How do you inspire a culture of passion in the workplace? Try taking a look at your hiring process. Dave E. Redekopp and J. Barrie Day of the Life Role Development Group wrote an interesting (if a bit dry, paradoxically) piece on Passion Based Hiring.
They offer ten ideas for turning your hiring process into a passion machine:
1. Determine the factors that make a job meaningful or satisfying.
2. When selecting employees, put as much or more emphasis on the applicants' values, beliefs, and interests as on competencies and credentials.
3. When recruiting, selecting, and maintaining employees, encourage career planning.
4. Determine career paths within the organization.
5. Determine career paths within the conglomerate (if relevant).
6. Provide information on external career paths.
7. Conduct specific "passion-based" reference checks.
8. Conduct "confirmation interviews" prior to employment.
9. Determine organization and employee training needs, and fill those needs with tailor-made programs.
10. Use descriptive rather than judgmental supervision and performance appraisal processes.
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