I’ve never seen so many sharp people, A Players in their careers, unemployed. Since 2008, as you well know, terrific companies have chopped head count (and they still are doing it), and a lot of smaller companies – the ones that create most jobs – have scaled back or gone out of business. A Players …
For over 40 years, more than two dozen Topgrading professionals and thousands of managers trained in Topgrading have scrutinized up to 50 competencies for high-level jobs – and approximately 10 competencies for entry jobs. For professional positions (sales representative, engineer, etc.) and EVERY managerial position, the most important competency is RESOURCEFULNESS. ALL high performers are …
Summary: If you had a 100% foolproof method of hiring, it could fail miserably if you did not have enough candidates to pick from. Topgrading IS the most proven and effective hiring method BUT … unless you have at least 30 and preferably 50 candidates to choose from, even Topgrading will probably not produce an …
Almost every leader I’ve interviewed has promoted people who were high performers in their current job but failed when promoted. Years ago, a popular business book was The Peter Principle (by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull), a book that painfully documented how common it was to promote people to their level of incompetence. “She …