Download or read book How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer written by and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades, Caliper Consulting has helped more than23,000 companies worldwide select, develop, and manage people. The Caliper Profile has proved more than 90 percent accurate in determining top performers. With this book managers hire the right people every time, by discovering: Four factors that predict employee success A proven system for finding and keeping great salespeople Guidance on job matching, team-building, and sales traits

Download or read book Who written by Geoff Smart and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book High Performance Habits written by Brendon Burchard and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions: 1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term? 2. Of those who pull it off, why are some miserable and others consistently happy on their journey? 3. What motivates people to reach for higher levels of success in the first place, and what practices help them improve the most After extensive original research and a decade as the world’s leading high performance coach, Burchard found the answers. It turns out that just six deliberate habits give you the edge. Anyone can practice these habits and, when they do, extraordinary things happen in their lives, relationships, and careers. Which habits can help you achieve long-term success and vibrant well-being no matter your age, career, strengths, or personality? To become a high performer, you must seek clarity, generate energy, raise necessity, increase productivity, develop influence, and demonstrate courage. The art and science of how to do all this is what this book is about. Whether you want to get more done, lead others better, develop skill faster, or dramatically increase your sense of joy and confidence, the habits in this book will help you achieve it faster. Each of the six habits is illustrated by powerful vignettes, cutting-edge science, thought-provoking exercises, and real-world daily practices you can implement right now. If you’ve ever wanted a science-backed, heart-centered plan to living a better quality of life, it’s in your hands. Best of all, you can measure your progress. A link to a free professional assessment is included in the book.

Download or read book The Perfect Hire A Tactical Guide to Hiring Developing and Retaining Top Sales Talent written by Katherine Graham-Leviss and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STOP THE REVOLVING DOOR How many sales candidates have you hired for their technical skills only to fire for their bad attitude? How many experienced sales hires have you had to let go for poor on-the-job performance? Whether you’ve experienced such scenarios or you hope to avoid them, the takeaway is simple—the perfect hire requires more than technical skills and experience. Sales strategist Kathi Graham-Leviss invites you to stop the revolving door of sales hires and arms you with the critical steps to choosing the perfect hire—every time. Utilizing proven best practices—revealed from the latest research in sales performance drivers—learn how to assess soft skills, problem solving abilities, and behavioral attributes, in addition to technical know-how, to select candidates who are well matched for the job, not just well qualified. Uncover the secrets to creating a successful hiring methodology that enables you to: Attract quality candidates Screen for high performers Predict on-the-job success Select the perfect hire Increase productivity Reduce turnover Increase Profits Be it time, money, opportunities lost—the cost of finding and hiring a new sales employee is significant. Stop spending on poor prospects and start profiting with the perfect hire! Praise for The Perfect Hire "The Perfect Hire...is there such a thing? Kathi Graham-Leviss's book has made me a believer! This step-by-step path to success should be required reading for a world class sales organization or those desiring to attain such a competitive distinction." Loretta Penn, President, Spherion Staffing “The Perfect Hire is a comprehensive guide detailing how to actively hire and cultivate the most effective sales force by using meaningful assessments that capture employees’ competency, critical thinking and core values. The book employs Graham-Leviss’ 25-years of experience and research findings to ensure employers are able capable of developing the best sales talent as possible.” Troy Vincent, VP Player Engagement – National Football League "Poor hiring and development practices have a devastating impact on a company's bottom line as valuable customer data is lost and relationships damaged. Kathi Graham-Leviss's book can help any business dramatically improve their hiring and development process and lead to a more profitable future". EVP, Morris Publishing "Finally, a sales handbook that brings together the art and science of recruiting top sales talent. Belongs on the bookshelf of every sales VP!" Rebecca Callahan, President, SourceRight Solutions “As a how-to guide, this book contains everything you may need to know. Brimming with straightforward strategies anyone can use to overcome the pitfalls of hiring, developing and retaining top sales talent.” Anne Szostak, President/CEO, Szostak Partners LLC "A brilliant book that will help ALL levels of management maximize the potential of their organizations most powerful resource – their people. This book is built around the unique perspective that hiring top talent is the number one priority, and often times most frequently lost opportunity, of every company, no matter their size. A truly important book for ALL sales leaders.” C. Preston Bowen, Senior Vice President, Overhead Door Corporation

