Recruiting the right person to the role and to your team is so important. Will they be a good fit to the culture, the existing personalities and do they have the right approach to learning?
Before you ask someone to join your team, it is useful to know what degree they are:
Lead-able
Coach-able
Feedback-able
Someone who is ‘Feedback-able’ is comfortable with both offering and receiving feedback conversations. They value feedback and will ask for it in a healthy, striving for excellence kind of way. People who are Feedback-able are also usually lead-able and coach-able!
During the interview, ask your potential Team Member:
‘What’s important to you about feedback in the workplace?’
‘Can you share a time when you received feedback that you believe helped your performance to improve?’
‘Can you think of a work-related example where you felt it took courage to offer the feedback you did?’
If you end up recruiting them, include feedback as part of your onboarding process:
‘Congratulations and welcome to our team! In our team we promote a culture where feedback conversations are regular and expected. We value honesty and respect. There will be no surprises in our feedback conversations. When you have settled into the role/team in a few weeks, we will talk more about feedback, that way we are both clear on expectations.’