Globalized workplaces are fast becoming the norm. This means today’s managers are faced with a whole new landscape of people challenges. Companies are engaging teams from a wider variety of cultures. Employees and contractors may be working across oceans in other countries, or telecommuting right in the same city. As Greg Savage puts it, candidates are not…
If You Struggle with Hiring the Right People, You’re Not Alone.
Here are 4 tips to help you get it right, every time. Do Your Own Interviewing. I have seen this mistake repeated over and over again – leaving the hiring to the people in HR. Unless your Human Resources department carries a lead role in your business process — and…
Choosing Someone to Manage or to Lead – How Can You Tell the Difference?
If you are faced with hiring a new manager for your organisation, I would like you to think about the weight of the decision you are making. Wait a minute, what does that have to do with baking a cake? My friend Leslee Lucy, the Financial Centre Manager for Sun Life, nailed it…
Enhancing Your Hiring Process to Attract Talented People
Finding and hiring talented people is a lot harder than simply expressing the fact that your company values talent. Building a team of talented people in your company requires a pro-active approach to recruitment on many levels. Sure you have set up a system to dismiss those who are not…
What do Headhunters Look For – Advice for Owners & Managers
As a business owner, whether you love us or hate us, I’ll bet you’ve wondered: what is it that headhunters look for when they’re choosing what companies they want to recruit for. Headhunters have something you don’t have. They have inside information from the job market. They have a pool…
Winning the War for Talent
When I talk to companies in the BC Interior about their business plans, strategies and goals, they put an enormous emphasis on hiring people with the right experience. They’re engaged head on in “Winning the War for Talent”. Recent conversations with my clients about their War for Talent typically look…
Employees Suing Employers – The 12 Scariest Mistakes Employers Make
Employees suing employers is probably one of the most unpleasant, and avoidable, experiences any business owner has to deal with. Sometimes a simple apology is enough to diffuse a disgruntled employee long before things escalate to having anyone dial their lawyers. Many employers make the expensive error of assuming they won’t…
Small Business Hiring Just Got Easier
“At most companies people spend 2% of their time recruiting, and 75% managing their mistakes.” – Richard Fairbank, Founder & CEO Capital One Having trouble finding the time you need to actually get your hiring done, right? We Can Help … Sick and tired of wondering if your next hire is going…
LET’S-GET-TO-IT … the 5 Essentials of a Solid Sales Meeting Agenda
90% of relationships fail due to unmet expectations. Unmet expectations are a result of not communicating one’s expectations clearly, concisely and congruently. What does that mean? More importantly, what does that look like? If we think in terms of dating, man seeks woman who … and woman seeks man who……
Easy Win-Win Hiring Strategies: Is 2013 YOUR Right Time to Hire?
For many 2012 was a banner year showing solid returns. So much so that many of you are feeling frustrated about not having enough hours in the day to get everything done. Nice problem to have, but it’s still a problem. Right? So now you’re struggling to decide if 2013…
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