“Knowing what to do is not the major challenge faced by executives—finding who to do it is!”
--Marshall Goldsmith
One misevaluation of talent can cost a company $1.5 million or more a year, countless wasted hours and a huge loss in productivity. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. Randy Street provides a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors evaluating your senior leadership team, a director looking for a new supervisor, or the owner of a small business ensuring you have the right people to make your company grow, it’s all about Who.
Participants in this program will learn:
- The source of their biggest problem in business, misevaluation of talent that leads to costly problems and management headaches.
- The four deliberate steps for choosing the right person for any position
- How to avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods
- How to generate a flow of A Players to your team by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople
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Randy Street is President of the ghSmart Executive Learning, an organization that helps managers learn key skills to achieve career and financial success. A popular speaker with a dynamic and energetic style that routinely generates the highest audience satisfaction scores possible, he has extensive experience with designing and delivering high impact presentations that fundamentally change how leaders run their businesses. In collaboration with Geoff Smart, Randy co-authored the book, Who: The A Method for Hiring, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, the #1 management book in the world on Amazon for its first 3 weeks. The co-creator of Topgrading® conducted the largest set of interviews with billionaire entrepreneurs, and discovered their best advice and insights about how to build talented teams. Randy Street also has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. Prior to joining Geoff Smart, Randy Street was the Executive VP of Sales & Marketing and Executive VP of Corporate Development & Strategy for a government software firm. Randy Street earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University.
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