Internal Vacancy: Friendly Conscience Wanted

If you want your people to become entrepreneurial, it helps to have someone in your organization who keeps the topic on the agenda. Because while entrepreneurial actions are important, they can also easily be postponed.

But what profile should such a person have? A plainclothes police officer? A yay motivator? Below you'll find a sample vacancy test for this internal position.

Example of an internal job vacancy text

Who will help us become more entrepreneurial and increasingly take on the role of trusted advisor?

What we ask
  • A friendly and at the same time assertive person with a great deal of goodwill and the ability to de-escalate.
  • 80% of your role: encouraging, complimenting, coaching and facilitating.
  • 20% of your role: helping people remember what they agreed to do but didn't happen.
  • Extremely practical. You're someone who gets things done.
  • Can ask probing questions and identify and identify weak spots in plans. Can handle a vulnerable ego well.
  • Pay close attention to the energy balance; ensure that interventions yield more energy than they cost. 
What we offer
  • A key position in improving our organization
  • Great contact with all kinds of people, from management to consultants
  • The thrill of helping people grow, sometimes at the edges of their comfort zone.
  • Celebrate successes regularly with a nice budget to organize and purchase drinks and other lubricants.
  • Honor your work! 
When is it better not to respond?
  • If you are bright blue and think you can manage it with lists and emails
  • If you have little time or patience
  • If you think this change should just happen naturally, or if you find it stupid that smart, highly educated people aren't task-mature enough for this part of their work, or if you think they'll just do it on their own after two explanations. 
Do you want to do it together?
  • This function can also be performed in a team context
  • And probably takes a few hours a week

This article was written by Maarten van Os and Jan Willem van den Brink from DreamfactoryIt's based on a chapter from our book Why don't they just do it? – Make sure your consultants and technicians find and keep clients happy.

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