Inheriting a Team

You'll always be told to recruit well; matching the skills of the person to the job.  But what about the real world where you 'inherit a team' and the people within it. 

Matching the required skills to the people might not cover all the bases required. The backgrounds of the team members might be varied and in some cases a little "out there". You need to embrace the fact that that diversity is in fact healthy rather than something to fix or change. Don't necessarily try and mould the team, why not try and mould the team's output (as much as possible) to match their skills.

Get to know your staff so that when you need to make that hard call to get them doing something they might find hard or uncomfortable, they trust that you have understood them and have taken that into account the best you can.

You've got to earn trust so you need to start now to build it for when you really need it.

What do you really know about your employees?  Why don't you try and find out something new about each one of them today.


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