Over time, we’ve refined our discussions to be much more efficient and decisive, and one of the biggest improvements has been to articulate a specific, actionable checklist of characteristics to discuss: What is this person’s ceiling? How does this person make us better? Is this person teachable? What exactly will this person work on during the first 30/90 days? Will we like being around this person? We don’t always discuss every item for every candidate. Knowing which ones to focus on with each candidate is an important skill that you and your team will learn over time.
