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Annotation The bestselling author of "101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions" takes employers step-by-step through the hiring process

"David Snyder continues to impress me with his keen insight and ability to synthesize emotional intelligence and how it translates into success. We have long been practitioners of the concepts David categorizes in this must-read book."--Jean-Pierre Sakey, CEO, Headway Corporate Resources "David's whole philosophy of 'Picking The Best and Challenging the Rest' is backed up by real science, powerful tools, and insightful metrics. He has helped us increase our energy level, development and performance-for the largest fashion industry trade show in the world." -Chris McCabe, vice president, MAGIC, The Business of Fashion "This book takes extremely critical and complex issues in hiring and makes them amazingly simple. It is a gift." -Sid Reynolds, CEO, The Signature Agency "David Snyder offers insightful and practical advice that will make a tangible difference in hiring and keeping talent." -Joe Healey, president, Joe Healey Performance, and author, Radical Trust Meticulously outlining an arsenal of cutting-edge tools and strategies tied to predicting performance and a "passion for excellence," David Snyder has developed what may be a paradigm shift in our understanding of the way high-performing individuals can be identified, selected, and professionally coached. Drawing on Snyder's interviews with a team of performance and hiring experts nationwide, How to Hire a Champion will help all leaders to build: - A better model and process for selecting and retaining high-performing individuals. - Stronger teams and a customer-centered, results-driven culture. - A self-directed "culture of greatness" where top performers and top managers in all departments help and inspire each other. David Snyder holds a graduate degree in psychology from Harvard, owns his own consulting practice based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is managing director of executive recruitment for Headway Corporate Resources, a leading innovator in human capital solutions with offices nationwide. Snyder's clients have also included industry leaders in health care, communications, fashion, education, and manufacturing across the United States. His first book, How to Mind Read Your Customers, was listed first in "Best Books of the Year" by Sales and Marketing Management magazine.

Managers working in today's organizations often focus more on results than on the people who achieve those results. But regularly evaluating the performance of your employees is critical to improving the efficiency and output of your organization. Performance reviews have changed significantly in the past few years. Companies today are looking for the key characteristics, known as competencies, that help the most successful people in their field to be so successful. Managers and employees need to focus on those competencies, especially during performance review discussions.

How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy "It's hard to believe that so much powerful practical wisdom can be packed into such an easy to read book. It's a voyage into the pure essence of what really works. I've already ordered it for my entire staff."--Ron Hulnick, President, University of Santa Monica 100 Ways to Motivate Others is the culmination of many years of successful leadership coaching and training by best-selling author Steve Chandler and attorney Scott Richardson, and the natural follow-up to Steve's two previous best-sellers - 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Reinventing Yourself. Chandler and Richardson have crafted a vital, user-friendly, inspirational guide for executives, managers, and professionals ... and those aspiring to reach their level. 100 Ways to Motivate Others draws on the success of live workshops, seminars, and personal coaching programs on communications and leadership. These seminars, done for such organizations as Banner Health, General Dynamics, Scripps Hospital, Wells Fargo Banks, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and M & I Banks, appeal to managers, teachers, parents, CEOs, and coaches everywhere. The first step in motivating others is for you, if you're the leader wanting the motivation, to realize that "if there's a problem, I'm the problem." Once you truly get that, then you can use these 100 ways. After you've learned to motivate yourself, Steve and Scott will help you learn: How to slow down and enjoy a new level of focus; Why multitasking is a myth, not a strength, and keeping life simple and straightforward is the goal; The power of building on your peoples' strengths; How to avoid the damaging inclination to obsess about people's weaknesses; A simple and creative way to hold people accountable; How to enjoy cultivating the art of supportive confrontation. This book inspires extremely tough-minded leadership that gives the gift of clarity and vision to every person following the leader. 100 Ways to Motivate Others rides on the crest of the international success of Steve Chandler's 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself. Chandler has written eight books and has been translated into seven languages, including best-sellers in China and Japan. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Creative Writing and Political Science, and spent four years in the US Army in Psychological Warfare. He and Scott Richardson live in Phoenix, Ariz., and provide leadership coaching and training.