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The shift into highly sexualised environments such as sex parties, saunas and other sex-on-premises venues has become a noticeable trend in recent years. ‘The typical pattern is that guys are using G over a weekend to enhance or facilitate sex but people have got better at getting the dose right and knowing what to taken when, so the effects on the body are lasting longer and people are quickly forming a physical dependence.’\nBased on the users that are presenting to services such as Antidote, the Club Drug Clinic and CODE, the physical dependency created by excessive use of G leads to users needing a fix every two hours. 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      "body": "![0-_uHHLdfpH-WytYN3.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbbA68qheyPLPYWmDFbnpDFnEsUdsmVpn2YGyLa5n36rJ/0-_uHHLdfpH-WytYN3.jpeg)\n\nAt Gay Star News, the online media company where I work, we’ve been growing. We’ve been recruiting new members to the team, and there’s also been some turn-over in roles, plus we’ve got some plans for further growth. So it feels like we’re going through a period of change.\nAt the moment we effectively have three different dimensions to the business resources we’ve got — Team Tris, Team Scott, and Team Gareth. They’re obviously not the official names of the teams, we don’t actually have official names for the teams, but you could broadly characterise them as Engagement (Team Tris), Partnerships (Team Scott), and Delivery (Team Gareth).\nThe Engagement side of the troika (Team Tris) is focused on content, distribution, and audience. The Partnerships side (Team Scott) is focused on direct sales to commercial partners. The Delivery side (Team Gareth) is focused on technology, events, sales support, business management, finance, and project management.\n1. The Problem\nHaving gone from one fairly low-maintenance direct report in my Delivery team to now having four new-to-the-business direct reports, I’m wanting to put in some easy-to-use systems to help everyone in the Delivery team know what they should be doing, and to be able to transparently track what we’re prioritising, where we’re allocating time, as well as demonstrating that stuff is getting done.\nWe currently don’t have a business-wide goal-setting framework in place at Gay Star News, and there’s quite a material difference between the three teams, so having a one-size-fits-all approach probably doesn’t make much sense. The Engagement team runs pretty much like a content-generating newsroom; the Partnerships team is a classic sales team; whereas the Delivery team has the five of us all working on pretty distinct and separate deliverables.\nI’ve managed this kind of team before in other companies, so in a lot of senses this dynamic feels quite familiar, but I wanted to try and build some solid foundations that would enable and support future growth of the business.\n2. The Research\nAfter a bit of reading about how different teams and organisations tackle this kind of thing, it was eventually the experience of Hailley Griffis from the marketing team at Buffer that helped me find a way forward. Griffis wrote about how they had adapted Buffer’s six-week planning cycle to the marketing team. The solutions that Griffis ended up with didn’t really resonate with me, but the six-week planning cycle, and adapting that to the team dynamics and business objectives that I was grappling with in the Delivery team at Gay Star News made a lot of sense to me.\n3. The Starting Point\nMy starting point was to write down (in a Google Sheet) a list of everything that I could think of that myself and my direct reports need to deliver in the next six weeks.\nI created a separate list for each of the team: Alex, Nuno, Mattia, Addison, and myself.\nThat was a useful exercise — it demonstrated that we had a lot of stuff to get done.\n4. Isolation\nAt this point, I realised I’d been working in isolation from Team Tris and Team Scott, so I emailed both Tris and Scott with a summary of where I’d got to and what I was working on, with the caveat that I was happy to keep working in isolation on this as I didn’t really see it as appropriate for their teams.\n5. 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In the six years we’ve been in operation we’ve had six salespeople come and go, number seven has been with us for three months, and we’re currently looking to expand our team from two people to three people.\n\nMy brief was to search for candidates for salesperson number eight.\n\nThe Requirements We Advertised For\nKey responsibilities:\nIdentify and connect with potential client contacts and commercial partners\nPrepare and present client-specific concepts and proposals\nDevelop and nurture relationships\n\nRequirements:\nA passion for digital media\nExcellent communication skills — in writing, over the phone, and face-to-face\nSelf-motivated, driven, entrepreneurial and enthusiastic\nCreative and strategic approach\nKnowledge of LGBTI market\n\nThe Search Process\nI had two search channels that I decided to pursue for this brief:\nSocial Media: We shared our job ad across the social media channels of Gay Star News, as well as asking all members of the team to share it across their social media and professional networks.\nIndeed Job Listings: This is a free job-listing service that I’ve had some success with in the past and so decided to run our ad on that also.\n\nI set myself the target of identifying at least five candidates for an initial screening conversation.\nThe Initial Response\nI received eleven responses from potential candidates who were interested in the role. 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The guidance that I gave was that we weren’t looking for a big presentation, but an informal round-table brainstorm to see where their thinking had taken them.\n\nI set ourselves a template by which we could record our impressions of each candidate and compare and contrast our assessment. The criteria that we were recording against were:\nInitial Impression\nQuality of preparation\nPresentation/Discussion\nCreative Thinking\nLike-ability\nDynamism/Presence\nOverall Impression\n\nFirst up was Candidate #6, followed by Candidate #2, with Candidate #5 being our final session of the second-round.\nAll three candidates performed strongly. All were on time, all presented very well. It was clear that they each had their strengths and weaknesses, pros and cons, and our debrief session after each candidate was useful to discuss and record our thoughts, impressions, and insights.\nAs part of the Overall Impression component, we gave each candidate a score out of ten. 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