Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

Beyond the Job Description What Drives Your Team

28 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this coaching segment, the speaker emphasizes that leaders must hire people who can actually perform the role they are hired for, and that failures often stem from poor interview practices. He argues that simply asking candidates to promise to do the job is insufficient; instead, interviewers need to ask deeper questions to uncover why a candidate wants the job and what motivates them to stay in the workplace. The speaker references a program session called “Superstars,” noting that the training goes beyond surface‑level hiring tactics and focuses on identifying true superstars by understanding their intrinsic motivations and fit with the role.

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Do the job you're hired to do. By the way, if they're not, that's your fault. You mean you hired somebody who was never gonna do the job you hired them to do? Maybe they got the job for the wrong reason, which you didn't ask the right questions in the interview to figure out that you have the wrong person in the job, and now you're blaming them for their failure to understand who they are in the job? I know there's a session in this program called Superstars, and they definitely don't teach you to train how to find superstars by just saying, make sure you get the person who does what you say they're gonna do. That's it. It goes way deeper. We gotta find out why somebody's on the job. Why do you care to be in this workplace?