Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0-471-64643-1
Year: 2001
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Summary
There's a talent edge in every organization. Whether you look at a rapidly growing start-up, a Fortune 500 company, or any organization in between, a minority of people in any company can be considered top performers – those who create inordinate value in the way they go about their work. There are huge costs to any business for making the wrong hire – in the selection process itself, training, higher rates of turnover, reduced innovation and productivity, and the negative impact on customers and other employees. Whenever you hire talent that does not fit your organization, you set yourself back.
The Talent Edge shines a bright light on the failings of the traditional interview and selection process, and offers a clear, practical alternative for developing an effective talent management system based on behavioural job profiling and interviewing. This competency-based approach improves your chances of picking the right candidate two to five times over traditional processes, has tremendous impact on retention levels, and results in clarity within the organization around goals, values and the nature of top performance.
This book demonstrated to everyone involved in the selection process how to use behavioural interviewing to improve the hiring and selection process. It also shows hiring managers and human resource professionals how to translate the principles and techniques of behavioural interviewing into effective processes for managing human capital throughout an organization, far beyond interviewing – in career development, performance management, training, coaching, and succession planning.
Author biography
Dr. David S. Cohen is a Principal in the Strategic Action Group, a consulting firm specializing in human resources development. His work with corporations is in several primary areas: management and leadership development; behaviour-based recruitment, selection, and performance management; helping corporations to articulate their values and develop a strategic vision; creating high-performance, results-focused teams.
Reviews
“Talent management — hiring, developing, and retaining top performers — is essential for any company competing for rare knowledge workers. Cohen's The Talent Edge explains in very clear language how to begin establishing a truly world-class performance management system by identifying which candidates are the most capable of top performance and are the best fit for your organization.”
Steven McIntosh,
Program Manager,
Cisco Systems, Inc.
“In The Talent Edge, David Cohen demystifies behavioural interviewing, which is arguably the most popular selection screening tool used in North America. It is an engaging primer for the manager confused by his or her poor choices in hiring.”
Richard E. Boyatzis,
PhD, Professor and Chair,
Department of Organizational Behavior,
Weatherhead School of Management,
Case Western Reseve University
“ The Talent Edge is a sharp, thorough, and practical guide for line managers and human resource professionals eager to ensure they're getting the best and the right talent for their organizations. Cohen's approach is well grounded in research but is rich with real-world examples and immediately applicable tools for those engaged in the war for talent.”
Lori Bryan,
Consultant and Former Leadership Development Manager for Hallmark Cards, Inc. |
