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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

The REAL Reason Bosses Keep Hiring Bad Employees

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode: Daymond John Shares His Hiring Advice Why People Don’t Trust Their Leaders Plus A Live Coaching Call   Next Steps ☎️If you have questions about your career, passions or talents, call the show at 844-747-2577 or email ask@kencoleman.com. 📚 Order my book, From Paycheck to Purpose 📝Get Clear Career Assessment 📚Grab my book, The Proximity Principle   Offers from Today's Sponsors This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Get 10% off your First Month of Therapy! Listen to more from Ramsey Network 🎙️ The Ramsey Show   🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show 💰 George Kamel 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 📈 EntreLeadership   Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up hiring advice from a shark, none other than Damon John stops by and then shares this three-step process that'll help you and then

0:14.8

why people don't trust leaders we're gonna break that down and what to do

0:17.6

about it let's go. Hey folks, we're here to help you grow personally so that you can advance

0:28.2

professionally and make the impact and the income that you desire. Let's get to this so some of you are in a leadership role.

0:38.0

Maybe you're new to leadership and I will tell you that your ability to assemble talent is the ultimate lid on your leadership ability.

0:48.1

In other words, if you can't put the right people in the right seat of the bus that you're responsible for, you are limiting and you will continue

0:58.0

to limit your ability to lead effectively.

1:00.8

So it wasn't too many years ago that I had the opportunity to a deep dive with

1:06.2

Damon John. You know him from a shark tank. The guy's been wildly successful for a very, very long time and he's a no-nonsense guy.

1:15.2

I've always loved interviewing him. I've been able to interview him, I think three times now,

1:19.2

and he's a straight shooter. And we're going to give you just a bit of my conversation with him as I asked him, you know, what how do you ensure

1:28.2

that you hire the right people? Let's watch this and I'll be right back to tell you what I

1:33.3

learned. What you're wrong. Yeah what you've learned about hiring what you've

1:38.8

learned about actually putting the right people on first so that you're not

1:42.3

having to deal with them later.

1:44.0

Yeah, you know, challenging that because I've learned that you know when you hire

1:49.1

somebody initially and if they're a poor performer or even for them just to jail with the team it takes

1:55.7

newer from three to six months and if they're a poor performer the first six months you're trying to give them

1:59.9

some leeway and then all of a sudden you realize after a year they were just poor

2:04.0

performers so what I try to do first of all is I give everybody a three month trial

2:08.1

basis that and I see how they perform they're on their know, this dating process means they're on their best behavior and we see how it goes.

2:17.2

It's very hard to find that talent though.

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