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I’ve been reading several articles about companies who are rescinding their job offers before the new worker starts in their position. This whiplash is happening because many businesses have been desperate for employees, and were a bit blindsided by recent economic turmoil.
Imagine what that does to someone who left their previous job, perhaps even moved in anticipation of the great new job. It’s more than devastating.
I sure hope you haven’t had to do this to someone, but it might be good to think about the implications of making this kind of decision.
Read the rest of this entry »I don’t know if you’ve ever made a mistake when hiring someone. If you haven’t, then you must be smarter and luckier than I am.
Because it does happen, despite your best preparations.
And when you’re dealing with employees, it’s much trickier than if you purchase the wrong product. But there are things we can do about it.
Read the rest of this entry »You see the signs over town of companies desperate for new employees. But this isn’t because there are no good workers.
But you might want to notice which businesses are doing just fine with their workforces. They’re retaining great people and attracting new ones at a comfortable rate. You just don’t hear about them because they’re getting back to delivering great value for customers.
What’s the difference?
The answer comes through thinking about employees like you think about individual customers. You often ask questions like:
Read the rest of this entry »Like most people, my values have changed quite slowly during my life. I can identify a few distinct places where values shifted – like when I graduated from college – but it’s not common.
As I’ve aged, I’ve become clearer about what my values are – but it’s more about learning who I am, not becoming a different person.
When you’re looking to hire great people, this is a critical observation.
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THERE SEEMS TO BE A HUGE DISCONNECT between how older people define “career” versus younger people.
This was well articulated by the author of 50 Ways to Get a Job, Dev Aujila. In a recent interview, he spoke of stability based jobs versus skill based jobs. He was speaking to job seekers, but business leaders have a lot to learn from this.
My parents grew up with the model that success looks like having one employer and one career for your entire working life. That model was already breaking down in the 1970s, and now it’s rarely effective.
COMPANIES HAVE BEEN TALKING FOR YEARS about the importance of culture fit when hiring a new employee. But we’ve now discovered it can be a big trap.
When someone fits well into your culture, it means that they’re pretty much just like you. Which then leads to a homogeneous company, stifled creativity, and stagnation.
Not that you want to hire someone who hates your organization’s culture. But … you do want to stretch it.
WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE, building solid technical skills is much easier.
This is the philosophy of Canidium, a rapidly growing consulting business which focuses on sales and service performance improvement via strategic guidance and systems integration and support for their clients..
It’s a pretty technical set of services, but I was intrigued by the notion that this company puts people first: Both its customers and its employees. Read the rest of this entry »
DO YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY running the same old job postings that everyone else in your industry is doing?
Stop it! As a mission-driven, values-based organization, you can take an entirely different approach.
Check out this article that I published on the Conscious Company Media site:
Values are king at social impact jobs
In my decades as a business consultant, I’ve learned that many of the technical skills — most of the stuff in the job description — are trainable. What really makes someone suitable for a job at your mission-driven enterprise is how well they align with your mission and values.
IF YOU’VE BEEN FOLLOWING the local business news, you may have heard that the Talent 2.0 Regional Workforce Strategy Report has now been released for northern Colorado.
If you have employees, or need employees, there’s some very sobering news. Read the rest of this entry »
THIS LAST WEEK I had a chance to help out some high school kids in a very special way. Every semester for the last few years they’ve held “mock interviews” for some of the students, giving them a chance to find out what a job interview is really like.
Some of them are terrified.
But of course you’d expect that. They’ve heard all the scare stories, a grade is on the line, and they’re putting themselves out into totally unfamiliar territory.
The Values-Based Business 