Aligning Hiring and Evaluations to Service Excellence
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For Superintendent Dan Woestman, service excellence is a value his organization takes very seriously. In this video, Dan explains how his human resources and leadership teams use their standards of service in their hiring and evaluations. For individuals to commit to living the standards of service, leaders need to have continued discussions around service excellence. Employees need to see how their actions align to the organization's values. When we use the standards of service excellence to evaluate potential candidates, we are more likely to hire a person aligned with our culture and committed to our values.
Reflection Activity
- When evaluating a potential candidate, how do you determine if they are aligned to your organization’s values?
- Using your standards of service, create 2 behavioral interview questions to analyze if the candidate will uphold your organization’s standards.
- How can you use the standards of service in your employee evaluations? How can you implement other organizational values into employee evaluations?
Video Transcript
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we’ve started using our service
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excellent standards when we are building
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our teams and our Human Resources
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Department when they put together a
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candidate profile they pull up not only
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a list of you know some type of survey
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with say we’re hiring a new principal
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staff we’ll do a survey that says here’s
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what we’re looking for in a new leader
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for the HR department and then the HR
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department traditionally would sit down
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with a core group of leaders from the
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school usually teacher leaders and maybe
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an administrator leader if there’s one
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at the school they’d be on that and they
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put together a candidate profile now in
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addition to what the staff are looking
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for we pull in our service excellence
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standards and we have them prioritize
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identify a couple that they would
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prioritize and then create a couple
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questions around those service
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excellence standards that they can
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incorporate into the interview some
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please tell me about a time win and then
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they’re looking for thank you they’re
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looking for examples or stories that
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would showcase that individual being
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able to provide service or understanding
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what we already think service excellence
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is because when we’re bringing in our
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leaders we want to make sure that their
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values align with ours so this has been
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a really good thing for us to do with
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our team’s and is a good way to for an
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HR department to just continually be
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helping and supporting that discussion
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around values and for us specifically
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service excellence we also have started
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as we go through our collective
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bargaining processes with our different
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employee groups we started incorporating
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the ARS our values into our evaluations
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and it’s it’s less formal it can start
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out as like a part of the
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self-assessment that an employee might
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fill out that they could as part of
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their self-assessment they’re not only
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reflecting on their practice as they
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interact with students their practice as
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they interact with other team mates
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maybe on a PLC but we can specifically
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pull out the way that they’re
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interacting with peers and parents in
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terms of or using the definitions of our
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service excellence standards there’s a
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probably a process that already exists
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for you to identify some actions that
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could align with values what we’re
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trying to do here is just align the
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conversations of the vocabulary to
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knowledge the work that’s already
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happened in our organization around
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defining those service excellent
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standards so if you’re thinking about
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Danielson and that professionalism and
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Danielson you might already have an
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opportunity where teachers are able to
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reflect on that and you can just start
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changing the perspective of that so it
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always comes back to the the definitions
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that you’ve created as an organization
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so that’s a building block
