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Clarify each side’s expectations in job information and interviews.
“This isn’t the job I expected”: explore the conversations before and after hiring.
Look at expectations and working environments alongside ability.
What should you clarify about your organization before writing job information?
Clarify workplace assumptions before defining whom you want to hire.
What Should Applicants and Employers Check Together During Selection?
Explore what both sides should clarify during selection.
How to Describe the People You Need: Hiring Personas and Workplace Culture
Describe hiring personas in the context of organizational culture.
Retention & development
Turn uncertainty after joining into a specific conversation.
Why do new hires leave? Explore differences in expectations.
Explore what each side imagined through specific situations.
Review hiring costs by looking beyond the hiring decision.
Consider the workload around interviews and training, alongside advertising costs.
What Should You Look at When Considering Adaptation After Hiring?
Consider both individual working preferences and the workplace environment.
When a New Graduate Struggles to Settle In: Questions for Both Sides
Explore a new graduate’s difficulties from both perspectives.
Experienced Hires and Unspoken Assumptions: Comparing Previous and Current Workplaces
Examine unspoken assumptions between experienced hires and their workplace.
Workplace culture
Turn daily working methods into language you can use in hiring.
How can you explain your workplace culture during hiring?
Put the company’s aspirations and everyday reality into separate words.
What to Clarify Before Assignment When Teams Work Differently
Clarify departmental working practices before assignment.
Beyond the Employee Survey: Turning Results into Workplace Conversations
Use aggregated results as a starting point for workplace conversations.
Dialogue & one-to-ones
Explore different assumptions behind the same words.
What should you discuss in a one-to-one? Explore values and expectations at work.
Go beyond progress updates to explore what the work means.
Can Mind Match Also Inform Relationships with Existing Employees?
Explore relationships with existing employees as well as new hires.
Why Managers and Employees Talk Past Each Other: Checking What Was Understood
Compare what was communicated with what was understood.
Different Assumptions at Work: Building Understanding Across Cultural Backgrounds
Discuss assumptions shaped by different cultures and experiences.
Implementation and use
Explore implementation questions and how to use assessment results.
Questions to Ask When Considering Mind Match
Clarify your purpose and how results will be used before implementation.
Turn assessment into understanding you can use at work.
From understanding results to applying them at work and embedding their use.
Discuss KIBI’s ongoing support and consulting.
Four practical guides for your next working day.
Three rewriting examples for job listings that communicate workplace culture.
Turn autonomy, teamwork and growth into situations candidates can picture.
How to explore workplace fit in interviews.
Explore experience, expectations and workplace conditions beyond type labels.
Review expectation gaps during the first 30 days.
Review role clarity, access to support and decision scope in stages.
How to start a conversation after receiving assessment results.
Connect scores with workplace situations and agree on one action.