Topgrading Online Solutions (Snapshot, etc.) For Instantly Hiring Better

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"The array of products and services that's available to help an organization grow its Topgrading skills is extraordinary. It makes it not only relatively easy, but actually a pleasure."

V.R. Lee,
Chief Talent Manager, All Asia Power Co-Op

We have created a wealth of Topgrading products, tools, services and training to assist companies as they strive to create great teams and winning strategies based around hiring and promoting "A Players" and eliminating staggeringly expensive mis-hiring decisions. To make these offerings easy to understand, we've broken them into five different categories as shown below.

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1. Workshops & Speeches – This area contains the latest information about our regularly scheduled public workshops; how to schedule an internal (onsite) workshop for your team; various speeches by Dr. Brad Smart and his team; information about our "Train-the-Trainer" program, and even information about becoming a Certified Topgrading Trainer.

2. Consulting Services – Topgrading, Inc. (formerly Smart & Associates, Inc.) is a premier consulting organization with profession team members who provide "second opinion" interviews of candidates for hire or promotion, perform executive coaching with C-suite executives, conduct Topgrading workshops, and generally consult with companies to help them implement Topgrading.

3. Topgrading Books - Beginning with Dr. Smart's first version of Topgrading (the definitive reference on hiring) that's being released in a completely revised Version 3 in August of 2012, we have created multiple books about Topgrading. You may click on any of the titles below to jump to a specific listing and learn more.

Topgrading: The Proven Hiring and Promoting Method that Turbocharges Company Performance - This is the latest, totally revised 3rd edition of Topgrading including 40 case studies of Topgrading companies.
Topgrading 101: Avoid Costly Mis-Hires - A printed version of the condensed (45 page) e-book version of the big Topgrading book above.
Topgrading for Sales - Topgrading methods tweaked to identify A Player sales reps.
Topgrading Workbook - This is the actual Workbook we use in our Workshops.
Smart Parenting - A guide to parenting and raising children to be A Players.
Topgrading: How to Hire, Coach, and Keep A Players - A handbook by Brad Smart and Geoff Smart.

4. Topgrading Toolkit and Basic Video Program – the Toolkit has 2 hours of explanations of the 12 Topgrading hiring step, and sold separately, this is the Basic Video Program. The Toolkit has 5 more hours of demonstrations of all the Topgrading hiring steps, and the total package includes the latest Topgrading innovations. You can use this learning tool in three forms – DVDs, online version, and intranet version.

5. The Topgrading Snapshot – This graphical picture ("snapshot") of a person's career, generated by the Topgrading Career History Form, which is now the cornerstone of the family of Topgrading Online Solutions products, is simply the best hiring tool available on the planet. Candidates complete the Topgrading Career History Form that has a powerful "truth serum" and requests detailed career information including (honest) boss ratings, (true) reasons for leaving, and full compensation history. When candidates click Send you get the career information but also the Topgrading Snapshot, a multi-color, single page picture of the person's career, making it quick and easy to eliminate or keep candidates. You also get the famous Topgrading Interview Guide, auto-populated with 100% of the candidate information from the Career History Form.