Hiring and Retaining Key Staff
The long-term success of any company relies on its human talent. Top companies know how to hire key employees, retain top talent by building a sense of loyalty and identify employees that contribute to the company's mission and goals.
This course will enhance the human talent within your company by understanding how to solve the common challenges of hiring through developing a process specific to your company. You will review your own hiring process, assess its strengths and weaknesses and identify changes that need to be made.
Key Topics
- What do we need to do before we start a hiring search?
- How do we identify the best candidates?
- How do we get people to reveal who they really are during the interview, not who they want us to think they are?
- Who should be moved from potential candidates to finalists?
- What questions should we ask when we do reference checks?
- How do we negotiate a "win-win" employment agreement?
- What red flags should we watch for during the hiring process?
Knowing how to find the right people is just the beginning. You must be able to identify your key staff and retain them (and assess who might need to leave). This seminar will teach many of the ways to retain key staff and enable them to be peak performers, including:
- Getting your new employees off to a strong start
- Setting clear performance expectations and measurements
Dr. Ray Smilor is the executive director of the Beyster Institute. A noted expert in entrepreneurship and executive vice president of the Foundation for Enterprise Development, Dr. Smilor has written and edited several books and articles on entrepreneurship, economic development and technology transfer and commercialization. Previously vice president of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, he helped build one of the most prominent organizations promoting entrepreneurship in the United States.
Before joining the Kauffman Center, Dr. Smilor was a tenured professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas-Austin where he also served as the executive director of the IC2 Institute at UT, which became an internationally recognized think tank for entrepreneurship and economic development. Dr. Smilor earned his Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Texas—Austin.