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Selecting, Developing, and Retaining Top Performers

Topic: Selecting, Developing, and Retaining Top Performers Date: January 14, 2010 at 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

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Join XB Consulting, Inc. for a FREE Webcast: Selecting, Developing, and Retaining Top Performers

Learn how to reduce turnover, improve your company's bottom line and create a high performing workforce!

Making sure that you have the right person in the job is critical to the success of every organization. In today’s competitive economy it can be challenging and costly to find and recruit top performers. We tend to hire people for technical skills (hard skills), but fire them for poor attitudes (soft skills). Organizations can no longer afford the heavy costs of random and ineffective hiring methods. They must benchmark each job and clearly identify the talent required for superior performance.

Nothing is more important to an organization than top quality screening and testing to identify employees who will best fit the organization and the job.

Once you have the right candidate in the job, it is just as important to help them develop in their role. Continuing to utilize an assessment system for development purposes offers the following benefits:

To examine the strengths and weaknesses of an individual or team to provide customized suggestions for development, communication strategies, and motivation.
To help managers identify specific areas for optimal growth of each individual or team.
To provide action plans tailored to each individual or team.
To include specific suggestions to foster the development of each individual.
To be used as a guide to manage and support each individual by defining potential areas of growth, assessing leadership potential, encouraging development of teams, planning for succession, and coaching and training.

This webcast has been approved for 1.0 General credits through HRCI

Who Should Participate

CEOs and Presidents
Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Vice President of Human Resources, Director of Human Resources
Senior Vice President of Sales, Vice President of Sales
Learning and Organizational Development Executives
Companies with 500 Employees or more

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Recommended Resources

The XC InSight Assessment Advantage Whitepaper
XB Consulting Leadership Coaching Case Study: Building High-Performance Teams and Impacting and Influencing Others.

What You Will Learn

Strategic, proven practices and highly targeted solutions for recruiting the best talent.
To create performance standards and design a process to evaluate and measure performance
The importance of using a tested and validated assessment system for candidate acquisition and employee development
Methods for motivating, developing and retaining top performers.

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XB Consulting makes companies more profitable by optimizing employee selection, productivity, and development. Our system improves hiring practices and provides tools for developing and maintaining high performance workforces. XB Consulting transforms businesses. XBC is a top talent management company. We provide senior executives, sales leaders, and HR professionals with actionable data created from our proprietary XC InSight System to bring clarity, specificity, and predictability to the hiring and development process. XC InSight is statistically proven to increase productivity, produce higher quality work, make effective use of training time, and increase retention and job satisfaction. Nationally known scientists, industrial and organizational psychologists, and Ph.D's built and validated the XC InSight System, which is fully compliant with APA Standards, SIOP Principles, and EEOC Guidelines. We created every aspect of XC InSight and all training modules in leadership, sales, and customer service, allowing us to deliver unique and comprehensive value beginning with assessments through complete executive coaching and development. With our expert team of coaches and trainers, and a unique arsenal of more than 50 products, we customize a specific approach for each of our clients -- and we deliver measurable results.

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