Invest in your top talent
Once you have the financials in place to get your idea off the ground, your team is the next critical step towards success. But where do you start?
Two important considerations before making any hiring decisions are working out the types of skills you need and when you need them. People will typically be the biggest cost to your business, and the need to preserve cash until the business starts generating revenue should focus your thinking on the skills that you need and the order they should be brought on board and that can be daunting in itself.
While technical expertise is crucial, a balance of soft skills is required in a small team to develop a successful organisation. Communication, flexibility, mentoring and leadership skills will be needed to help your business flourish. You’ll also want to build the foundations for a strong company culture.
Diversity brings perspectives from different walks of life and includes different ways of thinking. Diversity of all kinds always brings the best results, when business can be looked at from all angles.
It is better to have a smaller, high-performing team than a larger team with average colleagues. Take your time to find the right people, who fit within your brand ethos and have a real passion to build the business.
Sourcing suitable candidates may well be the lengthiest part of the process. You can tap into your personal networks, set up a stall at a local job fair or simply pay to advertise, but in each case, you could be missing out on the best talent because these talent pools are just too shallow.
Working with an expert search organisation is the key to finding the right people, especially critical at senior level.
We specialise in sourcing skilled executive talent for senior strategic roles in the automotive and mobility industry.
With 15 years of experience finding amazing people for amazing brands, we’ve become adept at discovering just what it is an organisation needs, where the skills gaps lie, and where best to look for that experience in the market.