Get the Right People on the Bus

05/26/2004

Get the Right People on the Bus

"It is in the shelter of each other that people live." - Irish Proverb

Get the Right People on the Bus

'David Anderson, writing in the March, 2004 issue of Editors Only, offers this advice on securing the right people to move your organization forward...

One key word for building the right team: proactively. You'll never build a pipeline of talent if the only time you recruit, interview, or hire is when you need someone. Great businesses never consider themselves fully staffed. They hire year-round and create an environment wherein people enjoy their work. Other key stategies to attract and retain top people for your journey:

* Train your managers to be better leaders. Sitting in an office trying to turn the numbers around is a flawed strategy. Taking the initiative to get in the trenches and turn the people around so they can turn the numbers around is what brings results....

* Invest irrational amounts of time and money developing the right people. If you have good people but are not rigorously investing in them, you don't deserve them. In fact, you deserve to lose them and you probably will, because when good people outgrow your organization they will leave it....

* Focus on quality over quantity. You're better off to hire five good performers, work them like 10, and pay them like eight, than to have 10 non-performers stumbling over one another, doing barely enough to keep from being fired, as they abuse your time, energy and resources."

David Anderson is a speaker on management and leadership. To learn more about his work go to http://mail.ccie.com/go/eed/0197.

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