Conversations at The Edge

Geoff Smart - Hiring the right way

November 04, 2022 Growth Institute
Conversations at The Edge
Geoff Smart - Hiring the right way
Show Notes

The number one problem in business is hiring the right employees.

Say you have a job opening to fill. You interview a range of qualified candidates and hire the best of the bunch (or so you think). But all of a sudden, all expectations break into pieces: the person who seemed like a perfect fit during the interview doesn’t have what it takes to do the job.

Not a happy ending whatsoever, right?What if you could master your hiring practices to ensure that all your new hires are A players that align with your company’s values?Good news: one of the world’s foremost leadership advisors has laid out a simple four-step methodology for hiring the right people with a 90% of success rate, thus avoiding the costly flow-on effects of traditional hiring.

We invited Geoff Smart, an acclaimed book author, and public speaker, to disentangle for us his innovative four-step hiring methods. Geoff serves as Chairman & Founder of ghSMART, a management assessment and leadership firm with clients that include the world’s largest private equity investors and Fortune 500 CEOs. He is also the co-creator of the Topgrading philosophy of talent management.

Listen to this episode of Conversations at The Edge with Geoff Smart to discover the keys to hiring the best and most impactful talent out there.