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    Hire Power Radio Show

    Hire Power Radio is created for entrepreneurs, founders, and business leaders to provide experiential learning & the tools to win-win the strongest people. We share solutions from high performing leaders who have figured out.

    We challenge the conventional thinking of how you may be approaching hiring for your company …And we challenge you to empower your team to deliver structured, unbiased, and evidence based interview practices that attract the high performers that will fuel your business growth.

    Entrepreneurship is a wild ride – Hire Power Radio is here to help you to conquer the hire, then the world!

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    Juggling Fundraising While Building a Strong Team with Bruce Watanabe of PowerBuy Jan 07, 2022
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    People will only do something when it is in their own best interest AND aligns with our values.

    This was a key takeaway for me from the book “What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There” by Marshall Goldsmith.

    We talk a lot about aligning with values when hiring on this show. And almost everyone recognizes the importance but it is so often missed. Why?

    First, the disdain that most of us share for hiring. Very few entrepreneurs enjoy the process of interviewing & hiring. But it is the single most important activity that YOU can get good at that will make the biggest impact in your organization.

    Second, the path of least resistance is easy… But it is almost always the wrong path. We must remember that the purpose of the interview is to get to the TRUTH about the person no matter the source. And the truth you need to know is not in skills. It is in positioning and value alignment.

    Bruce Watanabe is a serial entrepreneur whom has co-founded a number of technology and Internet ventures including, PowerBuy, MassGenie, SIRE Mobile (SMS Solutions), and SETA International (Global Systems Integrator & Solution Provider).

    With over 20+ years of leadership experience ranging from start-ups to Fortune 10 companies, Bruce is proficient in corporate strategy, business development, sales, and channel development. He is actively building Powerset from the ashes of a pivot and is here to share his wisdom

    Today we discuss:

    • Why it is important to prioritize the thing you hate most (interviewing)
    • How to balance raising capital while building a stellar team.

    Challenge today?

    • People are the most important aspect of a company
    • As an early stage startup
      • Balancing generating revenue while getting financing
      • Need capital to hire the right people
      • Pivot the business to powerbyte
      • Lack of funding, resources
      • Have the grit to power through the pivot

    Why is this important to the company?

    • Only a handful of people stayed
      • Believed in the vision- disrupting social commerce
      • CTO- grit / determination to power through
    • Relaunched the company
      • Second raise
    • Balance the valuation

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • First recognize/admit that you have no idea how to hire (admit to your problem)
    • Prioritize getting good at Interviewing
      • Values
      • Process
      • Evidence

    How do we solve the problem?

    • Bringing the right team in place
      • Referrals- all interconnected
      • Advisors- only way to hire people
        • Vouch for someone
        • Advisors must be strong
    • Prefer a strong
    • At the end of the day, you can buy talent, you can't buy grit
    • Would love to get good at interviewing but …
      • Really hard to gauge if someone

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Take an active role in interviewing
      • Seek to understand- filters down through the organization.
      • Poke holes & dig deep
    • Understanding positioning
      • What does the person really want to do?
      • Desire = Passion
      • Does their desire align with my goal
        • Don't be just a paycheck
    • Everyone gets the same interview
      • Often the best person for the business is the least like you
      • Evidence supports strong decision making

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! -Value:

    • Make sure you know who you are getting into bed with- have a great team
    • Know who your co-founders are
      • If you are friends, be prepared to lose them. Rarely a happy ending
    • Don’t hire on a resume/linkedin profile

    Host Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-girard-07722/

    Company: https://www.stridesearch.com/

    Podcast: https://www.hirepowerradio.com

    Authored: "Healing Career Wounds" https://amzn.to/3tGbtre

    HireOS inquiry: rick@stridesearch.com

    Guest Links

    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-watanabe-5a661a4/

    Company: https://linktr.ee/powerbuyapp

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ppowerbuy/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powerbuyapp

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerbuyapp

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerbuyapp/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDjcG5dHXE282FGzfaf2Jjw

    Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/powerbuyapp/_saved/

    TikToK: https://www.tiktok.com/@powerbuy.app?

