From the Desk of Brad Smart: Where Your Talent Methods Rank (Take the Quiz)
As the year progresses, it’s time to assess what shape you are in with the #1 factor that will account for how successful you’ll be … your talent!
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From the Desk of Brad Smart: You Cannot Believe Resumes
Are you mis-hiring people because they “fooled you?” Of course you have. Years ago we all thought that social media profiles (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) would force people to NOT exaggerate their successes and hide failures when job hunting. Guess that didn’t work! We all know now that exaggerations are extreme. As you’ve read, people become anxious and depressed when they “see” that their life is not as perfect as everyone else’s.
From the Desk of Brad Smart: How To Recruit A Players When They Are Hard to Find
You want to hire high performers, A Players, right? But what can you do if: Seven million Americans capable of working are choosing not to work, Help Wanted signs everywhere, Quiet Quitting is almost an epidemic, Studies show that most workers don’t like their job, and Chances are you raised pay to stop employees from …
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From the Desk of Brad Smart: How HR Can Sell Ideas to CEOs
In a recent blog, we addressed the reality that Human Resources is usually the lowest paid, under-respected function that reports to CEOs, and suggested that improving Quality of Hire is the fastest path toward accelerating a career in HR. In this blog I share my personal conclusions about how to best “sell” CEOs on anything …
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From the Desk of Brad Smart: For HR to Earn More CEO Respect, Here’s a Proven Method
This blog features the #1 most important step HR managers can take to increase the respect of their CEO. If you’re in HR, you know all too well that HR, for decades, has been widely perceived to be the least respected business function. It does not have to be that way. Before continuing, let me …
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