January 14, 2009

Edited and Written by Ira S. Wolfe

Published by Success Performance Solutions. Major Sponsor,

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What's Inside this issue of The TotalView:

1.  SurPetition: Beat the competition with integrated values

2.  Perfect Labor Storm Warnings

3.  Create Effective Interview Guides in Minutes

4.  Quotes from the Hire Authorities

1.  Sur/Petition: Beat the competition with integrated values

It's a word coined by Edward DeBono in 1992 when he discussed how competition will no longer be enough in the future.  Competition means "seeking together."  This means accepting that you are running in the same race as your competitors.  Your behavior when running against competitors is determined by the behavior of the competition.  With competition, you have winners and losers.

Sur/petition on the other hand means "seeking above" or creating your own race.  It means creating new "value monopolies."   These value monopolies will be largely based on "integrated values."  For example, a car is no longer just a lump of engineering.   The integrated values include the ability to buy, sell, and insure the car.

DeBono believed that the first phase of business is "product or service."  The second phase is "competition."    But as a result of automation and globalization, we have entered the third phase of business: "integrated values." 

In the world of managing people, the traditional channels of recruiting, selecting, on-boarding, managing, motivating, and retaining employees are no longer distinct and separate events.  They are interconnected functions immersed and intricately integrated with the greater purpose and strategic goals of the business.   Talent and performance management is an enormous and complex function requiring exceptional execution of the most basic functions and synchronous implementation across the organization. 

Put simply, top performing organizations internalize "integrated values" and human resource management is longer treated as a department function but a strategic directive.

2.  Perfect Labor Storm Warnings   

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The American Sociological Journal Context reports that today 46 percent of women and 31 percent of men have finished school, left home, gotten married, had a child or become financially independent by age 30.

But contrast that with 1960 when 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men left their parent's nest! 

 

In other words, people are growing up more slowly than they did 50 years ago.

 

Source: Trends E-Magazine, January 2009

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3.  Create Effective Interiew Guides in Minutes

The Automated Online Interview. Screen candidates over the web. Candidates provide written responses to customized interview questions online --ideal for a pre-interview screening or first interview.

SELECTPro(R) is web-based program that helps interviewers design and organize behavior-based selection interview in minutes. It also allows the interviewer to easily create a custom Interview Guide: a document (or script) that the interviewer uses to conduct a behavioral job interview.

4. Quotes from Hire Authorities

It may not be possible to train genius  - but there is an awful lot of useful creativity that takes place without genius.

 

 Edward DeBono, Serious Creativity

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