Once a blue moon, a person is hired, and something special emerges. An employee that radically defines what "right" looks like. Their job performance is so surreal and proficient, they are basically a savant. Years after they depart, people still talk about what they did right, and how they acutely shaped something important to the company.
Read MorePeople redefining themselves. It's all the rage to swerve, rebrand, and pivot. That being said, swerving candidates often give us hiring managers a reason for a sideways glance. I've been across the table from several people looking to jump career paths. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's an abject disaster. I started writing this episode with the intention of it being more rooted in the how, but my writing took a surprising twist. I went with it.
Read MoreHave you ever thought about helping a candidate succeed in an interview? I do. I don't want people losing a chance at a job over their nerves. Even sitting in the corporate seat, there is still a great benefit to helping people succeed. Nerves happen, but they shouldn't be a barrier to having a great person on your team. So, what do you do when you see or hear a candidate get overtaken by nerves?
Read MoreHave you ever heard the phrase "beat them over the head with the Bible?" Or the concept of beating sense into a person? So much corporate capital is spent on companies using culture to recruit, and an equal amount is spent on communication is seems. And yet… there is a gap. Today, we're talking about the gap. The gap that is caused by your, mine and our, unwritten rules and uncommunicated expectations.
Read MoreHave you ever had that one moment of unrestrained pleasure over the greatest chocolate? Or the lingering devastation over the death of a loved one? Do you feel that having emotion, at a very deep level is a bad thing? Or a good thing? Today, we're going to talk about the allowing yourself, and your staff, to wallow.
Read MoreHave you ever looked at a SPECT Brain Scan? I recently had my child's brain scanned. She insisted I do a podcast on her brain. At first I wasn't sure that it would be relevant. But as I put the pieces together about what makes her brain act differently than mine, a lot of things make sense to me about how to be a better manager and mentor.
Read MoreToday we’re talking about continuous improvement as it has to do with the recruiting process. Especially when identifying issues with candidate selection and using our assumptions.
Read MoreTo be honest, I’m a little nervous about this one. It covers a lot of ground, and I am still learning and implementing. These are my thoughts so far.
Read MoreHere’s the transcript for Episode 005 - I’m just as guilty of, what I call, “Fly-by-Leadership” as everyone else. Let’s talk about what this means for your business.
Read More"Curiosity killed the cat. Satisfaction brought it back."
How many times have we said this nursery rhyme? We all know it. But what is the implications in business, especially when you have to build a team, and build it effectively.
Read MoreThere is a concept out there, called spray and pray. Spray and pray is when an employer posts a super long job description, with way too much information, and it is posted on every available site out there. In effect, spraying their job everywhere, and praying it works.
Read More“What is your favorite day of the week?” I’ll admit, some mastermind forums cause my jaw to drop more than it should. The former was one such question a business owner loved to ask of people, because it garnered “interesting” answers.
Read MoreI started a #TerribleTuesday post, but it turned into a #MondayMusing. Here’s my thoughts on loyalty as a competency.
Read MoreI found that most hiring managers consider themselves a good judge of character, and usually have their mind made up based on the resume. The interview was used to prove their point, and therefore the outcome the interviewer predicted. I can’t have worked with that many psychic people, so something was up.
Read MoreThe number one most important asset of any business is the people you employ. Imagine a world where the people you employ were engaged with you before they ever applied to the job.
Read MoreI was working for a branch of a large corporation that had 70% non-native English speakers. I knew a smattering of Russian and Spanish as a result. But I was new to the world of ADA-type accommodation, so I did what any HR person does, I consulted http://askjan.org. What is that you ask? It’s the job accommodation network. My options they listed were overwhelming, to say the least.
Read MoreI hear it constantly, “I need someone who’ll hit the ground running.” Years ago, when I first started recruiting, one of the senior people on staff said “Only a deer hits the ground running… when it’s being hunted.”
Read MorePersonally, I think there is a big problem asking a person to liken themselves to a tool. You are asking a person to boil their personality down to that of an inanimate object, that costs money, can break, can be thrown away, and replaced. But I digress.
Read MoreI started off my white collar career by talking my way into an office job, I had been a waitress. I didn’t know how to type, and all I knew was a program called Cricket Draw.
Read MoreI started waiting tables at 16 years of age. I got the job because my father was an active duty Air Force Officer. My dad was also an instructor in his field of work. I learned a lot about leadership having casual conversations with my father as a teen.
So my father and I recently talked about training.
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