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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…
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Weapon, Glue, Motivator, Magnet | How is Your Culture Serving You?
If you are honest with yourself about answering these two questions, you’ll find out soon enough what role culture is playing in your company – Weapon, Motivator, Glue, or Magnet. What is the meaning of your company? Is it more about making money or changing the world? What is the meaning of your employees? Is…
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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…