4/ Your Advisor: Recruiting Talented People

Hiring the right people is the lifeblood of most organisations. Getting it wrong can be costly and detrimental to morale. The ‘war for talent’ is fierce, particularly within the professional sector, and growing businesses and organisations need a clear strategy to recruit and retain the brightest and the best.

Traditional recruitment practices have changed with rapid advancements in technology and social media. The powerful generations now entering the workplace demand a new approach to attract, engage and retain them for longer.

Written by an experienced expert in talent acquisition and organisation development, this innovative book is informed by interviews with thought leaders in the recruitment field and takes a structured approach to sourcing, hiring and inducting talented people. Its accessible style allows the reader to ‘dip in’ and select relevant advice depending on where they are in the hiring cycle.

Key issues addressed in this book include:

• How recruitment has evolved and the ‘new rules of recruitment’
• The characteristics of a good recruitment strategy
• Building a strong employer brand to attract ideal candidates
• How to successfully source and select the right candidates
• How best to embed new talent in your organisation and increase the likelihood of retaining them for longer.

3/ Your Advisor: Time Management

Are you constantly battling the clock to meet deadlines, struggling to get to meetings on time? Are you spending less time with your family, your partner, yourself? Have you tried many time-management techniques that just have not worked?

Written by a recognised expert and advisor on time management, this book provides you with the practical tools, easy-to-follow techniques, checklists and templates to transform the way you plan your day, week and month to ensure greater productivity and efficiency.

Time Management will help you identify and focus on the activities that bring the highest return on your time and unlock a new world of opportunity and achievement.

1/ Your Advisor: Meaningful Performance Reviews

The performance management of people is a key issue for management. The purpose of this book is to help managers get the best out of the performance review process, particularly review meetings. Despite many organisations having structured performance management processes, there is still a lack of understanding about how to prepare and deliver effective performance review meetings. While most managers believe such meetings are useful, their time is precious and they would still rather that they didn’t have to do them.

Meaningful Performance Reviews begins in discussing effective preparation, providing useful checklists and frameworks and outlines how to encourage staff to take a more proactive approach. The author then moves on to deal with the review meeting itself, how to give ‘BEST’ feedback, agree ‘SMARTER’ goals and inspire staff to become high performers. Finally, the book looks at ways of moving from the perception of performance review being a ‘once a year form-filling exercise’ to an ongoing and meaningful improvement process.