# Professional Development

# Getting interviews but not any offers

https://www.payscale.com/career-news/2019/06/7-reasons-youre-getting-interviews-but-no-job-offers

# 5 interview questions that will help you hire better people

[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-interview-questions-help-you-hire-better-people-jodie-aurelia](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-interview-questions-help-you-hire-better-people-jodie-aurelia)

# How to lead change

[8 Step Process](https://www.kotterinc.com/8-steps-process-for-leading-change/) (Kottor)

1. Establish a sense of urgency 
    - Examine market and competitive realities.
    - Identify and discuss crises, potential crises or opportunities.
    - Create the catalyst for change.
2. Form a powerful coalition
    - Assemble a group with enough power to lead the change effort.
    - Develop strategies for achieving that vision.
3. Create a Vision
    - Create a vision to help direct the change effort.
    - Develop strategies for achieving that vision.
4. Communicating the Vision
    - Using every channel and vehicle of communication possible to communicate the new vision and strategies.
    - The guiding coalition teaching new behaviours and leading by example.
5. Empowering others to act on the vision
    - Removing obstacles to change.
    - Changing systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision.
    - Encouraging risk taking and non traditional ideas, activities and actions.
6. Planning for and creating short term wins
    - Planning for visible performance improvement
    - Recognising and rewarding employees involved in these improvements.
7. Consolidating improvements and producing still more change
    - Using increased credibility to change systems, structures and policies that don’t fit the vision.
    - Hiring, promoting, and developing employees who can implement the vision.
    - Reinvigorating the processes with new projects, themes and change agents.
8. Institutionalising new approaches
    - Creating the connections between new behaviours and corporate successes. – Developing channels to ensure Leadership development and succession.

Read more [here](https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_82.htm)

# Improving performance

[![ImprovingPerformance.png](https://mynotes.internetlinked.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/scaled-1680-/improvingperformance.png)](https://mynotes.internetlinked.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/improvingperformance.png)

Start by making sure that people are engaged and then that they have capable processes. This will lead to delighted customers and in the end positive financial results.