The entrepreneur's guide to hiring and building the team

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Title:

The entrepreneur's guide to hiring and building the team

Author:

Tanner, Ken.

ISBN:

9780275995430

Personal Author:

Tanner, Ken.

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.

Physical Description:

xiii, 186 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Series:

The entrepreneur's guide series

The entrepreneur's guide

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Series Title:

The entrepreneur's guide series

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Preparing to recruit -- Finding great candidates -- The candidate screening process -- Selecting great team members -- Bringing them onboard -- A group of diverse individuals -- Sharing a common culture -- Working together -- Toward worthwhile goals -- A foundation of integrity -- The real cost of attrition -- The four pillars of retention -- Filling job needs -- Filling career needs -- Holding on and fighting back.

Subject Term:

Teams in the workplace.

Employees -- Recruiting.

Electronic Access:

NetLibrary

Copies:

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Summary

There are few absolutes in business, but here is one: Thriving businesses employ a superior team. No matter how great the idea, how strong the entrepreneur's finances, how excellent the location, or how magnetic the advertising, the success or failure of the business rides on the quality of the workforce. And here's another absolute: Long-term financial success depends on keeping effective employees from jumping ship. In this book, business veteran Ken Tanner guides entrepreneurs through the three critical components of staffing a business--recruiting, teambuilding, and retention. As he shows time and again through advice, anecdote, and example, solving these challenges is like adding rocket fuel to the entrepreneurial business.

Yet new business owners tend to take a lax view of personnel issues. They hire the first person who walks through the door or interview using a canned sheet of questions snagged from the Internet. Teambuilding consists of showing the new employee where to sit and who to go to for answers. And retention? What's that? T he Entrepreneur's Guide to Hiring and Building the Team begins by helping entrepreneurs understand why staffing is so important. Then it guides them through the entire process of recruiting to attract top-notch talent to the budding organization. But that's only the start, Tanner maintains. It's critical to get these talented people to work together to drive the business, and it's equally critical to keep each employee challenged, motivated, and satisfied--the keys to retention.