10 Cultural Practice #10: Not Hiring the Right People

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#10: NOT HIRING THE RIGHT PEOPLE

Hiring the right people will always be better than dealing with poor performing employees later. Hiring the right people, will always help create a better culture than hiring someone that does not fit in. There are lots of thoughts about how to do this – but here are a few suggestions that I believe might help: A) Hire for the talents and personality of the individual, not the work experience. Just because they have done it before does not mean they will fit to your culture. B) Find out if they are very curious – Curious people will fuel passion and not be afraid of change. C) Figure out if they are empathic – to be collaborative, people need to be able to understand others’ needs and issues. D) Look to see if they are fun to play with – Collaboration needs to be fun.

Personality – Talents – Curiosity – Empathic Skills – and Fun –

People with these traits will figure out how to play in the collaborative sand-box, and innovation and adaptation will be the outcome.

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