How to Measure & Predict People’s Performance
I watched the film, Moneyball last night. A true story. For those who have not seen the film, it's the true story of the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on [...]
How to hire on Behaviours
My post last month was about Behaviours being the number one focus for the hiring process. Businesses consistently get it wrong, hiring mainly on experience, when it's mainly behaviours why someone gets fired, not experience. I [...]
Hiring on Behaviours
This sounds really obvious...but isn't the aim of any hiring about getting the right person in to a role (and I've underlined person for a reason). However….the mistake made by many businesses, when making a decision on [...]
How to engage your people and improve your bottom-line
Let me ask you a question, "Are your people fully engaged with your business?" Well, the evidence suggests that they're probably not. Here's some revealing research from Kelly Global Workforce Index.... 52% of people are happy [...]
Hire Like Google
They’ve done it again. Google have just topped Fortune’s magazine’s list of top 100 Best companies to work for. A big part of this equation, it seems to me, is that the best talent attracts [...]
Hire on skills, fire on attitude?
A while ago, a previous boss of mine asked me a bit of an rhetorical questions, which was, “We hire on skills and fire on attitude, so why don’t we also hire on attitude.” As [...]