Download or read book How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer 2nd edition The Qualities That Make Salespeople Great written by Herb Greenberg and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sales management classic—updated for today’s competitive business environment Advanced digital technologies, the breakdown of traditional business barriers, and increased customer empowerment have transformed the sales profession. The future now belongs to salespeople who deeply understand, embrace, and take advantage of these unprecedented changes to enhance their relationships with their customers. What does this mean for you? You absolutely need these people on your team to succeed. And this fully updated edition of How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer will show you how to find them, attract them, and retain them. It’s the key to maintaining the competitive edge now and in the future. Written by the CEO and president of Caliper, one of the world’s leading management consultancies, How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer, Second Edition, delivers the proven game plan their company has used to power growth for SAP, Avis Budget Group, and thousands of other clients. Updated and revised for the age of the digitally connected customer and expanded to cover global and remote leadership topics, this one-of-a-kind guide gives you essential strategies to: Recruit and evaluate candidates via social media and other platforms Spot the qualities of top performers—and make sure the entire sales team has them Set realistic coaching goals Understand the psychology of “A” players, so you can give these stars what they need to succeed When you know how to hire, onboard, coach, motivate, and lead a powerful sales team, nothing can stop you. How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer is the essential playbook for long-term sales success. Praise for How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer: “We wouldn’t hire a salesperson without Caliper’s advice. If you’re concerned about recruiting the right person and driving increased profitable sales, you’ve got to read this book!” —Thomas M. Gart land, President, North America, Avis Budget Group, Inc. “This book has changed my life and, more importantly, it has changed the lives of many of my customers.” —Peter Smith, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Hearts On Fire “Caliper can dramatically improve your ability to hire and develop top performers. If you want to increase sales, read this book before your competition gets a hold of this gem.” —Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and Publisher, Selling Power “There is no better book on hiring and developing top performing salespeople.” ,b>—Ron Rubin, Minister of Tea (Owner), The Republic of Tea “This book should be on the desk of anyone interested in creating the best sales organization possible.” —Sean Sweeney, President, Chief Operating Officer, Philadelphia Insurance Companies “A must read. This book can save you a lot of wasted time and energy, while increasing your success rate dramatically.” —Alyson Brandt, Executive Vice President, General Manager Americas, The Forum Corporation To discover your defining qualities, take Caliper’s free, in-depth personality profile and receive a developmental guide pinpointing the qualities that distinguish you, along with suggestions for developing your potential.

Download or read book 75 Ways for Managers to Hire Develop and Keep Great Employees written by Paul Falcone and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

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Download or read book The Ideal Team Player written by Patrick M. Lencioni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

Download or read book Topgrading revised PHP edition written by Bradford D. Smart Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great companies don’t just depend on strategies—they depend on people. The more great people on your team, the more successful your organization will be. But that’s easier said than done. Statistically, half of all employment decisions result in a mishire: The wrong person winds up in the wrong job. But companies that have followed Bradford Smart’s advice in Topgrading have boosted their successful hiring rate to 90 percent or better, giving them an unbeatable competitive advantage. Now Smart has fully revised his 1999 management classic to reintroduce the topgrading concept, which works for companies large and small in any industry. The author spells out his practical approach to finding and managing A-level talent—as well as coaching B players to turn them into A players. He provides intriguing case studies drawn from more than four thousand in-depth interviews. As Smart writes in his introduction, “All organizations, all businesses live or die mostly on their talent, and any manager who fails to topgrade is nuts, or a C player. . . . Those who, way deep down, would sooner see an organization die than nudge an incompetent person out of a job should not read this book... Topgrading is for A players and all those aspiring to be A players.” On the web: http://www.topgrading.com/

