How To Welcome Spring With Your Success
Mar 30th, 2010 by David Svet
Yesterday’s SPURspectives post talked about sowing the seeds for the future of your business so that you’re moving in a positive direction as the economy picks up. One way to do that is to look at your crop of existing employees and the crop of resumes crossing your desk. If you’ve been doing a good job managing your team, you have some amazing opportunities in front of you.
If all of your personnel cuts to date have been strategic, you’re currently left with your best and brightest. It may have been very painful to get to this point, but if you take a moment to calmly examine the situation you’ll quickly realize that you’re in very good shape. The marginal performers are gone and your team is in fighting form. There may be a few holes to fill, but the folks around you are the A team. Take very good care of them.
They’ve been through hell watching their friends and colleagues leave, seeing business dwindle, and wondering what’s next. It’s not been pretty. Make sure that they don’t bolt to greener pastures the moment they feel safe. Now is the time to let them know that they are loved. Don’t assume that they know it and don’t wait to tell them.
Next shuffle through that pile of resumes in your inbox. Do you notice anything unusual? There is an extraordinary amount of phenomenal talent available on the job market. Hopefully, this is the best buyer’s market you will ever see in your lifetime. Be ready to take advantage of it.
As the economy bounces back the best will be the first hired. Now is the time to recruit the players that you really want. If you haven’t been doing this all along for the sake of networking, then start to take the time to have informational interviews now. Certainly, you don’t want to build false hope, but you do want to be headed down the path when it’s time to hire, not left trying to find a candidate to take down the path.
It’s been a long, hard winter. But the first hints of spring are wafting in the breeze and it’s time to tend the garden.
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