The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High Character Employees
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Questionable character is costly. Employees who lack character cost businesses and nonprofits billions of dollars each year. Unfortunately, employers focus too much on what candidates need to know or do and rarely think about what makes an employee great: character. The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-Character Employees presents ten qualities that clarify what it means to be a high-character employee. Stories from employers and employees illustrate how these traits are critical to the long-term success of your nonprofit and to the employees who exhibit them. This book contains advice for the employer, the interviewee and employee in search of a character fit.
- For employers, learn how to incorporate ten qualities of high-character employees into the core competencies your organization seeks from applicants and expects from staff members.
- For job candidates, discover how to include ethics, honor and character in your communications to set you apart from other applicants.
- For employees seeking a raise or promotion, understand how to bring character into the discussion to supplement your skills and knowledge.
- For high-character employees, embrace the importance of presence.
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Three audiences benefit from the stories, examples and discussion in this book. Managers will gain a deeper understanding of ten qualities of high-character employees and why these qualities are so valuable to them and the organization. They’ll also learn how to identify these ten traits in job candidates and how to evaluate whether current employees are consistently demonstrating them for raises or promotions. Job candidates can put themselves far ahead of other applicants by learning how to blend these qualities into communications. And finally, employees can discover how to describe positive consequences that result from their high-character behavior.