Bob continues to say, pointing to a recent family dinner that brought together about 30 people, many of whom work for the Hubbard Swim School. “When we’re with family as a family, we’re there and we drop the curtain. If there’s work, we do work within a work timeframe.”
And anyone who does work for the business needs to move up through the ranks, even family members. Bob says he believes that it’s important for everyone to earn their positions within the company through experience, also noting that a number of his staff members started as swim instructors.
He said swim instruction is unlike the homebuilding industry, where he made a pit stop earlier in his professional life. With swimming, experience breeds invaluable expertise.
“I can’t swing a hammer for beans, but I could manage people who know what they’re doing,” he says. “But here, we’re so hands on, you have to know the ‘whys.’ ”