How to Interview Like Superman and See What’s Visible

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Why are you always hiring mediocre talent?

Introducing: Culture Based Recruiting and Retention

Learn how Culture Based Recruiting and Retention can eliminate your number one HR cost – Keeping 4,5, and 6 players

Do you want to:

  1. Eliminate your number one HR cost?
  2. Stop hiring people who don’t fit into your culture?
  3. Learn a 5-Step interviewing process?
  4. Describe your company so it appeals to the people you want?
  5. Learn how to identify/recruit 8s, 9s and 10s?

Come To Our Workshop

  • What:
    An interactive conversation with other business leaders where we will introduce to you an interviewing model that can show you how to recruit 8, 9 and 10 players that align to your culture
  • When:
    Monday, 9/20, 1:30pm (CST) to 2:45pm with 15 optional minutes for Q/A
  • Hosts:
    Ray Silverstein. Author, highly successful entrepreneur, founder of Pro, a peer advisory group and understands small business extremely well. www.peeradvisoryboard.com
  • Format:
    Facilitated group discussion format
  • RSVP:
    Email John at john@johnruh.com or call 773-641-9631 to register for this event.

Can’t attend but interested?

  • Ask for 1-1 session to discuss
  • A private zoom event for you and your team
  • One FREE leadership profile (value 75.00) to identify your natural leadership style

Victim vs. VCCR

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What is the Victim Mindset?
It is a predisposed, habitual way of thinking that can cause unnecessary and avoidable stress. Please read this blog: johnruh.com/victimization-creates-unnecessary-stress/

What is VCCR?
An acronym for Vision, Context, Commitment and Responsibility. These are the four ingredients all successful people possess that allow them to create higher levels of achievement. Read this blog: johnruh.com/vision-context-commitment-responsibility/

Why This Might Be Important to You
You can have access to our years of hands on research into vision and a proven model that can increase your odds of creating the success and satisfaction you seek in life.

3 Offers to Create the Support You Truly Need:

  1. A one-time 60-minute introduction to explain the model to your/your team.
  2. 2-hour customized, hands-on workshop on moving from Victimization to Vision.
  3. 90-day introductory offer to partner with John M. Ruh and Associates and gain immediate access to our leadership team plus our 5* best practice tools including this model and many others.

Ready?

Call/email John at john@johruh.com or 773-641-9631.

What Should We Expect Next?

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Speaking Leader to LeaderWhat:

  • Is/will be your “normal”?
  • Will your upcoming market look like?
  • Should you do NOW to find, focus, and retain our 8, 9 and 10 * Players?

Speaking Leader to Leader,

We are all experiencing a “changed world” and need to review at least the last 6 months and perhaps the entire period since the beginning of the pandemic and then project our coming market. Given that, what steps do we take? Here are our thoughts—please share yours:

Three Key Areas to Consider Right Now:

As leaders we need to:

  1. Re-look at our business in the context of the coming market using culture as your foundation. Why Culture? It helps answer the 5 foundational questions we all must ask (click to read more)
  2. Engage everyone on your team. How? Two suggestions: First, pull all together to discuss your cultural foundation (values, mission, vision) and what to expect for the 2nd half of 2021. Second, execute a survey of your team to gauge where your culture stands. Both give your people a voice and will increase retention and performance.
  3. Make Change/Continuous Improvement a habit like brushing our teeth (click to read more). Why? We all must evolve and improve or face declining results and becoming obsolete. It sounds dramatic, however change or die. And when C.I. is a habit change can become painless and impactful.

Let’s Talk!

Ask us for one free session to discuss “what’s Next?” with you/your team and start the process of creating an empowering culture and future for yourself and your team/company.

Non-Negotiables

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Do you have Company “Non-Negotiables”?

What are they?

Have you taken the time to define them in writing and shared it with EVERYONE connected to your business?

CULTURE is the foundation of life and business.  –John Ruh

One of the four key components of culture is defining your values right. Values can be considered your “code of conduct” and/or your non-negotiables. It is very confusing for everyone when the critical expectations (or the “rules”) are neither clear nor kept sacred. Every game has rules that the players need to know, and your business is no different.

By documenting these critical foundations of your culture for all to see and understand (and ideally into a practical game plan format), you can increase your ability to Find, Focus, Support, and Retain your 8, 9 and 10-star players.

Would you like to have a conversation to discuss how to create an empowering culture that supports your top and bottom line? Please call/email me at 773-641-9631 or john@johnruh.com.

3 Offers:

  1. Join us for our next educational event.
  2. A one-on-one discussion to discuss this subject/the Power of Culture.
  3. One-time free 29 min Zoom session on this subject.

Worth a conversation?
Call/email John at 773-641-9631.

World is About to Change: Prepare Your Business Culture Home and Away

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  • What:
    Facilitated discussion via Zoom that will cover 3 pressing issues for all of us: The new effect of returning to the office and its personal impact, the next labor force, and remaining safety concerns.
  • For:
    Growth oriented business leaders
  • When:
    June 23rd, 10:30-11:45 with 15 minute optional Q and A
  • Format:
    Facilitated group discussion format.
  • Hosts:
Chris O'Neill, Chief Executive Officer, Logical Medical Group Ray Silverstein, President, PRO
Chris O’Neill
Chief Executive Officer
Logical Medical Group		 Ray Silverstein
President, PRO
  • Facilitators:
    John Ruh has started, grown and sold three businesses, and Todd Stukenberg
  • RSVP:
    RSVP to John Ruh to receive a link to the Zoom event. Email or call John at 773-641-9631. Group size limited to 12.
  • Cost:
    Be our guest!

