Tim - Executive Talent Recruiter

One benefit of contributing to a professional group in person is how it helps ground you in interactions 🧑‍🤝‍🧑. How people respond to other people online would sometimes never be observed in person. Would you actually say that statement if the person was across from you? If you contribute to a professional event frequently, this becomes easier to sense. After a brief period of remote jobs...

In this short story, we're seeing bookkeeping talent. Executive talent like this usually ends with Enron type stories 📉. But the costs were still great. Great lessons from a loss by Kriss Berg. Short cuts on talent will result in pain. Vet people wisely.

People never forget your help during a bad time. Saying the right thing seldom helps because truth is often discovered over time. Likewise, "sorry" or "thoughts and prayers" are low-hanging fruit that get overstated. They quickly lose meaning. But when you help someone when they're already overburdened - which is what happens during a bad season - they don't forget this. Ever.

"There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." ~ Sam Walton One leader at our lunch recently witnessed the bankruptcy of his friend. His friend often bragged that he worked for himself. His favorite statement was, "I don't give a [rip] because I'm my own boss." Then his largest customer...

We've seen many companies have to make cutbacks this year. You may be working for one of these companies right now. Or, you may feel that your company is about to start making cutbacks. If this is you, then don't use this as an opportunity to ask for more 📢. Your company is struggling. Asking for more comes off as tone deaf. Rather, identify how you can help your company move forward. It may...

Here's a 📱 pause button* for the week: "You cannot be good unless you're pushing yourself to be the best." This sentiment reminded me a bit of Connecting To the Future by Mohammed Alardhi. In his book, he highlights the gap between employees who rate themselves as top performers and employees who are actually top performers. *A "pause button" is my term for a statement that makes you pause...

This past week has highlighted the damage that one or even a few underperformers can bring to your company. Worse, underperformers who aren't spotted early can rise to high positions then unload on the company. - How does your talent management ensure that you’re hiring the best? - How does leadership hold your talent management accountable? - How do both coordinate together to prevent...

I interviewed a candidate with a director last week that requires a specific skill. I made a suggestion to the director about vetting the candidate. This position requires a significant amount of responsibility. We challenged the candidate with a simple question. Using an AI tool, tell us a basic skill in this executive area that it gets wrong. To our surprise, the candidate couldn't show us...

In the second quarter of this year, what new perspective or perspectives did you gain? On my end, one big takeaway was the value of conscious listening. It's not necessarily the statement or even how the statement is said, but also what's underneath the statement. What about you? (On a related note to this topic, this is why books can be massive time-savers. If it takes you a day to read a...

I'm Tim and I am excited to be here. I'll keep my intro brief because I didn't initially seek out leadership or talent management. After I worked at a few capricious companies, I had to reflect on how I had ended up at companies where I couldn't even describe the vision. I've seen a pattern where companies try to get rich quick from investors or VC, but have no idea or vision what the problem...