    Show Sponsor:

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    The Danger in Skipping the Interview for Internal Referrals with Todd Ausherman of Notaroo Dec 28, 2021
    Show notes

    Most of us have a tendency to fast track anyone who comes through an internal referral. The rationalization is that we automatically trust the referral source so the person will be a great hire. Add time pressure to fill the role and we are ready to extend an offer before the interview takes place.

    Yes there is an increased likelihood that the person will work out. But there is danger too.

    Because a person is a referral, is the exact reason why they need to be impressed with your thoroughness in your interview process. This does not dissuade the A-players from joining you. It gives them the impression of excellence expected from everyone within the organization.

    Our guest today: Todd Ausherman, CEO of Notaroo

    Todd is an attorney and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in building high growth companies in the financial services space. Having successfully exited multiple companies, while personally hiring hundreds of employees along the way, he is currently building Notaroo, a lending software platform for the mortgage industry.

    Todd is here to share his experience with hiring internal referrals.

    Today we discuss:

    • Why it is critical to thoroughly vet internal referrals
    • How to ensure the the referral fits

    Challenge today?

    • The internal hire from the company that acquired the company
    • Build from 19-250 people in 3 years
    • Went into default and took two people
    • Got a hero and a zero
    • The zero - had his own way
    • Created a lot of barriers
    • Nothing got done
    • First hire power bred discontent among his tribe
      • Led to a mutiny
      • Unreasonable belief in his ability
    • Project fell flat

    Why is this important to the company?

    • The team of malcontents poisoned the culture
    • Ultimately the CEO unloaded a bad employee on him

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Must do diligence for everyone, especially referrals
      • Why is this person being referred to me?
      • Do they align with our values?

    How do we solve the problem?

    • Culture first
      • Create a lot of events
      • Break down the communication barriers
      • Humanize himself as a leader
      • Open a channel for people to be heard, raise your hand
    • Spread out the balance of power
      • Minimize the possibility of a mutiny
      • Team leads responsible for smaller teams
    • Decentralized hiring control to the team leads
      • Process that multiple people decided on the hire
      • Recruiting - intro calls
      • Interview conducted in groups of 2- accountability partner
      • Leader final interview
        • Penguin question
        • Hired a person who didn't like penguins(company mascot), it didn't work out.
        • Knockout question: stick to it
    • Fire Fast
      • Eliminate the cancer as soon as you learn of it

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Values are what form your culture
    • Hiring process!
    • Knockout question!

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! - Value:

    • Sticking to your knockout question
    • Mindful of your key lieutenants and what their motivations are
    • Confront the uncomfortable truth of seeing a person who is a performer but the agenda is self driven. Don't hide behind a person’s performance- cowardly

    Host Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-girard-07722/

    Company: https://www.stridesearch.com/

    Podcast: https://www.hirepowerradio.com

    Authored: "Healing Career Wounds" https://amzn.to/3tGbtre

    HireOS inquiry: rick@stridesearch.com

    Guest Links:

    LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddausherman/

    Company: :https://www.getnotaroo.com/

    Show Sponsor:

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    The Reality of Recruiting for Your New Startup with Craig Conlee of Braid Theory Dec 16, 2021
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    Finding the right people for your ground level startup is really hard!

    As every startup founder can attest, there is just no playbook to getting the right people to join your team. It is about just getting anyone with the right skills to join the team. Often resulting in an unsuccessful endeavor.

    So what’s missing? …. Positioning & expectations alignment.

    Positioning is rooted in what the person you are considering, really DESIRES their professional growth. Are they a builder? A Improver? Or a maintainer?

    Expectation alignment is how well the person aligns with your company values and what your expectations are for performance:

    Step 1. Document your values and share them with each person. Allow them to lean in or bow out.

    Step 2. Document how both parties view the responsibilities & performance standards.

    Step 3. Then come to an agreement on how to keep each other accountable.

    Our guest today: Craig Conlee, Executive Advisor & Former Founder & CEO of Zealr

    Craig Conlee has over 25 years of selling enterprise software for giants like IBM and HP with over $110M in total software sales. In 2015, Craig decided to startup a ML/AI B2B SaaS company to solve a problem he faced as a sales person. Craig graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a major in Political Science. As a student athlete, Craig is still the shortest rower in the 150 year history of CAL Crew.

    Craig Conlee grew up in Newport Beach, CA where he met his wife. Currently, he is living in Orange County with his family.

