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NEW! Topgrading Quickstart 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
Chat with Brad (Product # 352)
This chat allows you private phone access to Brad Smart's quarterly conference calls, when Brad will answer your Topgrading questions. You'll hear the latest Topgrading research and innovations and get terrific insights and advice from Topgraders. Purchase a yearly subscription and you’ll save $60!
Our 2009 Chat with Brad calls take place from 12:50 to 2:00 Eastern Standard Time.
Topgrading Workshop Registration Fee (Product # 319)
September 1: Basic Topgrading Workshop, a "sampler" of the 12 steps in Topgrading hiring, plus Topgrading promoting and firing, plus the Topgrading Quick Start Program. If you have already attended one of our 1-day workshops, sign up only for day 2. If you have not attended our workshops, sign up for both days.
September 2: 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.
September 1: Basic Topgrading Workshop. You will:
- estimate your hiring success, cost of mis-hires
- estimate the hours you 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 2: 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 The Smart Interviewer and 2 additional Topgrading books
COSTS: $2,995. If 2 people from the same company attend, it's $2,595 per person. And if 3 or more from the same company attend, it's $2,195 per person. (For those who have already attended one of our 1-day workshops (Like September 1), you can just attend Day 2 (September 2) for $1,795.
MORE DISCOUNTS: 50% additional discount for attendees from companies where we have conducted internal Topgrading workshops and/or for attendees from companies that have sent 2 or more people to previous public workshops. If your company falls into either or both categories, you can send as many people to the two-day session as you wish for $1,500. Call Kerri Badgley to register at 847-356-6840.
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.
Topgrading® DVD (7-Hour) Tool Kit (Product # 313)
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A must-have for serious Topgraders and train-the-trainers: only $1,495 per tool kit, including hard copy of the 1-hour World-Class Interviewing and Hiring: The Topgrading Advantage (a $495 value), and a 3-month trial license for the Topgrading Career History Form and the Topgrading Interview Guide (a $500 value).
The DVD Tool Kit consists of:
- 3-month trial license for the Topgrading Career History Form and the Topgrading Interview Guide
- Two DVDs totaling 7 hours of training by 3 Topgrading professionals
- The hardcover book Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People by Bradford D. Smart
- Five Topgrading handbooks
- Four Topgrading CDs (seminar audio track of the DVDs)
- A one-page implementation guide
- Access to the online forms and support tools
- An opportunity to participate in quarterly coaching teleconferences with Topgrading experts
- 1-hour Hiring Video (hard copy) World-Class Interviewing and Hiring: The Topgrading Advantage
Professionally produced and highly polished, this well-indexed two-volume DVD adaptation of Dr. Brad Smart's best-selling book includes explanations and demonstrations of Topgrading methods by three Topgrading professionals.
NOTE: A Windows or Mac PC is required to play this DVD. TV/Video-only DVD players will not play this disc!
Product # 313
The Topgrading Forms and Guides are available for licensing or purchasing hard copy.
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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.
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 |
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| 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
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(Internet Explorer required) This 1-hour video
teaches the Topgrading Advantage - how large and small companies typically hire 25% high performers, while Topgraders hire 90% high performers. Brad Smart will teach you his famous chronological, in-depth, structured Topgrading Interview. Program highlights include:- Topgrading Interview techniques, to achieve 90% success in hiring
- Job Scorecard, to nail down your hiring needs
- Virtual Bench, to cut recruiter fees
- Download copies of Career History Form and Abbreviated Topgrading Interview Guide, to screen candidates efficiently
- TORC Technique, to get honest answers
(Renewals are only available for customers who already purchased a 30-Day Online Rental)
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%.
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