Download or read book Super Charge Your Sales Team A Sales Manager s Guide to Effective Coaching written by Robert J. Weese and published by B2B Sales Connections Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are sales cycles getting longer and prospects failing to buy? Is constant discounting of the price eroding your profit margin? Are your sales people busy but not effective because they are focusing on the wrong activities? Are changes needed but you are not sure what to do? Selling has been compared to sports for years. So much so, that sales people are called the elite athletes of the business world. Why? Both professions are performance based, and their incomes are tied to their ability to consistently over achieve. Just as professional athletes need advice from expert coaches to achieve peak performance, so do sales people. As a sales manager, you are your team’s coach, and the better you are at coaching, the more successful your sales team will be. Will making an investment in your coaching skills really help? Absolutely! Leslie Schumacher of Talent Bits & Bytes reports that salespeople who are coached daily outperform other salespeople by 30%! Also, salespeople receiving ineffective coaching averaged only 83% of goal attainment, where as their performance rose to 102% when they then received effective coaching. “Coaching is a powerful tool that managers have at their disposal to improve the capability of their sales teams and that it should be a priority for developing sales talent”. (Harvard Business Review). Most sales managers would agree that coaching their sales teams is key job function contributing to their success, however few know how to do it properly. In fact, according to studies, only 7% of sales managers were found to be effective at coaching without training. This ebook looks at the key coaching activities necessary to build stronger sales teams and reach revenue goals. It’s written by Robert J. Weese, a professional sales coach with a proven history of helping sales teams reach record revenue growth. Robert, a former competitive fencer, has decades of experience working with high performance athletes, and he knows the parallels between success in sports and success in sales are rooted in the same framework. This book contains the information and the tools needed to improve your coaching skills and have an immediate positive effect on your sales results. Do you want to be a better sales manager? Then you need to be a better coach. This ebook will show you how. - "I love your coaching services Bob. You are a top pro and everything I learn I love knowing it will be practical and make sense going forward." - “I increased my average sale value by 20% and almost doubled my closing success thanks to Bob’s sales coaching - "Bob, I wanted to let you know that the sales training session I had with you this morning was the most valuable one I have ever attended." - “Hey Bob, I really enjoyed your session this week. I like that it’s so customized to exactly what I’m struggling with.” - “Bob has helped our firm tremendously and is my go-to guy for sales.”

Download or read book Hiring for Attitude A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude written by Mark Murphy and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build a high-performance workforce by abandoning skills-based hiring practices and focusing on employee attitude Hiring for Attitude offers a groundbreaking approach to recruiting, assessing, and selecting people with both tremendous skills but, more importantly, an attitude that aligns with the organization’s culture. Murphy cites his own company’s research and examines recent scientific studies about the practical effects a person’s attitude has on the outcome of his or her job performance. Clear and practical lessons are illuminated by numerous case studies of organizations like Microchip, Southwest Airlines, and The Ritz-Carlton.

Download or read book The Rainmaker s Toolkit written by Harry Mills and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2004-03-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few professional firms are able to consistently grow their fees and profits. Based on the concept of relationship marketing, The Rainmaker's Toolkit gives readers the tools, techniques, and strategies to help win and close bigger deals, helping them dramatically increase the odds of success...and sustain that level of accomplishment from year to year. The Rainmaker's Toolkit helps readers identify and maximize the potential growth opportunities in their companies and gives them a step-by-step system for building a high-profit practice. The book shows readers how to: * Identify high-profit customers and build lifelong relationships with them * Stand out from competitors by differentiating their firm, services, and people * Build a million dollar referral network. Packed with more than 80 reproducable tools and templates, The Rainmaker's Toolkit shows how to find the gold hidden within every company.

Download or read book Hiring and Firing The Brian Tracy Success Library written by Brian Tracy and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiring and firing are too crucial to get wrong. Eliminate the guesswork in the two most important tasks you face as a manager. Hiring and firing are difficult to get right and potentially costly to get wrong, both for your career and for the business. Hiring & Firing is the indispensable guide you absolutely must have by your side. Business expert Brian Tracy breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to both bring stronger employees on board and weed out those not up to par. By learning to implement these techniques that Tracy can testify firsthand to the effectiveness of, you will make better leadership decisions that positively effect you and the business. In Hiring & Firing, you will be able to: Write appealing and accurate job descriptions Use the law of three in interviews to find suitable candidates Ask the right questions Probe past performance Listen for the questions that indicate interviewees are qualified and serious Provide clear direction and regular feedback De-hire gracefully, and more! At best, hiring and firing are key to improving your team and reaching your goals. Bringing on and letting go of the wrong people wastes company time and money while also reflecting poorly upon you. At worst, it could be crucial for the business in several ways. Hiring & Firing will ensure that you make the right decisions.