    Today we discuss:

    • Why alignment is so critical when hiring
    • How to align with people so they lean in to your opportunity

    Challenge today?

    Getting people that understand the work involved with a startup

    • Around location, mindset
      • Maybe a social thing?
      • A lot of people want to join a startup but want to be paid
      • Don’t understand equity
    • Right mindset,
      • Easy to check out
      • Your not paying them
      • Let people join the team that don't fit the values
      • All equity based
      • Guilt for asking them to do work because you are asking a lot

    Why is this important to the company?

    • Gravitate toward people who understand
    • A lot of education of the reality
    • You have to be very upfront as to where you are in the stage of my startup.
    • Which allowed me to clearly understand if they want to join or not.

    How do we solve the problem?

    • Process in which you get to know people better
      • Repeatable & consistent way of interviewing
      • Every conversation was different
      • The good hires were just “lucky”
      • Remove the luck from hiring
        • Worst gambler, yet a startup founder
    • Understanding what they want and what to expect
      • What they want
        • Avoid
        • Leading the witness
        • Selling rather than listening ***
      • Expectations
        • High risk of not succeeding
        • Equity as compensation
        • People getting offended by perceived value
        • Want a mix of cash & equity
        • Hire slow, fire really fast. Have knowledge base centralized for quick transition
    • Don't let yourself be held hostage
      • Avoid paying salary & equity balance- if they leave you have to start all over again
      • Balance keeping them from leaving
      • Conflict of interest in terms of valuation
      • Equity only
      • If it doesn't work out, it wasn't meant to be

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! - Value:

    • Have a sound, repeatable process of interview hiring
    • Hire slow, fire really fast.
    • Don't be held hostage!

    Host Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-girard-07722/

    Company: https://www.stridesearch.com/

    Podcast: https://www.hirepowerradio.com

    Authored: "Healing Career Wounds" https://amzn.to/3tGbtre

    HireOS inquiry: rick@stridesearch.com

    Guest Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigconlee/

    Twitter:https://twitter.com/velocitydata

    Show Sponsor:

    Criteria Corp: https://www.criteriacorp.com/


    Messaging to Personality Wins Positive Response with Greg Skloot of Crystal Knows Dec 09, 2021
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    I sent out 63 inmails through linkedin a few weeks back and received only 2 responses.

    My mistake… I did not tailor my message to the individual. Now, 8 months ago those same messages were getting on average a 52% response rate, so what happened?

    With all the noise fighting to get people's attention, It is easier than ever to get ignored. When the messaging you send seems way too common or anything at all like a templated message, you will fail.

    Now, more than ever, the language you use when reaching out to prospective employees matters. And thoughtful messaging designed to align with a person's personality style is the most effective way to win-win a response!

    Our guest today: Greg Skloot, Co-Founder & CEO of Crystal Knows.

    Crystal is the app that tells you anyone’s personality. Using Artificial Intelligence, Crystal accurately identifies a person’s motivations, communication style, and other behavioral traits.

    Greg and his company have been featured in Inc, Fortune, CNN, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, Wired, and the Guardian. He is the co-author of a book published by Wiley in 2019, Predicting Personality: Using AI to understand people and win more business. He was recognized by Forbes as 30 Under 30 in enterprise technology.

    Today we discuss:

    • Why people are NOT responding to your outreach
    • How to get people to pay attention to you when you reach out to them

    Challenge today?

    • Tough to get people top of the funnel
    • Cold writing, how to get someone to respond.
      • Information overload
      • Email not personalized
      • Does Not speak to who they are
      • Does Not communicate how they like to communicate
      • Passive- no incentive to take action if the email feels like a templated email.
    • Cold emails are really easy to disregard right now
    • The same role needs to be marketed differently for different people

    Why is this important to the company?

    • More important now due to the tightness of the labor market
    • Difficult to get people into the top of the funnel

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Messaging from 6 months ago is really not working right now
      • Way too much noise
      • “What’s the opportunity?”

    How do we solve the problem?

