Job engagement is a 50-50 issue: You have to choose the right motivators to keep staff inspired, but you also have to hire people with certain key traits.
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I could sum up a lot of the traits mentioned in this article as self-motivation. The best show initiative, proactivity, inquisitiveness, wanting to have an impact, anticipatory behavior, challenging the status quo.
These are your "pareto employees" where you get 80 percent of your outcomes and results. Very few companies measure this trait f self-motivation in the interview deeply enough. It's probably one of the major reasons most research shows that 50% of hiring fails to hire someone who can deliver the desired results.
In tracking over 250000 candidates through 1000 executive searches in 30 years, my partners and I have discovered that this one trait is the greatest differentiator between average/mediocre people and top performers at every level.
When will you start adding questions in your interviews to measure self-motivation?