You want to hire people who have proven themselves: Proven their value Proven their faithfulness Proven their trustworthiness If they don't have a great track record, don't hire them because the best indicator of future performance is past performance. When looking to hire someone (or promote someone you've already hired) you want to evaluate past performance. If they haven't been a good volunteer, paying them won't turn them into a good employee. If they haven't been faithful with their … [Read more...]

In Dale Dauten's The Gifted Boss I'm learning about a concept he calls "productivity squared." The basic idea of this concept is that you really want to make sure you hire someone you don't have to manage too much so that productivity can be doubled. Here are the repercussions of hiring someone you have to spend a lot of time managing: Pastor works 10 hours a day and naturally wants to get some help. So he convinces his boss to let him hire an assistant. Now the pastor is a manager, and with … [Read more...]

In Dale Dauten's book The Gifted Boss he helps an employer know when he/she has hired the right person. You've hired the right person when you're crazy about them. You've hired the right person if you lie awake at night thanking God that they work for you. You've hired the right person when you lie there worrying that they might leave to work for someone else. You've hired the right person when you spend time thinking of how you can make them happier. This resonated with me because this is … [Read more...]

Great sports teams search the world for special talent. Rarely, does special talent come as the result of a 'walk on.' One way to hire is to post a job and interview candidates. This is akin to trying to find special talent in the crowd of 'walk ons.' Another approach is to search the world for special talent. People with special talent are almost never unemployed looking for a job. They are almost always already working somewhere, being quite successful at whatever it is they do. This is the … [Read more...]