Identifying the Real MVPs

When you watch top-lev­el sports, it’s crys­tal clear who are the real MVPs.

These extra­or­di­nary indi­vid­u­als have insane phys­i­cal skills and set a high bar for them­selves and their team­mates. They thrive under pres­sure, always deliv­er top-notch results, and know how to deliv­er when time is tight. They live and breathe excel­lence and visu­al­ize suc­cess and peak per­for­mance. They are the true team play­ers, the ones you want on your side.

The busi­ness world also has MVPs: the high per­form­ing A Play­ers. They bring their A‑game, every time, are pre­pared, intel­li­gent, resource­ful, and always hun­gry for improve­ment. They go above and beyond, put the team first, and nev­er set­tle for any­thing less than excellence.

Change the Game

In the sports and busi­ness worlds, the chal­lenge is how to find and recruit­ing excep­tion­al performers.

Tra­di­tion­al inter­view meth­ods, with a 25% suc­cess rate in find­ing high per­form­ers, fail to uncov­er the per­for­mance pat­terns that set the true stars apart from the rest and don’t assess if a can­di­date fits well with your culture.

We lever­age Top­grad­ing™, a proven method­ol­o­gy that digs deep and shows how a can­di­date real­ly thinks, acts, and per­forms in the real world.

It makes hir­ing dis­ci­plines more rigourous and data-ori­ent­ed, sim­i­lar to the dili­gence you would do if you were to install a new crit­i­cal soft­ware plat­form like an ERP or CRM, or if you were going to change ven­dors for a crit­i­cal part of the business.

By the way, author Brad Smart and Top­grad­ing Pres­i­dent Chris Marsau have just released Fool­proof Hir­ing: Pow­er­ful, Proven Keys to Hir­ing HIGH Per­form­ers, a new book that makes under­stand­ing the method­ol­o­gy sim­pler and eas­i­er to understand.

We high­ly rec­om­mend Top­grad­ing to our clients and we use it our­selves. We’ve seen, over close 30 years of doing this, that you can proac­tive­ly put the time and ener­gy up front or reac­tive­ly pay the price when the per­son isn’t a great fit for your company.

The Chal­lenge

• If you’re not get­ting close to 75% A‑Players in your hir­ing deci­sions, you should look at Topgrading.

If we can help you to make bet­ter hir­ing deci­sions by equip­ping you with Top­grad­ing skills – or do it for you – please let us know.

Addi­tion­al Podcasts

• Top­grad­ing Vir­tu­al Bench
• The Impor­tance of the Job Scorecard

Addi­tion­al Blogs

• Top­grad­ing: Hire & Keep the Best Talent
• How to Recruit & Retain Peo­ple in the Cur­rent Economy
• Three Bar­ri­ers to Busi­ness Growth
• Proac­tive Recruit­ing Helps Stack Your Tal­ent Deep