    • Learn DISC
      • Dominance, Influence, Compliance, Steadiness
      • Free reading online
      • Integrating disc within your culture
      • Theory , knowledge & practice
      • Behavior & characteristics that are most important for a role
    • Know the Disc type of person you reaching out to
      • Expectations for the role
      • What the candidate's DISC profile is.
      • Personality fit percentage
      • Not supposed to be a disqualifier
    • Adjust your communication style
      • Communicate how the other person WANTS to be communicated with

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Hit someone with the PAIN first

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! - Value:

    • Use personality insights to break through the noise when emailing candidates cold
    • Adjust how you pitch a role based on the candidate’s personality
    • Consider integrating DISC into how your organization thinks about communication in hiring, team building and selling

    Host Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-girard-07722/

    Company: https://www.stridesearch.com/

    Podcast: https://www.hirepowerradio.com

    Authored: "Healing Career Wounds" https://amzn.to/3tGbtre

    HireOS inquiry: rick@stridesearch.com

    Guest Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregskloot/

    Company: https://www.crystalknows.com/

    LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/crystal_knows/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crystalknowsme/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregskloot

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystalknowsme/?hl=en

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9BjRz6BlFNdQE1WRpFGIDQ/videos

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    Criteria Corp: https://www.criteriacorp.com/


    Following Hiring “Best Practices” Severely Impacts Your Ability to Hire with Rick Girard of Stride Search Inc. Dec 03, 2021
    Show notes

    We all have bought into the belief that following hiring best practices will ensure that we make the correct hiring decisions. Yet those best practices really do not produce consistent results. Why?

    First, “best practices” are guidelines that trickle down from the big name-brand companies who all have the advantage of a much fatter wallet… And they are Transactional!

    Second, what works for large companies does not work for startups. The truth is that you are needing to hire totally different people. Startup companies need “builders” to fuel company growth. And builders are not all about the $$money. They are about personal & professional growth.

    This requires that you approach these people in a way that is counterintuitive to “best practices” and centered upon answering the question, “what’s in it for me”.

    For those of you who are new to the show or don’t know me yet:

    • Cut my teeth as an Executive Recruiter for Tech Startups in the Silicon Valley
    • Coached leaders, candidates & helped to build over 200 tech companies
    • Black belt in BJJ, F1 aficionado & adrenaline junkie

    Today we discuss:

    • Why it is critical to break away from hiring best practices
    • Process to create your Own “best practices” that crush your competitors

    Challenge today?

    Beliefs

    • There really is NO right way to hire
    • Hiring Fails are acceptable (50% success rate)
      • Cost of doing business
    • Copy those who are already successful
      • Google today is much different than Google at your stage.
      • Evaluate for cultural fit… you evaluate for skills
    • People from name brand companies are great hires
      • They may be…. If they are builders
      • Most people that are willing to leave big companies are not high performers
      • High performers have “golden handcuffs” - best to rent
    • More candidates give me a greater chance of success
      • More candidates = time loss
      • Target
      • 1-3 people per position into the Interview process

    Focus

    • Top of funnel
      • Reliance on job boards

    Execution

    • Interview training

    How do we solve the problem?

    What to believe

    • Strong hires come from someone in your network
    • Positioning before Skills
      • Positioning is in a person’s DNA
      • Builder, Improver, Maintainer
      • Only builders will help you grow the company

    Focus on the interview, not the funnel

    • The Interview process is what wins hires, not the number of candidates
    • Current best practices are:
      • 10-15 minutes on a “screening call”
        • Selling the company
        • Selling the job
        • Gather requirements
        • Schedule an interview
    • Importance of the Discovery call
      • Biggest time investment is to be made
      • Determines a person's positioning (builder, improver, maintainer)
      • Invaluable insight into a person’s pain, what they desire
      • Impact they have brought into their current organization (key indicator of a builder)

    Make Interviewing your strongest talent

    • Solidify your process
      • Timing
        • from first contact to offer acceptance
        • Timing of each interview (45-1 hour)
      • Rules
        • Interviews start and end on time!
        • No meandering
    • Steps - Discovery call, Interview (video, onsite) -number of interviewers
    • Content- pre determine & assign interview questions
      • Questions must be designed to surface evidence of value alignment
      • Not about asking questions but having conversations
    • Broadcast your process
      • Make it known that the interview is challenging
      • Hire for Value Alignment first!
      • Make it known that you foster growth for “builders”
    • No Evidence, no vote
      • Interviewers need to be trained!
        • Roleplaying
        • Recording conversations
      • Bias has no merit
        • Either a “Hell Yes” or a no
        • Decision must be supported by evidence

