Hire the Right Talent by Evaluating Candidates Properly
Hire the Right Candidate To Bring Value to the Company
Your Organization Needs the Right People
Your greatest decision as a business leader will be who you bring into your company. It’s frustrating to bring in a new employee only to watch them walk out the door in a few months. Career Upside can help you avoid problems when screening and evaluating candidates, such as:
- Wasting resources on training the wrong hires
- Constantly replacing holes in your teams
- Infighting amongst teams due to conflicting personalities
- New employees not “fitting in” and performing below standards
- Managers struggling to motivate and give feedback to new hires
- Hiring people who turn around and leave
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20+ years of executive and career coaching
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Birkman Certified Professional
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Emory Executive Coaching Diploma
Experienced Leader with Fortune 500 Companies
Assess Personality Traits To Know Your New Hires Before They Join Your Team
Each candidate processes information and learns in their own unique way. The Birkman Method offers personalized insights not only into how potential hires absorb knowledge, but also how they adapt to new environments. By evaluating candidates through this lens, you can better tailor onboarding programs for lasting impact and long-term success.
Birkman identifies:
- Structured vs. hands-off learners—Do they need step-by-step instructions or prefer learning through broad instruction?
- Independent vs. collaborative learning—Do they thrive in self-paced training or learn best through group discussions and mentorship?
- Preferred coaching style—Do they respond better to frequent check-ins and guidance or prefer autonomy with occasional feedback?
With this knowledge, you can design an onboarding process that sets new hires up for success, ensuring they feel supported, confident, and engaged from day one.
Building Cohesive Teams: Evaluating New Hire Compatibility with The Birkman Method
A new hire’s ability to integrate smoothly into your existing team is critical to long-term success. The Birkman Method assesses how an individual’s personality, work style, and communication preferences align with the existing team structure, ensuring that they complement rather than disrupt team dynamics.
Using Birkman’s compatibility insights, you can evaluate:
- Collaboration styles—Will they naturally blend into team-based environments or prefer working independently?
- Leadership and followership tendencies—Are they natural leaders, supportive team players, or someone who needs clear direction?
- Potential interpersonal conflicts—Does their communication style or decision-making approach align with the team’s culture?
By using Birkman to assess team compatibility, you’ll reduce conflicts, enhance collaboration, and create a more cohesive, high-performing team from the start.
Judge Team Compatibility With New Hires
A new hire’s ability to integrate smoothly into your existing team is critical to long-term success. The Birkman Method assesses how an individual’s personality, work style, and communication preferences align with the existing team structure, ensuring that they complement rather than disrupt team dynamics.
Using Birkman’s compatibility insights, you can evaluate:
- Collaboration styles—Will they naturally blend into team-based environments or prefer working independently?
- Leadership and followership tendencies—Are they natural leader, supportive team players, or someone who needs clear direction?
- Potential interpersonal conflicts—Does their communication style or decision-making approach align with the team’s culture?
Using Birkman to assess team compatibility will reduce conflicts, enhance collaboration, and create a more cohesive, high-performing team from the start.
Empowering Leadership Through Personalized Birkman-Based Coaching
Successful coaching is not one-size-fits-all—effective leadership requires understanding how each employee best receives feedback and support. The Birkman Method provides data-driven coaching insights, allowing supervisors to:
- Tailor their coaching approach—Some employees need structured, directive feedback, while others thrive with autonomy and encouragement.
- Identify stress behaviors—Know what triggers unproductive reactions and how to provide the right level of support.
- Create individual development plans—Align coaching strategies with each employee’s strengths and growth areas.
With Birkman-backed coaching strategies, supervisors can accelerate employee development, improve performance, and increase engagement.
Ensure New Hires Stay Because They Feel Satisfied
Employee retention starts before the first day—ensuring new hires feel engaged and satisfied from the beginning is key to long-term retention. The Birkman Method helps leaders proactively address workplace satisfaction by:
- Identifying what motivates each employee—Are they driven by career growth, recognition, teamwork, or autonomy?
- Ensuring work aligns with strengths—Employees are happier and more engaged when their tasks align with their natural strengths.
- Reducing stress and burnout risks—Birkman helps uncover what stresses employees out and how to provide the proper support to keep them engaged.
By creating an employee experience tailored to individual needs, you’ll reduce turnover, boost morale, and foster long-term commitment.
Maintain a Healthy and Collaborative Team Atmosphere
A collaborative and trusting team environment doesn’t happen by chance—it requires intentional hiring, coaching, and leadership strategies. The Birkman Method helps build and maintain a thriving team culture by:
- Improving communication styles—Ensure team members understand how to engage with each other effectively.
- Balancing personalities for team harmony—Identify complementary strengths and avoid potential clashes.
- Encouraging psychological safety—Ensure employees feel comfortable sharing ideas, voicing concerns, and working together.
Using Birkman’s team-building insights, you’ll cultivate an environment where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to do their best work.
20+ years of executive and career coaching
Birkman Certified Professional
Experienced leader with Fortune 500 Companies
"Todd is well versed in conducting the Birkman assessment tool. My company contracted Todd to assess each employee to increase productivity. It worked very well. We have witnessed an increase in productivity by understanding our employees and each of their personal/career objectives.
Todd uses a direct and forthright communication style in which he effectively provided feedback to my team members. He is logical and sequential in thought process thereby assisting employees in understanding their results.
Todd possesses a trustworthy and empathetic attitude. My employees were comfortable in his presence. Ultimately, having my team participate in this assessment has led to better team cohesion, a sense of being heard and an increase in productivity.
I would strongly recommend working with Todd to assist your organization in its growth vis a vis your greatest asset, your people."
Shelley-Lynn Muldoon, Principal & Digital Marketing Strategist, Worldsites Toronto