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.

Work Life Balance Takes the Team

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Dwayne Nesmith

Harvard Business School professor, Leslie Perlow, in this TED talk shares how project teams in high performing environments are able to work together to carve out personal time in ways that individuals attempting this alone almost always fail. Every team is different and it’s critical that at the very beginning of a project, the group collectively sets and agrees to the expectations of how they will work together. Perlow describes how this can include time away from work in an environment when traditionally that was considered career limiting.