    Rick's Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-girard-07722/

    Company: https://www.stridesearch.com/

    Podcast: https://www.stridesearch.com/hire-power-radio

    Authored: Healing Career Wounds (Amazon)

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094TL14CD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

    HireOS inquiry: rick@stridesearch.com

    This show is proudly sponsored by Criteria Corp: https://www.criteriacorp.com/


    Emotional Intelligence First, Skills Second with Nada Lena Nasserdeen of Rise Up For You Nov 26, 2021
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    Emotional Intelligence is defined as the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.

    Over the past year, EQ has become less important to companies because of the NEED for someone to fill the seat. This is just creating more problems, as less care is invested into uncovering the fit into the organization.

    We need to understand that high performers are taking their time to find the right opportunity. So this is your wake up call to SLOW down!

    Now, more than ever, it is critical to cultivate our own emotional intelligence & implement intelligent hiring practices into your organization.

    Our guest today: Nada Nasserdeen, Founder of Rise Up For You

    With over 10 years of experience as a college professor and former top executive for an education corporation, Nada understands the importance of fusing education, empowerment, and leadership together as she works with her clients and speaks to audiences worldwide.

    Her company, Rise Up For You has been featured and worked with brands such as CBS, Google Next 19, and various Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses.

    Nada has been awarded 40 under 40 professionals in Orange County, California, and Women of Influence for Entrepreneurship in 2021.

    She is a #1 Best Selling Author on Amazon, Leadership and Career Confidence Coach, and 2x TEDx Motivational Speaker.

    Today we discuss:

    • Emotional Intelligence and Why it needs to be front and center
    • How to activate emotional intelligence into your hiring process

    Challenge today?

    • Building technology at such a fast rate
    • Learning is not catching up
    • Result: Huge gap in human skills
    • Most values are human skills
    • Not looking as values as a benchmark to hire
    • Fostering the culture of human skills in the company so you can embrace
    • Social skills are creating problems for the organization
    • Active values

    Why is this important to the company?

    • Result
    • Executives who implement Emotional intelligence in hiring
    • Practicing EI- when things opened up 87% of her team, others were at 12%
    • Sales increase of 325%

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Feeding frenzy from the company end
    • NOW is the time to SLOW down.
      • Candidates are taking their time
      • Easy to manage the timeline through communication
      • Must progress through to conclusion

    How do we solve the problem?

    • Vales need to be activated around EQ
      • Take each value 1 by 1 and figure out how to activate it in the culture.
      • Steps to put values into action plan
      • Create a value campaign
      • Plan to execute the value
    • Coach, train and provide development on these skills
      • On going, not a 90 minute
      • Enough training to be able to trainer, you no longer need a consulting company
      • 6 month engagement
      • Skills don't grow overnight
    • Accurate company analysis
      • Gauge on where the company is as far as strengths and weaknesses
      • Can not make an impact unless you know the truth
        • Survey to uncover where the work needs to be done
      • Looking for evidence

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Making the values a language
      • Decisions made by the north star
    • Emotional intelligence needs to be tied directly to your values

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! - Value:

    • Do an assessment - understand who and where your company is
    • Reevaluate the values and create a strategic map around implementation Ongoing training around soft skills to build the muscles within your team

    Guest Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadalena/

    Company: https://www.riseupforyou.com/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/riseupforyou/about/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RiseUpForYou/

    Twitter: :https://twitter.com/riseupforyou?lang=en

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/riseupforyou/?hl=en

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RiseUpForYou/featured

    FREEBIE: https://calendly.com/riseupforyou/freetraining

    This show is proudly sponsored by Criteria Corp: https://www.criteriacorp.com/

    Rick’s Book - Healing Career Wounds:

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094TL14CD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1


    How to Compete & Win-Win Against a Huge Salary with Michael Downing of MDSV Funds Nov 18, 2021
    Show notes

    How do you compete against a huge company like Amazon or even a really well funded startup?

    If you are competing checkbook to checkbook, you will lose… Every time!

    The only way to tilt the odds in your favor today is to really understand the career wounds of the person and to be able to connect the dots as to how your opportunity fulfills their desires.

