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Avoid Unstructured Interviews to Make the Right Hiring Decision

October 21, 2020 by Karen Kennedy Leave a Comment

Avoid unstructured interviews to make the right hiring decision

Have you regretted hiring an employee that appeared promising during the job interview? If you have, then you’re in good company. Many of us in charge of hiring make decisions based on a positive interview, but we may regret it three months down the line.

Filed Under: Research & Resources Tagged With: hiring, Hiring Bias, interview process

Do you invest time in your employees?

September 23, 2020 by Karen Kennedy Leave a Comment

With the many demands of leadership roles, executives struggle to protect the time needed to develop and nurture their direct reports. 

Do you invest time in your employees?

With the many demands of leadership roles, executives struggle to protect the time needed to develop and nurture their direct reports. 

As executives, we get caught up in reports, staff meetings, and even customer calls. It’s not uncommon for time to go by, and we’ve not paid attention to our biggest asset—our people!

Filed Under: Research & Resources, Talent Trends Tagged With: invest in your people, invest time, leadership roles

The Staggering Costs of a Bad Hire

May 31, 2015 by Karen Kennedy Leave a Comment

For most businesses 95% of the company’s value walks out the door every evening. Finding the right people is one cost, keeping people in their jobs is another, and when you need to terminate a “bad hire” employee, the dollars add up quickly. A bad hire is defined a person who did not perform up […]

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Culture DOES eat strategy for Breakfast

May 31, 2015 by Karen Kennedy Leave a Comment

Peter Drucker is attributed to saying “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Meaning, that no matter how good your strategy is, how much time you spend talking about your strategy, or in many cases, how many consultants you pay to make awesome PowerPoint presentations on strategy, your strategy is going to be useless without the right […]

Filed Under: Company Culture

Are People Like Horses?

May 31, 2015 by Karen Kennedy Leave a Comment

The importance of placing the right talent in the right role. Jim Collins (Good to Great, HarperCollins, 2001) talks about having the “right people on the bus” and conversely, the “wrong people off of the bus.” Some people refer to “horses in the barn” and having a few “strong horses” when they talk about the […]

Filed Under: Talent Trends

Enough about you, let’s talk about ME

May 31, 2015 by Karen Kennedy Leave a Comment

It happens all the time. You have an opening on your team and you are in the interviewing process. You went through your standard behavior-based interview questions, poked and probed at several key competencies, and had some good laughs about favorite sports teams or in my case, favorite chocolate desserts. When you exited the interview, […]

Filed Under: Company Culture

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