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Develop a Reservoir of Exceptional Talent

To reach the intersection of knowledge and leadership, it is paramount that you select and develop the “right people” and then position them in the “right jobs.” That’s because talent is the primary driver of success in knowledge companies. Even more, your firm accrues immeasurable benefits if you become known for your reservoir of exceptional talent. A reputation for hiring and developing the best industry talent creates and maintains a competitive edge. Imagine the positive cycle you can set in motion if the alumni of your firm view their association with you as a tremendous calling card.

Thus, a strategic approach to filling every position, from the top down, produces an advantage—the minds and creativity of your people—which cannot be duplicated or copied…it’s prime.

Chart a Course toward Staffing Excellence

Maintaining a disciplined approach to selecting and managing excellent talent can be elusive. It requires just the right blend of science, art, judgment and executive wisdom. Without a firm commitment and involvement by the executive team, a clear selection strategy, and strong support from managers and human resources staff, this distinction is difficult to attain. Moreover, without a system in place, pressures to fill positions can cause a company to veer off course when searching for the best experts.

A winning selection strategy is possible, however. And Prime Performance Consulting helps knowledge-intensive companies develop and execute such an approach. Through asking the right questions—and knowing how to integrate your answers—we serve as thinking partners who facilitate your ability to:

• Define your unique work culture and the ways that it delivers innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Brand your staffing process with the same precision and attention that you use to brand your products and services.
• Analyze each position to profile the ideal candidate.
• Target recruiting efforts.
• Identify sheer intelligence and understand how the capacity for creativity and flexibility intersect with raw intelligence.
• Realize the leadership advantage of selecting experts whose emotional intelligence is commensurate with their technical skills.
• Conduct high-performance interviews that differentiate the winners from the runners-up.

Reliably following a strategic selection process helps you attain a reservoir of exceptional talent…the driver of Prime Performance.

Power the selection of key leaders and technical experts.

Do you know which leadership and technical positions are so vital to your success that an error in hiring is unacceptable? To determine this, think about what the cost would be of replacing a seasoned expert in your organization. For many expert positions an industry benchmark is three to five times the annual salary. For critical hires, would your firm benefit from the expertise of a consulting psychologist in assessing final candidates? At what level in the organization does an unbiased outside opinion add significant value? Such outside assessment can be vital to your hiring success as well as providing a map for your new hire’s development needs.

If you are ready to develop a selection strategy and hiring process that facilitates a steady path to sustainable results, Prime Performance Consulting will act as your partner. Helping you achieve success, we will work with you to enhance both your current internal and external hiring practices. And, we will perform hiring assessments for those critical hires that warrant the expertise of a consulting psychologist.

With this knowledge, you will acquire a detailed map, once and for all, to identify and acquire the best talent in the industry…it’s prime.

To read about Designing a Participative Strategy Process, click here.