Building an Elite Workforce requires you to hire the right people. The late and renowned management specialist Peter Drucker stated that by all accounts, the typical executive's batting average is no better than .333 and in no other area of management would we put up with such miserable performance.
Drucker's statement points to the importance that should be placed on the selection processes in business.
The 9 Most Common Hiring Mistakes
1. Relying on interviews to evaluate a candidate
2. Using only successful people as models
3. Too many criteria
4. Evaluating "personality" instead of job skills
5. Using yourself as an example
6. Failure to use statistically validated testing to predict job skills most critical to success
7. Not researching why people have failed in a job
8. Relying on general "good guy" criteria
9. Bypassing the reference check
A generation ago there was a 20 percent drop in the birth rate and thus we have 20 percent fewer people entering the labor force. Yet, fewer people are retiring and many have lost their jobs due to economic times.
It is important to understand what it means to build, manage and lead an elite workforce. In the midst of all this turmoil, there are legitimate answers and these answers will require change. The future will be singificantly different from the past and you cannot manage tomorrow like you managed yesterday, so HANG ON. It is going to be a wild ride!
Danny
Source for this material is from the MuRF's Building an Elite Workforce manager/leadership training program. To learn more about this training and how it can help your company achieve better results, contact Danny Smith at danny@RP2Development.com or 512-773-6528.
Drucker's statement points to the importance that should be placed on the selection processes in business.
The 9 Most Common Hiring Mistakes
1. Relying on interviews to evaluate a candidate
2. Using only successful people as models
3. Too many criteria
4. Evaluating "personality" instead of job skills
5. Using yourself as an example
6. Failure to use statistically validated testing to predict job skills most critical to success
7. Not researching why people have failed in a job
8. Relying on general "good guy" criteria
9. Bypassing the reference check
A generation ago there was a 20 percent drop in the birth rate and thus we have 20 percent fewer people entering the labor force. Yet, fewer people are retiring and many have lost their jobs due to economic times.
It is important to understand what it means to build, manage and lead an elite workforce. In the midst of all this turmoil, there are legitimate answers and these answers will require change. The future will be singificantly different from the past and you cannot manage tomorrow like you managed yesterday, so HANG ON. It is going to be a wild ride!
Danny
Source for this material is from the MuRF's Building an Elite Workforce manager/leadership training program. To learn more about this training and how it can help your company achieve better results, contact Danny Smith at danny@RP2Development.com or 512-773-6528.
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