Optimizing Employee Talent Through Intentional Hiring

Amber Hurdle is the CEO of Amber Hurdle Consulting, a multi-award- winning talent optimization firm that pioneers using both science and marketing principles to strengthen customers’ brands from the inside out. Hurdle helps overcome costly business problems like ineffective recruiting, turnover, underperformance, declining morale and leadership gaps by clearly connecting her clients’ people strategy to their business strategy for measurable bottom-line results by optimizing employee talent.

Optimizing Employee Talent

Top Takeaways: Optimizing Employee Talent Through Intentional Hiring with Amber Hurdle

  • Optimizing customers or employees?
  • Billions of dollars spent to understand their customers
  • Creating an ideal talent profile in the same way we create an ideal client profile
  • The data tells us where we were. What tells us where we are going?
  • Optimizing Employee Talent Through Intentional Hiring
  • The Predictive Index tool
  • Developing self-awareness among everyone on the team
  • Biggest and most common mistakes that employers make
  • Distinguish your product from your competitor in hiring- your product being your work environment
  • The science of making hiring decisions
  • Advertise the role by advertising the key areas of ownership
  • The head, the heart and the briefcase

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Amber’s website: Amberhurdle.com/predictive-index

 

About the author

Jake Carlson is a popular speaker, accountability partner, and host of the Modern Leadership podcast. Jake built his business while traveling with his family around the world. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn. Read more about him here.