Team/Leadership Selection in Startup
One of the top reasons behind start-up failures is the absence of the
right team.
About 23% of entrepreneurial ventures fade away because the
entrepreneur could not find the right team to work with him.Startup Team Selection VMT

Team/Leadership Selection in Startup
Map your organizational requirement and architecture with job roles
Invest your time in team building
Ensure that you pick the people with the right approach and attitude
Learn from failures and celebrate the successes together
Be the ideal leader
Startup Team Selection VMT

Map your organizational requirement and
architecture with job roles
Divide the entire recruitment activity into smart phases.
First dissect your organizational setup to understand what job roles need to be filled up in
the first phase.
These are the functionalities that are crucial and critical and must be filled up for survival
sake- for infusing your business with life.
Sustenance is in the second phase where you go further and expand the team.
Typically, there could be multiple departments in an organization.
What you need to see is if your business needs to have all departments in one go or can
you start slowing with first focusing on the basic ones to be filled up.
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Invest your time in team building
Team building is not only about getting salaried and contractual people to work for you; it embodies
a lot more in terms of-
A) The kind of respect and regard you give to each person as individuals,
B) The kind of job responsibilities they have been entrusted with,
C) Ensuring that their core competencies have been rightly matched with their key responsibilities,
D) The employees are motivated to come to work each day and that they are enthusiastic to
contribute to their work in the most effective manner.
Focus on communication:
When communication channels are open, honest and transparent, it can instill and enhance the
confidence levels in individual employees.
Working for start-ups can be mentally and physically taxing.
Keeping communication balanced and open can help your team work with greater productivity and
focus.
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Ensure that you pick the people with the
right approach and attitude
Two Ways-
a. Either recruit a performance-savvy HR manager or
b. Outsource the work to a reputed HR agency.
- Use Psychometric and personality tests.
- Organize casual Friday lunches or weekend get-together helping team members to
bond among themselves as well as with you.
- Team engagement also means that you help your team understand that you want them
to progress and grow in their career and life.
- Training and workshops: To provide the opportunity to learn new skills and upgrade
their existing know-how.
- Organizing offsite, corporate family day out and other such activities: To strengthen the
collaborative bonding of your team,
- Instill a positive and lively work culture.
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Learn from failures and celebrate the
successes together
You fail as a team and you win as a team.
This is ideally how the work culture should be.
Yes, individual responsibilities and productivity are important because they finally affect
the overall business performance.
But, the best way to keep everyone together and committed to a greater cause is to
deliberate the failures together and take the learning from it as a team,
Similarly, when it is time to celebrate, let it be out in the open, together so that each team
member can feel the joy of good performance.
Yes, you can publicly appreciate and accolade the people who have done the best or
have performed extraordinarily but give everybody the chance to feel that they have had
a role to play in the success.
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Be the ideal leader
Leadership can play a major role in team building.
It’s okay if you are not the ideal leader but you can try to be one for sure.
The better leader you are, the better will be the motivation levels of your team.
The higher the motivation levels, the more charged-up they would be to give
their best.
If you are ready to give your entrepreneurship a fair chance to grow and sustain,
your people will be equally inspired and enthusiastic.
The moment you despair, indulge in preferential treatment and get into
negativizes, the team that you built with so much care and detailing will shred
away into tatters in no time.
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