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Resumes! Assessments! Interviews! Oh My!
Each stage of the hiring process serves a unique and essential purpose in building a strong, high-performing team. From evaluating experience to assessing skills and gauging cultural fit, these steps provide a well-rounded approach to making informed hiring decisions. When implemented strategically, they ensure that your business follows the golden rule of hiring: “Hire slow…
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Who Should Be Involved in the Hiring Process? Everyone!
Hiring isn’t just about filling a position—it’s about strengthening your team, shaping your company culture, and ensuring long-term success. As a leader, your ability to guide and support new hires directly impacts employee retention, but leadership isn’t a solo act. The best hiring decisions happen when you involve the right people at different stages of…
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Why You Need an Application Tracking System (ATS)
Hiring the right people for your business is one of the most important things you’ll do as a leader. And the truth is, your recruiting process sets the tone for the kind of team you’ll build. From the very first interaction, potential candidates are forming an impression of your company—one that can either reinforce your…
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Crafting a Hiring System: Finding and Attracting the Right People
Hire Slow, Fire Quick As a business leader, your time is valuable, and hiring the right people can feel overwhelming. Without a clear, strategic system, recruiting can become inconsistent, rushed, or ineffective. Implementing a structured hiring process ensures you consistently attract top talent, maintain a strong company culture, and eliminate unnecessary bottlenecks. Over the past…
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Inventory the Team You Have
In the first blog of this mini-series, The People Problem: Hiring and Keeping Great Talent, we discussed the foundational step in the hiring process: defining your company values. These values are the bedrock of your organization and the guiding principles for building a cohesive and productive team. If you haven’t read that blog yet, I…
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Hiring: Start with Your Values
Values are the cornerstone of effective hiring. They define the qualities you seek in candidates, shape how you evaluate them, and ensure alignment with your mission. By embedding values into hiring practices—from targeted interview questions to scenario-based evaluations—you create a cohesive team with shared purpose. This clarity fosters retention, strengthens culture, and guides decision-making, building…
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The People Problem: An Introduction to Hiring and Keeping Great Talent
No matter what business you get into, you have to work with people. Whether you’re hiring, contracting, or collaborating, navigating these relationships is essential. These interactions form the foundation of every organization and directly tie into the challenges of recruiting and retaining great talent, making it one of the most critical—and difficult—aspects of running a…
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Transform Your Work with Body Doubling: A Productivity Guide
As we step into a brand-new year, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what worked well in the past and carry those lessons forward. One of my favorite productivity tools from last year—and one I’m excited to share with you—is body doubling. This simple yet powerful strategy has transformed the way I approach my…
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Progress is Hard to See When You Are in a Hole
When you realize you need to change something in your life, it’s often because you’re dissatisfied with your current situation. Change requires significant energy and determination, and frequently, the pain of staying the same must outweigh the effort of changing. This means that when you decide to change, you’re typically not in a great place…
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Why do you need a business coach?
Business coaching is a relatively new industry, having started to become more formalized as a distinct profession in the 1980s. Thomas J. Leonard is often credited with being one of the pioneers of modern coaching, founding Coach U in 1988 and laying the groundwork for what would become a vital component of the business world.…
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