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Topgrading® DVD (7-Hour) Tool Kit (Product # 313)
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A must-have for serious Topgraders and train-the-trainers: only $1,250 per tool kit
The DVD Tool Kit consists of:
- 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
Professionally produced and highly polished, this two-volume DVD adaptation of Dr. Brad Smart's best-selling book includes:
- 5 sample interviews that reveal what's meaningful in a candidate's career as it relates to your work environment:
- How to conduct and evaluate the screening interview
- The Topgrading Interview itself - what it looks like in action
- The reference check interview - proven ways to get a candidate's former bosses and colleagues to share honest opinions, freely and willingly
- The "tandem" interview - how it works, when to use it, what it accomplishes
- Simplified indexing
- 7 Topgrading success stories - proof positive that Topgrading works
- The "Threat of Reference Check" to get at the unvarnished truth
- 6 Topgrading tools - coaching in using these tools so you can increase your success hiring and promoting people
The DVDs are perfect for a train-the-trainer model.
Trainees want to be able to see parts of the DVDs from time to time as a refresher. So, companies can license inclusion of the DVDs on their intranet or on a specifically assigned website.
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 Interviewers* |
1-Year Fee |
2-Year Fee (10% discount) |
3-Year Fee (20% discount) |
4-Year Fee (30% discount) |
| 1 - 10 | $1,000 | $1,800 | $2,400 | $2,800 |
| 11 - 50 | $3,333 | $6,000 | $8,000 | $9,333 |
| 51 - 200 | $6,667 | $12,000 | $16,000 | $18,667 |
| 201 - 500 | $10,000 | $18,000 | $24,000 | $28,000 |
| More than 500 Interviewers, call for pricing | ||||
| IMPORTANT: All forms are licensed in accordance with our Topgrading Forms Click Wrap Agreement. | ||||
| * "Interviewers" means managers, individual contributors, and external contractors of Licensee that will be interviewing candidates or otherwise using Forms | ||||
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.
See our free online class: How to Use the Topgrading Interview Guide (47 minutes).
Product # 305
Ten pack: $79.50
See 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.
With the completed Topgrading Career History forms, you can take one hour and cut the 25 candidates to 3 or 4 and call them, to see which ones you want to meet. You just saved yourself about 15 hours of wasted time.
Topgrading® Starter Kit (Product # 314)
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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)
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 for Sales Representatives (see description of this guide above)
- (6) Topgrading Reference Check Guides for Sales Representatives (see description of this guide above)
- (2) Topgrading Interviewer Feedback Forms (see description of this form above)
Product # 338
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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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- 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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