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Disruptors

Caffeine Cast: Should You Really Be Slow to Hire & Quick to Fire? [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Rob believes that being slow to hire and quick to fire is wrong or one-sided. Conventional wisdom is not the best applicable strategy when hiring for your business or start-up.  Tune in to discover top tips on how to hire, how to on-board and train staff to match your vision and values and how doing this can grow your business and maximise potential. KEY TAKEAWAYS The quicker you are to hire, the more likely you are to scale and obtain better employees. Don’t just choose someone because you're desperate for the role. Have a good interview process, look into personality profiling, arrange second and third stage interviews to ensure the best results. On-board your employees well. Give them a full week not doing any jobs the wrong way, they need to go and shadow all the different departments, they need to read their training manual and be taught to your culture, the vision and your Train them even better than you on-board them. Maximise their potential with 360-degree support and unlimited Give them continual balanced feedback to grow. You must show them what they're doing wrong. Otherwise, how will they know? You also need to give them a clear vision for the company. their role and a clear career path. You need to understand the value of each team member and then meet their values through your company values. If you understand the fact that no one works for you, and everyone works for themselves, and everyone has their own set of values, then your staff will be successful. You've got to consider the cost and the alternatives if you're thinking about letting someone go without investing time, education and training into them so that they become accountable. BEST MOMENTS “Be slow to hire, and quick to fire.”“Be it till you see it.”“Take every single hire seriously.”“No one loves your businesses as well as you do.”“Every individual has their own values.”“You’ve got to see the person as a person, not just as an employee” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the disruptive entrepreneur podcast.

0:05.0

What does the word disruptive mean to you?

0:07.0

It means going beyond the ordinary, going beyond the status quo.

0:10.0

Not thinking in the conventional way, not just sort of following the herd

0:13.8

disruptive means taking things up you know

0:16.2

Disruptive entrepreneur is somebody who sees the problem and embraces the problem with a new way

0:21.8

Shake up an awakening.

0:23.0

Quality will take care of itself

0:25.0

and you'll go for being disruptive but also profitable.

0:28.0

When you use your reservoir of talent,

0:30.0

when you love what you do, then you disrupt.

0:32.0

Mix it up, change it up and dominate and now your

0:35.0

host eight times best-selling author and double world record holder

0:39.5

Rob Moore. There's a very famous saying in business recruitment, hiring, and that is be slow to hire and quick to fire.

0:50.6

Let me say that again, be slow to hire and quick to fire. Let me say that again, be slow to higher and quick to fire. Now I believe

0:56.0

often conventional wisdom is not the best applicable strategies and tactics in the real world on the street of business

1:06.9

and entrepreneurship. I often feel things are made to rhyme to sound good but

1:12.2

actually are wrong for example fake it till you make it sounds nice

1:16.9

rhymes but I would never recommend anyone fake it I prefer be it till you see it and that's just one example. So I'm going to turn

1:25.8

this on its head. They call me the disruptive entrepreneur for a reason. So most people say

1:30.8

be slow to hire and quick to fire.

1:34.3

Well in this video and podcast episode,

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