The Omnia Insights #30
🎃 Happy Halloween! Spooky Stories from Workplace Experiences & Talent Trends
Happy Halloween! Remember as kids when we shared scary stories with our friends? Often, we exaggerated to make the story even more terrifying. As adults, we still have scary tales to tell; only this time, our workplace horror stories are 100% real.
Across hiring, management, sales, service, and more – a lot of things can go wrong. Rather than try to fix everything at once, concentrate on the one thing that has the potential to reduce all your troubles – people.
The secret to any business’s success is its people. Once you get to know your people – their drivers, strengths, and weaknesses – you can inspire them to get past their limitations and achieve greater heights, a win-win for all. Assessments help take some of the guesswork out of the equation and allow you to strategize better.
In this issue, we share horror stories from personal workplace experiences, not to spook you but to inspire you to learn from the experiences of others. We also offer some great tips along the way and discuss ways to leverage Omnia’s assessments to get your hiring on track and inspire your teams to reach their full potential.
Building a people-centric culture that makes people feel valued, engaged, respected, and worthy goes a long way in taking the “scary” away from any process. When people thrive, your business thrives. To quote Steve Jobs, “The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.”
Omnia is always here to help you avoid your own hiring horror experiences and hire the best people in the world. Check out these resources we’ve compiled for you.
Insights From Our Team
5 Customer Service Hiring Horror Stories (and How You Can Avoid Being the Next Victim!)
The last thing you want to do is give your customers terrible service. Take expert tips on how not to hire Angry Ava, Conflict-Avoidant Courtney, Social Sam, Bad Info Bob and Lazy Laura in your customer service team.
Sales Hiring Horror Stories – How to Avoid the Starring Role in a Sales Hiring Horror Flick
Can you imagine finding out the salesperson you hired never showed up on the first day and turned out to be doing jail time for a DUI?! Read some more such sales hiring stories.
The Cost of Nightmare Leadership
Imagine a manager screaming, “I don’t want to hear any family or kid stories,” tracking bathroom breaks, walking around the cubicles, and listening to conversations. No one wants such nightmares at work.
Hiring Doesn’t Have to be Scary! 5 Tips from Hiring Professionals
What would you do if someone you hired for design didn’t have the skill and was quietly using a popular $5 graphic design site to produce work? Always evaluate skills before making an offer. Here are 5 scary stories and lessons.
Don’t forget to complete our Talent Trends 2023 survey. Give us ten minutes of your time and tell us how talent acquisition and development are handled in your organization. We will publish our second annual report in February. Want to see what we found out last year? Check out the 2022 results here. https://go.omniagroup.com/recharge-your-talent-strategy-in-2022
Omnia Assessment Validity Study
Our team is hard at work on a third-party validation of our behavioral assessment. Thank you to all our clients and partners for finding volunteers for the final phase. Preliminary results look good! We are excited to wrap this up by the end of November and share results in our next newsletter.
Upcoming Webinars
🎓 First Friday Fundamentals Training
📅 November 4, 2022, 12:30 – 1:30 PM (ET)
📅 December 2, 2022, 12:30 – 1:30 PM (ET)
Events Line Up
1. November 10: Attending the CEO Council of Tampa Bay
2. November 14: James A. Ziegler, CSP, nationally recognized magazine columnist, author, and professional speaker, is interviewing Keather Snyder and Wendy Sheaffer from team Omnia. You can watch the live broadcast at 10 am EST on https://zieglerondemand.com.
Thanks for reading this far. Please stay connected with us on social media and at the events. See you next month!
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