Sell Yourself Into your next Job - 17 Oct 2020

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What kind of Teamwork does your Organization have?

Hopefully, not like the picture above.

Have you noticed that when examples of Teamwork are discussed by learning professionals or those from other functions, the following are most often quoted?

1) River rafting crew
2) Rowboat race (different countries have different types of boats so I'm simply saying "rowboats")
3) Flock of flying geese.
4) Formula One (F1) Pit Crews
5) Sports teams - cricket / football / hockey / basketball (take your pick).
6) The armed forces

7) A colony of Ants

Most folk focus on the output and the interchange between the team members, and don't really notice the different skillsets required for these teams to function.  I'll talk about two particular teams viz. the rowboat and the F1 Pit crew a little more to illustrate my point.

Here is the image of a rowboat race

And here's one of the F1 Pit crew

What I like about both images:

• The hallmark for both these teams is synchronous precision. This is poetry in motion, to me.  I'm not referring to winning, but getting the job done.
• There's heavy focus on learning and preparation - without which a team or individual cannot succeed.  
• Every person knows his role inside out, on both teams.

What I see as different between the two:

• In the rowboat team, the task to be performed is of low or medium complexity.  But with the F1 team, the tasks are comparatively of a fairly high level of complexity.
• In the rowboat team, the tasks are the same for most of the team members, except the navigator.  Therefore hiring for this team, will not be a really a complex activity.  Compared to this, each member of the F1 team must have specialized knowledge to execute his or her task. Hiring for this team will take special effort.

As a leader, which of these teamwork variations would be most useful for your organizations?

I particularly like this quote by Ray Dalio

Think of your team the way that Sports Managers do - No One person possesses everything to produce success, Yet everyone must excel.

With the idea that "everyone must excel", the answer is both - for certain conditions.

In startups, since you can't hire that fast, you need people to perform like the F1 crew.  So specialized folk are the key hires here.

When the organization grows to a midsize or large organization, this would be a time to standardize tasks, and bring more of the rowboat team members on board.

Here are a few questions to help evaluate your organization's teams and where you need them to be:

• What is the projected pace of performance expected from your team?  Will it be sufficient to take the organization closer to it's vision every year?  If not, what's the backup plan?
• Are there any upcoming challenges in the external business environment that will impact your organization's progress this year (other than COVID19)?  What is the contingency plan here?
• How many rowboat teams and F1 Pit crew teams do you need?  Are they sufficiently staffed?  Are they being provided with robust, business-linked learning interventions?
• Which are your critical positions? Are they all filled? What is the backup / contingency plan for these positions?
• Is your organization's attrition data available, understood and actioned upon? If not, by when will it be?
• And since I'm a strengths strategy coach - Are the strengths of your team members balanced with the weaknesses of other team members?

Please share your perspectives about teamwork and manpower planning.  Have I raised more questions in your mind?  I'd be happy to have a chat.  Write to me at ryanbbarretto@hotmail.com or call me on +919820155778 for a discussion.

Sell Yourself Into your Next Job - 26 Sept 2020

 

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Effectively Interviewing technical candidates using a Sherlock Holmes technique

Here's a super article on how to interview technical candidates effectively.

I have used a variation of this technique, but this article has helped me add to my knowledge and skills in this area.

Read more here

Sell Yourself Into your Next Job - Aug 2020

The next webinar of "Sell yourself Into your Next Job - A Strengths Based Resume writing and Interview Prep Webinar" is on 15 August 2020.

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If your career path might need you to create a new one

This article provides useful insight about how your career path may require you to create a new one.

Enjoy!

 https://www.td.org/insights/3-questions-explore-how-your-career-path-may-be-shifting

Contact me if you want to design your career based on your strengths. 

This would be about 8-10 coaching sessions of 60-90 minutes duration where you would start by 

• taking the CliftonStrengths assessment
• a debrief of your Cliftonstrengths report
• Coaching to help you understand how your strengths manifest as behaviours
• A values inventory for you to understand which are the values  that drive your behaviour
• Coaching to help you identify a career that is based on and aligned with your strengths
• Any other behaviour issue that you wish to resolve

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HR Job Hunting - Change Driver or Passenger.

This is an article with great tips for #HR #jobseekers positioning yourself as a #changedriver instead of a #passenger during your #jobinterview .

But I'm not sure how feasible or practical it is, especially for junior candidates, to do this. Even senior folk will have a tough time. For those from other functions, there may be something to learn.

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