{"id":2194,"date":"2013-02-28T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2013-02-27T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T12:14:26","slug":"recruiting-for-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/recruiting-for-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting for values&#8230;????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the truisms I hear a lot at the moment is about the importance of recruiting for values \u2013 be that in the NHS, post Francis inquiry, or even a leading men\u2019s fashion shop in Cambridge that always fields a brilliant team of staff runners in the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chariots-of-fire.co.uk\/ \" rel=\"nofollow\">Chariots of Fire<\/a> race! We agree with that focus, as per the 5th level in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/values\" rel=\"nofollow\">values model<\/a>: integrating desired behaviours into the choices about who is hired, let go, disciplined, rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>We see how many organisations,who are now aware, recruit for aptitude and tend to fire for attitude \u2013 this is a huge motivator for getting selection right. However, we do note, there tends to be a bit less interest amongst senior leaders to develop the trust and systems for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1813\" rel=\"nofollow\"> honest feedback <\/a>\u2013 feedback that is at the heart of work to get the most important thing right: leaders themselves modelling the desired behaviours (level 4 in our framework).<\/p>\n<p>For example, I do wonder how the NHS would be different if those at the top did model a passionate commitment to safety and compassion \u2013 and not just financial balance targets (which, by the way I think are important \u2013 the 4 hour trolley wait standard has served people I have been attending well, during\u00a0my A&amp;E visits over the last couple of years\u2026and overspending is never a good idea).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the reason leaders in many industries like the focus on level 5 is it is about \u2018them\u2019, \u2018the others&#8217;.\u00a0 Level 4 and Level 5 are a winning combination\u2026.but if I could only have one it would be 4, not 5.\u00a0 Like curiosity, if you get the level 4 going then rest falls into place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the truisms I hear a lot at the moment is about the importance of recruiting for values \u2013 be that in the NHS, post Francis inquiry, or even a leading men\u2019s fashion shop in Cambridge that always fields a brilliant team of staff runners in the annual Chariots of Fire race! We agree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[50,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}