by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Sep 25, 2018
Why Don’t We All Just Be Nice? Being nice is an attitude, and it should be at the top of the list of characteristics you look for in recruiting new employees. In fact, niceness should apply to all of your decisions: who you hire, who leads, and who participates on...
by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Sep 25, 2018
Managing Uncertainty with Confidence: A Leader’s Greatest Challenge It takes equal amounts of courage and confidence to be an effective leader in today’s environment of constant change and uncertainty. There is little of the tried and true to fall back on. However,...
by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Sep 25, 2018
Don’t Trust Your Gut—Assess and Be Sure Education and experience have been replaced as the first things to consider when hiring. Today, the emphasis is on things like how people behave and adapt, what their values are, and what motivates them—things that you can’t...
by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Sep 25, 2018
Monkeys, Geese, Cans and Talent Strategy Every organization competes for the kind of people who ask “why not?” instead of “why?” because they are the curious innovators who can grow your business. Attracting them requires that you develop a talent strategy based on...
by Kathleen Quinn Votaw | Sep 25, 2018
Post & Pray—Widely Used and Useless Candidates, like customers and employees, need to be engaged. Advertising and hoping the right person responds, or the “post and pray” method, doesn’t work—not if you want to attract the best people. We argue that organizations...
