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Is your organization "bait and switch?"

Most are.

Here's why: you recruit great people; go to all kinds of effort to find the right "culture" fit; ensure the best parts of who they are further the mission of the organization; promise them the kind of workplace that can help them grow; talk about "setting people up for success"

etc., etc.

Sound familiar?

All that is fine, but then most organizations get that person they think is a great fit, able to do super things...
..and they spend all their time trying to fix that person's shortcomings.

Bait and switch.

Before hire: YOU'RE AMAZING!

After hire: We need you to work on (fill in weakness, shortcoming, "area of opportunity" or whatever other BS thing your organization calls it.)

Bait and switch.

Don't do that. It's insulting to people. It's demeaning. It's a waste of their talent. It actively prevents your organization from succeeding.

Create environments that celebrate what people do well. Measure success and learn from it. Champion partnerships that capitalize on what each party contributes and highlight how they minimize weaknesses by becoming interdependent. Sort out your "performance management" process so that it invites more engagement, instead of stifling it by telling everyone how sh*tty they are. Create vocabulary for what people are good at. Get creative.

Be proactive.

Ditch the bait and switch.

There’s a difference between and but it isn’t what most people think.