Hire Power Radio Show

Mar 07 2025 310 ep. 24 mins 19

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Welcome to the Hire Power Radio Show, where entrepreneurs and business leaders learn to hire with confidence and precision. Hosted by Rick Girard, this show is your go-to resource for avoiding costly hiring mistakes and securing the right talent to drive your company’s success. We dive deep into hiring challenges each week, featuring candid conversations with top-performing rebel entrepreneurs, disruptors, and industry experts. Join us every Tuesday at noon (PT) on LinkedIn Live for actionable insights, proven strategies, and the latest trends to give you the hiring edge. Subscribe now and join the movement to transform your hiring game. Do you have thoughts or questions? We’d love to hear from you!

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Scaling Success: Hiring Strategies and Leadership Insights with Randy Wooten

Mar 07 2025 29 mins

In this episode of the Higher Power Radio Show, host Rick Gerard discusses essential hiring techniques and leadership strategies with Randy Wooten, the CEO of Maxo. They delve into the importance of frequent team communication, the value of planned and celebrated resignations, and the various stages of company growth from Series A to scaling up. Randy shares his vast experience tra

How Red Light, Green Light Fuels Company Growth with Bryan Neale

Mar 04 2025 30 mins

Proactive Hiring: Avoiding Surprises & Building Stronger TeamsA resignation should never be a surprise—it should be a planned and supported event within an organization. Yet, when leaders are caught off guard, they scramble to fill a role, often making reactive hiring mistakes that hurt company culture. In this episode, Bryan Neale, founder of Blind Zebra, shares his Red Ligh

When Not Vetting Leads to a Lawsuit with Jonathan Hard

Feb 28 2025 29 mins

Hiring in a Hurry? Beware of the Hidden CostsWhat happens when you rush to fill a role without properly vetting a candidate? The consequences can be costly—both financially and legally. Many business owners have learned this lesson the hard way, including today's guest, Jonathan Hard, CEO of H2L Solutions. In this episode, Jonathan shares a real-life hiring horror story that led

Beyond the Paycheck: Building a Culture That Attracts and Retains Talent

Feb 28 2025 29 mins

Monetary compensation is no longer the primary reason people accept job offers. Career growth, learning opportunities, company culture, and meaningful work now take center stage. To hire and retain the strongest people, businesses must understand and align with what truly drives employees. In this episode, Bonni Pomush, CEO of Working Wardrobes, joins Rick Girard to discuss how she

Mastering Conflict for Stronger Teams

Feb 27 2025 32 mins

Conflict is an unavoidable part of business, but how you handle it determines your company's success. Many leaders shy away from conflict, presenting an idealized company culture during hiring, only to create friction when reality sets in. Today’s episode tackles embracing and managing conflict effectively to build stronger, high-performing teams. Rick Girard sits down with Ryan

The Hiring Trap: Why Resumes Fail and How to Avoid Costly Mistakes

Feb 26 2025 26 mins

Hiring Smarter, Not Harder The hiring process hasn’t evolved much in the past century—we source candidates, review resumes, and invite people for interviews. But here’s the problem: resumes build bias, not results. We assume someone is a great fit based on a prestigious company name or top-tier school, but does that actually translate to job performance? Kristen Prinz, Founde

The Red Wedding Business Decision with Adam Philipp

Feb 25 2025 26 mins

Listening to what your customers desire and having the courage to uproot your business model to accommodate them, takes guts. It’s essentially disrupting your own short-term profits for a long-term bigger picture. Your employees who are “comfortable” will most likely leave as most people do not like change. Especially, radical change! Leaving the opportunity for others to st

How to Make a Culture Stand Out with Scott Hollrah

Feb 24 2025 28 mins

As a founder, your first hire is always the hardest. Most often we take the first person who will say yes. Not putting a lot of diligence into a conversation about setting proper expectations. What ends up happening is that we either get really lucky (if it works out) or it becomes a cautionary tale of what not to do when starting a business. Often an expensive lesson to learn. S

WIFM is the Key to People Retention & Growth with Steve Hamil

Feb 21 2025 27 mins

Today let’s start with the question, “Does our company make your life better?” Ideally, the answer is yes. But in my experience as a top Silicon Valley headhunter, the answer is almost always NO. This is one of my favorite questions to ask when I recruit people because it opens the door to providing a stronger opportunity with another company… Usually my clients. If all c

Why Phone Screens Matter in Playbook Adoption with Todd Gorell

Feb 20 2025 26 mins

Hiring great salespeople is not as tough as you might think… And the key to this is a great phone screen (aka: Discovery call). Here is why the discovery call is so important. First, People are the most truthful in their first conversation because they have invested very little time or emotional bandwidth. Second, interviewees are not expecting a level of diligence early on so