Disrupting Mono-Work Cultures and Hiring for Excellence

I LOVE helping businesses and organizations build teams that represent a diversity of life experience and skills. Many folks in human resources or hiring positions report, "We know we don't have the best system for hiring, we just hire the way we've always done it, but we're not sure how to change the system to make it better."

An unexamined hiring system is a problem. It is a problem for innovation. It is a problem for creating equitable outcomes. It is a problem for integrity. Too often, hiring "the way we've always done it" creates a situation where an organizations's stated values are not reflected in how or who they hire.

If this sounds like your business or organization, know that you are not alone. Lauren Rivera, of Kellogg School of Management studied who gets hired and why. She states,"Hiring is more than just a process of skills sorting...It is also a process of cultural matching between candidates, evaluators, and firms. Employers sought candidates who were not only competent but culturally similar to themselves.”

The good news is that there are evidence-based steps an organization can take to improve their system for listing, recruiting, screening, and deciding who to hire. Thomke Consulting LLC provides evidence-based training in how to transform a hiring system so it nurtures diversity in skill, aptitude, life experience, and excellence on your team.

A first step is to have your hiring managers participate in Thomke Consulting LLC's training, "Hiring Systems: Disrupting Mono-Work Cultures and Hiring for Excellence"

In this training participants will:

--Study how implicit bias works and who it benefits.

--Identify your organization's core values and design a tool to measure how and if the hiring system matches the organization's stated values.

--Explore aptitude versus skill.

--Create job listings that work to widen the perspective of the "ideal candidate".

--Investigate the pitfalls of using a single narrative in the screening process.

--Learn about tools and systems they can begin implementing immediately to disrupt mono-work cultures and promote hiring for excellence.

Contact Jess Thompson of Thomke Consulting LLC to book a "Hiring Systems: Disrupting Mono-Work Cultures and Hiring for Excellence" Training for your team.

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