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How are you really doing when it comes to hiring?
It’s rare that a company will ever look at its hiring effectiveness except when someone was a critically bad hire, or they left early, and you’re not exactly sure why. As compared to the metrics...
I should have been fired at least three times in my career. When’s it time to cut someone loose?
I’ve had 11 jobs over the course of my career. In three I’ve truly excelled by anyone’s standards, fiive have been successful but not notable and in the other three I felt that I had a ball and...
Leadership and Communication Go Hand-in-Hand
Many leaders think they’re doing a terrific job of communicating with their teams, but leaders fall short in all sorts of ways, as shown in the graph below from “The Top Complaint’s from Employees...
Eight ways to ensure a great candidate experience…and glowing referrals
To an outsider, their perception of your company is the sum of their interactions with you, your staff and word of mouth. Every point of contact between a candidate and a client is a potential...
Helping Yourself, and Your New Leaders, Find Success in the First 120 Days (A Whitepaper)
For anyone making a move to a new leadership role, there is a quick realization that you are walking into a never-ending cascade of grey. Your accustomed norms of company culture, how people...
10 Ways to Know That You’re Ready to Take On More Responsibility
I was 26, at the top of my game, and I was about to be tossed into the deep end of the management pool. Let me back up. I was knocking it out of the park as a top sales person when the president of...
We Could All Use More ‘No’s’ In Our Lives!
For anyone who is involved in leading, managing or selling, i.e. anyone who asks commitments of other people, the one word that I think we’d all love to hear more of is a simple ‘no’. Who among us...
It’s Stories That Galvanise Your Employees
In your company’s journey there is nothing more important than the creation of your own unique story that people will care about. Simply put, people need the sense that what they’re doing matters!...
This Year, Set Out On Your Quest in Ways That Really Matter to Your People
While Don Quixote may have been a bit deluded as he went about tilting at windmills, his tale is ultimately one of perseverance and noble causes. His quest reminds me of the challenges faced by...
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