How to create the perfect team for your business

How will you shape your management team to ensure you stay ahead of the driving forces that shape our future? Management roles are changing in the digital technology era. A new generation of consumers with a fresh and challenging mindset and ideas has arrived. Traditional buying patterns are changing. If you have big aspirations, you’ll need to employ a team of specialist individuals to help you achieve your goals. Recruiting members who come from different backgrounds adds value to the overall team. If you are bold enough to seek it out, untapped, diverse talent is everywhere just waiting for an opportunity to shine.

As the owner of your business, you’re responsible for building and managing your team. You should be thinking about your team structure and capabilities. Have you got the right mix of people? Use your recruitment opportunities to compensate for shortcomings in your existing team by recognising any areas of weakness and employing people with strengths in those areas. Get the right people on and the wrong ones off.

Its A New Day and Time For New Ideas - Selection should include the following considerations

Turnover

Millennial job turnover is high so finding loyal employees who are seeking long term employment can be invaluable to your business in the long run.

Career Advancement

The majority of people change their jobs because of career advancement and a lack of opportunities is the main driving factor for leaving any role. Employees’ need for development and reinvention are therefore important considerations.

Look beyond the resume

Its easy to think that having high standards would only mean work experience or a university education. You may fail to recognise how a young employee who has the aptitude, is a hard worker and eager to learn can be even more valuable.

Taking Chances

Occasionally an unorthodox candidate comes along. Consider that he or she can be invaluable to your business even without the polished pedigree. Take a chance, and hire them. Access to jobs for diverse populations only comes when someone who has already transcended the barriers to entry decides to try something new in a way that further opens the gate for new talent.

The Perfect Management Team Diversity & Characteristics

So you have a great team with great skills. Have you recruited across different generations and gender? How well do your long serving managers mix with newcomers? How well does your team work together? Are they working in their own silos? Do they interact well?

The best teams have a blend of five personalities with complementary skills. These are

• innovator - creates the vision, entrepreneurial, ideas generator

• disruptor - alternative philosophy, challenges tradition, millennial

• producer - makes things happen, champion of flow, master of moving ideas along

• administrator - puts the systems in place, technical specialist

• communicator - people person, team mediator, spreads the team's ideas

the perfect balance will vary depending on what stage your business is at. Startups, naturally, need more entrepreneurial energy.

The Perfect Management Team Skills

If you find yourself working 16 hours a day and fulfilling every role in your business, it's time to hire an upper level management team. Although it's hard to pass your power on to someone else, it's something you must do if you want to avoid burnout.

The skills required to run your business successfully include

• sales and marketing

• production

• finance

• administration

• procurement and buying​

A review of your business should identify skills that are important and those skills that your current staff, including yourself, already possess. Some types of expertise might only be needed from time to time and it may be better to outsource as required using a business consultant on a short term basis during an expansion phase. The key to getting the right people on your team is to be clear about how your team's performance will contribute and then making sure the right people are in place to help make that happen.

Recruiting The Perfect Team for your business

Anyone who comes into your business should be better than you and bring something to the whole. Pay attention to balancing gender. Employ people who know what to do and empower them to do it. Monitor them on a regular basis and ensure they are not cruising. If people are as good as they say they are, they will succeed.

Recruit people with the necessary skills and make sure they mesh with your current team. You need to have a cohesive and flexible team to be well positioned to take advantage of changing customer trends.

Building a successful business is not easy. Getting the right mix of people to complement and reinforce your business is essential. The Business Minder operates throughout SE Asia with clients in Bali, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.