Five Characteristics Of A Great Follower
Leadership is overrated. It is the followers that get it done. Or is it?
I’m not against leadership. I’m against how it is perceived. Every organization needs leaders who remind everyone what kind of hay they are making and why. That’s it. I don’t believe a leader’s role is that of a caring parent. And, I don’t believe the role of a follower is to cede their responsibility in the organization to someone else.
Too many times in today’s world we find leaders who think they are responsible for their employees well being. Their role is to exercise authority by organizing, inducing, coercing, and/or motivating those lower on the ladder. We also find too many employees all too happy to play the child in the parent/child relationship. This provides cover for poor performance and allows them to forever bitch about how poor leadership is responsible for their lot in life. Enough.
Successful organizations in the future will be a community of people wrapped around a common purpose – a purpose that calls to the higher aspirations of people. It’s time we as individuals stopped abdicating to others, find a shared purpose that’s in accordance with our principles, and learn how to be a great follower. Here are five characteristics of a great follower: Read more...
Categories: Business, Reader Submitted Tags: choices, employees, ethics, followers, integrity, leaders, Leadership, organization, Willie Davis, wordpress writer
How to Keep Your Job in a Down Economy
Let’s face it, we are in a terrible economy and who knows if you’ll have your job tomorrow? Well, it really isn’t that desperate, but it doesn’t hurt to pad your chances of keeping your job. Here are five ways that you can insulate yourself and increase your chances of keeping your job in this economy.
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Categories: Business, Home and Living Tags: bad economy, down economy, downsizing, economy, employees, job, job security, job success, jobs down, keeping your job, work habits, working, workplace
My Five Best Ways to Successfully Hire an Employee
Hiring the right person for the right job, whether you are trying to move people up within your organization, hiring through local news or on web sites, or through third party groups can be stressful for your organization. It is a way to increase the potential of your organization, but one wrong move can set you back in time, money and effectiveness in the marketplace. Here are my five steps for your organization that can help you improve your ability to hire the right person, the first time.
1. Look beyond the position to the end goal. What is the purpose of this hire? Do you have the position outlined enough to know what you want to accomplish? Knowing what type of person you are looking for and what the job is going to entail is more important than allowing the job applicants determine the position.
2. Understand the personality style of the job applicants. A good way of doing this is to know the potential skills the person is bringing to the table. There are many assessments out there that will allow you to determine these strengths. One pre-hire test we recommend is through a company called Peoplekeys. It is a DISC-based test that can reveal the way people will react within your organization. This is an extremely effective way to understand a person’s true personality and see if it relates to the position that you are seeking to fill.
3. Make sure the people who know the position are in the hiring cycle. It is of little help to hire someone for a position only to find out the candidate is not suited to the practical day-to-day work. Make sure the candidate presents themselves properly and that the decision makers are comfortable with that choice.
4. Make sure that you are hiring based upon the overall qualifications of the applicants. Do not judge the person on the basis that they don’t “appear” to be what you had in mind. Do not disqualify a person just because of their gender, race, clothing style, or weight. You may be cancelling out good candidates based on your own perception.
5. Quantify your selection by evaluating your hiring practices. Include your new hire in this by asking them what they thought could have been done more effectively. In the long run, this will help you to hire the next position.
Remember, bad hiring choices cost you far more than you think. The cost of the hiring process, the training, the time lost by other employees while the new hire is learning, the ramping up of productivity costs thousands and thousands of dollars. Each time you make a mistake is throwing good money after bad. Hiring with thought and consideration to your choices will save you in the long run.
Thank you PeopleKeys for all the valuable info for this list.
Categories: Business Tags: DISC test, employees, hiring cycle, job applicants, job candidates, Peoplekeys, right hire, right hiring choices, successful hiring practices