Download or read book Mastering the Hire written by Chaka Booker and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows you have a 50% chance of hiring the right employee . . . and a 50% chance of hiring the wrong one. It's a toss up, but it doesn't have to be. Mis-hires siphon your energy and erode team culture. Replacing them is stressful and can cost over $40,000 per re-hire. With the right tools, all of that can be avoided, and you can consistently make great hires. After years of scientific research and first-hand interview experience with thousands of candidates, Chaka Booker has created a system that helps employers consistently make great hires. Mastering the Hire provides 12 proven strategies that have been used to accurately identify the right talent 90% of the time. Whether hiring manager, business owner, CEO, search consultant, team manager, team member, novice or expert interviewer, Chaka's method is for anyone who wants to beat the hiring odds. In this book, you will learn: How to manage your intuition: when to trust it and when to put it aside. Question design principles: structuring questions so candidates are influenced to tell the truth. The power of pressure: when to apply or release pressure and how to control the hidden internal pressure that leads to poor decisions. To identify key competencies: the four competencies you must always interview for and techniques to accurately assess them. Tools for removing bias: tomorrow's talent doesn't fit yesterday's mold and is often overlooked. To reimagine the hiring process: resume reviews, phone interviews, and in-person interviews will get a much-needed revamp with innovative twists on each. The interview is the cornerstone of the hiring process, yet science has shown the odds aren't in your favor. Mastering the Hire provides strategies that will dramatically improve the one decision that determines everything you can accomplish--who you hire.

Download or read book The Coachable Leader written by Peter J. Dean and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coachable Leader speaks to executives who are serious and willing to reflect upon, refine, and possibly reconstitute their leadership practices. If you want to be one of those people, it's imperative that you remain coachable so you can gain insights on how to encourage positive behaviors and avoid executive actions that sabotage mutual success. Use this book to seize your opportunity to become an exceptional leader. Through its clearly outlined chapters, complete with real-life business examples and comprehensive graphics, you'll learn how to balance the seven fundamentals for effective leadership development: - collaborative convincement, - emotional strength, - integrative ethics, - provident power, - interactive influence, - team forbearance, - systems discernment. With these foundational concepts, you'll discover how to initiate a more cooperative and collaborative approach to leadership. As you seek to become a coachable leader, you'll develop skills, techniques, and tools to inspire and accomplish tangible, bottomline results. Achieve a more balanced approach to reaching your goals with The Coachable Leader

Download or read book Finding Heroes written by Larry Dillon and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps employers to interview and select the right candidate for any position.

Download or read book The Sales Acceleration Formula written by Mark Roberge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use data, technology, and inbound selling to build a remarkable team and accelerate sales The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology that he shares with his readers. As an MIT alum with an engineering background, Roberge challenged the conventional methods of scaling sales utilizing the metrics-driven, process-oriented lens through which he was trained to see the world. In this book, he reveals his formulas for success. Readers will learn how to apply data, technology, and inbound selling to every aspect of accelerating sales, including hiring, training, managing, and generating demand. As SVP of Worldwide Sales and Services for software company HubSpot, Mark led hundreds of his employees to the acquisition and retention of the company's first 10,000 customers across more than 60 countries. This book outlines his approach and provides an action plan for others to replicate his success, including the following key elements: Hire the same successful salesperson every time — The Sales Hiring Formula Train every salesperson in the same manner — The Sales Training Formula Hold salespeople accountable to the same sales process — The Sales Management Formula Provide salespeople with the same quality and quantity of leads every month — The Demand Generation Formula Leverage technology to enable better buying for customers and faster selling for salespeople Business owners, sales executives, and investors are all looking to turn their brilliant ideas into the next $100 million revenue business. Often, the biggest challenge they face is the task of scaling sales. They crave a blueprint for success, but fail to find it because sales has traditionally been referred to as an art form, rather than a science. You can't major in sales in college. Many people question whether sales can even be taught. Executives and entrepreneurs are often left feeling helpless and hopeless. The Sales Acceleration Formula completely alters this paradigm. In today's digital world, in which every action is logged and masses of data sit at our fingertips, building a sales team no longer needs to be an art form. There is a process. Sales can be predictable. A formula does exist.