Welcome to the Staff Dynamix Newsletter, Mind Spark.
We’re on a serious mission to add value to our clients. We want to offer you relevant world information when it comes to your most important resource – your employees.
We’ll be sending you a monthly newsletter with a 3 minute read that can have a real impact on the way you interact with your employees. Some of the ideas you’ll be able to use, some you won’t – but at the very least, they’ll get you thinking.
The team has bandied around a couple of ideas for articles that we believe will add value to your business. If there are any other topics that you would like covered pop us a note to ideas@staffdynamix.co.za and give us your suggestions. This is a newsletter for your benefit and we value your input. Here are some of the ideas we’ve come up with so far:
- How to hire champions
- How to conduct a job interview
- How to conduct an exit interview
- Getting the most out of your employees
- How to become a 1st Class leader
- How to get an accurate personality profile
- Win, win disciplinary procedures
- Motivating employees
- Lessen the effects of strikes (better yet, how to avoid them)
- Ethics in the workplace
- How to get justice at the CCMA
- How to get the best out of your personnel agency
- How to structure tax effective salary packages
- Managing performance and conduct in the workplace
- How to use cultural diversity to build a serious business
- Why your employees leave
- Creating an environment that attracts employees to your company
Send an email to ideas@staffdynamix.co.za with your article request.
This Mind Spark should take you less than 2 minutes to read.
If you’re drinking coffee, probably a little longer
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How to Hire a Champion
Let’s face it, we’ve all interviewed “the one” that we think will really get the job done, haven’t we? Only to find that the best (and only) job that person did in the company was selling to you on the first interview. Before you’ve wiped your eyes, you find out that you’ve hired the wrong person. Not only is that person highly disruptive to the organisation, it’s going to cost you a truckload of money to get yourself out of the deal.
By outsourcing your staffing needs, we’ll ensure that you get qualified temporary staff with a win-win attitude to boot:
Are they qualified?
Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance! Verify any information on the CV to make sure that it is 100% accurate. At least you’ll start off on the right foot by knowing that the candidate has integrity. Typically, with outsourced and temporary staff, this screening process is already done so that you get just the right person for the right job.
Are they givers or takers?
If the candidate shows an attitude of wanting to do what’s best for your company first; pay attention because you may have a champion sitting in front of you. If, within the first 10 minutes of the interview, the candidate is asking about salary, benefits, medical aid etc, listen to those warning bells. Employees with a Radio WIIFM mentality (what’s in it for me) seldom have the best interests of the company at heart. Our trained interviewers easily pick out the givers or the takers.
Did They Make An Effort?
If candidates start badly, they’ll probably finish badly. Are their CVs neat and accurate? Are they dressed neatly, well-groomed and well-mannered? The devil’s in the detail – if they’re tardy in the interview, you can be pretty sure that they’ll be tardy in your organisation. Of course, by using an outsourced solution, you’ll get the right people on board … this will save you time and money.
We’re sure that you have more ideas on hiring a champion. Please share them with us and we’ll post the best one’s on our website so that everyone can benefit.
Send your Mind Spark to ideas@staffdynamix.co.za |
Until next time … we wish you a productive and profitable month.
The Staff Dynamix Team |
