1. Putting a Winning Team on the Field
Sheri Beck Johnson
October 2016

2. Today’s objectives By the end of the day you will know…
The value of strategically building a team
The difference between hiring and selection
Tips for assessing your team
What to assess
How to asses
Tips for effective interviews
How to develop strategies to retain staff
You made a good choice when you chose this session!

3. Introductions Who is Sheri Johnson… Who’s in the room? Wife Mom of 3
Dog Owner
Director at HCMC
Former Northstar member and Chapter President
Passionate Leader!
Who’s in the room?

4. Meeting your Team Two types of Teams
An “inherited” team and a “created” team
What’s the difference?
Difference between inheriting a team and creating a team
What’s better?
Why?
Pros and Cons of each
What do you think?

5. Existing Team versus New Team
Pro or Con…
With an inherited team you know what you’ve got to work with; you know your starting point
Creating a team you can go get what you want/need
Creating a team everyone is new
An inherited team knows the work
An inherited team knows each other

6. Team Assessments
Do I have what I need?
How do I know?
What to assess:
Personalities
Skill sets
Environmental preferences
Future goals
Performance
How to assess:
Formal assessments
Strengths Finder
Myers Briggs, Insights, others
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Skills tests
360 feedback
Observation
Step #2 - Gap Assessment
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock

7. Approaching a Staff Opening
Shifting our thinking…
Are you hiring or are you selecting?
Hiring: to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment
Selecting: to choose in preference to another or others; pick out; choosing in preference to another or others; of special value or excellence; careful or fastidious in selecting; discriminating
Synonym: Preferred
Remember…this is an opportunity!

8. Two approaches DRAFT DAY…An Example from Professional Sports…
Specific Position
Best Player Available

9. Interviewing Interview Questions Behavioral Based Questions
Are there “bad” interview questions??
Behavioral Based Questions
Why?
Don’t “lead” the interviewee
Looking for “StARs”
Situation
Action
Result
Remember…the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior

10. Retaining Staff Should I keep the people I have?
Performance Question
Development Question
How do I keep the people I have?
Reward
Not always $-monetary
Recognition
What to do when it’s time for someone to move on
Exit interview opportunity
Do you try to keep them?

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