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The New Topgrading® Toolkit (Product # 335)
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The New Topgrading Toolkit is the total learning package to hire 90%+ high performers. It is used by A players and management teams to master Topgrading on their own. And it is used by trainers and consultants to train managers. It includes the Quick Start Program which you can use to begin hiring today, and at your leisure watch the 7 hours of high-definition, exciting demonstrations of all the interviews - telephone screening interview, competency interview, tandem Topgrading Interview, reference check interview, and post-hiring coaching interview.
The New Topgrading Toolkit consists of:
1) Well-indexed videos in which Brad Smart teaches you all 12 Topgrading steps, step by step, including:
- Calculating your pre-Topgrading hiring success ("only 25%") and costs of mis-hires ("higher than I thought - 6 times base salary"), the powerful measurements that motivate the team to Topgrade
- Creating a Job Scorecard (because vague job descriptions cause mis-hires)
- Building Your Recruitment Networks (the best, cheapest, and fastest method to recruit)
- Using the Topgrading Career History Form, with it's powerful "truth serum" to save a huge amount of prescreening time and get much better candidates in to interview
- Conducting Topgrading Interviews (the "Holy Grail" of hiring, the single tool most accounting for 90% hiring success)
- Mastering Advanced Interviewing Techniques (demonstrated by the master himself, Brad Smart) to interview like a pro
- Getting Candidates to Arrange Reference Calls with bosses (they do the work and you talk to the most important references, bosses and others you choose to talk with)
2) Topgrading Workbook and Other Books
- The Topgrading Workbook is the partner to the video. Each Topgrading step is explained and the fun exercises are the same ones used in Brad's 2-day workshop. Read the Workbook and then watch the full demonstration of how to do it in the DVDs.
- The Toolkit also contains Brad's 3 famous books - Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People (125,000 sold), The Smart Interviewer, and Smart Parenting (how to teach your kids the most important competency in living and business - resourcefulness).
3) Topgrading Forms and Guides: free 3-month use of these vital Topgrading tools.
4) Quarterly Conference Calls with successful Topgraders and Brad. Ask any Topgrading questions, and hear advice from Topgraders.
Product # 335
Topgrading Workbook: Your Personal Instruction Manual(Product # 353) Click here to download the Introduction and Chapter 1, test drive the Topgrading methodology.
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This "how to Topgrade" manual is like having Brad Smart sit with you and teach you each step in Topgrading hiring. It's also the only handout you'll need for internal workshops. It's all you need to learn what thousands of Topgraders learned, to achieve 90% hiring success.
Indeed, the Topgrading Workbook is the handout used in Smart & Associates 2-day workshops. It is 170 pages of the practical methods workshop learners use both during the workshop and as a "take home" resource, to guide you through your learning for years to come. |
Here's how it's organized: Just as in the Topgrading workshops, each Topgrading step is explained, with color slides and charts to dramatize and clarify points. Then there are up to 3 fun exercises that teach you that Topgrading tool.
Having the Topgrading Workbook at your desk is like attending Brad's 2-day workshop, but you can learn at your own pace! Just refer to the Topgrading Workbook and read a section corresponding to where you are in the hiring process. It could take several months to use all 12 Topgrading steps and hire that A player, and the Topgrading Workbook is your daily coach.
DO YOU CONDUCT WORKSHOPS? If so, this is the only handout you need. It's the total package.
Would you like to see a copy of this new manual, the product of 30 years of improvements, risk-free? Naturally, there is a money-back guarantee.
ADDED BONUSES
In addition to the workbook, you will receive a 3-month license, enabling you to use the powerful, copyrighted Topgrading forms and guides. And you will be signed up for the free quarterly conference calls, Chat with Brad, to hear Topgraders share their case studies and to get your questions answered.
Click here to download the Introduction and Chapter 1.
Product # 353
The Topgrading Forms and Guides are available for licensing or purchasing hard copy.
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New 6-month Starter Topgrading License for 3 or fewer users, $795.00. To purchase this product call Kerri Badgley at 847-356-6840.
1- to 4-Year Licensing Fees for all the forms listed below: Topgrading® Interview Guide (plus version for Sales Representative hires), Topgrading Career History Form, Self-Administered Topgrading Interview Guide, Topgrading In-Depth Reference Check Guide (plus version for Sales Representative hires), and Topgrading Interviewer Feedback Form. Bonus: you also receive the Cost of Mis-Hire Form, the most widely used form of its kind; use it to estimate your cost of mis-hires and wasted time on mis-hires, and you'll be shocked at the high costs.
Licenses can be purchased for an individual department or function, or for an entire company. Not-for-profits receive a 50% discount.
Number of Approved Users* |
1-Year |
2-Year |
3-Year |
Buy 3 Get 1 Year Free |
| 1 - 10 | $1,495 | $2,695 | $3,595 | $4,495 |
| 11 - 50 | $4,995 | $8,995 | $11,995 | $14,995 |
| 51 - 200 | $9,995 | $17,995 | $23,995 | $29,995 |
| 201 - 500 | $14,995 | $26,995 | $35,995 | $44,995 |
| More than 500 Users, $30 per user per year; buy 3 years, get 4th year free. Call for longer-term licenses. | ||||
| IMPORTANT: All forms are licensed in accordance with our Topgrading Forms Click Wrap Agreement. | ||||
| * Approved Users are hiring managers and individual contributors (HR, etc.) who are approved internally to use the Topgrading Career History Form, Topgrading Interview Guide, and other Topgrading forms and guides. | ||||
Topgrading® Interview Guide(formerly CIDS Interview Guide) (Product # 305) (Click here for a 93-second descriptive video)
This is the world's best interview guide. Every company we know of achieving 90% success hiring and promoting people uses this guide. It's 32 pages long, and includes 11 pages of competency (behavioral) questions, used mostly for those round-robin, shorter interviews, and it has space at the end to rate candidates on up to 50 competencies.
