Forming An Effective Diverse Team/Group

Developing High Performance Teams and Leading people with diverse experiences towards a common goal can be challenging. Learning the stages and phases of team building requires everyone's cooperation to deliver both short and long- term project goals. 

Workforce Diversity -Workforces with both local and global characteristics can be difficult to unify towards a common goal. Understanding and working through our similarities and differences is an important step towards world class leadership.

This video shows several methods and techniques which have enabled many organizations around the globe to form effective diverse teams/groups.

                                               
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• First, when forming a group or team creates a comfortable rapport for your members.  Try to get to know your teammates.  Understand the context of people culture i.e. are they form high context culture or from low context culture.

• Allow members to ask different questions and be ready to answer them. Accept and respect cultural differences and side by form a mutual commonality among the team members. Do not judge them by their looks, religion, culture, and etc.

• When creating or setting up goals and objectives make sure that they attainable and realistic. Do not overwhelm your team members with too much information at once.  Furthermore let members to naturally offer their talents, i.e. do not force them to do something, instead work on their pace and let them familiarize themselves with corporate environment and team members.

• Always make sure that favouritism does not exist. If any problem arises try to provide reasonable accommodation. Team leaders must also strive to build cohesiveness among the team members. In addition to this leaders must have the ability and should provide other team members to focus on critical thinking.

• One of the most important steps is that continuous feedback should be taken from the members to ensure everyone is on the right path and always recognise members work above and beyond.

Finding & Recruiting Diverse Employees

Every organization will recruit employees at some point. Chances are a vacancy may arise as a result of someone leaving a post or retiring from the post, and etc.  Recruitment is one of the most costly, and time taking operation.

Since recruitment is costly, and time taking operations organizations want to ensure that they invest their money in the right employees.  In this age of diversity hiring thr right employees at the right time is very importan.

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The above video shows several tips on how to find and recruit the right employees.

Some of the tips which the video covers are mainly

• Organization must understand the job. This means that the organization must understand the job requirements. They should have proper job descriptions such as duties, tasks, responsibilities sketched out for their selection process.

• Ask the right questions. The recruiter must ask questions which fits with the job description, and etc.

• Be proactive. Try to establish a connection with people, and other businesses.

• Make strong relationships with under representative individuals.

• Make your presence known in the community by attending several events, and etc. 

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Retaining Employees In A Diverse Workforce

Retaining employees is very important and many organizations have to battle with this decisions “how to retain employees?”

Why organizations struggle to retain the employees?

Well the answer is simple; in today’s diverse economic climate, employee turnover is expensive. When employees leave or are made redundant; organizations then have to spend large amount of time and money to fill the spot.

There are several ways through which organizations can retain employees in this age where diverse workforce is everything and everywhere. Numerous ways to retain employees are:- reteaining employees, Take some time to find out who they are and learn about their talents and abilities, provide competitive compensation, and balance their work and personal lives.

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The above video provides several tips/ steps to retain employees in the diverse workforce. These are mainly as follows;

• Introduce employees to key staff across the organization.

• Share information on mission and corporate culture with the employees.

• Include employees in workplace activities, such as company events, and etc.

• Become more in tune to cultural and communication differences. Bear in mind that everyone is different and should treated equally as other employees.

• Constantly take feedback from the employees about how they feel about the organization and how things can be approved.

• Learn a couple of things about employees’ culture and provide them with constitutional rights such as day offs on important holidays, and etc.

• Provide mentorships opportunities to the employees so that they are exposed to at all levels of management of an organization.

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