Dr. Swan’s best-selling book on the interviewing & hiring process.
Swan’s How to Pick the Right People Program
by William S. Swan, Ph.D.
If hiring new employees is part of your job, expert help is here at last in this unique guide to picking the right people — the first time around. Based on Swan’s successful, nationwide seminars of the same name, here are all the interviewing tools and techniques you’ll need. You’ll learn how to:
- Develop an organized, rational way to conduct a targeted selection interview.
- Learn how to probe the test what candidates say, rather than accepting their statements at face value.
- Learn how to predict job performance, and make your hiring decisions with confidence.
- Discover how to present information in a persuasive way that will encourage talented candidates to accept your job offer.
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The information in Swan’s How to Pick the Right People Program puts choosing employees on a rational, scientific basis. Every aspect of the book has been field-tested, making it the most practical, research-based guide available to the employee selection process.
Now available in print, as a video series, and on audio cassettes.
How to Do a Superior Performance Appraisal
by William S. Swan, Ph.D. (with Phillip Margulies)
For anybody who equates doing a performance appraisal with a dental appointment, here’s a complete guide to painless, mutually profitable appraisals. Written by bestselling management author and Fortune 1000 consultant Dr. William S. Swan, it shows you how to transform what traditionally has been a source of potential conflict among managers and staff members, into a productive and mutually profitable process for both employer and employee.
- A systematic, step-by-step guide to conducting appraisals that reduces defensiveness and conflict while increasing quality and productivity.
- All the nuts and bolts of doing an appraisal: data collecting, avoiding errors, knowing EEO guidelines, and much more.
- Packed with useful checklists, information sheets, and sample dialogues, including a model performance appraisal form incorporating what has been proven to be the most powerful approach.
- Throughout, the emphasis is on performance management vs. simplistic “report-card” type systems.
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Now available in print, as a video series, and on audio cassettes.