I recently came across a good post on the on-boarding process for executives, and how it is often given short shrift in organizations, to the detriment of the new leader. In my experience, staffing routinely goes off the rails much earlier than that, during the hiring process itself. A prospective team member may learn much more about you (and your organization) through experiencing your actual hiring process than what is said in the interviews themselves, or from the slick information packet [...]
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In the challenge to find and retain the best employees within an IT organization, there are many recommended practices, from putting developers through a brief coding test, to verifying that project managers posses a solid understanding of accepted methodologies. Prior work experience is matched against the organization’s current challenges, while education and references are checked. In all this paperwork and the gauntlet of interviews that ensue, I’d propose that an authentic and visible sense of ownership is perhaps the single [...]
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