Friday, May 11, 2012

Recruiting for High Performance Team

The reality of life is that business management is nothing but basic common sense. The every aspects of business from recruitment to product development to sustainability are common sense to the dismay of many qualified MBA professional.

A successful business usually started with a concept, a percieved need for the product or service in the market place kick-start by a bold and enthusiastic individual with a vision to scale the every aspects of the business and, more importantly, add values to the process of the customers.

The team is then formed with individual of matching skill sets who believe in the vision to polish the product or service to add value to individuals or other businesses.

The intent of forming a team is simply to do more. Logically, the coordinated effort of two individuals can produce more than one. The assumption is that both believe on the same vision and the effort are coordinated. The key to team is to ensure that one plus one be equal to more than two. The output is is the process of leadership motivation multiply by the way things are done. Thus, the output of two individual should produce more than the sum of two individuals.

Efficiency is a result of a good plan of approach and continuous practice and rehearsal till flawless. The plan of approach becomes a system where individual within the team knows what to do and complement each other's short coming. Their behaviour becomes habit and habit becomes culture. The high standards maintain by the leader and existing team member becomes the culture of excellence.

Any new addition must increase the value to the customers, either directly or indirectly, by increasing the efficiency of the team. That is, two plus one should equate to more than more than the existing average output.

This can only happen if the new addition fit into the existing culture of the existing team, subscribe to the same vision and is a strong individual who can redefine and take the existing definition of excellence to the next level. The individual can and preferably is also a strong leader.

It is well proven in elite military units that strong leaders can perform in a team. Any doubt should be eliminated because everyone in the team should be a leader in their respective role.

Thus, in recruiting new addition into a high performance team, the criterion should be clear. Recruiter should have clear understanding of the vison of team leader, value expected from the new addition, value system of the existing team, character expectations of new addition, vision and ideologies of new addition and leadership initiatives & innovation. Improvement to the team will always be there as long as the leader and the team are clear of what is the next level and what is needed to achieve the next level.

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