The life experiences that happen early in your life that might be shaping the way you show up at work

08:30 - The expectation founders always bring into hiring that causes BIG problems later down the line

11:05 - Why the first hires almost never fail (and it’s not for the reason you think)

13:15 - The one question Emil now asks to check if someone truly fits into his businesses

16:50 - How to get your team thinking about being a part of your businesses in the long term

24:00 - The strategy you need if you are going to bring in senior leaders 

25:55 - What long term growth inside a business actually looks like in real life

31:05 - Should you recruit within … or bring someone in from outside? 

33:55 - Why incentives alone don’t work

37:15 - How Emil stays across multiple businesses without being involved in everything

39:10 - The one factor that determines whether offshore teams become an advantage or a headache

45:05 - The shift leaders need to make to stay relevant in today’s world 

47:00 - Which role Emil would hire first if he was starting over again 

Connect with Emil over at https://www.instagram.com/emil_juresic/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/ngu_real_estate/?hl=en 

If you want help building your offshore team, send me a message over at @jesswhatman_agentsync - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/jesswhatman_agentsync/⁠ 

Not sure what you could delegate or the next role you need? Ask Andy - https://agentsync.com.au/meet-andy 

Find out more about off-shore employees over at ⁠https://www.instagram.com/agentsync_/⁠ and ⁠https://agentsync.com.au/⁠ 

And see behind the scenes content over at https://www.instagram.com/built.to.lead.podcast/