Building a Successful Student Team
- Prepare
- Determine supervision and hiring mechanisms
- Secure office space and equipment
- Gather funds to pay students
- Train students for high quality, consistent work with observation and shadowing, written manual, and practice interviews. Suggested topics:
- Jurisdictional structure, processes, and protocols
- Databases and electronic systems
- Tips, tricks, and techniques
- Privacy rules and confidentiality
- Manage
- Coordinate schedules between students to ensure coverage
- Schedule team meetings and supervise students
- Engage students in additional activities depending on your needs and their availability
- Evaluate
- Evaluate both the students and management to facilitate process improvement and
ongoing success. - Example of formal evaluation: exit interviews
- Example of informal evaluation: day to day conversations
- Take note of opportunities students accept when leaving the team
- Evaluate both the students and management to facilitate process improvement and
Page last reviewed: April 12, 2019