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Hiring Friends: The Upside & Downside of Loyalty-Based Hires

This course will give you all the tools and techniques to avoid being the victim of friendly fire.

Created byBoardwise Donna Hamlin, CEO
BeginnerUpdated Mar 3, 2021
Hiring Friends: The Upside & Downside of Loyalty-Based Hires

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleDiscover the dynamics of modern hiring: loyalty-centric hiring of the past versus innovation-based hiring of today
  • check_circleRecognize the pros and cons of hiring and managing friends and colleagues
  • check_circleBecome familiar with how to create a strategic role evaluation
  • check_circleIdentify effective methods of coaching executives on balanced, accountable hiring practices
  • check_circleDiscover tools to use with early stage executives and 3 ways to manage the political landscape when there are FOEs on board
  • check_circleRecognize when a situation has turned sensitive politically and apply your lessons to avoid becoming a victim of “friendly fire”.

About This Course

Executives want to drive for success. It is both easy and tempting to hire people they know and trust, who are loyal to them. Why not? It seems like it should save everyone time in developing working relationships so the company can jump on the job, save on recruiting fees, have fun and ease learning curves. Is that what actually happens? It turns out, not so often. This course looks at the possible pitfalls to this hiring logic and suggests how to build a hiring philosophy that includes loyalty and so much more to thrive. Topics include:

-The benefits of hiring loyal friends and known colleagues -The pitfalls and challenges when loyalty is not enough and, worse, in the way -Actions and practices to ensure hiring success -Tools and methods to avoid conflicted hires -How to handle situations when loyal people need to leave -Coaching and mentoring early stage company executives -Navigating the political waters while managing the FOE (friend of executive)

This course will give you all the tools and techniques to avoid being the victim of friendly fire.

Course Content

1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 1h 14m

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Section 11 videos • 1 quiz • 1.2 hours
  • videocamHiring Friends: The Upside & Downside of Loyalty-Based Hires
    Duration 74:11
  • quizReview Questions

Your Instructor

Boardwise Donna Hamlin, CEO

Strategy Facilitation, Coaching and Education

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Donna Hamlin, Ph.D. “Much wisdom comes from the wacky side of life. Amid humor often lies the solution.” Donna brings fresh solutions to solve all sorts of people challenges. Using her core competencies of listening, imagination, strategic thinking and understanding about how people think, she helps clients with creative way to build competency, resolve issues and be successful. Examples of her work include: facilitating strategic planning retreats for senior executive teams in more than thirty companies spanning two dozen industries, coaching senior executives to help them exercise thought leadership and improve personal performance, developing marketing and global positioning plans for corporate and product brands, and redesigning human resource functions to meet strategic shifts of companies. She’s designed and managed major culture change processes for three corporate mergers and expansion plans. Prior to her CHROs role, she founded and managed Hamlin Harkins, Ltd., an international consulting firm with a successful track record for client support in strategy, change management and human performance management for companies in more than 48 countries. In the past, Donna served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Change, Executive Planning and Leadership Development for CitiGroup’s Associates First Capital Corporation, and as Vice President for Human and Organizational Performance for Texaco, Inc. As the senior executive strategist there, she was responsible for the design and deployment of systems and strategies to improve individual and team performance within key business units for 27,000 employees. Dedicated to continuous learning, she has taught graduate level students in management, marketing and entrepreneurship for three decades, as her passion is to prepare students with her applied learning method. Active in corporate governance, she is certified in global governance by Harvard University and serves as independent board director at Daily Pay, In

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.4 out of 5
Student's Choice
56 reviews
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    Anna G.
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    A lot of good information.

  • LM
    Lora M.
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    well organized and presented

  • LB
    Linda B.
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    Easy to retain.

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