The principles of Faith, Hope and Charity inspire us to lead lives that have purpose and meaning.
And with so many competing priorities, it makes a nice change to just 'be in the now' and give back – not up! Know what I mean?
However, when it comes to recruitment and employing staff, these very same principles may need to be interpreted somewhat differently. This is why.
It has often been said that people hire fast, and fire slow.
Yes, we get excited when we find a person of talent - Faithfully believing they are the right ones for the job, and can fulfill our business needs and their ambitions. We have faith in their skills, abilities, attitudes and knowledge to build business and opportunity. After all, they have been tested, toiled and trumpeted up to be “just what we are looking for”.
However wonderful this person may be at the beginning, it can become apparent that after the 'honeymoon period' is over, we can see (and often so can they) that the person is not “up to the job”, “seems disengaged at times” or “can’t grasp new systems, technology, people and different situations".
At which point we follow the next principle of Hope – we start to 'hope' they get better, learn faster, address issues with greater confidence and competence and can start to make a difference in the way in which we had 'hoped'...and for which we had 'faith' in them to do the job in the first place.
OK, and it would be fair that sometimes given more time, things work out…and sometimes it doesn’t!
Now here’s the sticky point…when it doesn’t and we can’t 'sack' them or we like them and so do the rest of the staff or perhaps we keep thinking they will get better over (more) time, we in fact commit ourselves to the last principle - that of Charity! We keep paying them, training them, coaching them, and investing in them…… in the Hope they will Faithfully produce.
Guess I better stick to the principles of Faith, Hope and Charity in my community work and leave the recruitment to the experts. What principles do you aspire to?
http://www.rickynowak.com/
And with so many competing priorities, it makes a nice change to just 'be in the now' and give back – not up! Know what I mean?
However, when it comes to recruitment and employing staff, these very same principles may need to be interpreted somewhat differently. This is why.
It has often been said that people hire fast, and fire slow.
Yes, we get excited when we find a person of talent - Faithfully believing they are the right ones for the job, and can fulfill our business needs and their ambitions. We have faith in their skills, abilities, attitudes and knowledge to build business and opportunity. After all, they have been tested, toiled and trumpeted up to be “just what we are looking for”.
However wonderful this person may be at the beginning, it can become apparent that after the 'honeymoon period' is over, we can see (and often so can they) that the person is not “up to the job”, “seems disengaged at times” or “can’t grasp new systems, technology, people and different situations".
At which point we follow the next principle of Hope – we start to 'hope' they get better, learn faster, address issues with greater confidence and competence and can start to make a difference in the way in which we had 'hoped'...and for which we had 'faith' in them to do the job in the first place.
OK, and it would be fair that sometimes given more time, things work out…and sometimes it doesn’t!
Now here’s the sticky point…when it doesn’t and we can’t 'sack' them or we like them and so do the rest of the staff or perhaps we keep thinking they will get better over (more) time, we in fact commit ourselves to the last principle - that of Charity! We keep paying them, training them, coaching them, and investing in them…… in the Hope they will Faithfully produce.
Guess I better stick to the principles of Faith, Hope and Charity in my community work and leave the recruitment to the experts. What principles do you aspire to?
http://www.rickynowak.com/
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