How To Make Great Hire | A Workplace Champions Podcast

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FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/

FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/

FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/

  What are your priorities for growing this middle-market business over the next 12 months? Glenn: "Our priorities are to look at those areas of the business that we may need to tweak and adjust them as we start to really open up the doors and explore the local market here in Colorado. And then, as I mentioned earlier, once we get the model right here—I keep referring to the model, and by that I mean the language that we use in our software—it means assessing the key verticals or the five that I mentioned we're going to concentrate on. It could be one or two out of those five that are standouts for us, where our software is a 100% fit as opposed to being prepped to a 95% fit. So I think we're going to be doing some learning, and then take that model and replicate it in various cities and states throughout North America." FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/ Listen on iTunes  

In 1995, Tony Zito started his first business, Precision DataLink, which was acquired in 2001. He then went on to found MediaForge, which was acquired by Rakuten Marketing in 2012. Today, he oversees Rakuten Marketing in the Americas, Europe, and Australia, spearheading acquisitions and integrating offerings into an expanded platform of performance marketing offerings. Listen on iTunes  FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/  

It was perhaps less than a decade ago that the main byproduct of hydrogen fuel cells was buzz and more buzz. Join us when Andy Marsh explains how the adoption of new fuel technologies is gaining momentum making Plug Power an early leader within the ranks of high growth solution providers. Listen on iTunes FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/

Join us when Tom Kemp, CEO, Centrify, exposes the burgeoning cybersecurity opportunity that has propelled his firm beyond $100 million in annual sales and into a realm of organic growth that few industries can match. Learn how search for talent is altering the firms operational footprint.  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-make-great-hire-a-workplace-champions-podcast/id1243577490?mt=2 FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/

It is often the small bits of information that our guests share that help us to render a more complete picture of their growing business. In the case of Jim VanSteenhouse, one of those small bits was the estimate that he writes close to 3,000 thank-you and congratulatory notes a month. Join us as Jim reveals the leadership and firm-building priorities that allowed him to turn around InterLinc and open a new chapter of growth. Growth Priorities: "The simple answer is to be compliance-bulletproof, to grow using metrics and process,  and to not forsake the culture and office environment that we have worked so hard to achieve."  —Jim VanSteenhouse  Quick Hits: 60-Sec Insight Guest: Jim VanSteenhouse Company: InterLinc Mortgage Services, LLC Headquarters:  Houston, TX Contact: www.interlincmortgage.com FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/

Having invested in 53 companies including over a dozen cybersecurity ventures, Ray Rothrock took on the CEO role at RedSeal confident that he could redirect the company's security offerings to a more fruitful opportunity.  Three years later the career venture capitalist appears to have done just that having returned RedSeal to profitability and year-over-year growth.  Join us when Ray explains the opportunity that lay in waiting, and the values and priorities that would empower RedSeal to pursue it.   What are your priorities when it comes to growing this middle market business over the next 12 months? "My job is to resource the company, people and capital, and maybe technology if that's needed, but it's mostly people because my priority is to grow this business globally as fast as I can, point one. Point two, I'm in the process of the whole…we have a database and we're doing a full conversion of that database so that we can actually get into a full, continuous monitoring across a massive, glo

Eight years from now, when Lance Ruttenberg blows out the candles on a birthday cake celebrating his company's 100th birthday, the CEO of American Textile Company will be savoring an industrial hallmark that no Fortune 500 CEO has ever known. Lance and his brother Blake are today the third generation of Ruttenbergs to own and lead the textile firm first established in 1925. While the company may not be in the same weight class as other successful firms with generational-family origins (Ford Motor Company, IBM Corp.), ATC's longevity is a testament to an ownership/management model that has successfully served an industry, a family, and a devoted employee population for nearly 100 years.  FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/

Join us when we speak to Jerry Hum, cofounder and CEO of Touch of Modern—a popular men's e-commerce destination that has annually grown at a rate of 150 percent, driving the firm's annual revenues to surpass $100 million. Together with his three cofounders, Hum has repeatedly challenged the online world's conventional thinking while dispatching some important lessons to industry at large. FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/