Hiring Practices for Your Home Staging Business with Fred Rhodes
About Today’s Guest: FRED RHODES
Managing team members inside of your home staging business is a fine art. You probably started your business as a one-woman or a one-man show, but what happens when you get booked up? Maybe you hired someone and they aren’t performing to your standards or meeting your expectations or you’re about to hire your first employee, and you want to do it right. In this episode, we also discussed incorporating diversity and DEI hiring practice for your home staging business.
Enter Fred Rhodes, whose mission is to provide guidance and perspective to leaders, while building collaborative and healthy workplaces that support and serve every member of an organization who contributes to their respective communities.
After my business coach brought him in to speak on hiring, team building, and diversity, I knew I had to have him on the show. We’ll also talk about diversity and inclusion issues at the end, which Fred discusses in the most calming and digestible way. It’s important to have these conversations so that we can understand our clients and potential clients better.
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This Week on The Home Staging Show Podcast
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Fred shares his career journey and tells us what culture design is (00:06:36)
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An introduction to what workplace architecture and workforce strategy is (00:08:26)
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How the Predictive Index can help you map out your work styles and recognize your blind spots (00:09:23)
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How to translate your vision for your employees as it evolves over time (00:10:56)
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Building culture with the right people on your home staging team (and an interesting Apple vs Microsoft story) (00:13:09)
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How Apple created their own unique market in a “competitive ocean” (00:17:39)
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The benefits of hiring entrepreneurial personalities to work on your staging team (00:19:10)
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A behind the scenes peek into the work I’m doing within my own hiring process (00:21:58)
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The unexpected question I put on our job application that helps me learn a candidate’s thought process (00:23:02)
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Fred’s take on the importance and impact of hiring the right team member (00:26:37)
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Fred shares a story from his past about a dishonest team member (00:28:39)
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The three most common hiring mistakes you can make (00:29:56)
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Why we should conduct thorough background checks on candidates before hiring them (00:31:16)
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My test project strategy for finding the best hires (00:33:14)
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A deep dive into personality tests and assessments and how you can use them learn more about your employees (00:34:47)
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My honest perspective about diversity and why I don’t love that it’s become a marketing buzzword (00:38:18)
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Fred recommends two people he looks up to in the DEI space (00:41:23)
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Gender discrimination issues I’ve noticed with my Dad being in a wheelchair (00:43:05)
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How we can effectively work with more culturally diverse clients while avoiding stereotyping (00:43:44)
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The problem with diversity hires and diversity panels at conferences (00:48:10)
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How Black Lives Matter has challenged the norm and created an opportunity (00:50:20)
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How we can create more diversity in traditionally white occupations (00:53:29)
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How mainstream media plays into stereotypes (00:56:19)
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My experiences moving to London for my MA in photography (00:58:23)
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How this past year’s events have created a change in behavior (01:00:12)
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Fred’s #1 tip for home stagers who want to hire their first employee (01:03:30)
Connect with FRED
Fred’s website: https://theflightbulb.com
Fred’s Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/fred.rhodes.9/
Fred’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/fred-rhodes-jr-18644536/
Resources Mentioned On Today’s Show
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Implicit Association Test from Harvard
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