How to Build an Effective Team by Being a Talent Hound

Your key to being a talent hound is knowing your strengths, capabilities, and challenges.

If you want to build an effective team, it starts with having the best people. Creating a talent advantage begins with smart hiring. That said, it never ceases to amaze me at the number of businesses that put little energy and time into mining for talent. Smart leaders do more than just hire smart people — they have a smart hiring process and/or methodology.

Put simply; talent matters. The problem is that very few people actually possess the talent to identify talent. Identifying and recruiting talent requires much more than screening a resume and having a set of standard interviewing questions to guide you. There are issues of values, vision, culture, context, etc. that need to be creatively and intuitively addressed in the hiring process.

In today’s post, we’ll share our philosophy on the best way to insure that you hire tier-one talent. We believe one of the best uses of time is to make sure that we make the best hiring decisions possible.

We use the following hiring process attributes when advising our clients:

Know what you are looking for … If you can’t specifically define what you are looking for, you have little chance of finding it! This definition is both in terms of the job description and the profile of the individual most likely to be successful in that role. If you can’t define what you’re looking for, you should…