by Jim Schleckser | Jul 13, 2021 | Business, Culture, Diversity, Talent
‘How’ tells you a lot about the potential fit of a candidate As leaders, one of the key roles many of us play inside our organizations is trying to find the next A player to hire to help transform the business. Finding top talent is also a classic struggle...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 6, 2021 | Business, Culture, Diversity, Growth, Leadership, Talent
To make the perfect hire, you need to understand the role. In almost any kind of company you can name, you can divide the work that gets done as either a “front stage” or a “backstage” job. This distinction comes from the theater world, where...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 26, 2021 | Business, Culture
Highly successful people measure themselves on seven key elements to living a healthy and fulfilling life. Most of us business leaders have a time in our lives when we just feel out of whack. Specifically, we feel like we’ve lost that sense of work-life balance....
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 25, 2021 | Compensation, Culture, Leadership, Talent
Your comp plan can’t do it all. There’s a common trap that a lot of CEOs fall into when it comes to designing their compensation plans. The mistake so many leaders make is that they try to create a commission or bonus plan that does their managing for...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 15, 2021 | Culture, Delegation, Diversity, Leadership, Talent
There are warning signs for you to watch One of the innate skills that most entrepreneurs share in common is the ability to attract people to their ideas and causes. It’s almost like having a superpower to be able to bring in the right people around...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 9, 2021 | Business, Culture, Delegation, Diversity, Leadership
Test yourself against the 4 I’s to find out whether you’re doing what it takes. There’s a lot of research around leadership styles out there. But one area of consensus is that many leaders now aspire to become known as “transformational...