Can’t attend? Ask for a one time 1-1 free session with us.

Questions? Interested? Need more details?
Email or call John Ruh at 773-641-9631.

The World is About to Change……. What Do I Do?

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Speaking Leader to LeaderSpeaking Leader to Leader

We will be facing a very different world soon, and with it comes business culture issues home and away. But why? Please read and comment.

Now to Labor Day: Coming Changes in American Business Culture

By Labor Day, we can all expect:

  1. Kids will be returning to school in person.
  2. Federal unemployment will run out (forcing more to seek jobs).
  3. The guidance around COVID-19 is that we are now safer. This will impact all the security-minded people and will force them to make a decision about re-integration (and challenging the benefits and conveniences of working remotely as well).

These changes impact everyone differently depending on personal situation, but they still affect all in some way. Why? We are all interconnected, and it will affect our employees, support or family members. Therefore, we need to be aware/sensitive and prepare our new business home and away culture for the next reality.

This Month’s Special Offers!

3 Opportunities (valid thru 7/4/21):

  • Join us for our pilot Zoom-based session: Your Culture Now: Home and Away event on June 23rd at 10:30AM.
  • A one-on-one discussion on the coming challenges that will impact your culture, both “home and away” before Labor Day!
  • Hold a private Zoom event for you/your team on Our Culture Now-Home and Away–75-minute session. Special introductory price of $500.00.

Worth a conversation?
Call / email John at 773-641-9631.

Are You a Player or a Spectator?

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Are You a Player or a Spectator?Are You Playing or Just Watching Things Happen?

Players are ACTIVE and on the field!

Spectators WATCH from the stands.

WHERE are You?

Goethe said: “Nothing happens until one is committed”. While we all tend to think our opinions are important, what really matters is what we are committed to doing.

What are the Traits of Highly Successful Players?

Please read this blog and then let’s talk.
johnruh.com/vision-context-commitment-responsibility/

Worth a Conversation?
Please call me at 773-641-9631 or John@johnruh.com.

What is a STOP Program?

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Why Should I STOP?Many businesses, teams and individuals routinely continue “work” that no longer offers the value they expect. This silently consumes valuable resources: time, focus and money. At this facilitated, interactive discussion you will learn:

  • Why we need to implement a “program” to eliminate this waste
  • How to identify “invisible” drains
  • When and how to begin the practice of “Stopping”
  • The real benefits it will drive: clarity, innovation and easy, effective change

Join us for an Introductory Session on this Pilot Program via Zoom!

Wednesday, May 26
10:15 to 11:30 (15 minutes optional time for Q&A after)

To reserve your seat or for questions:
Call/email John at 773-641-9631 or john@johnruh.com.

The 5 Understandings of the Power of Culture

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“Culture, and only culture, provides a foundation on which to build a unique, empowering game plan for yourself, your team and/or company” John M. Ruh

When working with our clients to design their culture right, we need to know and understand:

History
First and foremost, we need to identify why and where you started, your current situation, and the journey to where you are now.

Vision and Goals
Vision: The aspirational “Big Picture”. The long-term outcome being pursued (Our process can support this if needed)

Goals: More practical and tangible for the team with timelines that make sense for your business.

Mission
Your mission should answer the “why” question and, on a deeper level, the company’s reason for being (why do we do this every day?). Applied to everyday life, Mission/Purpose can provide a more profound meaning to even daily tasks and empower the team to new heights.

Values
Values are your “Code of Conduct”, What is expected of all involved without exception. How “we as a team play our game”. Think of your values as your non-negotiables.

People
To implement your culture-based game plan we need to know the behavior profiles of your players and receive detailed information rather than speculation or guesswork. This can allow us to implement your new culture-driven game plan effectively, to ensure your messages are “heard” and truly enhance understanding by all involved and how to best engage each other.

Introductory Offer: We are in the partnering business. We are a mission-based group of leaders focused on putting in place the right People, Structure, and Tools that support your company culture. Test out partnering with us for 30 days at no cost or obligation.

Call or email John at 773-641-9631 for more information.

The Power of Culture-Based Recruitment Model

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3 Points and a Solution

  1. While Jung’s variously named 4-dimensional index tools are highly effective, Five Star, best practice tools to help one see the hard-wired, natural traits of a person, they do have limitations.
  2. They fail to identify any aspect of a person’s values, mission, purpose, skills, experience, education, I.Q., or level of awareness/consciousness.
  3. These traits are especially important since, without them, an individual will most likely not be successful at a specific task and become frustrated. For instance, an individual with low “C” traits (details), would have a hard time doing payroll accurately and would likely be stressed out trying.

The Solution: Learn The Culture-Based Recruiting Model

Why?
When you employ this model, you assess people in 3 key areas:

  1. Culture alignment (the “non-negotiable” area)
  2. Skills, Experience, and Education
  3. Traits

When you have a Recruitment Description/Blueprint that evaluates any potential hire in these three key areas and describes a perfect 10, your potential success in hiring increases significantly. Key point: never start any search without this leading-edge document in place.

To quote Scott Urban, a business partner of mine, “most companies hire people for what they can do and fire them for who they are”.

This new culture-based recruitment model can transform your recruiting process.

Worth a conversation?
Call / email me at john@johnruh.com or 773-641-9631.

Introductory Offer
Reach out to John Ruh at john@johnruh.com and ask him for 50% off your first power culture-based recruitment description. (Note: this is not a job description)