As Jim Collins famously said in his best-selling leadership book, Good to Great, “It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.” Extraordinary organizations are built by leaders capable of aligning their teams around a common vision, pursued by a diverse team of competent, committed members – and hiring is crucial to that end.
This course will highlight one of the critical building blocks of a virtuous faculty culture – hiring for mission fit. In a school with a focus on virtue ethics, the teachers serve as models to the students, as types of character friends who will always carry the best interests and moral growth of the students firmly in their hearts. Beginning with a section on identifying “first who,” the course will then describe several components in the process of hiring for mission fit, including recruiting, screening, interviewing, and onboarding at the school.
Course Texts:
- Lencioni, Patrick. The Ideal Team Player. Jossey-Bass, 2016. ISBN: 978-1119209591
- Smart, Geoff and Street, Randy. Who. Ballentine Books, 2008. ISBN: 978-0345504197
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