The Universal Desire To Work With Great People
The Universal Desire To Work With Great People Minal Joshi Jaeckli July 20, 2025 THIS IS WHERE WE STARTED: There is a universal desire to work with great people, but they can be hard to find. OpenElevator was initially built to and still does deliver insights on people alignment, as well as relevant and comparable technical information, so you can build your best team. While recruitment sites focus on solving an important problem—to make sure that enough qualified applicants learn about and apply for your open position—they do NOTHING to make sure that you get selection right for long-term engagement. Right means technically able to do the job AND with the best interpersonal fit with the manager and environment to collaborate and stay motivated for the long term. That’s where we step in. Solving the Universal Desire to Work with Great People OpenElevator is all about talent SELECTION! With a sophisticated matching algorithm and a hiring-process management tool to help you easily hire the right candidate. Delivering a powerful and intuitive dashboard that includes each applicant’s alignment ranking with the manager and alignment with your organization. In addition, you get answers to your bespoke questions so you can effectively screen candidates on the dimensions that are important for you, to help you easily select your top candidates. We understand the universal desire to work with great people, and that’s exactly why our platform was created—to help you make smarter hiring decisions that go beyond qualifications alone. From Hiring to Optimizing Teams: Supporting the Universal Desire to Work with Great People THIS IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY: The people we work with directly influence our motivation and performance. While there’s no doubt getting hiring right is critical, we have clients with existing teams that needed help to optimise collaboration and measurably lower employee turnover. That’s why we launched the team assessment module. OpenElevator delivers insights on alignment among individual team members so you can optimize your existing team collaboration and contribution. This aligns with the universal desire to work with great people by ensuring the people already on your team can work better together. As team after team has completed this assessment, we have come to realize a few important things: It is absolutely accurate. – Well, of course it is. 🙂 Still, it’s great to see team after team react with amazement that the data we deliver totally matches their experience. This builds serious confidence. It takes the guesswork out of who to assign to work together. As a third party, it’s hard to gauge how easily two people work together, especially across functions and geographies. Now there is trusted data to help optimize team setup and address friction objectively. This is actionable insight. It helps determine which long-term engagement programs are valued and important for team members and which ones are not. No more wasted resource allocation. WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY? If you would like to try the team assessment and get a demo, reach out at [email protected]. We are happy to give you the gift of insight—and help you fulfill the universal desire to work with great people. Contact us at [email protected] Related Posts Connection is THE Prerequisite for Team Success Connection is THE Prerequisite for Team Success Minal Joshi Jaeckli July 20, 2025 Think of your favourite manager and answer the following two questions. What. What do YOU need to address in your organization: JOB FIT or INTERPERSONAL FIT? What do YOU need to address in your organization: JOB FIT or INTERPERSONAL FIT? Minal Joshi Jaeckli July 19, 2025 Do you feel that the. Why You Should Stop Hiring and Team Building in Hiring Process Like It's 1999 Why You Should Stop Hiring and Team Building in Hiring Process Like It’s 1999 Minal Joshi Jaeckli July 19, 2025 Description: Why? Because using the.
Connection is THE Prerequisite for Team Success
Connection is THE Prerequisite for Team Success Minal Joshi Jaeckli July 20, 2025 Think of your favourite manager and answer the following two questions. What did you like about this person? What do you like about your own management style? Do you notice the similarities in the two answers? That is, what you like about your favorite manager is similar to what you appreciate about your own management style? Now hold that thought… Why Connection is the Prerequisite for Team Success When I talk about connection & alignment and working with people who are similar to you and people you like, the conversation inevitably turns to the following: the danger of hiring people just like yourself, fear of mini-me, and lack of diversity. Let’s start from the bottom line. Our goal in organizations is to have bottom-line impact. Right? Ensuring sustainability, profitability, and growth with increased innovation, creativity, and customer service. While diversity seems altruistic, it is necessary to fuel innovation, creativity, and customer service. For instance, in your global positioning, to best address and serve the needs of a diverse client base requires deep client understanding, which comes much easier from a diverse team. This level of innovation and understanding begins with connection—the prerequisite for team success. Diversity, Inclusion, and the Prerequisite for Team Success Two key points here: When we talk about diversity, most of the time our focus is on demographic diversity. Yet there are several types of diversity: experiences, education, ideas, demographic, working style…etc. I actually had someone tell me that her company has a strong diversity program, specifically focused on women. – Diversity focused on one gender? Is that diversity? Having diverse people around the table whose views are not considered is meaningless. To quote the Harvard Business Review, “Diversity without inclusion is useless.” Inclusion delivers a sense of belonging… So, what ensures inclusion? The prerequisite for team success is connection. Connection does. Connection is necessary for inclusion. Connection is about trust; it is built on “similarities.” People connect through shared experiences, beliefs, and preferences. That’s exactly why we see people hiring in their demographic group so often. Without tools, this is (or has been) the best proxy for assessing connection. And most of us have experienced the trap of hiring people who seem like a “good team fit,” only to find out three weeks later that they have a different standard, show up late, are sloppy, are difficult to work with… Take a look again at the attributes you appreciate in your favorite manager and in yourself, from the exercise we started with. Did that have anything to do with demographics? Nope. What we appreciate has to do with WORKING STYLE, which we can assess with tools. When a connection is built based on working style, this is the prerequisite for team success and a recipe for successful collaboration. So, if you are building a team, assess working style. Use tools to help you. Because this is both bottom-line relevant and the prerequisite for team success—a real competitive advantage, if you get it right! Have a question? Find answers in our FAQ! Need personalized support? Contact us today. Related Posts What Everyone Ought to Know about Hiring for Attitude What Everyone Ought to Know about Hiring for Attitude Minal Joshi Jaeckli July 15, 2025 Simon Sinek says, “You don’t hire for skills, you hire. What do YOU need to address in your organization: JOB FIT or INTERPERSONAL FIT? What do YOU need to address in your organization: JOB FIT or INTERPERSONAL FIT? Minal Joshi Jaeckli July 19, 2025 Do you feel that the. Why You Should Stop Hiring and Team Building in Hiring Process Like It’s 1999 Why You Should Stop Hiring and Team Building in Hiring Process Like It’s 1999 Minal Joshi Jaeckli July 19, 2025 Description: Why? Because using the.
