Richard Franzi:Unintended Consequences Of A Poor Hiring Process - a podcast by Rick Girard: Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Hiring & HR

from 2018-05-17T08:45:41

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Bad hires are the negative effect of a unstructured hiring practice and will manifest itself in the performance of your company. So how do you minimize the risk of bad hires? A hiring structure needs to be in place to drastically increase the chances of making a great hire.


Show Guest:


Rick Franzi is the Founder & CEO of Critical Mass for Business. He is the author of the best selling book “Killing Cats, Leads to Rats” -Mitigating the unintended consequences of Business Decisions.(Amazon.com)


Rick currently chairs CEO Peer Groups® throughout Los Angeles and Orange County, CA through his partnership with Renaissance Executive Forums.  He is the host of Critical Mass Radio Show & Podcast here on OC Talk Radio.


He is a nationally recognized thought leader on the power of peer learning for CEOs and business executives. Rick's work has been featured in national media forums such as Forbes & Inc.com


Topics covered in “unintended consequences”:


  • Symptoms

  • Diagnosis: the disease is not Hiring with a process

  • Secure Model for Hiring

  • Prescription


What are the symptoms (issues)?


  • Company’s hire for Skills

  • Winging it

  • Asking the wrong questions

  • Down hiring


The diagnosis: disease is not having a hiring process. Why?


  • Repels great talent (unstructured is unimpressive)

  • Unstructured interview (only a 6% chance of making the correct hire)

  • Bad hire will infect 30% of the people around that person - drop in performance


Prescription/solution - implementing the SECURE Model  


  • S stands for slow down the decision-making process.

  • E stands for expand your knowledge.

  • C stands for clarify the desired outcome.

  • U stands for unify the team

  • R stands for retain control of the process.

  • E stands for ensure you stay outcome focused.


Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

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