Getting Your Culture To Shift

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...
The Unknown and Hard Truths About Hiring for Culture

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...
Do your panel interviews rock?

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...
Do you have accountability problems?

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...
Do you know how to hire?

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...
Be a Humble and Present Interviewer

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...