Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

Don’t Hire People for Talent…Do This Instead ⬆️

9 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Speaker (Jacqueline Elliott) argues against hiring solely for raw talent. She recounts that keeping high-earning but uncoachable employees ("golden handcuffs") harmed culture and performance; after releasing them, mid- and lower-performing staff improved because clearer standards encouraged engagement. The speaker recommends hiring from the heart: prioritize coachability, shared beliefs/values, and mutual desire for one another's success.

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Another fallacy that we learned is that you must hire talent. Some people have people working for them that are probably the high earners and they're the ones that are eye rolling. They're the ones that are showing up to meetings on time, I'm late. They're the people that are entitled. They're the ones that feel like they don't belong or they could be better without you. They don't believe. They become money hungry. One of the things I can tell you is that we had a couple of people like that. And when we decided to finally release ourselves from those golden handcuffs because you can have them as an employer, our business changed completely. The people that were at the middle and bottom all of a sudden started rising because there was a standard that we had and they started working harder and giving their heart and understand what we truly believed in. You don't have to hire talent. You build your people. You hire from the heart. You hire people that are coachable, that believe what you believe in, that want the best for you and that believe that you want the best for them.