“You can’t teach employees to smile. They have to smile before you hire them.”
– Arte Nathan
Do they give you energy? I know we’ve been interviewing a lot of people lately. I was thinking about our clients and how helping them change corporate culture is hard. It’s not just that we invent strategies and implement systems, we also have to help them to adopt it too. It takes extra energy to drive change, extra get up and go, an extra force of will. There are many different models for change management which I’ll save for another Desk of Brad.
One thing that we can do immediately to improve our change management skills is to hire high energy people. People with drive and passion, the kind of people who leave you excited when you finish talking with them. We should be on the lookout for these types of people to bring into our company. Enthusiasm is contagious, and who doesn’t want to go to work every day with a bunch of fired up colleagues who want to make a difference?
It’s just another way of identifying happy people. The happy people in my life always leave me feeling better and as I’ve been thinking about it, give me the energy to be better, to do better. Our clients need the same support and since the work we do is hard, each of us needs people around us who feed us goodwill and provide us that extra burst of enthusiasm to go the extra mile. So next time you meet someone and think they’d be a good fit for the company or interview someone for a job after the interview ask yourself, do I have more or less energy than I did when I started the interview?
People give me energy by asking smart questions. Or they present a point of view that I hadn’t considered, and they might just think the work we do at Tahzoo is super cool. I don’t know exactly how to qualify it, but I just feel better after talking with certain people. If someone doesn’t inspire you and leave you with more energy, then I’d strongly suggest you consider not hiring that person for Tahzoo. Let’s go round up a bunch of super-smart, super happy people who are excited about what we do for a living.
Let’s go be great!
Brad