Smart Business Magazine, January 2021
January 2021 Smart Business 21 PASSING PERPETUAL MUSTER A player is a term relative to the current level of talent in the company and NRP is committed to always driving that cumulative talent level higher If arbitrarily and only for the sake of illustration the level of talent is at a five ideally only sixes would be hired Every time the new person comes in that youre hiring you should be hiring a better person Heller says Sorting out candidates who are A players is done through multiple interviews by multiple people within the organization NRP also does personality testing using the DISC assessment However that tool isnt the decision maker Instead it serves as a baseline for conversations about how that persons personality works creating a profile on how detail oriented someone is how interpersonally dominant they are and how those traits might change based on situational stress Stacking incrementally more talented people is only one part of how NRP elevates the talent trajectory Each person who enters the company is expected to continue to grow and improve Should that persons abilities begin to level off possibly sinking below the mean level of talent at NRP that would trigger a crucial conversation about why that individuals growth might have stalled Its possible for instance that a person grew in ability above the level they had when they came to NRP but that the organizational talent outpaced that person And because NRP is a growth oriented company anyone who cant keep pace has to be left behind I like to say that theres a mountain ahead of us and we dont know if were going to climb that mountain to get over it go around that mountain dig a hole through that mountain but were going to get to the other side J DAVID HELLER PRESIDENT AND CEO THE NRP GROUP
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