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Comment on Growing Pains by Merwin Peake

Merwin Peake — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:31:31 +0000

When I was at Accenture, I was promoted in my 3rd year to a Recruiting Lead and all of a sudden I had a team of 6 recruiters reporting to me supporting a large division of the practice. My days of being responsible only to myself, my manager and my internal stakeholders was suddenly over…..and I was asking what in the world had I gotten into! Its was hard for me to give up control, hard to trust others when you know what needs to be done and know that you can do it. Leadership I found was about listening, trusting, motivating, and giving up control…sometimes allowing others to fail but providing constructive criticism when necessary, confronting with tact, being patient, coaching, and most of all believing in my people. Most of all, just like you Seth, I learned that I’m definitely not wired like everybody else and that its OK to be who I am, let my people be who they are, and work as a great team together – each of us with different strengths, contributions, and abilities to reach our goals. I learned that everybody can’t play running back or defensive end. A great team consists of all the players working together knowing each others strengths and weaknesses. That first year my small team hired over 110 consultants into the technology competency at Accenture. We worked hard, played hard, laughed and cried together and most of all we ended up loving each other and congratulating each other for a job well done. I probably learned more about myself that first year in leadership than any time in my career….and most of all I learned not to take myself too seriously, enjoy my life, take time to smell the roses…and have fun!

Comment on Growing Pains by Cromer

Cromer — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:56:21 +0000

My boss at Cox, Peter Winter, used to say to me “Cromer, it takes a different set of skills to start a company and years to grow a company” This is the guy that also handed me my first bonus check quoting the Stones. You don’t always get what you want. You get what you neeeeeeeee-eeed. Can you hear it?

Comment on Employee engagement is about the soft skills by Aldo

Aldo — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:40:25 +0000

One of the reasons that many eyelompes don’t know what the purpose of this company is is because they applied simply because they needed a job, and they were hired mostly because the organization needed somebody. All of the important things in our private lives happen around and because of relationships. More time needs to be taken, more relationship-building, needs to occur throughout the interviewing and hiring processes. Those relationships, those business relationships, need to continue to be fostered, nurtured, and developed, not so that eyelompes feel engaged, but so that they are indeed engaged, encouraged, and invested in the success of the organization, which ensures their individual and professional success.

Comment on Why we can’t overlook trust by Tami Squaire

Tami Squaire — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:15:43 +0000

As a recruiter who has been in the business 17 years, 7 months, and 10 days. I live and die by one rule. Quality in = Quality out. It is like cooking with good fresh ingredients, they may be tougher to find but are always worth it in the end.