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05/10/2021

The New Skills Leaders Need to Seek When Hiring

Jobs are coming back as organizations see the pandemic abating

Organizations are starting to take steps toward hybrid workplaces or full-time in-person work, and evidence is emerging the U.S. economy is picking up steam.

While the economic comeback will likely be uneven—according to data released Friday, although more jobs were added in April, it seems the experts had vastly overestimated how many—a lot of leaders will have to start thinking about something they haven’t in a while: hiring.

Associations aren’t abandoning the job roles they had before the pandemic—they still need experts in meetings, membership, and education, for example. But the necessary personal skills underlying those roles have changed dramatically, said Omar Harris, a former longtime pharmaceutical executive turned team expert and performance coach. Leaders should be better prepared to explore that when vetting job candidates, he said.

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