Merita Consulting

Skills First

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, one truth remains constant: a company is only as strong as its workforce. This is where skills-first hiring and promoting come to the forefront, offering a means to fill positions and a catalyst for driving your company’s growth. When you strategically hire for skills, you open doors to enhanced innovation, heightened productivity, and an overall surge in business success.

Skill Definitions

Determining the skills for each role is a critical first step in building an adaptive workforce. These definitions are the foundation for your job descriptions, job postings, career pathways, and workforce development programs, all of which provide the platform for implementing a skills-first hiring and promotion program.



Skills Assessments

Skills assessments are crucial to the skills-based hiring process. They are the litmus test that helps employers determine if a candidate’s abilities align with the role’s requirements. Yet evaluating technical skills alone is not enough.

You must embrace a holistic approach to skills assessments to find the perfect fit for your team.


Rhythm 2.0 Released – Helping High-Performing Teams Accelerate Growth

Posted on by Dwayne Nesmith

Gazelles Systems has released Rhythm 2.0 focusing efforts on making it easy for high performing teams to Think, Plan, and Do according to the processes outlined in Verne Harnish‘s Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and further refined by Gazelles Systems coaches.

We considered the vast amount of feedback and learning from our Rhythm clients and innovated improvements in three basic categories: Strategic Thinking, Execution Planning, and Doing the Work.

Strategic Thinking is all about establishing a rhythm of strategic thinking to create focus for the future of your business.

Execution Planning is all about creating a rhythm of execution planning to let all teams and individuals know what they are supposed to do.

Doing the Work is all about creating a rhythm of doing the work to keep the plan on track. — Patrick Thean

To learn more about the product and processes it helps manage, check out both Gazelles and Gazelles Systems.