People take a job for money. They stay because of purpose. The very people you need the most are often the ones walking out the door faster than you can hire. In 'How to Hire and Keep Great People', Mitch Gray teaches you how to lay the foundation of culture in your organization that will empower your team and ignite growth. 'How to Hire and Keep Great People' is your new guidebook for: - Designing great culture - Finding great people - Building an all-star team - Understanding the real reason people work Your #1 priority as a leader is to empower your people. When people feel empowered, they feel motivated. When they feel motivated, they become inspired. When they become inspired, they perform at incredibly high levels.
Book & CD-ROM. Ask any manager today and they will say their biggest concern is the competition for talented, good employees. The business costs and impact of employee turnover can be grouped into four major categories: costs resulting from a person leaving, hiring costs, training costs and lost productivity costs. The estimated cost to replace an employee is at least 150 percent of the person's base salary. As you can see, managers must learn to hire, train and keep your employees highly motivated. This book will help you to learn the fundamentals of sound hiring, how to identify high-performance candidates and how to spot evasions. You will learn to create a workplace full of self-motivated employees who are highly purpose-driven. The book contains a wide assortment of carefully worded questions that help to make the process more effective. Innovative step-by-step descriptions of how to recruit, interview, hire, train and keep the best people for every position in your organisation. This book is filled to the brim with innovative and fun training ideas (that cost little or nothing) and ideas for increasing employee involvement and enthusiasm. When you get your employees involved and enthused, you will keep them interested and working with you, not against you. With the help of this book, get started today on building your workplace into one that inspires employees to do excellent work because they really want to!
Products and services will change with demand, but one thing that will always be required for a company’s success is having the right people working hard for you. As a manager, are you cultivating this vital resource? Is there more you could be doing? In this accessible and practical playbook, HR expert and author Paul Falcone helps take the guesswork out of this crucial element for success. In 75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees, Falcone shows managers how to: Identify the best and brightest talent Hire for organizational compatibility Address uncomfortable workplace situations Create an environment that motivates Retain restless top performers Delegate in a way that develops your staff Every HR executive has a laundry list of things they wish managers knew--best practices that would enable the entire organization to operate more effectively. Falcone’s book 75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees has encapsulated all of this for you in a single indispensable resource!
Hire and Keep The Best People is filled with proven, practical knowledge, offering effective steps you can take today to find, select, hire, orient, train, and retain the best people for your business. Best selling author of Eat that Frog gives yourself a competitive edge in selecting and keeping excellent people.
Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them, How to Keep Them was written to help all those organizations who know they need to adapt to the new economy, but don't quite know how. It was written to help organizations start thinking again about how they can hold on to their best workers, despite what their competitors are offering. It was written to help organizations surmount the challenges of this new full-employment economy and hire and retain the most competent, motivated, and diverse workforce possible. Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them, How to Keep Them will show organizations how to: Maximize their recruitment and retention dollars. Decrease costly turnover, while still managing necessary layoffs with dignity and respect. Maximize recruitment dollars by turning employees and managers into goodwill ambassadors and headhunters. Utilize multicultural and segment marketing approaches to recruit and retain a diverse workforce. Prevent competitors from luring key talent away.
In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it’s all about Who. Inside you’ll learn how to • avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods • define the outcomes you seek • generate a flow of A Players to your team–by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople • ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate • attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.
This book distills lessons gained from the author’s 20 years of experience, building out and staffing two enormously successful Internet startups and helping firms land the talent they need to reach their greatest potential. Don't rely on instincts alone. Hiring is king and while the lesson seems so basic, so many good companies stumble and lose their stride just when they were poised for rapid growth. Why? Their leaders treated hiring as a tedious chore. They posted an ad hoc ad. Took the first person with the right skills. Hired for immediate needs, rather than future flourishing. Whether you're a high-tech entrepreneur taking a startup public, or a food truck vendor with a concept that's taking off, Hire Smart from the Start offers a proven formula to help you: Find candidates whose values and working style fit your business Spot the 5 types of applicants you should never, ever hire Motivate "reach" candidates to leave their jobs and take a chance on your vision Develop meaningful incentives that make people stay Accelerate success: hire smart from the start. This book shows you how.
High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.
How to Hire and Keep Top-Notch Employees is a practical, easy to use and concise how-to manual for business owners and HR professionals. By following the instructions in this book, business owners and managers can create a harmonious and profitable workplace. Forms and examples are provided to help make the implementation easy. Part One includes step-by-step instructions for each phase of hiring, from writing the job description to informing the applicant of the hiring decision. Part Two instructs the reader how to train and manage employees once they have been hired. A complete list of do's and don'ts helps the reader navigate the difficulties of keeping employees happy and productive. Part Three includes real life stories about how business owners have turned their companies into profitable, smooth running businesses that have allowed them to take time off and to fund full retirements. Written by an experienced management consultant and successful business owner, the book catalogues proven steps to success that have allowed her and her clients to thrive for over twenty years. This easy-to-use manual will help the reader to: -Learn step-by-step skills for hiring and training top employees -Increase profits by maintaining excellent staff -Reduce stress by running a smoothly operating business -Increase employee accountability so owners and managers can take time off -Enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing the company is running smoothly and profitably Annabel Ayres is a seasoned business management consultant with more than 20 years of full-time consulting experience. She was chief operations officer of a corporate restaurant chain and later co-founded a manufacturing company and built it into a multimillion-dollar corporation. In addition, she has held the positions of corporate director, chief financial officer, and president. She has been guiding businesses owners to success with expert advice for more than two decades, and she especially enjoys seeing her clients' businesses grow from small enterprises to profitable multimillion-dollar corporations when they learn to hire, train, and keep top-notch employees. "Annabel's book outlines precisely how to go about clarifying needs, identifying talent, and acquiring and retaining the Superstars needed to expand your company's sales and profits. By using the book's principles I have tripled my capacity to serve my large corporate roofing clients, in a much more positive and controlled environment." Mark Warren, Warren Construction and Roofing, Inc. "Having loyal, productive and long-term employees has been the cornerstone to our continued success, and the steps in Annabel's book outline exactly how to achieve this success. I cannot imagine being on this journey without Annabel." Nancy Ninegar, Denco Dealer Services, Inc. "As a result of working with Annabel I have doubled my income and saved literally thousands of dollars by not paying the wrong people, and I have learned to think strategically! I cannot recommend her book highly enough." L. Zanides, Zanides PR
For the first time, and in one place, Roxi Bahar Hewertson provides decision makers at any supervisory level, exactly what they need to get it right every time they hire, develop, or fire someone. In today’s complex and competitive world of work, organizations simply cannot afford a mismatched new hire, a loss of top talent, or a dreaded bad ‘goodbye’ following a difficult termination. Whether working to avoid budget mayhem or preserving your company’s image, learning how to navigate the hiring and firing process is a corporate essential. Leadership expert and executive coach Roxi Bahar Hewertson provides insights and advice for avoiding these all-too-common business bumps in the road. She defines and explores the ARC employee life cycle: Acquisition (hire right), Retention (nurture right), Closure (fire right). Acquiring and retaining talent, and eventually bringing closure when employees leave, is a relational, not a transactional process. Hire Right, Fire Right successfully guides decision makers through those key interactions with new and current employees arming leaders with a powerful set of tangible tools to help ensure their organizations are well equipped to take on these talent management challenges - and win. By following Hewertson’s three systems of hiring, developing, and terminating employees, decision makers will be empowered to: Dramatically increase your company’s success rate of hiring the right people for the right job Measurably boost employee retention rates Significantly lower the risk of lawsuits, arbitrations, and damage to your organization’s reputation if things end badly
