The People Who Can’t Work Here
Everyone who leads an organization or a team dreams big dreams about the wonderful attributes of the people they would like to hire.
In fact, I’ll bet that I can describe the people they are looking for in a single sentence. “We want great team players who are proactive, reliable, honest, adaptive, critical thinkers, possess strong attention to detail, have a positive attitude, willingness to learn, are dependable, and strong problem solvers.”
Sound familiar??
The problem is —?everybody is looking for those qualities.
Counterintuitively, I think one of the most important things you can do as a leader is to define who is NOT welcome in your organization.
This is a lot harder, but at Riskalyze, I made a list of four types of people that would not work in our culture. We wrote these down and embedded them in our values.
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Now, did we always get it right and filter these people out?
Heavens, no. In fact, one time we hired a relatively senior person who turned out to be ALL FOUR OF THESE THINGS. (You might ask, how can you be a narcissist and a victim? The answer is: victim up, narcissist down.)
While this list wasn’t perfect at avoiding any hiring mistakes, it did allow us to quickly spot when we had made hiring mistakes, and move rapidly to fix them.
Your list shouldn’t be the same as mine, but you should sit down today and define who you can’t work with.
Your company and your team will get better.
Wealth Management Industry Analyst | Practice Management Consultant | Technology Consultant
3 个月The problem is that every company is looking for those people AND every candidate is those things. I’d say most resumes and cover letters highlight all of those skills. Interviewing is a very difficult because everyone is seeing each other at their best and these negative qualities are hard to spot even for the most emotionally mature of us. On a funny note, we often relate interviewing to dating and it’s so true. Dillion and I talked about creating a dating website where you list and match up on only things you hate.
CEO @ Phrazo. Helping brands manifest their vision. Host of the Breathing Brand? Podcast.
3 个月So true. Building a team that is inspired and committed to the vision, mission, and values is critical to moving the organizational ship in the proper direction. The alternative is also true.