By now, you’re likely well aware of the fact that your employees are the backbone of your business. After all, it’s their hard work that propels your company toward success, no matter what industry you operate within.
For this reason, it’s crucial that you’re able to build a high-performance team. This means you cannot simply focus on filling vacancies, but rather filling vacancies with the best possible fit.
With that in mind, here are some insights from Manchester’s top recruitment experts that you may find useful when building a high-performance team.
How can I build a high-performance team?
Don’t hire on skills alone.
While ensuring that your new hire possesses the necessary skills to fulfil their role and obligations is key, this is not the only factor that you should take into consideration during the recruitment process.
For example, you should also pay close attention to candidate values, such as their ability to adapt to challenges, their drive, or the way in which they fit into your team at large. Skills can be taught and developed, some of the other traits listed here cannot, and it is important that you keep this in mind throughout the hiring process.
Remember, you are looking for potential as much as you are looking for perfection. By taking a risk on an employee with less experience, but a fresh perspective, you could find that you’re able to take your new company to new heights.
Build a diverse team.
Various studies have found that cognitive diversity in a team can increase performance. In fact, “companies committed to diversity and inclusion significantly outperform those that aren’t.”
This is because the whole team isn’t a carbon copy of each other, with each employee bringing new perspectives to the table. This creates space for new ideas, strategies and solutions, all of which can help your company stay ahead of the competition.
As such, it’s important that you focus on making your hiring process as accessible as possible, so that you can cater to a diverse candidate pool. This will significantly increase both the quality and volume of applications you receive, even for roles that were previously difficult to fill. For example, one study found that “76% of candidates believe diversity is an important factor to consider when evaluating a company,” with many opting to forgo applying based on a company’s current diversity practices.
Work with a recruitment agency.
While you may be keen to take care of most of your recruitment in-house, this is not always the most beneficial strategy. In fact, this is one of the major reasons why over a quarter of small businesses struggle to fill vacancies within their companies.
After all, finding high quality candidates in s competitive market can prove to be both difficult and time consuming. However, when working with a recruitment agency, you can hand this work over to a skilled professional who has an eye for talent and knows exactly who to approach to fill your vacancies.
At Manchester Staff, we have years of experience in helping business owners throughout Greater Manchester build a high performing team.
We don’t use a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to sourcing talent. This means we’ll help you develop a recruitment strategy for building a high-performance team – that reflects your unique goals, needs and aspirations. After all, the term ‘high performance team’ could mean something different to each and every one of us!
In addition to this, we serve businesses cross functionally, whether you’re looking to source new hires for a particular department, or across several different departments. Simply put, no task is too big or too small, and we’re here to support you every step of the way.
If you’d like to find out more about our services, please do not hesitate to get in touch today. We look forward to hearing from you.
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