"Without quality employees who share your vision and work ethic your business is not going anywhere.So how do you find "right" employee?

We've all experienced hiring "wrong" person. It's a nightmare. Hiring mistakes costs money, time and worse can easily ruin your business and your health! A recent survey in Forbes Business Magazine revealed, "Hiring wrong person is prime cause of business failure in USA". For most employers it's a lottery, hire someone and hope it works out.

People problems take most toll on us personally producing significant emotional wear and tear.

What if you had a tool that could tell you in advance of hiring, if candidates applying have right attitude and behavioural style to do that job successfully.

Now that would be something! Well read on. It's now possible to predict behaviour quickly and accurately.

People can do most jobs if they are qualified and skilled for that position. However some people have a more natural aptitude for a particular type of job. Their behavioural style closely matches job and as a result, they do better, are less stressed, can't wait to get to work, are enthusiastic and stay with you longer. The ideal employee! These are people you need to hire..

Which Behavioural Style Are You?

Four dominant styles define everyones behaviour

Whilst we are all different, our behavioural habits and style are more predicable than we think. We each have a dominant style and this determines how we manage at work, at home, in our relationships, how we communicate and importantly what careers we are best suited to.

D - Drivers. These are people who want to get things done. Active and fast paced, more interested in tasks than relationships. Often strong willed and very assertive, they push to have things done their way.

If you want your business to run more effectively and/or make more money then you must invest time and energy into your no. 1 asset otherwise you will eventually lose them.

The Physiotherapists' Practice

With four of us in family who are all into health and fitness, we have been going to this particular practice for past few years.

The actual environment is lovely, however there seems to be a high turnover of physiotherapists. It's only a small practice yet it seems that apart from owner and one other physio. who looks after us, rest seem to come and go fairly quickly.

I can easily see what problem is. It's owner. He lacks fundamental communication and business skills. Sure he knows his 'stuff' about how to help someone heal their body but he is sorely missing basic skills in leadership and managing his own staff.

The funny thing is he has a 'Mission Statement' in his office stating "Our people are our number one asset". How often have you seen this in businesses around country? Quite often opposite is true.

If this business owner's people were his no. 1 asset then he should have got message by now, that with high turnover of staff, there is one common problem…him!

I have spoken to him on a number of occasions suggesting he invest some time with us as not only can we help him be more effective with his people but also show him how easily he can make more money. Unfortunately (for him) he thinks he knows everything.

Not only is this business owner sadly lacking in leadership, business and communication skills, his people are same.

Sure, they're nice enough to talk too, however they would be so much more of an asset to this practice if they had on-going development. And that development has to come from outside practice.

Because no-one is aware of how they can run this practice more effectively, heaps of time is wasted, potential business is lost, not to mention how stressful all this is on everyone involved.

Show Them You Care

Many good people leave because they are unappreciated. They are taken for granted.

When I ask new clients how often they get together with their people on an individual or group basis to discuss their performance get their perspective on how they find their jobs and how to improve things, a common response is "it's something I've been meaning to do".

I often hear comment "I must do Jane's performance appraisal. I should have done it weeks ago BUT (here comes well-worn excuse) I'VE BEEN SO BUSY!!!"