    This requires you to listen. Stop selling and start understanding what is important to the individual. This will allow you to stand out from the competition and allow the person you need to hire to see value above and beyond the paycheck.

    Our guest today: Michael Downing, Founding Partner of MDSV Fund

    Michael is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, has co-founded 6 software companies over a 28 year career, 3 of his companies were acquired and one had an IPO in 2006.

    For the last 3 years, Downing has focused on investing in promising early-stage tech companies via his venture capital fund MDSV. Michael has recruited, hired and managed hundreds of employees over the span of his career.

    Today we discuss:

    • Why leading with the checkbook is a very bad idea
    • How to win talent by NOT leading with the money

    Challenge today?

    • People are getting paid crazy numbers
    • People need to have a major passion of belief in the company
    • Now this is a requirement
    • Conviction & belief are the new requirement
    • wild/ disruptive concepts draw in talent
    • Without a big/bold vision you struggle- pirate ship opportunity- highly disruptive company

    Why is this important to the company?

    • Key positions are being filled by people doing side hustles
      • Full Time at companies like facebook
    • Necessity for side hustles

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • People are jumping ship because they no longer align with the company values
    • Too often big salaries = lot’s of problems (attrition, toxic culture, bad leadership, undefined work)
    • If someone turns you down for a higher offer, you blew your hiring process.
    • “Rent gold before buying silver” - Steve Newcomb

    How do we solve the problem?

    • Be new, bold, unique, disruptive concept- big vision
      • A new way to solve a problem, product in a totally different way
      • Investor pitch- ½ people say “that's crazy”- your onto something
      • Make believers in what you are doing
    • Build an advisory board first
      • Thoughtful about who the members are
      • Translates to 6-12 contacts that can be team members
      • Credibility
      • Positioning
      • Funding

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Have a interviewing process (you are being judged too)
      • People to take you seriously

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! - Value:

    1. Set Yourself Up For Hiring Success: It's got to be a Big, Bold, Kickass Vision
    2. Plant Your Roots Early: Your advisory board can be the single most valuable hiring resource in the earliest of days
    3. Don't Conform: Adapt Your Policies & Benefits to people's changing lifestyles

    Guest Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldowning/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.downing.7161953

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaeldowning

    This show is proudly sponsored by Criteria Corp: https://www.criteriacorp.com/


    The Need for Entrepreneurs to Ask for Help with Vincent Kimura of Smart Yields Nov 11, 2021
    Show notes

    Asking for help as an entrepreneur is often a difficult thing to do. But it is the one thing you MUST do if you want to succeed.

    I learned this from my friend, Lori Torres, the founder of Parcel Pending. Lori was able to grow the company from $0 to a $100M exit in six years … and the reason it was such a success is because she asked for help… a lot!

    Asking for help gets people engaged. It allows them to gain insight into the business and is critical in getting over the business humps. It also sets the stage to hire outstanding people.

    And guess what, people will do it because they want to help.

    Our guest today: Vincent Kimura, Co-Founder of Smart Yields.

    A Hawaii-based and globally recognized agriculture technology company that is revolutionizing the way small- and medium-scale farms operate.

    Vincent was named the 2016 Clean Tech/Ag Entrepreneur by the Hawaii Venture Capital Association and a 2016 finalist in the Pacific Business News Business Leadership Awards.

    He was also named to the Pacific Business News 2016 40 Under 40 cohort, which recognizes outstanding young business professionals in Hawaii. He lives in Honolulu with his wife Lisa and their three children.

    Vincent faces the daily challenges of start-up life and is here to share his learnings.

    Today we discuss:

    • Why it is important to ask for help
    • How to get the help you need when hiring

    Challenge today?

    Asking for help to support your hiring process as a startup founder?

    • Understanding how a person is positioned
    • How willing to take on risk
    • Introductions- changing the dynamics to leverage more mentorship
    • Passion for the mission of the company
    • Concerned about the perception from the outside
    • We end up hiring to fill a need vs. what the business needs

    Why is this important to the company?

    • Wasn't able to grow in a natural way
    • Fully driven by the CEO
    • Passion might be there but
    • Less emphasis on trying people out vs. All in
    • The team is the make or break

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Big difference between people who want to do the work and those who do the work for the paycheck.
    • Eliminate the Assumptions

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    How do we solve the problem?

