Topgrading DVD Package
Topgrading's "how-tos" come alive on DVD and online video on demand
By Brad and Geoff Smart
The best-selling book Topgradinghas helped companies catapult their hiring success rate from 25% to 90%. The book's success created popular demand for video delivery of Topgrading's key messages. This brand-new two-disc DVD teaches Dr. Brad Smart's unique interviewing and hiring principles, practices and processes.
Presented in a seminar-like setting, the DVD offers three hours of Topgrading coaching in straight-to-the-point segments of one to five minutes each. Plus, you'll receive three more hours of sample interviews with commentary by Dr. Smart in an easily navigated Q&A format. Here's what's included:
- A five-seat user license for access to quarterly coaching calls and to Topgrading
 online support tools
- Demos of interviewing techniques that separate "wheat from the chaff" candidates
- Five sample interviews that reveal what's meaningful in a candidate's career as it relates to your
Work environment:
- The screening interview
- The Topgrading interview itself—what it looks like
- The reference interview—how to get a candidate's past and current
acquaintances to share honest opinions
- The tandem interview—how it works and when to use it
- The severance interview—a solution to help you wrap up gracefully
- An interactive "Scorecard Wizard" that helps you measure the candidate's fit prior to and after hiring
- Questions to prep for in advance of interviews
- Printable forms to assess internal people to determine if they are A, B or C players
- Simplified indexing, which speeds you to quick answers to questions
- Seven Topgrading success stories—proof positive that Topgrading any kind of company pays off many times over
- How to use the "Threat of Reference Check" to get the unvarnished truth
- Six Topgrading tools—coaching in the Wcore skills you'll use to streamline, simplify and increase your hiring success rate
- FAQs—Dr. Brad Smart fielding common queries
Order the DVD tool kit and receive the following bonus Topgrading tools.
| The hardcover book Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best Peopleby Bradford D. Smart |
| Five PRITCHETT Topgrading handbooks |
| Four Topgrading CDs (seminar audio track of the DVDs) |
| A one-page implementation guide |
| Access to the online workbook and support tools |
| An opportunity to participate in quarterly coaching teleconferences with Topgrading experts |
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Brad Smart, Ph.D.
Having conducted more than 6,500
interviews over the past 35 years, Dr. Smart is recognized today as the premier authority on interviewing, selecting, hiring and coaching executives at every organizational level. |
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Geoff Smart, Ph.D.
Geoff is CEO of ghSMART, a
management assessment and coaching firm that helps boards and CEOs Topgrade their companies. Geoff co-authored the original "Topgrading" article and lectures regularly at both the Kellogg and Sloan Schools of Management. |
In their own words
Topgrading's biggest fans share their successes…
"Topgrading is the definitive manual for becoming an A player and for recognizing those traits in others."
— Larry A. Bossidy, former Honeywell CEO and co-author of EXECUTION: The Discipline of Getting Things Done.
"Brad helped our differentiation of talent implementation in the '80s and '90s."
— Jack Welch, retired chairman and CEO, General Electric
"Of all the changes I've made to improve our company, none has been more important than Topgrading. Topgrading (the book) is the most valuable business book I've read. I'd recommend it for every executive, in every company, every year!"
— Jon A. Boscia, chairman and CEO, Lincoln National Corporation
"If you read it with the right kind of attention, [it] is the most important book ever written."
— Recruiter Magazine
"I was totally taken with the Topgrading premise when the book first came out. Bought it, used it, ordered copies for our leadership team. This video version of the newly revised book adds yet another great dimension to the program's value and ease of implementation."
— Frank Buonanotte, chairman (and founder), Party City of Atlanta, Inc.; chairman emeritus(and Founder), The Shopping Center Group, past Young President's Organization (YPO) Southern 7 (former Rebel) Chapter Forum and Member Network Chair
"This interactive video format is the way 21st Century leaders will learn!"
— Ron Ford, Ph.D., CEO, St. Clair Entertainment, past YPO Southern 7 Chapter Vice Education Chair
"Everyone needs Topgrading. This e-learning program would be a great value at 3 times the price!"
— Harald Gigas, president, Spinner North America |
