Posts tagged: Culture Improvement

Does Your Company Have A Bad Reputation In the Market?

Q. A few years back our company had a bad reputation in the industry. Since then we have changed management and most of the issues are long gone, but our reputation still lingers. We have been told this is affecting our ability to hire people. Recruiters have told us some candidates won’t go forward after [...]

Thursday January 19th, 2012 in , , , , , | No Comments »

4 Ways To Counter a Counter Offer

Counter offers should be expected, as nobody wants to lose their best people.  It is a lot easier to make a counter offer than to try to find a new person. Especially one that is top talent. In some strange way a counter offer is a good thing. It signals that the candidate’s current company [...]

Tuesday January 10th, 2012 in , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

How Small Companies Can Compete Against Larger Companies For Talent

Q. We are a small growing company. How do we compete for talent with larger companies, since we can’t pay as much as they do? In my search practice I have placed people in small and large companies. The main issue is rarely compensation. In fact, if that is the primary issue then you will [...]

Thursday October 20th, 2011 in , , , , , | No Comments »

What Can You Do When Hiring Isn’t Working?

Question: We have a pretty extensive interviewing process in our company. We spend a lot of time making sure the person has the right skills and experience, yet our last few hires didn’t work out. We aren’t sure what else we can do to hire people, any suggestions? Companies often think that because they have [...]

Thursday July 7th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Do you Inspire Others to Self-Motivate?

I am firm believer that you cannot motivate others – they need to self-motivate. In looking back through my archive of motivational articles, I re-stumbled across this blog post on inspiring others by Scott Ginsberg. Scott wrote an article on his blog “Hello My Name is Scott” titled “The Matt Foley Guide to Motivating The [...]

Saturday March 26th, 2011 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Do Your Employees Trust You?

In numerous studies, surveys, and research, employees indicate over and over that trusting their immediate supervisor is one of the most important elements of their job satisfaction. Can you honestly say that your direct reports trust you? Do their direct reports trust them? How do you know? Do you cross your fingers hoping they trust [...]

Tuesday November 23rd, 2010 in , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Basic Common Sense in Generating Smiles Through-out Your Workforce

As an Executive Recruiter, Trainer, and Hiring Process Consultant, I have the privilege of visiting over 50 companies a year and getting to know their executive and managerial teams. I’ve been doing this for over 25 years. That’s a lot of companies. Is Your Culture De-Motivating? I am dumbfounded why so many company environments and [...]

Friday October 15th, 2010 in , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Who Is Responsible For Hiring Top Talent In Your Company?

Was your answer HR or the hiring manager? I typically ask this question in our hiring workshops, seminars and Vistage presentations to CEOs and key executives. The answers are generally either HR or the hiring manager. Both of which I disagree with. I believe hiring top talent in any organization falls squarely on the CEO’s [...]

Thursday September 30th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

A Candidate’s Background & Experience Are Irrelevant

Just to clarify, I said “irrelevant.” I didn’t say “not important.” Since most people have been taught interviewing is about the candidate’s background and experience, the interviewer tends to ask a lot of questions about the past. For example, “What have  you done in this area?”  or ” Have you ever done _____?”  Those trained [...]

Monday August 30th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Most Company’s Hiring Process Is Not A Process

We find that this occurs because the hiring process really isn’t a process in many companies. Many hiring processes tend to be random and with incompetent, untrained people. This is not a knock on the people, it is just a fact. So why do companies expect hiring to be accurate and to attract top talent [...]

Friday August 20th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »
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