Recruiting & building a winning team: for startups and growth businesses
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A practical guide to building a winning team for startups and growth businesses. Highlights key roles and how to adopt a professional approach to recruitment and orientation - find the right people and bring them up to speed quickly.
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Recruiting & building a winning team: for startups and growth businesses
- 1. Recruiting and building a dream team Colin Graham April 2014
- 2. People are your most important asset the right
- 3. Colin Graham: Background Marketing at Dulux Co-founder, Yellowbrick, HR startup at age 26 ePeople Project Director, Career Innovation Company, Oxford Started Student Business Incubator, Scotland, 1999 Founding CEO, Innovation Centre Sunshine Coast: 83 startups Founder Causeway Innovation: innovative businesses & regions
- 5. The new business journey Get the right people on the bus! Core team: •Lead entrepreneur •Technical innovator •Operations •Sales •Finance
- 6. ‘Nobody’s perfect but a team can be’ Dr Meredith Belbin
- 7. Building a productive team Recruiting to culture ‘Recruit on attitude, train for experience’ Hire ‘A team’ people who are better than you at their core task, watch out for bozos! Celebrate success and milestones Team changes as business grows
- 9. How do you find the right people? It starts with you… plus one or two Know yourself, know what skills the business needs Avoid family, limit friends Find people you can trust, start with people you know and like (beer test) If you don’t know anyone... are you the person to start a business? Or, start building a network
- 10. Rigorous recruiting (1) Know what you are looking for – Position Description with key skills Selection process Structure interview before hand & stick to the script Ask questions on specific job situations Take lots of notes
- 11. Rigorous recruiting (2) Trust your intuition Watch how much time candidates talk about pay, benefits etc Beware big company disease Check references early – not just those listed When in doubt, don’t recruit
- 12. Microsoft interview tests How do you test people? Programming? Sales? Presentation skills? Q. How many piano tuners in the world? How would you move Mount Fuji? How are M&Ms made?
- 13. What influences candidates? People they meet Passion and vision Professionalism of process Speed of response C.Graham, Yellowbrick, 1994
- 14. The biggest negative once in the job? You?!
- 15. First 90 days
- 16. Orientation – the first 90 days First: day, week, month, 90 days Key questions: – What’s going on here – How do I make a contribution? – What’s expected of me? Establish an effective working relationship with manager Set up an ‘Orientation’ Folder
- 17. Orientation – the first 90 days Reviews at end – day 2, week 1, month 1, month 3 3 month trial period Review what’s going right, wrong and how to improve performance
- 18. 1978
- 19. Teams work
- 20. Key points Right people, right bus, right direction! An effective team with key skills covered Engaging talent – a key business activity… get your act together! Get organised in recruitment process – test people! Small businesses can be very attractive First 90 days Build a positive culture
- 21. Colin Graham E: cgraham@causewayinnovation.com Recruiting and building a dream team W: causewayinnovation.com