The EntreLeadership Podcast

How to Avoid Terrible Hiring Decisions and Hire Impact Players with Liz Wiseman

Oct 17, 2022

47:26

Episode guests

Liz Wiseman

Highlights

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Episode notes

The Impact Players Are Doing the Job That Needs to Be Done

01:35

Finnish Stronger - What Does It Mean?

02:57

Make Work Light

02:06

Introduction

2min

The 12 Components of a Good Hire

3min

The Spousal Interview Process

2min

I'm a Leader, but I Don't Have the Skills to Do the Job.

2min

Hiring a Developer - Is There a Sunk Cost?

2min

The Process Is There for a Reason

2min

Can You Take a Stand on Something?

2min

Are You Trying to Diagnosis a Good Fit?

2min

Hiring Mistakes - What's the Top Tip for Leaders?

4min

10.

The Difference Between Contributor and Impact Player

3min

11.

The Impact Players Are Doing the Job That Needs to Be Done

2min

12.

Leadership - Step Up and Step Back

2min

13.

Finnish Stronger - What Does It Mean?

3min

14.

Leadership - I Want to Lead

2min

15.

Entre Leadership Elite Weekly Reports - The Next Practice of Impact Players Ask and Adjust

3min

16.

Make Work Light

2min

17.

The 12 Components of a Good Hiring Process

2min

18.

Are You Following Your Passion?

2min

19.

Is It Possible to Have Too Many Impact Players on the Team?

2min

20.

Impact Players Want to Work Under Really Great Leaders

3min

Join us as our host, George Kamel, starts this episode with a leadership roundtable. He’s joined by Executive Vice President of EntreLeadership Daniel Ramsey, Senior Executive Director of Human Resources Armando Lopez, and Director of Recruiting Jeremy Hezlep. They share times when they made terrible hiring decisions and what they do now to avoid repeating those mistakes. Later in the episode, George talks to Liz Wiseman, a bestselling author and the CEO of The Wiseman Group. She unpacks the practices of impact players and how to get them on your team.

You’ll learn:

• Terrible hiring mistakes to avoid

• The difference between top performers and average team members

• How top performers handle problems

• The kind of person everyone wants on their team

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