Smart Staffing: How to Hire, Reward and Keep Employees to Grow Your Company

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Hotline Publishing, 2014 - Business & Economics - 254 pages
SMART STAFFING: How To Hire, Reward and Keep Top Employees To Grow Your Business Good employees are the lifeblood of any business. The right people can help you take your business to the top; the wrong people can break you. Smart Staffing: How to Hire, Reward, and Keep Top Employees to Grow Your Company will help you in your search for hard-working, committed people who share your vision and business values. From writing a compelling want ad to rewarding and keeping good employees, Smart Staffing covers every step of finding, hiring, and retaining the right people. You'll learn about the pros and cons of employment agencies, using the Internet to sell yourself and your company, how to spot application "red flags," and more. Written by a professional who has taught hiring skills to thousands of entrepreneurs, Smart Staffing helps you identify, attract, hire, and keep the very best employees. Here are a few of his valuable insights. - Decide what-and who-you want before creating a want ad. - Find the most efficient and effective ways to connect with qualified employees. - Create a step-by-step interviewing process, from logistics to the crucial interaction that takes place between you and your candidate. - Know as much as possible about your employees' morale and take steps to keep them high. - Learn from your hiring mistakes. - Used as text for professional development courses for human resource professional at schools, such as UCLA, Oregon State, and LSU. It includes important sample interviews and reference questions, a lot of resources, case studies, and action strategies. Smart Staffing is an indispensable, hands-on tool for every entrepreneur or manager who needs to make a successful hire. YOUR PORTABLE HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT

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WAYNE OUTLAW, CMC, CSP At Xerox, Wayne Outlaw held the record for the quickest promotion to Branch Marketing Manager. As a Sales Manager, he took a last place (78th) sales team to first in just one month, with the same staff. Wayne developed the benchmark sales strategy used worldwide by Xerox to beat lower-priced competition. Wayne is one of less than fifteen individuals to have been certified both as a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) by the National Speakers Association and Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants. In short, he is a consultant with a great presentation and a speaker with great content and depth. Wayne has been acknowledged by The Wall Street Journal as a "staffing expert" and quoted by publications, such as Fast Company, Nations Business, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, Business Week, and Investors Business Daily. Wayne has published hundreds of articles on sales, management, and customer service. He has audio learning systems on hiring, management, and service, and publishes The Outlaw eReport. He is author of SMART STAFFING: How to Hire, Reward, and Keep Top Employees for Your Growing Company which was also published in the People's Republic of China, and his ebook Winning the Value Battle: Selling Against a Cheaper Price to Improve Your Margin and Increase Income. Wayne graduated from The Citadel, served as a Captain in the Infantry, and spent 13 years with Xerox. He founded Outlaw Group in 1984, which began as an executive search firm. He is now recognized as a dynamic speaker and consultant who produces results. Wayne is head of Outlaw Group, Inc, which provides assistance in problem identification, solution development, and implementation to increase performance. Outlaw Group's clients include Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Morgan Stanley, Procter & Gamble, and Canon, USA, as well as many high-growth entrepreneurial companies. His company works with companies to catapult their sales and service to boost profits.

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