Here is an excerpt from the Guide “Find your Sales Agent.”You know your market, you have identified your exact needs, your business organization is ready and can support an increase in activity, your business tools are ready and motivated you in your search for one or more sales staff.Combine this knowledge to clearly present your [...]
While many industries have experienced large drops in activity, the private sector and public health and social work continues to grow and therefore hiring.In employment, there are paradoxes. Health is one such as the construction industry. There are more vacancies than applications. Indeed, even as the needs of the population is growing in access to [...]
Jim Collins in his book Good to Great talks about “getting the right people on the bus” before deciding where to drive it. A key factor in getting the right people is understanding what competencies we are looking for and how to find out if someone has these. Identifying knowledge and skills is relatively easy [...]
Jim Collins in his book “Good to Great” researched companies that were already well regarded to discover what made some of them great. The criteria for great were well defined and the research to uncover how they became great was excellent. The book is a good read. One of the findings which, in some ways, [...]
Induction or orientation to the work place typically involves showing the new employee around, telling them about the organization and showing them where they will be working – if it happens at all. After selecting the right person, ensuring an appropriate induction is probably the next most important event in maximising results from people – [...]
Let’s assume you’ve completed your hiring process, your new employee is on the job, and training is underway. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a tool you could use that would let you know for certain whether each new employee was a hiring mistake or a hiring success? Well, there is such a tool [...]
Who hasn’t heard about the internet? No one! Unless, of course, you have been living in a cave for the past decade! The internet is the crowning achievement of the Information Age (which is what we call this age we live in). It has completely revolutionized how we communicate and how we live. But what [...]
A mentoring initiative is a business strategy that enables organizations to turn people into assets. Since every core business process and strategic initiative requires a Human Capital Management business strategy to execute it, improvements made in HCM systems and processes can notably impact an organization’s bottom line. A mentoring program is a standard of excellence [...]
Here’s a picture for you – a baseball game where one team has the typical nine players, the other team – just one, and he’s pitching. The batter wallops one to the wall. The pitcher becomes the right fielder and scurries out to grab the ball and then sprints to home plate in hopes of [...]
One of the most frustrating parts of running a business for many business owners and manager is finding the right employees. A vacancy opening usually leads to plenty of applicants, but finding the candidate that not only possesses the right combination of skills, experience and education as well as has important qualities as teamwork, initiative [...]