Taking the time upfront to select the right team for your IT project that matches both the technical skills required by the project and the personality needs that fit with the project and the cultural needs of your organization goes a long ways into developing a highly successful project.
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Transcript
This video is going to focus a bit on the soft skills, the personality assessments.
There’s been a lot of research by Cambridge, particularly MIT and Harvard, uh, associating or using data science with the right talent that have a higher likelihood of delivering a high quality of, of successful outcomes for the project. They looked at specific attributes of an individual based on the personality. And so we look at those things as well. We leveraged their, some of their assessments that came out of Cambridge so that we’re matching the right talent with the right people, focusing on the soft skills as well.
I can’t underscore or over emphasize the importance enough of, of having a project
team with soft skills as well. It’s great to have hard skills to function on the technical, but if you have a project team members that are client facing, or stakeholders facing, particularly business analysts, project managers, communications specialists, change managers, trainers, those individuals touch the clients and they can do a lot of, uh, good to really bring people along and to going through transformation.
But they could also do a lot of harm and cause a lot of frustration and resistance to change.
So taking some time upfront, selecting the right team that matches the personality needs, the cultural needs of your organization, it goes a long way into developing a highly successful project.
I gave you a previous example that we had in our previous video of a resource that we were looking at that how to use a project manager for a Salesforce project that we have.
And this was an example of an individual and how we would go about doing an assessment. We do have a personality assessments and different types of assessments based on the different needs of our clients.
They wanted to show you one of those and how we look at personality, how we look about the soft skills. Obviously we do interviews to determine the soft skills as well, but data also goes a long way. This candidate will have completed a personality assessment and we’ll be able to take a look at a variety of things that we’ve customized for, for Darby and for our clients.
Have some of the key skills that we look for that are soft skills that are important to be successful with our clients. Things like broad thinking, establishing trust, stress aversion, preference for teamwork, how they present themselves. These are soft skills that are critically important.
And the way we look at the scores we’re able to see how they score on average amongst other individuals within their same role within the IT world, and we’re also able to see at a high level a quick standard deviation of whether or not they’re below average, above average, by using data science to help us match the right clients to the right people.
You don’t always have to go to this level of sophistication. We do because it’s important for our brand that we’re constantly developing and placing great talent on our clients and we have to make sure that we’ve done our due diligence to make that happen.
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