Modern Business Magazine March 2016 | Page 7

MODERN MANAGEMENT employer is critical to attracting potential employees with aligned values. Behavioural Interviewing: A person’s values can be assessed through the actions they exhibit. A skilled behavioural interviewer will be able to tease out information by getting the candidate to use real life situations as evidence. For example, if Honesty is one of your values, then you can assess whether someone shares this value by asking for examples of mistakes they’ve made and what they’ve done about it. This would give insight into whether they were honest about their mistake and whether they took ownership of it. Onboarding: A well-structured Onboarding process is important to integrate new employees into the culture. Studies have also indicated that a strong Onboarding program can increase retention rates by fifty per cent and can improve time to productivity by sixty per cent. Crafting your business’s culture by communication and strategic hiring is a key element to the success of your business and ensures that everyone within the business is unified by a common goal. Values alignment is what makes a strong culture and a strong culture is what helps a business weather the storms of an ever changing economy. An energetic entrepreneur, recruiter and executive coach, Christine Khor is the Managing Director of Chorus Executive; a talent management company focussing on the recruitment, coaching and personal branding of executives. She is also Chair of The Hunger Project’s Victorian Development Board and a finalist for the 2015 Telstra Business Women’s Award. Her book “Hire Love: How to hire passionate people to make greater profit” has recently been published. Visit www. chorusexecutive.com.au March 2016 ModernBusiness 7