Miche Rayment
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5 Critical Roles You Need On Your Hiring Team
A very common mistake business leaders make is you don’t involve enough people and the right people in the hiring process. Partly this mistake is driven by the need to hire fast and, a smaller team definitely moves more quickly. But at what cost? Moving fast and making a half informed decision is just as…
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Are you kidding yourself? Most leaders are.
Evidence You Are Kidding Yourself Your customers and employees see through the BS and are less engaged than they could be. You are being reactive with your team – always having to tell them what to do and how to solve problems. People joining your team soon feel duped. And it ends up taking your…
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The Power of the 2-Foot Rule
The 2-Foot Rule Anyone that cannot provide value in a meeting or group, gets up, uses their two feet, and leaves. The only response from the group is oriented on gratitude for the potential of a greater outcome. No fan fair when leaving. No judgment for leaving. Just a continued move toward a better outcome. …
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You Need Two Hearts To Hire Well
It takes two hearts to hire well: a system at the center of how your team coordinates to choose new people and the standards with which you treat all the candidates that apply as they go through that system. The First Heart – A Hiring System All too often business leaders don’t include the right…
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Getting Your Culture To Shift
Understanding and shifting culture is a big thing; it could take 12-18 months of intention and work. When you think about shifting your business culture, what does that look like? Internal marketing? Designing and implementing incentive plans? Updating management practices? Having a team visioning session? How To Define Culture Culture can be identified clearly so…
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The Unknown and Hard Truths About Hiring for Culture
Many of you know the pain of hiring someone with the exact skills you need and then finding out, sometimes in a disastrous way, that they don’t fit. I can hear the sighs and grunts through distance and time. Many of you have also hired someone knowing you have problems in your culture and have…
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Do your panel interviews rock?
Do you employ the thumbs-up-OR-thumbs-down at the end of a panel interview? Truthfully, that is the equivalent of a limp handshake in the world of rockin’ panel interviews. When the candidate walks out the door, everyone has their opinion and that’s good. However, you are probably missing out on a major opportunity to get some…
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Do you have accountability problems?
Do your employees often say things like, “I’m overwhelmed!” Or “Doesn’t so-and-so do that?” Or “The team comes to me for that all the time, shouldn’t I get paid more?” Are you trying to make your team accountable? Do you wonder why they aren’t holding themselves accountable? The confusion you are encountering is likely caused…
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Do you know how to hire?
The Three Stages of Knowing… have you heard of it? It’s a powerful form to use in the hiring process. The most triggering though for people responsible for hiring is a self assessment using the form. Fernando Flores, a guru in the ontology of business, first presented the Three Stages of Knowing as a way…
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Be a Humble and Present Interviewer
Hiring teams struggle in preparation for the hiring process. The greatest angst for most hiring team members is how to conduct a good interview. The majority of the anxiety comes from inventing the questions to ask in interviews. The questions are important, but you must also prepare yourself to be a good interviewer. Consider applying…