{"id":1188,"date":"2009-11-14T10:44:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T15:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/news_blogs\/john\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2024-12-24T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:42:08","slug":"hiring-with-the-team-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2009\/11\/14\/hiring-with-the-team-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring with the Team in Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my post, <a title=\"Post: An Unlikely Hero\" href=\"\/news_blogs\/john\/2009\/11\/06\/an-unlikely-hero-personality-profiles-and-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Unlikely Hero<\/a>, I said that performance trumped personality when considering people for <strong>promotion<\/strong> (and <strong>hiring<\/strong>). However, when I&nbsp;interview people for jobs, I have a criteria that ranks even higher than proven performance, and that is how well the person fits with the team&#8217;s values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Importance of Values<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Values<\/strong> are&nbsp;important because&nbsp;the CCCC team developed them on the basis of which behaviours and attitudes cause&nbsp;team members&nbsp;to raise or lower their respect for a teammate as a productive contributor to accomplishing our mission. The team&#8217;s values ended up defining the qualities of a&nbsp;very high-performing team. As a result, our performance reviews are based on adherence to the values, not activity levels or results. Activity and results are natural consequences of working by the values. Since we&nbsp;evaluate performance by&nbsp;our values, it only makes sense that they should also be the <strong>selection criteria<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My main concern about hiring to our values&nbsp;is to preserve the integrity of our high-performing team. I am proud of the team and the quality of its work and don&#8217;t want to insert a new person who does not live by our&nbsp;values. I think that would be setting them up for a bad experience and it would be demoralizing to the current team. We don&#8217;t ask about values directly, but the questions are designed to bring out the candidate&#8217;s past behaviours that are related to the values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Personalities Should Differ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for personality? If everyone on staff had the same personality, this would be a dull place and we&#8217;d have few perspectives to bring to the table. A good variety of personality styles helps ensure we have a variety of viewpoints and real options to consider. It also contributes to a healthy dynamic in the workplace. We have lots of laughter here at CCCC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My main concern about hiring to our values is to preserve the integrity of our high-performing team. I am proud of the team and the quality of its work and don&#8217;t want to insert a new person who does not live by our values.  <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2009\/11\/14\/hiring-with-the-team-in-mind\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"A hand from each of four people, holding puzzle pieces to fit together. 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