Watch our free online class: How to Use the Topgrading Interview Guide (47 minutes).
Product # 305
Ten pack: $79.50
Watch our free online class: How to Use the Topgrading Career History Form
(24 minutes).
Purchase hard copy and send it via post to candidates, who can return it via post; or better yet, license it along with the other Topgrading forms and guides and you can then email it to candidates, who complete it and email it back to you, or have them fill it out at your web site.
Topgrading® Starter Kit (Product # 314)
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FREE COURSES! Before using these forms, we suggest you watch these invaluable free online classes:
How to Use the Topgrading Interview Guide (47 minutes) and
How to Use the Topgrading Career History Form (24 minutes).
This set of hard copy guides and forms will help you fill one job with a high performer. It consists of:
- (1) Avoid Costly Mis-Hires (a 50-page overview of Topgrading best practices)
- (10) Topgrading Career History Forms (see description of this form above)
- (2) Topgrading Interview® Guides (see description of this guide below)
- (6) Topgrading Reference Check Guides (see description of this guide below)
- (2) Topgrading Interviewer Feedback Forms (see description of this form above)
- (1) Sample Management Coaching Report
- (1) Sample Candidate for Selection Report
Product # 314
Topgrading® Starter Kit for Sales Representatives (Product # 338)
FREE COURSES! Before using these forms, we suggest you watch these invaluable free online classes:
How to Use the Topgrading Interview Guide (47 minutes) and
How to Use the Topgrading Career History Form (24 minutes).
This set of hard copy guides and forms will help you fill one job with a high performer. It consists of the same materials as product #314, with the material tailored to hiring sales reps.
Product # 338
Topgrading Workshop Registration Fee (Product # 319)
September 15: Basic Topgrading Workshop, a "sampler" of the 12 steps in Topgrading hiring, plus Topgrading promoting and firing, plus the Topgrading Quick Start Program.
September 16: How to Conduct the Topgrading Interview, an in-depth course on conducting a full Topgrading Interview. Get personalized coaching from Topgrading professionals.
For years attendees have suggested the same sort of 2-day workshops clients use internally – the workshops resulting in almost all attendees dramatically improving hiring success. Here it is! The second day is the advanced Topgrading Workshop many have requested, and in our latest workshop it was a resounding success – an average of 10 rating on a 10-point scale!
September 15: Basic Topgrading Workshop. You will:
- estimate your hiring success, cost of mis-hires
- estimate the hours you and others waste on mis-hires
- develop your Network of A players to recruit
- analyze a completed Topgrading Career History Form (and amaze yourself at how closely your ratings on 50 competencies matched the boss ratings)
- see Brad demonstrate the Topgrading interview
- receive a 90-day license to use the Topgrading forms and guides to "test drive" Topgrading
- begin using the Topgrading Quick Start Program to immediately hire better
- participate in quarterly conference calls with Brad, to get your questions answered
- receive a 3-ring binder full of Topgrading tools, plus 2 books
September 16: How to Conduct the Topgrading Interview. You will:
- conduct a full Topgrading Interview, with feedback and coaching from Topgrading professionals
- learn the tandem (2-interviewer) approach that almost doubled GE's success picking high performers
- recognize the flaws in a dozen common myths about interviewing, and learn the time-tested Topgrading methods
- analyze all the information about the candidate and write an Executive Summary
- prepare for and role-play a reference call
- learn 15 keys to accurately and validly interpret interviews
- know how to stay within the law
- receive 2 additional Topgrading books
CREDIT HOURS: The Workshop has been approved for 12 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.
COSTS: $2,995. If 2 or more people from the same company attend or companies who have sent previous attendees, it's $2,495 per person. Not-for-profits can attend for a 25% discount (please call Kerri at 847-356-6840 to register).
The registration fee is non-refundable but if for some reason you are unable to attend a rain check will be provided for the next workshop.
NEW! Topgrading Quick Start Program (Product # 360)
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In less than 1 hour this program will teach you how to get started Topgrading, to begin cutting your costs of mis-hires immediately!
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Product # 360
Since 1999 Topgrading has been the #1 best seller of over 1400 books on hiring. This 2005 revision was completely re-written, with dozens of new case studies, improved tools, and a new section on Topgrading internationally. Fortune 1000 companies typically find that only 25% of people hired or promoted turn out to be high achievers. Dozens of leading companies have achieved 90% success using Topgrading techniques.Jon A. Boscia, Chairman & CEO, Lincoln Financial Group
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Use Topgrading to convert average sales forces into World Class performers. Learn how to:
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Avoid Costly Mis-Hires (a 50-page overview of Topgrading best practices)
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Topgrade your kids? This newly released book is revolutionary, showing how to raise A player kids. "My kids aren't motivated."
"My kids don't make very good decisions on their own."
- Sales Rep Scorecard, the identification of the crucial accountabilities and competencies.
- The Annual Talent Review Form, your talent depth chart.
- The Cost of Mis-Hires Form, the business justification for better hiring systems.
- The Topgrading Career History Form, a time-saving, resume-sorting guide.
- The Sales Representative Telephone Screen, a cure for the disease of time draining interviews.
- The Reference Checking Guide. Motivate candidates to be honest in interviews.
- Sales Manager Coaching Guide. Ensure that your reps will perform at their peak.
The average cost of mis-hiring a sales representative is 5x the annual base salary. Avoiding one mis-hire will save you a estimated $250k-$500k. This webinar generates a return greater than 1,000%.
