When you're hiring an executive, it's very important to make sure that you choose the candidate who not only has the best ideas and plans for your business, but also knows how to communicate those plans to employees. Using a traditional hiring process, which includes little to no feedback from team members who will be working under the new executive, can cause you to miss the early signs of a bad fit. This is why, according to Dr. John Sullivan writing for ERE.net, "as more firms learn the benefits of shifting away from top-down decision-making and toward a collaborative model, it's time to rethink the manager's sole ownership of this critical business process."
This means inviting all the team members who will be working with the new executive into the hiring process, which can be as simple as allowing them to sit in on interviews and asking for their evaluations of candidates afterwards. This allows your employees to have a say in who they work with and gives your executive candidates a chance to experience and find out about your company's culture first-hand.
However, using this technique can have certain pitfalls. Make sure to brief any employees who haven't been involved in interviews before on how they are expected to act and what they should and shouldn't say to the candidate. Moreover, be sure that collecting a more diverse set of evaluations doesn't slow down the hiring process to the extent that candidates think they're being brushed off and lose interest. Using video conferencing can help you schedule a single interview with everyone involved rather than having to set up multiple interview times to accommodate people's agendas.
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