Management Coaching Tip - Hire Smart or Fire Dumb
May 1, 2008 · Print This Article
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I was watching a video You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School when once again I realized that a lot of smart business people in management roles truly do not hire smart and that results in them firing dumb.
Hire smart means that you hire for great attitudes, for respect, for the simple acts of being polite and kind. You can teach your products and services, but it is far more difficult to teach how to be nice to people. Management Coaching Tip: Find individuals with the necessary self-leadership skills.
Fire dumb means that firing people who you should not have hired in the first place is costing you a whole heck of a lot of money. You were dumb by hiring them. This stupidity is draining your various banks accounts and not just the one that holds your greenbacks. Your other bank accounts are: productivity, performance, progress, perseverance and potential. Management Coaching Tip: Your banks accounts are also your operating systems or Points of Potential.
One of my mentors, Michael Sleppin, shared this story about visiting one of his clients who was complaining about all the "numbchucks" in his organization. Michael in his very simple and direct manner asked this question: "Who hired all those numbchucks?"
Many companies go to great lengths to find the right person. Personality tests are given, background checks are undertaken and yet there is still a lot of dumb hiring going on. Part of this reason could be the fear of lawsuits and to the shortage of qualified workers.
Of course, the K-16 educational process does not help nor does the disconnect between today's parents and their children. However, organizations can still hire smart. They will need to be just a little more innovative and discerning in their hiring process.
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