An Open Letter to Company Owners & Ops Leaders

My life had become completely disrupted by constantly having to hire to deal with our “revolving door.”

I no longer got to do what I loved and was best at. I had become an HR manager instead of a company leader.

I felt I had lost control of my company. My team had grown to a size where I couldn't just “shoulder to shoulder” manage everyone anymore.

And the more hiring I had to do, the more turnover we had, and the more bad hires we made, which then took even more time and grief to deal with.

My term for it was the "HR death spiral."

THE PROBLEM

I called a friend about this who also owned a company but didn't have this problem.

My friend pointed out that while the contributors to these issues can be complex, there was a root cause and a single solution.

Better hiring.

Bringing the right people into a company…

Moves every goal forward.

Creates a team that is greater than the sum of the parts.

Allows the leader to do what we are best at and what made us want to lead in the first place.

Adopt a straight-forward, fair, legal, consistent screening process.

Assess all candidates for both aptitude and personality.

Use behavioral interviewing to reveal candidate qualifications and explore assessment results.

Importantly, these steps did NOT require complicated or expensive applicant tracking or HRIS systems or an HR degree to implement.

But the true “secret sauce” of Penny's approach—the one that distinguished her from other HR advisors, and that created my staffing success—turned out to be her assessment.

NSIGHT SUCCESS ASSESSMENT

The NSight was developed over 30 years ago collaboratively by Penny Reynolds and a clinical psychologist colleague.

In addition to her consulting business, Penny worked in assessment publishing and became frustrated by the inadequacy of any one assessment at offering a holistic and well-rounded picture of a client or applicant's skills and temperament.

There were plenty of personality assessments available, but most were not made to specifically look at work-related behaviors.

And there were aptitude assessments, but none made to integrate with specific personality factors.

She thus spent five years developing an evidence-based, valid, reliable assessment that reveals 22 personality AND 4 aptitude success factors related to work behavior.

The NSight was the result—a simple, accurate tool for hiring and professional development that has been used tens of thousands of times in hundreds of companies.

It might be one of the best kept secrets in the world of assessment tools.

It was surely the basis of my staffing turnaround, and a key contributor to my overall business success.

I loved and trusted the NSight so much that when Penny got to a point of scaling back her professional commitments and offered it to me, I formed a company and bought it.

WHAT TO DO NEXT

At Meridiem we provide assessments, services, and online tools to companies to support success and organizational wellness.

We are the exclusive publisher of the NSight Success assessment.

If you would like to…

Get a straight-forward, reliable hiring process that helps you sort the best candidates from the disasters...

Build a world-class team that can take your company to new heights...

Get back to doing what you love and are best at, rather than being a full-time hiring and employee relations manager...

Then answer a few questions below, and I'll reach out to schedule an exploratory call.

I'm happy to brainstorm opportunities and share my experience for getting your hiring process under control.

And if you find you're interested in the NSight Success assessment, I have options that could get you up and running right away—as in within 24 hours, if needed.

So let's talk…

My best to you and to your success!

Mike

Michael Sheehan

Meridiem Founder & CEO