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Recruiting and Hiring

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When you need to fill a new job, or replace a person leaving an existing job, you can hire the first person who comes along, or you can be careful about it and make sure you have the right person for the job. The question is…how do you get the right person?

Putting on new employees isn’t a people problem. It’s a systems problem. If you have an effective system for recruiting and hiring employees, you won’t have people problems. Good recruiting and hiring costs time and money, and poor recruiting and hiring costs a lot more, and wastes a lot of time. They hurt the morale of the other employees. They make it hard, if not impossible, to get the results you need in order to achieve your strategic intent. Continue reading →

Top Managing Mistakes

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Run an efficient business by avoiding these top managing mistakes.

I know it’s fashionable to do a top 10 or top 7 list, but when I sat down to write this, the list came to seven.

Let’s go through them. I’ll first list the mistake, and then I’ll provide the solution.

Not listening – this is one of the first big mistakes.
Solution: listen openly. You don’t have to respond every time immediately. You don’t have to have an answer all the time. You can say, “Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I’d like to think about it and I’ll get back to you.” Because you’re the owner, manager or boss doesn’t mean you have to have an answer every time. Listen, and let them know that they’re listened to. Continue reading →

Fill Your Business ‘Bus’ With the Right People – Part III

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Develop effective management and recruiting systems that show you how to recruit and keep the best people for your business.

This week, I continue this series with Getting Your People on Board. We’re still focusing on management. Management is about getting a desired result. The three key points of business we talked about before:

• Focus on results
• Systemize everything you can
• Delegate everything you systemize

And I add this fourth key point for managing: Measure everything you delegate.
This is what you’re doing when you’re managing. You’re looking for the most effective way to get those results. Getting results, being effective is our focus. It’s the what. Systemization is the how. More than anything else, systemizing the business and all the significant parts of the business will get the best results. People run the systems, managers orchestrate the people. Just keep in mind that systemization and the operation of systems is central to everything supervisors or managers do. Continue reading →

Fill Your Business ‘Bus’ With the Right People – Part II

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Develop effective management and recruiting systems that show you how to recruit and keep the best people for your business.

After defining last week what motivates employees – a sense of mission and purpose – I now want to get into managing people.

Assuming you already have people onboard, I’m going to tackle the managing side of people first. If you don’t have any employees, this part of the equation is still critical, as it points to what you will do and how you need to do it from the second you bring on your first employee.

Today’s businesses, especially small businesses, call for making the most of limited resources, including people. The business leader can’t do it all. He or she has to make the most of every resource and that means making the best possible use of the people of the business, and in return, providing them with rewarding, satisfying jobs and careers which, in turn, goes a long way to making their lives better. Continue reading →

Fill Your Business ‘Bus’ With the Right People – Part I

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Develop effective management and recruiting systems that show you how to recruit and keep the best people for your business.

Every business leader must make the most of every resource including people and provide them with rewarding, satisfying jobs and careers as they help you take your business towards its Strategic Intent.

Why is this important? It’s important because you can’t live in a vacuum if you want to build a successful business. The level of work you alone can do is limited by time and your own energy and resources. When you do it on your own, everything is dependent on you and all you’re doing is buying yourself a job…and you’re not building a business. Continue reading →