One of the best strategies for developing the company you keep and cultivating a positive culture is to start with your hiring process.

1. Increase
Your Average
by Hiring
Great People
TRANSFLUENT LEADERSHIP
WALT RAKOWICH

2. Many people
remember to look
inward to evaluate
their strengths &
weaknesses.
Inward
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3. But most people
forget to look
outward at those
around them.
Outward
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4. You're the average of
the five people you
spend most of your
time with.
JIM ROHN, AMERICAN
ENTREPRENEUR & AUTHOR
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5. You can increase that
average by surrounding
yourself with people who
reflect values that are
important to you.
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6. One of the best
strategies for
developing the
company you keep
and cultivating a
positive culture is
to start with your
hiring process.
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7. Unfortunately,
most of us look for the
wrong qualities when
making important
hiring decisions...
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8. Employers focus too much on what
candidates need to know or do and
rarely think about what makes an
employee great: character.
- BRUCE WEINSTEIN, AUTHOR OF "THE GOOD ONES"
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9. WEINSTEIN SAYS
LOYALTY
PATIENCE
PRESENCE
HUMILITY
COURAGE
CARE
FAIRNESSHONESTY
GRATITUDE
There are 10
qualities that
suggest an
employee has
high character:
ACCOUNTABILITY
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10. Incorporate
interview questions
into your hiring
process that
genuinely address
your company
values.
Guess
this
Game
So how
do you
land
these
great
hires?
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11. WEINSTEIN SUGGESTS AN INTERVIEW QUESTION ABOUT HUMILITY COULD GO AS FOLLOWS:
‘Tell me about one of your proudest accomplishments.
What was it and how did you pull it off?’
When a potential employee gives credit to those who
helped support his or her endeavors, you know you’ve
found one of the ‘good ones.'
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12. 3 Benefits
OFHOLDINGYOURINTERVIEWS
TOA HIGHERSTANDARD
You will gain high-character
employees who positively influence
their colleagues and teams.
You will strengthen your
organizational brand.
You will increase your average.
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13. @WALTRAKOWICH
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