Are you limiting your business growth by only hiring people who think like you? In this video, I share an important reminder for leaders: embracing diverse thinking can lead to better hires, stronger teams, and greater success.
I’ll discuss a real conversation with a client who struggled with hiring the right person for a role—until they realized that different perspectives are an asset, not a burden. Learning to communicate your own work style while understanding others can eliminate guesswork and create a more effective team.
🚀 As a leader, you’re meant to grow and evolve. Sometimes, that means stepping outside your comfort zone!
💡 Key Takeaways:
✔️ The hidden dangers of hiring only like-minded people
✔️ How to communicate your learning and communication style
✔️ Why hiring the right personality matters more than shared thinking
Transcription:
Do not allow yourself to become too afraid of people that don’t think exactly like you. This is my reminder for leaders who are different thinkers. Sometimes we can really avoid—and in particular, I was having a conversation this week with someone, um, who is a client. In that conversation, they were talking about people that they were employing, and they were looking for just a particular person. I said, “You know, the person you’re looking for actually wouldn’t be great for that job.”
“Yeah, but I don’t want to work with other people that don’t think kind of like me. Otherwise, I have to spend so much time explaining things and so much time doing this and that.”
I said, “Yeah, but how many times have you been hiring for that role?”
They said, “Well, we’ve had four people in that role, and it’s really a struggle.”
I said, “Yeah, I bet it is because you’re not hiring the right person for the role. You have to hire the right personality for the role, and they may not think exactly like you.”
So this is a challenge—learning how to communicate and engage with that, and not having it stress you out, not having it be an issue. And one of the keys to this—really hear me—one of the keys to this is actually communicating your learning style and communicating your communication style. How best you work. It allows other people to speak about how best they communicate, and then it takes all the guesswork out of it. You can just be clear and confident about that communication right away.
So, you may want to stay in your comfort zone and hire people that think like you. It can be helpful in certain roles, but it can also be really detrimental.
Remember, you’re a leader of an incredible business. You’re going to need to continue to learn and grow, and sometimes you get to be uncomfortable too.
I’m JoyGenea, International Neurodiversity Coach, helping leaders excel at levels they didn’t even know they could.
Bye now.