Job Fit A Paradigm Shift
A business consultant once defined Insanity: As doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!
That statement best defines our efforts to hire and train employees in our working environment. We use the same procedure over and over again, but rarely get the results we want. How many times have you hired an employee and discover that he or she could not do the job? And, in an effort to keep that employee, we modify the job. Even after doing that we are met with non productive employee, or an employee that just leaves the organization. The bottom line is that trying to fit the job to the employee is rarely successful, yet, we do the same thing over and over again.
It is time for a paradigm shift—by matching the employee to the job. Look around your organization—do you have employees that consistently out perform other employees? (a top performing employee can be 4 to 8 times more productive that a bottom performing employee) What is it about that top performer that allows them to be so successful in the job? If we could take a snap shot of that employee, we would discover that they have a certain learning style, a certain interest, and certain behavioral tendencies that allow them to be product at what they are doing within the job. You may have several employees that are top performers! Doesn’t is make sense, to assess those employees and use the results of the assessment to create a benchmark or a pattern for success. Then start screening and hiring to the benchmark? If you could clone your best employees wouldn’t you do it?
That statement best defines our efforts to hire and train employees in our working environment. We use the same procedure over and over again, but rarely get the results we want. How many times have you hired an employee and discover that he or she could not do the job? And, in an effort to keep that employee, we modify the job. Even after doing that we are met with non productive employee, or an employee that just leaves the organization. The bottom line is that trying to fit the job to the employee is rarely successful, yet, we do the same thing over and over again.
It is time for a paradigm shift—by matching the employee to the job. Look around your organization—do you have employees that consistently out perform other employees? (a top performing employee can be 4 to 8 times more productive that a bottom performing employee) What is it about that top performer that allows them to be so successful in the job? If we could take a snap shot of that employee, we would discover that they have a certain learning style, a certain interest, and certain behavioral tendencies that allow them to be product at what they are doing within the job. You may have several employees that are top performers! Doesn’t is make sense, to assess those employees and use the results of the assessment to create a benchmark or a pattern for success. Then start screening and hiring to the benchmark? If you could clone your best employees wouldn’t you do it?
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