Hire and Inspire the Best Employees
Effective Leadership Brings Personalities Together
In building a championship business team, professional women must break the traditional hiring model to be most successful. Far too much hiring is done with a sole focus on skills and experience with little attention on whether the new hire’s personality is a fit for the culture of the company.
Championship teams recruit team members, especially at crunch time when they are close to achieving their goal and need just a couple of refinements to make the difference, that aspire to be the best and are willing to fill a role within a winning team. For professional women to build their championship business team this means more than checking a resumé for just experience and skills. They must delve deeper with due diligence by interviewing for the values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that may be expected upon joining the team.
In my 20 years as a business leader, I never once fired an employee due to incompetence or poor decision-making; it was always due to an attitude and behaviors that were creating conflict with teammates and customers. If professional women spend as much time evaluating employees for personality and attitude as they do for job skills and experience, they will be well served. It is significantly less of an investment to train for new job skills than to try and change one’s attitude, beliefs and values.
In building a championship team mindset, professional women need to identify the beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors that will achieve company goals. There are two basic attitudes toward teamwork that must be managed. In continuing the analogy of an athletic team as the model for creating a championship business team, there are manifold situations in team sports that require teammates to work together to get the job done. In every imaginable scenario, successful teamwork must include, first and foremost, the individual adequately fulfilling her primary role.
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Patty Block, President and Founder of The Block Group, established her company to advocate for women-owned businesses, helping them position their companies for strategic growth. Charting the course for impactful, sustainable, profitable businesses, the beacon is control: of your strategic direction, your money, your time, your staffing, and your ability to bring in business. The Block Group brings together the people, resources and ideas that build results.
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