What can happen if you have too many people with the same strengths or weaknesses?
The Power of People
Discussion Question Week 7
Part 1: A Balanced Team
Top of Form
Hiring people with complementary skills and personalities can lead to a more effective team. When you’re picking out the members of your team, you will need to apply what you have learned about them (from your research and the evaluations) to the selection process. This week, you learn how to balance your team so you have complementary skills and personalities. Think about what you have learned this week regarding balance. Why is it important to make sure you have a balanced team? What can happen if you have too many people with the same strengths or weaknesses?
Part 2: Student Response ( Respond to the below student below kindly)
Elizabeth Farley
RE: A Balanced Team
Hello Professor and classmates. Every team should be filled with diversity. Each person should have separate strengths and weaknesses. All at the same time you want these different personalities to mesh well together to get the job done. If every member of your team is shy, a follower, and not good at multi tasking you may fall short of team goals for example. If you hire one person who is quiet but strong with numbers and has great organizational skills then maybe the next member should be outgoing and well spoken, and one that’s not afraid to take charge. You want each person to understand the role they are being placed into as well. They will want to know what is expected of them, and will know themselves well enough to know if they can fulfill those expectations. You always want to find people that are capable of dealing with a wide array of strong personalities because everyone is going to be there own individual selves. You wouldn’t want to place people together that have conflicting goals or backgrounds. Building a successful team requires knowing people and not just what’s on paper. Never begin building your team without a well defined list of roles, expectations, and possible candidate list. This will help you get off to a good start before even alerting potential candidates.