MaxImize Your Executive Level Team

This team has to rely on each others strengths and minimize the weaknesses (areas of opportunity). We have long supported the concept promoted by the authors in “First Break All the Rules.” That is – discover the strengths of individuals and develop them more. Hire backup to their weaknesses.

This also means if you need a leader that can think quickly and make decisions at a pace to keep several balls in the air at the same time and you hire a person whose strength is careful analysis and great with details, it is a formula for frustration and even failure.

Create a formula for success.

To Hire a new team member:

  1. Understand what the position/company needs
  2. Identify what needs are trainable and what isn’t trainable (such as prioritizing is not really trainable)
  3. Find the possible candidates with the background required
  4. Assess the candidates to discover strengths and weaknesses
  5. Hire the best fit for the needs of the position and the strengths of the candidate
  6. Manage the individual the way they want to be managed to increase productivity

Current team members:

  1. Understand what the position/company needs
  2. Identify what needs are trainable and what isn’t trainable
  3. Assess the team members to identify strengths and weaknesses
  4. Focusing on the strengths, don’t be tied to current titles and job descriptions
  5. Tweak or reassign to utilize the strengths
  6. Manage the individual the way they want to be managed to increase productivity

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