Listening to how people talk can be extremely revealing... even clarifying. Let me explain. Recently, I had lots of time to be with extended family. Besides just loving on one another, it gave me an opportunity to practice paying close attention to how people talked and what that told me about them. From the 96-year-old (my [...]
Congratulations! You have hired your team. they are all in their ideal places in your office. But now what? How do you keep these excellent people onboard for the long haul? Much of meeting this goal boils down to communication and motivation. Not surprisingly, the DISC System can again give us tremendous insights. In our family, [...]
In the process of finding a Great Hire, it is actually possible to do all the Advanced Preparation Steps, Design an Ad that is exactly on point, Conduct the Interviews in a wise and excellent process, and still end up FALLING INTO A TRAP! How is this possible?! From the viewpoint of having gone through the [...]
Our Goal is always a Great Hire who fits the roles and responsibilities we need them to fill. You've been diligent to do the groundwork - the 3 steps of Advanced Preparation (https://idealpersonidealplace.com/2021/03/16/how-advanced-preparation-steps-are-key-in-the-hiring-process/ ), Designing the Ad (https://idealpersonidealplace.com/2021/03/30/how-to-design-an-ideal-hiring-notice-to-draw-the-ideal-person/ ) and now it is Crunch Time... Conducting the Interviews. I can still vividly recall sitting on the [...]
As far as placing an ad for our Hire, it is definitely easier to simply say, "High energy person wanted for excellent orthodontic office." For years, this is exactly what we did. But to truly find "the Ideal Person" and put them in their "Ideal Place", the wording used in any hiring notice must be precise. [...]
My apologies for interrupting our Hiring Process blog posts, but a member of our Family Circle passed on this past week. Indeed, we had an enormous loss in our family - my youngest brother's wife passed on from FTD, Frontal Temporal Degeneration. It slowly steals someone's mental capabilities, then their physical ones. It had been a [...]
