News and thoughts on leadership and recruitment

The future of your business is not written in economic forecasts or political polls. It’s written in the adaptability, curiosity, resilience and vision of your workforce. But to build that workforce, first you need to understand where you are today.

Many small businesses don’t use assessments, leaving them in the middle of the usual cycle of ‘Recruit, Realise you made a mistake, Dismiss, Rinse & Repeat’.

But it’s an expensive business hiring the wrong person, having to lose them again and re-recruiting again (and again, and again….).

Isn’t putting people into ‘generational’ boxes, just another way to make life more convenient for ourselves? And isn’t it just as nonsensical as any other form of overgeneralisation?

Why do so many companies employ salespeople who can’t sell? What goes wrong once the ink’s dry on the employment contract?

Organisations are spending huge amounts of money on training that, while it might work for some employees, misses the mark with most of the rest and can even have a negative impact on a percentage of their workforce.

How long does it take you to realise you recruited the wrong person? 3 months? 6 months? 12? 18?...

We often forget that leaders are human too. In these uncertain times, what can you do to ensure that, whatever happens in future, your leaders are more able to cope, lead and thrive?

It’s a massive balancing act. You’re under pressure to finalise the hiring for some key roles -but...

As many organisations move into redundancy mode, rather than recruitment, and aim to ‘make do’...

Do you have the people around you who are capable of dealing with a rapidly changing world? We explain how you can recruit and train VUCA leaders.

Psychometric Assessments, of course. Despite economic uncertainty among many organisations, there...

WHAT IF you don’t know who they are? You know why you hired your people and you know if they’re...