Predicting Success C - Hardcover

by David Lahey (Author)

Make the right hires every time, with an analytical approach to talent

Predicting Success is a practical guide to finding the perfect member for your team. By applying the principles and tools of human analytics to the workplace, you'll avoid bad culture fits, mismatched skillsets, entitled workers, and other hiring missteps that drain the team of productivity and morale. This book provides guidance toward implementing tools like the Predictive Index(R), behavior analytics, hiring assessments, and other practical resources to build your best team and achieve the best outcomes. Written by a human analytics specialist who applies these principles daily, this book is the manager's guide to aligning people with business strategy to find the exact person your team is missing.

An avalanche of research describes an evolving business landscape that will soon be populated by workers in jobs that don't fit. This is bad news for both the workers and the companies, as bad hires affect outcomes on the individual and organizational level, and can potentially hinder progress long after the situation has been rectified. Predicting Success is a guide to avoiding that by integrating analytical tools into the hiring process from the start.

• Hire without the worry of mismatched expectations
• Apply practical analytics tools to the hiring process
• Build the right team and avoid disconnected or dissatisfied workers
• Stop seeing candidates as "chances," and start seeing them as opportunities

Analytics has proved to be integral in the finance, tech, marketing, and banking industries, but when applied to talent acquisition, it can build the team that takes the company to the next level. If the future will be full of unhappy workers in underperforming companies, getting out from under that weight ahead of time would confer a major advantage. Predicting Success provides evidence-based strategies that help you find precisely the talent you need.

Front Jacket

Once upon a time, you could hire people off the street, tell them what to do, and expect them to work loyally for the company for the next decade or four. But those "set it and forget it" days are over. The culture has shifted. Employees are no longer willing to toil their lives away unquestioningly, padding their bosses' pockets with a smile. For those of us doing the hiring, this culture shift has been more like a culture shock. But, when the shock subsides Predicting Success will be here to help us move forward. In fact, as talent acquisition guru David Lahey enthusiastically puts it, "This is what opportunity looks like."

At the same time that employees are demanding more recognition and better work-life balance, businesses are gaining access to tools and resources that are drastically improving our ability to make the right hiring choices. Predicting Success provides insight and access to a number of these tools, including the Predictive Index^(R), which has helped firms like Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce maximize their recruiting potential. The strategies in this book are based on recent research on how data, analytics, assessments, and other next-level approaches can lead to win-win hiring decisions.

Anyone involved in corporate recruiting at any level knows how expensive a wrong hire can get. In Predicting Success, David Lahey makes a compelling case for diverting resources to the hiring process before the wrong decision is made. Anyone who is still uncertain about the bottom-line value of analytic hiring practices will be interested in the hard evidence presented in this book. In 2014, there is no longer any need for guesswork. Finding top talent with the right style to lead the organization to greater heights can be easy--if you're ready to adapt.

Predicting Success is not just about the hiring process. Effective teams have effective leaders who know how to engage, assess, and communicate productively. Understanding how leadership traits and activities contribute to retaining talent is crucial, especially in this era of high turnover. This book addresses every link in the chain, with research data and tips to bring readers into the new world of talent management. The bottom line of Predicting Success is that smarter hiring practices, smarter leadership, and smarter companies will attract smarter employees. And that means better results for everyone involved.

Back Jacket

Once upon a time, you could hire people off the street, tell them what to do, and expect them to work loyally for the company for the next decade or four. But those "set it and forget it" days are over. The culture has shifted. Employees are no longer willing to toil their lives away unquestioningly, padding their bosses' pockets with a smile. For those of us doing the hiring, this culture shift has been more like a culture shock. But, when the shock subsides Predicting Success will be here to help us move forward. In fact, as talent acquisition guru David Lahey enthusiastically puts it, "This is what opportunity looks like."

At the same time that employees are demanding more recognition and better work-life balance, businesses are gaining access to tools and resources that are drastically improving our ability to make the right hiring choices. Predicting Success provides insight and access to a number of these tools, including the Predictive Index^(R), which has helped firms like Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce maximize their recruiting potential. The strategies in this book are based on recent research on how data, analytics, assessments, and other next-level approaches can lead to win-win hiring decisions.

Anyone involved in corporate recruiting at any level knows how expensive a wrong hire can get. In Predicting Success, David Lahey makes a compelling case for diverting resources to the hiring process before the wrong decision is made. Anyone who is still uncertain about the bottom-line value of analytic hiring practices will be interested in the hard evidence presented in this book. In 2014, there is no longer any need for guesswork. Finding top talent with the right style to lead the organization to greater heights can be easy--if you're ready to adapt.

Predicting Success is not just about the hiring process. Effective teams have effective leaders who know how to engage, assess, and communicate productively. Understanding how leadership traits and activities contribute to retaining talent is crucial, especially in this era of high turnover. This book addresses every link in the chain, with research data and tips to bring readers into the new world of talent management. The bottom line of Predicting Success is that smarter hiring practices, smarter leadership, and smarter companies will attract smarter employees. And that means better results for everyone involved.

Author Biography

DAVID LAHEY is the founder and CEO of Predictive Success, which helps firms align people with business strategy. In 2013, Predictive Success was awarded Profit Magazine's Profit 500 Award for the fastest-growing new companies.David's work has been featured in The Toronto Globe & Mail, Vancouver Provence, CBC Radio, Calgary Herald, Star Phoenix and Financial Post. He is also a frequently requested guest lecturer at top MBA programs.