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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…
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HR Shouldn’t Own The Hiring Process
Hiring can’t be held exclusively by HR, which is deeply embedded in practices that are about limiting risk and ensuring compliance. This can put you at a severe disadvantage when competing for talent. When it comes to choosing your employees, you want to make powerful choices. You can’t be timid or slow to choose, especially…
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Building Self Accountability in Your Company
If you and your new employee don’t have a shared understanding of what they are responsible for, they likely won’t stay nearly as long as you’d like. There is so much room for misunderstanding too! What does it mean to be a [insert just about any job title here] at your company? Getting on the…
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What’s Your Talent Strategy?
Experts portend the next sustained wave of business failures won’t be because of a lack of innovation or poor disaster recovery practices; they will fail because they cannot attract, recruit, and retain talent. What’s your plan to not be one of them? Linda Teaman of Shoshana Technologies is a dedicated CEO for a small SaaS…