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Team Building for Staffing Teams

One of the most powerful things a group of staffing professionals can do to ramp up effectiveness is to step outside the day-to-day grind to examine how the team functions - as a team. Are you a group of individuals working side-by-side, or are you functioning as an interdependent, high performance team?

TOPICS INCLUDE: Recruitment Team Profiles © Team Operating Principles Team PUrpose Team Vision Game Plan and Accountabilities The Recruiter Behavior Matrix ©

The Recruitment Team Profile© provides this opportunity by allowing staffing teams to assess their teamwork competency level based on a number of teaming skills and abilities. Goals are then set for achieving a high level of team performance within a given timeframe, usually six months to a year. During the second half of the program, teams create a game plan to achieve their stated goals, assigning accountability for the various initiatives that are created.

Recruitment-Based Values - A value is a quality or attribute that governs how we live and behave. Because values result in actions, they directly affect those around us, including employees, clients, candidates, and other external customers. How do values such as "integrity" and "responsibility" play out in the staffing world? Is it possible that different interpretations among team members result in the conflicts and disconnects that eat up time and energy, cause frustration and ultimately impact customer focus and even personal well-being? In this module teams engage in an exercise to identify and align on values that drive excellent recruiting performance. Clarifying the meaning and effect of the team's values and creating a commitment to revisit them regularly provides a stable framework that impacts daily decision making. The results are actions that are in alignment with the stated purpose and principles of the organization, enabling goal achievement, customer focus and professional satisfaction.

Team Operating Principles - Is there really a war for talent, or does collaboration provide greater results? At the root of every team's performance is a set of creative principles that function much like the laws of physics. And like the laws of physics, they operate whether we know about them or not (whether we like them or not). Drawing upon a number of tried and true success strategies such as to think is to create, win-win and "givers gain", recruiting teams distinguish and explore a series of powerful principles that they can apply to their day-to-day recruiting activities to produce outstanding results.

Team Purpose - What service do we provide as staffing professionals? Why do we do what we do? What difference do we make? And finally, how does my job as a Recruiter help me fulfill my personal mission? In order to do something really well, it is important to know not only how to do it but why you are doing it. Purpose is the real juice that calls teams forth into action every day through successes and challenges alike. Exploring these important and fundamental questions enables teams to clarify and align on their roles as staffing professionals within the organization and connect with their shared passion for the business. Results are clarity of purpose, increased focus, energy, vitality and full self-expression.

Team Vision - Mission and vision are often confused with one another, which can result in a lack of focus or direction. Knowing why you are doing something is the hallmark of Purpose. Where you are headed is a function of Vision. Vision is the ability to see beyond the present reality to invent what does not yet exist. It involves operating out of the imagination instead of memory. And it is the key to leveraging time and gaining commitment. What many organizations do not understand is that shared visions emerge from personal visions, and if the personal vision of each individual is not addressed developing the team vision, compliance - and not commitment - results. In this module, teams look out six months to a year to create a shared vision and detailed road map that results in a quantum increase in creativity and productivity.

Game Plan and Accountabilities - Once a team has created a shared vision, the next step is to create a game plan with a well defined accountability system that will ensure the journey is taken and that the team arrives at the intended destination. This important segment of Recruitment Team Mastery© is devoted to the development of key initiatives, action steps and accountability systems to achieve the high performance goals set by the team. And unlike many visionary initiatives that fall by the wayside as a result of time considerations, this module includes a system to ensure consistent follow up.

Recruiter Behavior Matrix© - Ever wonder why you get along better with one teammate than another? The Recruiter Behavior Matrix© is one of the "secret weapons" of Recruitment Team Mastery©, designed to deepen awareness of self and teammates in a fun and engaging manner. This revealing personality exercise designed specifically for recruiters has a tremendous impact on working relationships and contributes to the development of team synergy. This is a favorite among teams that have participated.