The term ‘Dream Team’ has been in circulation throughout business circles for many years and it can help your company reach new heights. To benefit from the addition of a new team you need to know where in the business cycle your company is.
You and other personnel who are relevantly involved must review where you currently stand and move on from there. Once you clarify that you are ready, you need to devise your plan and make crucial decisions.
Now you are ready to recruit, interview and possibly hire your dream team. Make sure that you also plan full training opportunities for the new hires. You are ready to move on with the next steps.
The decisions you need to make will help you to determine exactly what kind of team you want. If you look at the teams you may already have on staff you can see what you do or do not want in the next team.
Decide on how many people you need by reviewing the potential workload and using the staff you may already have to help make that decision. Based on your research you can decide what each person will do and how much of the workload they can each handle. As the hiring process moves along your ideas may need to be modified and revised. You determine that you are ready to go and move on to the next step.
Here are a few tips that will help you move in the right direction in your search:
Project Management
You will need to hire someone who can manage the entire project, someone who will oversee all the staff and the various pieces and parts as they are put together. This could be you, a new hire, or someone already employed by your business.
Employees Need to Understand Your Company
You will be responsible for assuring that the people you hire completely understand the totality of your business, what the business does, and how it relates to what this new team will do. If that does not happen your new team might impede other projects or throw a monkey wrench into another area of your business.
You will Need to Clearly Articulate Your Goals
Make sure you completely and clearly articulate the purpose of bringing the team together. Too many employers and supervisors make the mistake of assuming that others can read their minds. This will result in either a failure to reach the goal. Deadlines and goals need to be spelled out at all times.
Let Your Team Handle the Project for Which They Were Hired
The wrong thing to do is to dictate exactly the hows, whys, and details of the project. You are not hiring a dream team group to complete a project if you are going to do it all in advance and by yourself or with existing staff. Allow your team to take your goals and work out the ways to reach them.
Your Business Must be Ready for the Project and the New Team
Assure that you are ready for a dream team. Suppose you have made all the right hiring choices and assembled the team only to find out that you and your company are simply not yet ready for them to do their jobs. Do not ‘over hire’.
Don’t expect highly experienced people who know their field well to come in for a simple project. That will not leave you with a satisfied, happy team. If you are truly ready then the team you hire will be able and ready to help grow your business.
Have the New Team Get to Know Each Other and the Company
Finally, make sure your team gets to know each other and learns how to communicate as individuals and as a team. Be sure they know all the communication avenues used in your company. Have weekly meetings of the team if that is appropriate and be prepared to make some or even most of these meetings remote if necessary.
Bonus: Use Business Software Systems
Another important aspect of this situation is to use a business system that will help the team reach all of their goals promptly. A human capital system run by an experienced company can add significant value-added to your business.
One such HCM platform comes from Alliance HCM. Alliance, which started as a payroll service (and still provides this service), offers a human capital management service. Human capital management services, such as Alliance and others conduct the process of hiring the right people, managing workforces effectively and efficiently as well as optimizing productivity. This process has evolved from a mostly administrative function to a critical stimulator of added business value.
Closing Thoughts
As you look to potentially add either a new function or a new process to your business and you seek to hire just the right people to do the job at the right time and in the best way you might consider using an outside firm to help manage this function of your human resources process. These services provide the help you need to get the job done right the first time.
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