Tag Archive for: behavior

Test before you hire – it’s worth it

Finding and hiring good people. 

How many times have you heard that? It’s one of the main pain points for chiropractors and business in general. Historically low unemployment – and changing career goals – have made it more difficult than ever to assemble a world-class team.  

You can’t use that as an excuse, however. You need that team to create the patient experience that will lead to referrals and patient retention.  

Not to mention the significant cost of hiring a new team member. 

Dr. Tony Alessandra

It’s one of the points we’ll cover in our Fuel Tank this month with Dr. Tony Alessandra, an expert in behavior assessment and communication.  The session is Feb. 20. Sign up here.

I was going through some of Dr. Tony’s materials this week and ran across a one-sheet he put together on hiring and the importance of assessments in the hiring process. You can download that sheet here.  

Here are a few statistics I thought were interesting. 

  • Seventy-five percent of all hiring is due to turnover.  
  • Average churn rates have increased by more than 14 percent in the last decade and it’s going up. 
  • Eighty percent of all Fortune 500 companies rely on selection assessments in their hiring process.  
  • The average cost of a bad hire for a salaried position is $7,000. It goes up as the level of the position rises. Regardless of the job, it’s going to cost a significant amount of money when you make a bad hiring decision.  

There’s a lot more information in Dr. Tony’s one-sheet. And you can learn all about it at noon central time on Thursday, Feb. 20.  

It’s free. Just sign up here.  

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Understand your personality to connect with others

We talk about communication all the time.  

How many times have you heard; we don’t communicate well as a company? Or my boss doesn’t listen to me. Or my wife. Or my husband. Or my kids. 

It’s over and over. 

The problem is that we don’t understand what that means. We don’t know why we can’t communicate, and it gets chalked up to “they’re just different kinds of people.” 

Which is exactly right, though slightly misstated. More specifically, people have different personality types. Understanding those broad classes of personality is the first step toward happier and more productive relationships. 

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately because it’s the topic of the SIDECAR February Fuel Tank. My guest is Dr. Tony Alessandra, an expert in this field.  

You may recognize Dr. Tony if you are active in our training programs (and you should be). His courses offer a practical approach to figuring out who you are, how to read others and how to use that information to connect with people.  

In my preparation, I ran across this information from Dr. Tony that I think sums it up pretty well.  

You can download a one-pager here to review later but I’ve included some of the information below.  

I hope it gets you excited for the Fuel Tank. I hope to see you there.  

Here are the seven areas where behavior assessments can be beneficial: 

1) Improve Hiring & Selection 

The right person in the right job is priceless. The wrong one is a nightmare waiting to happen. Accurately identify job applicants BEFORE the interview, make scientifically informed judgments and build an organization of A+ employees. 

2) Increase Sales  

Teach your sales team powerful behavior profiling skills. Empower them to identify— to your organization’s advantage— observable behaviors, then adapt their selling style to ft the customer’s buying style.  

3) Improve Customer Service  

Know in advance that your people believe in your organization and care about your customers. Better equip and train your customer support team with the invaluable communication and behavior profiling skills that pay countless dividends.  

4) Increase Productivity  

Identify with scientific accuracy the strengths and shortcomings of each employee. Create observable action plans, from the data, that maximizes your organization’s talent.  

5) Reduce Employee Turnover  

Ensure the best possible positional job “fit” for each new hire. Great fit means stronger retention rates, which lowers the costs associated with turnover.  

6) Customize Employee Training Model  

One size fits ONE, not all. Learn how each person learns best and get them back to productivity sooner. 

7) Team Building  

Know who fts with whom in advance. Create your teams based on compatible skills and traits, not just generic ideas of balance. Top-level teams are comprised of behaviorally compatible members with an optimal array of complimenting proficiencies. 

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