Using People Data to Hire the Right People with Amber Hurdle
b'Amber Hurdle is the CEO of Amber Hurdle Consulting, a multi-award-winning talent optimization firm that pioneers using both science and marketing principles to strengthen customers\\u2019 brands from the inside out. She helps overcome costly business problems like ineffective recruiting, turnover, underperformance, declining morale and leadership gaps by clearly connecting her clients\\u2019 people strategy to their business strategy. Amber understands how to accelerate success. She is a teen mom turned powerhouse businesswoman who has worked with celebrities, executives and Fortune 100 companies. Amber loves uniting the power of personal, employer, and business brands.\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- Collect data to help you understand what makes your employees tick so you can empower them to deliver on your brand promise.\\n- Understand your employees\\u2019 innate needs and what drives their behavior.\\n- A poor behavioral fit will result in a lost employee.\\n- If it\\u2019s worth it to create profiles to attract the ideal customer, it should also be worth it to create profiles to attract the right candidate.\\n- The collaborative/independent (A) and flexible/precise (D) markers are the two most important markers of the index. These help to determine whether people are risk-takers or risk averse.\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n\\u2013 What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? To believe the good in others\\u2014even people you don\\u2019t like or get along with. Everyone brings experiences that affect how they act.\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d Self-aware, humble, and visionary.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What makes me tick?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Man\\u2019s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Enroll in \\u201cYou University\\u201d\\u2014figure yourself out, why you are valuable, and how to leverage that.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d \\u201cWhy?\\u201d This helps you approach life with curiosity so that you can have an abundant life.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://amberhurdle.com/\\n\\nContact:\\namber@amberhurdle.com\\n\\nFind Amber on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/amberhurdle (@amberhurdle)\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevelvetmachete/ (@thevelvetmachete)\\nFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmberHurdleFan (@amberhurdlefan)\\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberhurdle (in/amberhurdle)'