Miche Rayment
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Hiring Problems You Probably Have
You face all kinds of obstacles month-to-month and year-to-year running your business. You’ve managed the product and service thing, the sales thing, and the leadership thing but the talent acquisition thing… not so much. Hiring is not taught in business school nor is it generally thought of as a leadership function. The most insidious problem…
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That Thief Bias
“This is the one. I can feel it!” You can’t wait to get the interview over with so you can hire her and get on with business. What’s the problem here? It’s that thief – bias – taking away the possibility that someone else is actually the better choice. Here’s a dictionary definition of…
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The Talent Attraction Silver Bullet
The most common hiring problem I hear from business leaders is how hard it is to find talent. Usually the conversation is heavily weighted with complaints about the poor quality of choices in the talent pool and how things need to change to make these people easier to find. However, there are a few companies…
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Hiring Team | We Think We Are Coordinating
In a coffee shop last week I asked three random people for their definition of integrity. They all played along. Suited guy, “Doing what you say you are going to do.” Brightly colored hair lady, “Being honest.” Serious looking lady, “Choosing to do the right thing.” Brightly colored hair lady, “So… why…
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Some Guy Can Make Your Rock-stars Quit
If you hire “some guy” and it doesn’t work out, be ready to accept responsibility and hold yourself accountable the way the rock-stars on your team would… or they are going to leave. The Reality of Hiring Some Guy “I’ll never just hire “some guy” again. Every time I think it will work out, I’m…
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Excuse me. You want me to ask who to help?
Don’t have confidence hiring? These people can help. For many business leaders spending the time to find and interview people is time begrudgingly spent and a bit of a crap shoot. It’s hard. What do you do when things get hard? You buckle down and get help. Benefits If you are clear that it is…
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Are You an Enlightened Leader? Probably Not.
Are you an open person? Well, of course! We’ve all learned not to ask closed-ended questions like that in interviews. The right answer is obvious and gets us nothing in the way of knowing the candidate better. But just how truthful are we with ourselves when we ask this kind of question? Throughout the past…
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Finding Talent | Where the Heck Are They?!
“They just aren’t here in Michigan.” “When we find someone even close to what we need, we are racing to the finish with a minimum of five other possible employers.” “I am desperate!” Unfortunately, desperation for talent often leads to bad hiring decisions. We’ve all been there. Feeling as if the only action is a…
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Hiring More People is Not a Growth Plan
The author Jim Collins brought us a powerful metaphor for running a business. He asked us to think of our business as a bus. Then he asked two important questions: Do we have the right people on the bus? Are they in the right seats? Using this metaphor is powerful because you aren’t just trying…