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Strategic Recruiting
Hiring and retaining people with the right fit with your community is the most critical factor in achieving your goals and reaching your company’s full potential. Use our strategic recruiting resource to better attract top talent and accelerate your business' growth.
Leadership Development
A lack of clear leadership development strategies and trainings ultimately leads to a drop in retention of valued employees. Use our leadership development resource to improve retention rates in your organization today.
Systems & Processes
Technology helps optimize processes, plan for the future, analyze information, and improve connections between employer and team members. Use our resource to streamline your talent acquisition systems and processes.
Employee Experience
The concept of “employee engagement" has been replaced by the broader perspective offered by “employee experience." (EX). EX has a direct impact on retention and tenure. Use our Cultural Alignment and EX resource to create a community that attracts and retains top talent.
Employment Branding
Your employer brand reflects how candidates and employees perceive you and is a major factor in enticing and engaging them. Use our resource to manage your employer brand strategically to effectively attract and recruit top talent.
Pre-Employment Assessments
Assessments can help to make your candidate selection process more efficient and to help more effectively coach and train new employees. Use our assessments resource to improve your organizations recruitment efforts and speed up the candidate selection process.
Candidate Selection
A bad hire takes a large toll on your organization that goes beyond the cost of rehiring. Use our candidate selection resource to learn how to more efficiently select the right candidates to shorten your hiring process and save your organization money.
Onboarding
Strong recruiting should be followed by strong onboarding that welcomes new employees and gets them off to a productive start. Use our onboarding resource to improve your onboarding process and create a more efficient start for new hires.
Compensation
Not understanding what the market is offering in terms of compensation puts organizations at risk of losing valuable talent. Use our compensation analysis resource to create a strategic compensation plan that matches the expectations of your current and future employees.
Accuracy in Hiring
We recommend the use of a validated, predictive assessment within the interview & candidate selection process that helps you identify and quantify candidate personality traits that impact job fit
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Cultural Alignment
Defining your culture, measuring it, and finding where and how it may be misaligned helps manage your employee experience and your brand—both of which are critical aspects of attracting and retaining top people.
Effective Onboarding
We examine the four building blocks of successful onboarding that can give you a competitive advantage and help make a candidate more comfortable with the decision to accept your offer—and likely stay with you longer.
Trust Talk Template
Exit Interviews are too late. Have meaningful conversations with your employees while there's still time to affect change.
Interview Guide
This Interview Guide Template can be customized for any position to assess the right competencies and select talent with precision.
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Interview Best Practices
Competency-based behavioral interviewing focuses on the skills/abilities related to success on the job with questions related to past performance.
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Interview Questions
This extensive list of additional behavioral interview questions covers virtually every topic you might want to cover in a candidate interview.
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Interview for Grit
This curated selection of behavioral interview questions will help you gauge the extent to which a candidate possesses Grit, an ability to persevere.
Reading Recommendations
Solve the People Puzzle
Kathleen Quinn Votaw, Founder and CEO of TalenTrust, dares you to step out of the conference room, engage with employees, and learn what really drives them in Solve the People Puzzle. If you want A-players, your company must spend as much time and effort attracting candidates as it does attracting clients. Both investments lead to increased profits. Solve the People Puzzle will show you how to engage and hold on to your best employees; adopt an “Always Be Cultivating (ABC)” mindset; attract people who thrive in an entrepreneurial environment; hire for attitude and values above skillset; part ways quickly if the fit isn’t right.
Dare to Care in the Workplace
Kathleen Quinn Votaw, Founder and CEO of TalenTrust, shares her signature plan for creating people-centric, relationship based workplaces where employees replace the nine-to-five work mentality with purpose and personal fulfillment. It takes everyone at a company working together to create a supportive employee experience. Put people first, and all else follows. Grab a copy!
Resilience at Work
In this fast-paced world, the ability to cultivate resilience has become paramount.
Be inspired by Simon T. Baeley's business parable that sheds light on this essential skill. You will meet four individuals: Hurry, Worry, Ready, and Steady—navigating the challenges of an ever-evolving future.
Hurry and Worry are introduced to a self-test, a catalyst for personal growth. Meanwhile, Ready and Steady, experienced in navigating every economic climate, share self-coaching wisdom on thriving in any situation.
Resilient individuals wake up every day with a burning desire to make a difference and proactively seek opportunities to excel. Resilience is a superpower that reduces stress, boosts psychological capital, and paves the way for greater productivity.
Resilience at Work
"Bet on Talent" by Dee Ann Turner provides insights on how to build, sustain, and grow an organizational culture that attracts world-class talent and consistently delights customers. The book covers topics such as creating a remarkable company culture, selecting and stewarding talent, nurturing internal relationships, and practicing servant leadership within the organization.
Rescuing the Corporate Exhausted Hero
Mark Heydt, Chief Learning Officer and Founder of Game Plan Leader, has helped hundreds of leaders and managers to reclaim their lives from burnout, learn the skills they need to lead, and avoid becoming Exhausted Heroes―and this book will help you create an actionable game plan to become a more strategic leader. Grab a copy!
Fierce Conversations
The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants you to succeed. To do that, she explains, you must transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across—and get what you want. Grab a copy!
Blue Collar Cash
A prescriptive and timely guide to finding success and happiness without a college degree by Ken Rusk, the Ohio-based entrepreneur and “million-dollar ditch digger” who believes it is time to celebrate the possibilities and financial opportunities that a Blue-Collar life can bring. Grab a copy!
Love and Work
World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best—both at work and in life. In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity—how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. Grab a copy!
Irresistible
World-renowned researcher and industry expert Josh Bersin offers a transformative exploration of the modern workplace in his latest book, "Irresistible." In this insightful and compelling read, Bersin delves into what makes organizations thrive and how leaders can create environments that foster engagement, productivity, and growth. Drawing from extensive research and real-world examples, Bersin provides a roadmap for building irresistible workplaces that attract and retain top talent. By uncovering the key elements of successful companies, he guides readers on how to implement these strategies in their own organizations. "Irresistible" is a must-read for anyone looking to enhance their work culture and drive meaningful change. Grab a copy and start transforming your workplace today!
Giftology
World-renowned gifting strategist and expert John Ruhlin helps us discover the power of strategic gifting—both in business and in life. In his eye-opening, transformative book, "Giftology," Ruhlin reveals how thoughtful gifting can strengthen relationships, enhance loyalty, and create lasting impressions. By breaking free from conventional methods, Ruhlin shows you how to use gifting as a strategic tool to build deeper connections and drive meaningful results. This book provides invaluable insights and practical advice on turning simple gestures into powerful expressions that resonate with those you lead and those you love. Grab a copy and start mastering the art of strategic gifting today!
Have a Little Faith
A beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds -- two men, two faiths, two communities -- that will inspire readers everywhere. Grab a copy!
