Build a Team That Wins: Emma Grede on Hiring the Right Employees
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I am so excited to share my debut book with you all, Start With Yourself, which is available now. You might have seen the headlines. You might have seen the social. But this book is exactly what I intended, a conversation that will make you think. And it's a blueprint for anyone who wants success without the toxic positivity. Start With Yourself is about self-reliance. leadership because wherever I go, women ask me how I got to where I am. But what you really want to know is how you can get there. So I'm doing what I do best, sharing and never gatekeeping what's worked for me in the hope that you can borrow from a philosophy that has served me so well. The truth is I'm not an expert. I've just lived it.
I've made the mistakes. I've had the failures and I've learned what actually works. It takes a lot. It takes the most. And this book is for anyone who's tired of feeling like a passenger in their own life. It's about taking responsibility for your thinking, managing your emotions and getting clear on your ideas and then knowing your next step. It's about picking yourself up after failure, being accountable, but also forgiving yourself, pushing for wins and never, ever apologising for your ambition. It's also about challenging the rules that you've been told. There is no perfect time. Balance isn't the goal. Alignment is. And there's nothing wrong with you wanting more. I'm precisely sure that the reason I've been so successful is so I can share it with you.
Start with yourself. My debut book is available now. Visit emagreed.com to purchase the book. Also available on Amazon, your favorite audio platforms, and all good bookshops.
Hi, my darlings, and welcome to another episode of Aspire with me, Emma Great. Now, a few weeks ago, I did an episode on how to interview. And the whole point of that episode was this. You are not auditioning. You're actually choosing. You're assessing whether or not this company, this role, this room deserves your time and your energy. And I got so much feedback from that. People told me it changed the way they walked into interviews. They stopped being nervous. They started asking better questions. And I loved that. But But what I didn't talk about was the other side of the table, because at some point, and I hope this is you, I hope you get there, you're the one doing the choosing. You're the founder, you're the hiring manager, you're the person building a team.
And let me tell you something, that side of the table is actually harder. I promise you it's so much harder. When you're the candidate, the worst thing that happens is you don't get the job. And when you're the one hiring, the worst thing that happens is that you bring the wrong person into your business, into the thing that you've built, the thing that you care about more than anything else. And it costs you. It costs you money. It costs you time. It costs you energy. And sometimes it can cost you relationships. So even if you're the one being interviewed right now, stay with me because understanding how a hiring manager actually thinks is going to change the way that you show up in that room. So while we were on tour, somebody asked me a question.
She said, I know how to measure skillset, but how do you measure mindset in the interviewing process? And I told her something that I want to tell all of you because it's the most important thing that I know about hiring. You always, always have to hire for your own weaknesses or for the problem that you're trying to solve. Always. And the first part of that, the part that nobody wants to do is get really sharp on what your weaknesses are. Now, you probably know your strengths, but do you actually know what you're bad at? Most people don't. Most people have a vague sense that there are just things that they're not great at, but they've never done the work to actually name them. So today, we're going to talk about hiring, but not in the way that you might expect.
We're not going to go for a checklist of interview questions or talk about resume red flags.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–12:37
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How can you assess a candidate's mindset during an interview?
12:37–17:38
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What crucial conversations should you have before writing a job description?
17:38–29:18
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Why is hiring for attitude more important than hiring for experience?
29:18–30:59
Speakers
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