Leadership: Hiring & recruitment
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Three talent management principles every leader gets wrong
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
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Hiring & recruitment
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Processes & SOPs
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- Outdated HR rules actively prevent hiring exceptional candidates.
- Promoting top performers into management is two mistakes at once.
- Training without a defined business outcome is an expense, not investment.
How to build an extraordinary workplace using psychology and science
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
6
- Perks attract talent but only three psychological needs keep people engaged
- In-person interviews are unreliable — job-relevant auditions predict performance better
- Culture is shaped by what leaders reward, not what they say they value
Uniting a global multi-company team to build the F-35 fighter jet
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Management
6
- Competitors forced to collaborate: how a shared identity replaced company loyalty
- Best-athlete hiring put rival-company staff in the most senior roles
- 120 new hires per week — and why the GM addressed every single cohort
How to use StrengthsFinder results to build stronger teams
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
- Why a one-day StrengthsFinder event almost always fails long-term
- Opposite talent profiles create friction — until both sides see the virtue
- Most weaknesses are experience gaps or overused talents in disguise
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How to hire and develop ideal team players using three core virtues
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
10
Culture building
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Management
6
- Humble, hungry, and smart: why all three virtues must coexist
- Promoting high performers who violate values destroys team performance
- Structured sequential interviews with persistent probing beat standard hiring
Bold kindness: leading with vulnerability and human connection
Bill Gallagher
July 10, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
- Why removing the word 'manager' unlocks self-led teams
- Sharing a spouse's terminal illness deepened her whole organisation
- Real relationships — not dashboards — are what drive performance
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Low-cost strategies to scale a service business: hiring, margins, and growth
Cameron Herold
June 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Unit economics
8
Business models
7
- Pay at the 85th percentile or keep losing candidates to competitors
- Bill every minute of labour — insurance companies only pay what you itemise
- Acquire 60-year-old competitors with no money down instead of greenfielding
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Hiring, mentoring, and growing leaders ahead of the curve
Cameron Herold
June 15, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Hire for growth mindset — don't try to convert people who lack it.
- Find mentors by writing exactly what you need and who you want.
- Ignoring your finance lead nearly bankrupted a $100M company.
How to retain employees by building a culture of skill development
Cameron Herold
June 10, 2024
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Processes & SOPs
5
- Gen Y and Gen Z quit within two years if you don't grow them
- Train managers in 12 leadership skills — not just functional job tasks
- Tie promotions and pay rises to certified skill completion
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Hiring the right COO: types, fit, and how to make the partnership work
Cameron Herold
June 8, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
7
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Wrong COO fit costs 15 times their annual salary in opportunity loss
- Seven distinct COO types — most founders hire without knowing which they need
- New senior hires should observe for 30 days before making any decisions
Three steps to build and sustain company culture through core values
EOS Worldwide
June 7, 2024
Culture building
10
Hiring & recruitment
6
- Use your core values speech to filter out the wrong candidates.
- Annual people reviews rated against core values make culture real.
- One quarterly story per value repeated over years builds lasting culture.
How to reinvent the workplace through people fit and self-aware leadership
Bill Gallagher
May 29, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Identity & self-belief
5
- Promoting top performers into management without asking is a trap.
- Self-awareness is the number one leadership competency — most leaders lack it.
- Culture is a result of job fit and manager fit, not a remedy.
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Building a great employee experience to drive customer loyalty
Bill Gallagher
May 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Customer experience
7
Culture building
6
- Leaders choose their employees' five closest colleagues — choose badly, rock stars leave.
- A botched service recovery creates more loyalty than a flawless transaction.
- Train the whole person: mortgage sessions, parenting clubs, fitness — at near-zero cost.
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Defining roles and responsibilities in a small business: a three-step framework
Layla at ProcessDriven
May 16, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
8
Processes & SOPs
7
- Map every business process before writing a single job description.
- Colour-cluster processes into roles to guarantee nothing falls through the cracks.
- Split overloaded roles to identify exactly who to hire next.
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Coaching Gen Z employees for success in your organization
HR Party of One
May 2, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
7
- The pandemic wiped out formative workplace-readiness experiences for Gen Z.
- Entry-level is a measure of experience, not a title — and experience is earned.
- Concrete onboarding scripts and meeting rituals close most professional gaps.