Episode 74

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11th Jun 2024

Hiring with Purpose and Cultivating a Great Team featuring Mitzi Dain

"When reviewing applicants, prioritize those who align with our company mission and values. Skills can be taught, but shared values are essential.”

In this episode of Lead with Culture, Floyd’s Tony Ferraro takes the host seat to talk with

Mitzi Dain, Director of Human Resources at PTCI, on how she navigates a unique challenge of selecting top talent from a pool of applicants.

In this conversation, you’ll learn valuable insights on prioritizing values over skills during the hiring process and how to nurture a thriving organizational culture, setting clear expectations, evaluating performance, and promoting internal talent. Tune in to learn the importance of aligning company values with hiring decisions and creating a welcoming environment for team members to excel.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

  1. The crucial role of focusing on values and mission alignment when hiring, rather than just skills and background
  2. How implementing a structured hiring process, including testing and thorough evaluations, helps in identifying the best candidates
  3. Insight into the unique challenges faced during hiring, especially in organizations that receive a large volume of applications, and how to manage these challenges effectively


Things to listen for:

[02:06] The challenges of hiring with a focus on values and mission

[05:35] The importance of weaving through applicants with the company values in mind

[07:05] Focus on skills and abilities while hiring

[08:28] Focus more on culture and employee background

[09:17] Align role descriptions, revamp evaluation systems, and use hiring scorecards

[16:15] Set expectations and implement a disciplined hiring process


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About the Podcast

Lead with Culture
A company can only become the best version of itself to the extent that its people are becoming better versions of themselves. What’s the key to making that happen? Building dynamic cultures so people love coming to work and accomplishing great things together.

Hosted by Kate Volman, CEO of Floyd Coaching, Lead with Culture is a show dedicated to exploring how great leaders create workplaces where people can thrive both personally and professionally.

Conversations are inspired by Matthew Kelly's bestselling books The Dream Manager, The Culture Solution, and Off Balance. Guests include incredible leaders as well as Floyd executive coaches sharing stories and providing insights into real strategies used to attract and retain great talent, execute effectively, become better coaches, build teams and grow businesses.

Whether you're a CEO, HR executive, manager, or simply part of a team, this show will help you become a better leader.

About your host

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Kate Volman

Your dreams are yours for a reason. What are you doing about them?

Our vision at Floyd is to make work fun and engaging for as many people as possible, by delivering world-class training and creating cultures that lead to thriving businesses that are profitable, scalable, and sustainable. My team and I show up every day excited to make this happen.

My team and I can help you build a dynamic culture so people love coming to work and accomplishing great things together.
➡️ Coaching. Everyone needs a coach. We have a coach for everyone.
➡️ Training.
➡️ Speaking.

I love my career and the journey it took to get here.
⭐️ I led the sales team, improved company processes, and created programs, workshops, and initiatives to help business owners build better relationships and execute results-driven marketing strategies during my eight years at the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce.
⭐️ I initiated content marketing strategies that drove more traffic and increased brand awareness while in my role as Marketing Director for the City of West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency.
⭐️ I started a boutique marketing agency and helped business owners leverage digital marketing and video.
⭐️ I founded and facilitate Inspired Action, a goal-setting workshop specifically designed to help women achieve their goals.
⭐️ At Floyd, I lead a team of incredible people dedicated to helping people and organizations become the best version of themselves.

My mission is to help as many people as possible live a more joyful life doing more of what they love.
🎤 Check out my podcast Create for No Reason, a show about making something for the pure joy of it.
https://anchor.fm/createfornoreason

I love to network, collaborate, and help people achieve their dreams. The best way to connect with me is at kvolman@floydconsulting.com