Organizational Development

Typically, small and medium size businesses are very dependent on a few key people who form a close knit team.

In order to grow, a company usually has to add people but, how do you avoid making the wrong hiring decision? If you own a ten person company, adding just one more person means increasing your staff by 10% and is a critical decision to get right. Bad hires cost companies tens of thousands of dollars and really bad hires often wreck a company.

The other problem as companies grow and require some type of management structure, is that the employees with the most seniority, who are likely to have developed a close relationship with the business owner, are not necessarily the best people to place in senior management positions. The fact that they are good "do-ers" does not mean that they will make good leaders. An inability to deal with the organizational aspects, is the single biggest reason why companies fail to grow beyond a certain size or just fail!

Most companies hire based on the prospective employees qualifications and experience together with some kind of vague "do I like them" criterion and statistics show that a significant percentage of these hires do not work out.

Successful hiring demands that employers take a more three dimensional view and also consider the prospective employee's principles, values and behaviors. There are tools today that allow an employer to assess these things.

We are a licensed distributor of Target Training International's assessment solutions. This allows us to ensure that our clients hire people who are a good behavioral fit for the organization and who are likely to succeed in the job. We have specialist assessments for executive management and for sales staff and we also have a work evaluation version that can be used upfront for effective job design.

If you are struggling to attract and retain the right people for your business, why not contact us today and request our free "Successful Hiring" white paper. Also, ask for details of how you can get a free behavioral profile. Once you understand how behavioral profiling can improve your hiring success, you will never make another new hire without one.