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How to Successfully Map Out Your Hiring Process

by Cameron Herold | Apr 23, 2018 | 2nd in Command, Business, Coaching, COO, Culture, Good To Great, Hiring, Interviewing, People, Performance, Team Building

Several years ago, I was mentoring Jason Lew, one of my clients who lived in Boston and was growing chain of bilingual preschools called Pine Village Preschool. He needed to hire twelve new teachers by the end of August. In our discussion I asked these questions about...

I Dare You to Do This…

by Cameron Herold | Apr 16, 2018 | 2nd in Command, Business, Coaching, COO, Good To Great, People, Performance, Productivity

I dare you. Today. Write down the TOP 1 thing that you NEED to get done. Then do it. Now. Get off of Facebook. Get off Twitter & LinkedIn & Pinterest. Stop replying to random emails. You’ll never get everything on your list done. However, IF you write...

Use A Rifle To Find Top Leaders

by Cameron Herold | Feb 5, 2018 | 2nd in Command, Business, Coaching, Good To Great, Hiring, Interviewing, Mentoring, People, Performance, Team Building

If you’re contemplating the use of a search firm, chances are you are looking for top leaders to join your team. There are thousands of search firms to choose from and making the right choice depends on the criteria you use in your selection process. Here are a...

Onboarding A New COO: Part 2 – The Ripple Effect

by Cameron Herold | Jan 24, 2018 | 2nd in Command, Business, Coaching, COO, Culture, Good To Great, Hiring, Mentoring, People, Performance, Productivity

If you’ve been following along on our blog, you’ll remember my last post, where I talked about step one of onboarding a new COO. As I said in Part 1 – Resist The Urge To Let Them Do Their Job, it is essential that you immerse your new COO in the...

Onboarding A New COO: Part 1 – Resist Letting Them Do Their Job

by Cameron Herold | Jan 22, 2018 | 2nd in Command, Business, Coaching, COO, Culture, Good To Great, Hiring, Mentoring, People, Performance, Productivity

We all know that recruiting and hiring the perfect COO for your company is not an easy task. It takes a lot of hard work, research, planning, and time. But once all of that is done, and you’ve hired the perfect person – then what? One of the things that I...

Tips for COOs – #1 The Skip Level Meeting

by Cameron Herold | Jan 17, 2018 | 2nd in Command, Business, Coaching, COO, Good To Great, Mentoring, People, Performance, Productivity, Team Building

A skip-level meeting is when a COO skips over one of their direct reports, like a VP of marketing, to meet with their marketing team. The reason for the skip level meeting is to gain insights from that team and be able to talk to them without the leader present. It is...