Named by The Washington Post as one of the 11 Leadership Books to Read in 2018 When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewhere in Silicon Valley. McCord advocates practicing radical honesty in the workplace, saying good-bye to employees who don’t fit the company’s emerging needs, and motivating with challenging work, not promises, perks, and bonus plans. McCord argues that the old standbys of corporate HR—annual performance reviews, retention plans, employee empowerment and engagement programs—often end up being a colossal waste of time and resources. Her road-tested advice, offered with humor and irreverence, provides readers a different path for creating a culture of high performance and profitability. Powerful will change how you think about work and the way a business should be run.

Elevate your hiring game with “Effective Hiring Strategies,” a manual for an animated video-based course and an integral part of our HR 9-Book series entitled "Talent Management and Workforce Development." Streamline recruitment, attract top talent, and ensure successful onboarding. Craft offers that retain the best, all in one comprehensive guide. Make every hire count for lasting organizational success!" Chapters: Chapter 1: Getting Started Introduction to the guide's objectives and the rich learning experience it offers. Chapter 2: Defining the Position Mastering the hiring process by understanding the intricacies of the open position and uncovering the essence of job and task analysis. Chapter 3: Hiring Tactics Exploring the essence of company information, salary dynamics, and traits of top performers for strategic hiring. Chapter 4: Attract Top Talent Guidance on targeted advertising, fostering corporate citizenship, respecting candidates, and ethical considerations. Chapter 5: Screening for Interviews Elevating the importance of cover letters, effective resume grading strategies, leveraging internet searches, and initial phone interviews. Chapter 6: The Interview Stage (I) Creating a welcoming interview environment, benefits of panel interviews, tailoring interviews to job roles, and exploring interview question types. Chapter 7: The Interview Stage (II) Showcasing company knowledge, creating a focused interview environment, interviewing candidates more than once, and concluding interviews professionally. Chapter 8: The Selection Stage (I) Exploring testing methodologies, evaluating passion and enthusiasm, background checks, and trusting instincts in the hiring process. Chapter 9: The Selection Stage (II) Balancing education and experience, building consensus, maintaining a database of non-hires, and best practices in reference checking. Chapter 10: Crafting the Offer Swift job offer processes, employment details, notifying rejected candidates, and creativity in tailoring benefits to attract top talent. Chapter 11: The Onboarding Stage Effective training and orientation strategies, mentoring approaches, guidelines for 30-60-90-day reviews, and creating a warm welcome for new employees. Chapter 12: Wrapping Up Summarizing key lessons, sharing wisdom from industry experts, and outlining next steps for continuous improvement. These chapters collectively provide a holistic guide to streamline your recruitment process and achieve successful hiring outcomes. Why Choose This Guide: "Effective Hiring Strategies" is not just a guide; it's a roadmap to transformative hiring practices. Whether you're an HR professional, a hiring manager, or a business owner, "Effective Hiring Strategies" empowers you to build a workforce that propels your organization toward unparalleled success. Unlock the secrets to successful hiring, foster employee retention, and adapt your strategies to the ever-evolving needs of the talent market. Elevate your hiring game with this indispensable guide and secure a brighter future for your organization.

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.

Practical business guides that pull no punches Dave Anderson's TKO series presents no-nonsense, down-in-the-trenches management strategies that work in the real world of business. Each of the three informative books in this series offers easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidance on developing the specific skills great managers needs These quick and to-the-point guides feature detailed techniques and effective strategies presented in user-friendly chapters that are packed with checklists, examples, and practical resources. In each book, readers will find real-world advice in a fast and powerful format that includes: * Words of Wisdom or "Right Hook Rules"-bite-sized memorable quotes * Case Studies or "Opening Bell" Stories-real-life business lessons * Effective Strategies or "Left Hook Laws"-all-meat, no-fat business strategies * Incisive or "Standard Eight Count" Questions-insightful inquiries that prompt the reader to action Quick or "Knockout" Summaries-bullet points that sum-up each chapter and offer easy reference Dave Anderson (Agoura Hills, CA) has led some of the nation's most successful car dealerships and is President of Dave Anderson's Learn to Lead and LearnToLead.com, a Web site that provides free training resources to thousands of people in more than 40 countries. He is also the author of the Wiley books If You Don't Make Waves You'll Drown (0-471-72503-X), Up Your Business! (0-471-44546-0), and How to Deal with Difficult Customers (0-470-04547-7).

Essential hiring and team-building lessons from the #1 Podcaster in the world The Effective Hiring Manager offers an essential guide for managers, team leaders, and HR professionals in organizations large or small. The author’s step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and help to ensure ongoing success. Hiring effectively is the single greatest long-term contribution to your organization. The only thing worse than having an open position is filling it with the wrong person. The Effective Hiring Manager offers a proven process for solving these problems and helping teams and organizations thrive. The fundamental principles of hiring and interviewing How to create criteria to hire by How to create excellent interview questions How to review resumes How to conduct phone screens How to structure an interview day How to conduct each interview How to capture interview results How to make an offer How to decline a candidate How to onboard candidates Written by Mark Horstman, co-founder of Manager Tools and an expert in training managers, The Effective Hiring Manager is an A to Z handbook to the successful hiring process. The book explores, in helpful detail, what it takes to hire the right person, for the right job, and the right team.

As the recruiting landscape changes, different methods are needed to attract talent, and social media is a key channel. However, many HR and recruiting professionals are not equipped with the knowledge and understanding to create a social media recruiting strategy. Social Media Recruitment combines practical guidance with case studies and insights from industry thought leaders to provide a full understanding of what social media means for HR and recruitment and how to successfully integrate and use it. In a series of easy-to-follow chapters and manageable steps, Social Media Recruitment covers the essentials from the beginning to the end of the process, including: how to implement a social media strategy; the crossover between HR, recruiting and marketing; measuring ROI; HR policies and procedures needed; big data and HR; using technology in recruiting, such as video interviewing; social media as an internal collaboration and communication tool across companies; how social media will impact recruiting and HR in the future. Ideal for all HR and recruitment professionals, and anyone responsible for talent strategy, Social Media Recruitment focuses on devising and implementing a social media recruitment strategy that works for your organization and is aligned with your recruitment objectives.

From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work -- and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. "We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, former head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of Work Rules!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto that offers lessons including: Take away managers' power over employees Learn from your best employees-and your worst Hire only people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find them Pay unfairly (it's more fair!) Don't trust your gut: Use data to predict and shape the future Default to open-be transparent and welcome feedback If you're comfortable with the amount of freedom you've given your employees, you haven't gone far enough. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound grasp of human psychology, Work Rules! also provides teaching examples from a range of industries-including lauded companies that happen to be hideous places to work and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees. Bock takes us inside one of history's most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of intensive worker R&D into principles that are easy to put into action, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands. Work Rules! shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do.