    • Define what the business needs
      • Core values
      • The business strategy & model
      • What needs to be done & when
    • Understand the person's desire
      • Go Slow
      • Identify builders… and Improvers
        • Discovery call
        • Builders will tell you they need to build (bored with the work)
    • Eliminate the Assumptions
    • Hire what the business needs
      • Your ego, wants and assumptions
      • Start with contractors
      • Barter
    • Letting go
      • Stop doing everything yourself!

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Help someone else's business while they help you build yours
    • Expectations alignment document- will solidify a fit for your leadership team
    • Business needs - support to grow

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! - Value:

    • Don’t wing it….
    • Get help and plan it out…. Do your homework

    Guest Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentkimura/

    Company: https://smartyields.com/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartyields/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smartyields

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/smartyields

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smartyields/

    This show is proudly sponsored by Criteria Corp: https://www.criteriacorp.com/

    Rick's book - Healing Career Wounds (Amazon)


    Hiring 101: A Lesson in Peer Learning with Darrian Mikell of Qualifi Nov 04, 2021
    Show notes

    The reason we do this show every week is to dispel the commonly held belief that “there is no right way to hire”. Most entrepreneurs & investors believe that you just have to find the right skills and “trust your gut”. Hoping that the person works out.

    The consequences of this thinking results in countless sleepless nights, missing project deadlines, unstable mental health, increased capital burn and ultimately company failure. Which is NOT good for investors, leaders or the people who follow us.

    Here’s the truth... There is a right way to hire! It just requires that you learn from your peers who come on to share their hiring success. They all have developed a structure and a process that allows them to stand out from their competitors.

    Lead a person through an impressive process that allows you to gain evidence of impact and you will build an amazing team.

    Our guest today: Darrian Mikell, Co-Founder & CEO of Qualifi, A SaaS platform that powers the fastest phone interview experience in the world and helps recruiting teams hire great candidates faster than ever before.

    Darrian graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2013 with a Bachelor's Degree in Entrepreneurship and Finance. Darrian was a 2-sport athlete in both Basketball and Track & Field and was a national champion in the Long Jump. He is based in the Indianapolis area and is a dedicated husband and father of 3.

    Darrian is building a ridiculously successful business because he already conquered his hiring challenges.

    Today we discuss:

    • Why it is important to care about your interview structure
    • Two Components you need to successfully hire and sleep better at night

    Challenge today?

    • Candidates have options
    • Options are unlimited - a lot of remote options
    • Workforce has expanded from local to global competition

    Why is this important to the company?

    • Not hiring the right people limits growth
    • Hiring the wrong people -
      • Wrong people take you down the wrong path
      • When people doesn't work out - back to the drawing board
      • Case study- grew to 73, hired over 100 people and is now 21 people.
        • $7mm wasted!
        • Major money waste
      • 25% hiring success rate
    • Wrong leaders, wrong investors

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • You must stand out to draw people in

    How do we solve the problem?

    • Planning out hiring
      • Proactive to get someone in the seat on time
      • Gap analysis- Knowing the gaps on the team
      • Problems that need to be solved
    • Structured approach to the hiring process
      • Pre-planning your process and mechanics
      • Use the Qualifi tool for screening
        • Phone interviews
        • Automated phone screen
          • Pre-recorded, audio-based questions
          • Every candidate gets same exact experience (makes the review process more consistent)
          • Time is a huge factor in recruitment and efficiency can be an advantage
            • First to candidate can be important factor
    • Pre-scripted live interviews
      • Assigned interview questions (round robin)
      • Each person takes notes throughout the interview
    • Real time feedback with the team to make a decision quickly

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Phone screen (discovery call) is the biggest missed opportunity
      • Opportunity to understand the person.
      • Critical - positioning (what the person desires)
    • Interview- eliminate bias
      • Consistent plug n play- same questions for every person
      • Decisions made based on evidence, not opinion

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! -Value:

    • Proactively plan
      • Understand who you need to hire, when you need to hire them, and how long it will take
      • Plan your strategy and what each step looks like
      • Plan your interviews
    • Create an interview script and get agreement on it with your team before the interview starts. Be prepared to iterate.

