Hiring More Leaders Starts by Changing Your Hiring Strategy
Many years ago I worked with LinkedIn on preparing a video highlighting the importance of developing a hiring strategy based on attracting the best rather than one designed to filter out the weak. It turns out that without the right talent strategy it's not possible to hire more leaders on a consistent basis. Chance, hope, the latest technology or job boards won't help. While the message in the video is still true today, most people will have some Catch-22 excuse why it won't work.
Recognize that leaders are people who make things happen. This is true whether the person is in an entry-level position or some critical executive role. These people not only do their jobs well, but they help everyone else become better in the process. They push the envelope. They build strong and diverse teams. They change the way things are done. They don’t make excuses; they just get the job done regardless of the obstacles. They think and act differently. They can see the big picture as well as the critical details needed to achieve success. And they do this consistently, week after week, month after month, year after year.
Hiring these outstanding people takes leadership, too. You can’t hire leaders, regardless of the position, using the same techniques used to hire everyone else. This is especially true now when the demand for great people far exceeds the supply. In this situation, you must discard boring job postings, generic competency models, traditional behavioral interviewing and flawed personality testing and BE DIFFERENT!?
We've prepared this table below to demonstrate the stark differences between hiring leaders and hiring everyone else. (Contact us if you'd like an interactive version of this table.) This comparison was developed based on years of working with dozens of different companies and hundreds of different leaders and examining what it really takes to hire outstanding and diverse talent on a consistent basis.
Here are the big three standout differences. It turns out if you don't get these right nothing else really matters.
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Hiring leaders is no more difficult than hiring everyone else. By spending more time with fewer people it's possible to improve quality of hire at no additional cost or loss of efficiency. But hiring more leaders must start with the right hiring strategy and changing this requires true leadership, not more excuses.
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Lou Adler?is the CEO and founder of?Performance-based Hiring Learning Systems?– a consulting and training firm helping recruiters and hiring managers around the world hire more leaders. Lou is the author of the Amazon top-10 best-seller,?Hire With Your Head?(John Wiley & Sons, 4th Edition, 2021),?The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired?(Workbench Media, 2013) and LinkedIn Learning’s?Performance-based Hiring?video training program (2016). Make sure you check out his?Hire with Your Head?Virtual Book Club?for the latest hiring ideas and trends.
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3 年Thank you for sharing this informative selection for more success to your next challenge
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3 年This segregation of approaches is invaluable Lou Adler . It helps to give life to the talent strategy. Top strategy leads to a beeline of top talent. We however, as you stated need to hire leaders across the enterprise. This helps in infusing the right culture.