Teamwork Skills: Grow These by Being a Talent Hound

If you want to build teamwork skills, 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 teamwork skills and smart people — they have a smart hiring process and/or methodology.

Check out our thoughts on team leverage. 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.

Before we continue, let me ask you a question. What hiring action works best in your business? We would love to hear what it was. Would you do us a favor and post it in the comments section below? It would be greatly appreciated by us and our readers.

In today’s post, we’ll share our philosophy on the best way to ensure 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.