    Guest Links:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrianmikell/

    Company: https://www.qualifi.hr/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualifihr/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qualifihr

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarrianMikell

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darrianmikell/

    This show is proudly sponsored by Criteria Corp: https://www.criteriacorp.com/


    Why Employees are REALLY Leaving Your Company with Leilani Quiray of bethechangeHR Oct 28, 2021
    Show notes

    We are in full swing of this “Great Resignation” and a record 4.3 million people quit their jobs in August.

    If you are one of the business leaders who have been losing people, please realize that it is not them, It is YOU! People are quitting because they no longer align themselves with your company values … especially the mandated policies in and around the pandemic.

    Right now, there are much better options in the form of growth and career satisfaction. Which is why people are taking their time in locating the opportunity that they really want.

    So, if you want to stop the attrition and be able to hire strong people, get solid on your values and focus on what each individual is desiring in terms of their personal career growth.

    Today we are discussing exactly what you need to do to become an employer of choice to start winning great people!

    Our guest today: Leilani Quiray, Founder & CEO of Be The Change HR

    A conscious company and social enterprise, providing HR support for small-to-medium sized businesses in any facet of HR from pre-hire to post-term and everything else that happens in between. Her and her team also teach free job readiness courses and provide free coaching to individuals who’ve been trafficked, homeless and veterans in transition. Her team is not only HR Pros, they are Life Changers.

    Today we discuss:

    • What people really want today from their careers in this great resignation
    • The elements you need implemented in your company to successfully hire the strongest people

    Challenge today?

    • Why employees REALLY are choosing new employers?
    • How to become the employer of choice today?
    • People think they know what people want, but they don't know
      • Money
      • Benefits
      • Perks
      • Unrealistic vision (modeling google)
      • What the owner wants (I like X so they’ll like X)
    • What is it that people REALLY want?
      • “Experts stress that people are leaving their jobs as workers across the country are demanding higher pay, better employment conditions and critical support in their daily lives.”
        • Data source

    Why is this important to the company?

    • Companies need humans
    • ethics/moral duty to have a healthy workforce
    • ROI
      • More engagement = more profitable of a company

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Flexibility: Personal freedom is a real issue!
      • Attrition is happening due to continued company vaccine policies
      • Both for and against
      • “Don't want to be micromanaged”
    • What does not matter … as much
      • Compensation
      • Benefits & Perks

    How do we solve the problem?

    • Ask your people
      • Needs are different
      • Use buckets core values & data on why people choose companies/stay at companies
      • Survey your people unanimously
      • Use data to make decisions
      • Communicate back - low morale and distrust if you do not
    • Job requirements reasonable? (also think DEI and diverse hires)
      • Education and where (Harvard?) - biggest hurdle
      • Opens the hiring pool to disadvantaged candidates
    • Compensation Analysis
      • Market Value
        • Free tools BLS
      • By demographics too
    • Employer branding
      • What do you look like publicly?
      • Core values shine?
      • How awesome you are should show!
      • Evil Glassdoor (aka the Yelp for employers)
        • Get ahead of the bad reviews by getting good ones
        • Damage control and a look at ones own org if you already have bads ones
          • Take a look at who you are hiring
    • Core Value Work
      • Do you have them?
      • Assess them
        • Tool?
      • Book?
      • Live them
      • Weave them into everything
        • We ask “are we living our core values?”
        • Language within the company and how decisions are made

    Rick’s Nuggets

    • Are your values real?
    • Job requirements need to be eliminated and replaced with performance metrics
      • Form of conscious bias
      • Performance Metrics = Accountability
    • Interview for core value alignment
      • Value alignment is the only true measure to ensure performance and tenure
      • No reason to move when you provide everything a person desires

    Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! -Value:

    • Do Pulse Check Surveys!
    • Rethink your recruiting strategy: job requirements, your online presence, comp analysis
    • LIVE your core values!

    Guest Links

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leilaniquiray/

    Company: https://bethechangehr.org/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bethechangehr/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bethechangehumanresources/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/bethechangehr

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethechangehr/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqsQa5CXid2I0xQwiVyE2nw/featured

    This show is proudly sponsored by Criteria Corp: https://www.criteriacorp.com/


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