Procrastinating the inevitable is a dangerous and slippery slope. A bad employee might even be making your co workers sick. Think on that.
Healthy organizations operate well by having talented and healthy leaders. Why get sick if you don’t have to? Treat yourself with some preventative medicine. Hire right but if you make a hiring mistake, cut your loss as soon as possible.
There is an old axiom that says “whoever brings up money first on a job interview, generally loses.”
Candidly, the money question (or even the conversation about money) can be very awkward on a job interview for both an employer or a job candidate.
For the purpose of this article, the money question is that part of the interview when salary and benefits are discussed.
Who brings it up first? Why is it so often an anxiety provoking “make or break” discussion?
There are many obvious and not so obvious reasons.
If you are the candidate, you obviously want to get hired at the highest salary possible.
If you are the employer, you obviously want to hire the very best candidate at a salary that best fits your organization and cash flow.
Reflecting on the coincidence that the documentary on George Harrison’ s life broad-casted within hours of the passing of Steve Jobs, it became clear to me that these two legendary individuals shared 5 unique “takes” on the way they lived their lives.
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Employers: when you hire someone make sure that you are hiring to solve a need that you have but more importantly make sure that you “buy the solution.” In plain and simple terms, make sure that you have properly identified the business need that you have and why that need exists, then and only then “hire the solution.”
Micro-managing is a vital part of an employer’s job. An employee’s work environment is not a popularity contest. It’s about successfully fulfilling the ongoing tasks at hand in the way in which you as the employer sees fit.
Some people work better if they are micro-managed and are held accountable all day long. Other’s do not need as much hand holding but nonetheless, micro-managing assures you that a job is getting done the way that you want it done.
It’s probably the most uncomfortable moment during an interview. It’s the exact moment when an employer knows that the candidate is not the right fit, for whatever reason. For most employers that moment can be within the first 5 minutes of an interview.
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Yet, “pleasant persistence” implies a non threatening and unyielding effort to achieve a sale or a goal that may in fact plant the seed towards a bountiful harvest by just being pleasant but unwavering in one’s pursuit.