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What’s a hiring strategy plan? What kind of people will help your business grow? Business expert Claire Hughes Johnson offers recommendations about developing a thriving recruiting pipeline to draw top talent to your company. She also has advice for hiring the best candidates from that pipeline to fill your teams. Let’s look at what you need to include in your hiring strategy plan.
What role do emotions play in negotiations? What forms of emotional manipulation can you use while negotiating? Herb Cohen notes that negotiators in the win-lose mindset can profit from emotional manipulation. That is, you do anything you can to evoke a specific emotional reaction from the other party that will help you get your way. Here’s how to handle the other party’s emotions in negotiations so you can win.
What’s Anatomy of a Breakthrough about? Do you have writer’s block or feel stuck in your personal life? We’ve all felt trapped at some point in our lives when our motivation falters and all our hard work grinds to a halt. In Anatomy of a Breakthrough, Adam Alter proposes a range of solutions that might help you find your way out of the woods. Read below for an overview of Adam Alter’s Anatomy of a Breakthrough.
What’s a recruiting pipeline? What type of job descriptions should you write? The first step to hiring the right person, Claire Hughes Johnson explains, is to build a recruiting pipeline that attracts talent to your organization. She offers three strategies for developing this pipeline: Write transparent job descriptions, evaluate previous applicants, and use referrals. Discover more about these recruiting pipeline strategies.
Do you know how to build an effective team? Is your current team failing to work cohesively? Claire Hughes Johnson recognizes that the work isn’t finished after you’ve hired the best candidates to round out your team. On the contrary, you must take active steps to integrate these new employees successfully into the team. Let’s examine three steps that Hughes Johnson recommends for building and sustaining effective teams.
What’s it like working in a team environment? What makes a team environment healthy? Once you’ve started delegating work to your team members to tackle key projects, Claire Hughes Johnson recommends you continuously develop a healthy team environment. There are two primary modes of doing this: offsites, which are multiple-day events outside the office, and regular meetings. Continue reading for more on the two modes that create an environment your employees are comfortable in.
What economic issues did American elites face in the years leading up to the American Revolution, and how did the war allow them to address these problems? How did poor whites, slaves, and American Indians respond to the war? Howard Zinn titled Chapter 5 of A People’s History of the United States “A Kind of Revolution.” He characterizes America’s war for independence as a conflict between British and American elites rather than an uprising of the masses. Continue reading to get Zinn’s take on the American Revolutionary War and the formation of the United States.
Why did American colonial elites fear slaves? What role did slaves play in the Revolutionary War and Civil War? In A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn includes a history of slaves in America. He explores their experience during colonial times, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. He also takes a look at freed slaves during the Reconstruction era. Keep reading to learn about life for these so-called “persons of mean and vile condition.”
In what ways did enslaved Africans resist oppression within the American colonial system? How did the exploitation of poor whites serve the interests of the colonial elites? The class system in colonial America was hierarchical, with wealthy elites exploiting enslaved Africans, poor whites, and women. Despite facing challenges, these groups resisted oppression and fought for equality within the colonial society. Read more to learn about “drawing the color line” in colonial America, according to Howard Zinn in A People’s History of the United States.
What’s hypothesis-based coaching? What are ways to coach your employees to success? Claire Hughes Johnson says that hypothesis-based coaching—which we’ll call inquisitive coaching—is when you informally share your observations of your employees to guide them to better performance. Inquisitive coaching has three steps. Keep reading to learn how to coach employees using these three steps.