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Five One-Day Seminars

Seminar 1 - Recruiting & Selection Techniques

Learn how to: a) establish position qualifications and requirements based on team make up, job description, and candidate's personal style; b) implement an effective recruiting, screening, and reference checking process; c) integrate the planning and preliminary hiring steps with interviewing to ensure the best selection and maximize retention.

Targeted planning efforts by staff and line management are essential to an effective hiring process. Defining needs and a thorough recruiting and selection process ensures that candidates will meet organizational short and long term goals.

Seminar 2 - Proven Techniques for the Interviewer 

Learn how to make the most of behavioral, situational, and accomplishment-based interview techniques to assess a candidate's behaviors, attitudes, and competence. Leverage these interviewing techniques effectively with resumes, job descriptions, and profiles to significantly improve your selection process, reduce costs, improve individual and team productivity, and develop excellent retention strategies.

It is highly recommended that the Recruiting & Selection seminar be attended before this seminar.

Seminar 3 - Assessing Team Development for Peak Performance

Learn how to identify employees' and candidates' individual styles and use this knowledge to develop teams internally and maximize retention.

Various assessments are utilized to understand leadership styles and how to adapt to the needs of diverse employee work styles.

Seminar 4 - The Internal Skill Inventory

Learn how to prepare a personal skills profile as well as how to use skills profiles to facilitate team development and internal selection and retention strategies.

Identifying employees' skills, capabilities, and accomplishments is a difficult task. Our accomplishment-based skills profile process enables individuals to effectively evaluate their own skills in terms of organizational contributions and plan their own careers.

This process can help you better develop winning client proposals and internal placement strategies by creating an effective database of employees' skills and capabilities for efficient use as an internal development resource. In addition, the skills profile serves as a powerful tool in reorganizations, mergers, and acquisitions to select and retain the best employees for the new organization.

Seminar 5 - Dynamic Career Techniques for the Interviewee

Learn seven proven tips to more dynamically communicate skills and accomplishments and to relate these attributes to the needs of your organization or clients. This seminar is designed to prepare individuals to be interviewed within their own organization.

Employees are assuming more and more responsibility for their future career development plans. As they climb the corporate ladder, effectively communicating their abilities and accomplishments becomes crucial.

Also see our Assessment & Retention page

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