I have written several posts on the importance for setting clear expectations, making sure your team understands your goals and directions. But for your team to succeed they also need to have the knowledge and skills required. And this cannot be done without training. Every manager’s priority should be to train their teams, for aContinue reading “Setting expectations then training, training and training.”
Category Archives: Recruitment
Be ridiculously selective in hiring people
The title of this post comes from the book Essentialism from Greg McKeown. I have never found a better way to express how important, how critical it is to only hire great candidates. The biggest mistake is to hire a second choice candidate, someone we have doubts on, someone we know is not going toContinue reading “Be ridiculously selective in hiring people”
Wrong recruitment? Don’t lie to yourself
While a successful recruitment is a game changer and the most important achievement for any manager, unfortunately it does not work out every time, even if you have done everything to make sure this would be a successful hiring. When you know that you have hired the wrong person, the worst possible decision is toContinue reading “Wrong recruitment? Don’t lie to yourself”
Get the best when checking candidate’s References
In the recruitment process taking references is a very important process but very difficult. It has actually become even more difficult in the past few years because people are getting increasingly afraid of getting into trouble for saying anything negative about an ex-employee… so they either refuse to give references or they just say someContinue reading “Get the best when checking candidate’s References”
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