How To Hire a Successful Team - 7 Tips for Getting It Right

How to hire a successful team is a critical task for any manager or leader in a growing business. As a manager of a team your performance is closed linked to the performance of your team. Hiring the right team members can make or break a team.

In this video “How to Hire a Successful Team - 7 Tips for Getting it Right”, I share my best tips of how to hire the right people for your team to help you deliver great team performance with a team you love working with.

When creating a high-performing teams, learning how to hire good employees that have a good cultural fit with existing team members is so important. The team will be more effective, will work together better and deliver great results.

We share tried and tested advice for hiring managers when thinking about how to hire employees. Build a team in the right way, and your job as a leader or manager will be so much more enjoyable and easier.

Looking at the statistics, having the wrong team members is one of the top three reasons for new business failures. And if you think larger businesses can escape poor hires, think again. The quality of the team impacts decisions at all levels. The more senior the decision maker, the larger the impact of those decisions. Plenty of large businesses fail because of poor decisions

If you listen to interviews or talks with the likes of Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or in fact any leader from any growing business, one of the first things they talk about is how they go about hiring the right people to create a high-performance team.

We know that many managers and companies do an amazing job of hiring their staff. There are many more companies that do not do a great job because they have not taken the right steps to set themselves up for success.
Hiring the right people into your business or team is a critical activity for any growing company. Make sure you spend enough time setting up how you are going to hire well.


00:00 Intro
01:29 A critical job for any leader
03:23 Attitude or skills?
04:21 Understand values and behaviours
05:43 Understand 2hich problems need solving
06:43 Training the hiring managers
07:53 Get your team involved
09:32 An alternative to interviewing
12:34 In Summary

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