Action step #1 – Enroll your team! Share with them the exact person you are looking for with specific skills, talent, and experience. Share this every time you meet with your team. Leverage their insights as well as time, energy, and network to multiply your efforts. Action step #2 – Spread the word! You must

It is no secret the landscape of the labor force has changed quite a bit. This cannot become an excuse to put your hiring process on automatic or abandon the structure of your hiring process. In fact it should give you more reason to continue to refine how you hire. 2 ways your hiring process

During the early months of summer, one of my mentors made it a point to promote August as the month that sets the tone for your future.  To say this sparked my interest is an understatement. At first I questioned the logic. How could the ‘dog days of summer’ hold this much significance? How could

Selection of an employee may be one of the most important things you can do for your business. This process is often treated like an afterthought missing the attention it deserves. Employers spend too much time managing employee problems stealing time from business development. Any hire that results in the termination of employment is a loss

As an employer, there is an impulse to “save” a high performing employee who has decided to leave. It’s a survival response that comes with a feeling of abandonment and vulnerability. There are two things to keep in mind to preserve the dignity of the employee: 1st – The employee left long before they told

How to take a counterintuitive approach with your, and your employees, work this summer. Most organizations slow down in the summer and a dramatic loss in productivity takes place.   In some positions and companies that can represent as much as a 20% decline. The summer months represent one quarter of the year. Taking it easy

  There is writing a job posting and – crafting one.   That difference shows in the people you do or do not attract. Your job posting and the way applicants interact with it are like patterns of response to your marketing messages. (Make no mistake, a job posting is part of your marketing with

The way to recruit top people is simple and essential to your business. As long as you have a clearly defined process and are willing to follow it until you find EXACTLY who you are looking for, you’ll have no problem when looking to recruit the best people for your business. **Disclaimer, by process I mean organized

How to understand the relationship between employee acquisition and customer acquisition taking you from good to great. Your approach to employee acquisition, known as hiring, is one of the most important factors leading to long-term business success. In my experience, hiring is treated as a have-to rather than a get-to. That said, to truly fire