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Your Brain is Sabotaging Your Hiring Decisions (And You Don't Even Know It) 🧠
You believe you choose team members using logic and reason. Science says otherwise.
An alarming 95% of your hiring decisions happen in your subconscious mind. This hidden puppet master pulls strings you cannot see.
Then you have your conscious 5% making decisions based on your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, conscious bias and assumptions which are paradoxically rooted in your subconscious. 🤯
You instinctively select people who mirror your own thinking patterns, behaviours and beliefs. This feels right but creates dangerous blind spots.
Therefore, becoming so conscious of your subconscious that nothing slips by your awareness unnoticed, is your ultimate superpower. 💥
The Invisible Barrier to Success 🔍
Your gut feelings about a candidate isn’t magical intuition. They're unconscious biases wearing clever disguises.
These silent forces shape your teams without permission. They build groups that think alike, problem-solve alike, and ultimately fail alike.
Leaders who recognise this gain extraordinary advantage. They spot patterns others miss and build teams that see around corners.
Why Discomfort Creates Growth 💪
Tomorrow's challenges need today's preparation. Teams of cognitive clones collapse when facing novel problems.
Future-proof teams deliberately include different thinking styles, belief systems and behaviours. They feel less comfortable but perform dramatically better under pressure.
Career growth happens where discomfort lives. Working with different minds expands your capabilities in unexpected ways.
Breaking the Pattern ✨
Start by mapping your team's cognitive diversity. Notice where groupthink has quietly taken over critical functions.
Create decision processes that expose assumptions. Question what "everyone knows" to be true about your business and market.
Reward productive friction when it produces better outcomes. Build psychological safety for meaningful disagreement.
When building teams, ensure you use a diverse and inclusive hiring method that removes unconscious biases and questions conscious biases, to ensure the focus remains on team diversity.
The Leadership Challenge 👑
The strongest leaders build teams that think beyond what they alone can imagine. This requires profound self-awareness.
You must recognise your own mental shortcuts and preferences. Your hiring instincts need conscious examination and occasional override.
Create a safe environment where everyone respects each other’s belief systems, behaviours and can speak openly without fear or judgment.
Future proofing your team depends on this level of consciousness. Leaders who create adaptable, diverse teams become invaluable assets.
The Surprising Connection 🌱
Traditional hiring focuses on skills and experience (the past). Future-focused hiring examines adaptability and potential (the future).
By 2030, LinkedIn reports 70% of today's job skills will change completely. The ability to learn and adapt matters more than current knowledge and skills.
People are more than their CV. We are complex beings with behaviours, thinking patterns, beliefs, passions, values, natural talents, motivators and potential way beyond bullet points.
Your Future Success Formula 🚀
The most successful teams balance different cognitive styles, welcome all belief systems and perspectives in a safe environment. They connect thinkers with doers, visionaries with pragmatists.
This interconnection creates resilience during change. It also builds career paths that survive market disruptions.
Where pure consciousness lives there is no bias or judgement, there is only pure awareness, that awareness is your power to be the change. Your outworld is a reflection of your inner world; your team’s outer world is a reflection of their inner world.
Are you ready to become so conscious of your subconscious that you can start being the change; it starts with you. 🙂