Rick Crossland - A Player Advantage

12/19/2019

Merry Christmas and Joyous Holiday Greetings from The A Player Advantage team! May Santa bring you A Players!

10/17/2019

What percentage of your team would you enthusiastically rehire? That’s the percentage of A Players on your team. What if your entire team was made up of A Players? . I enjoyed chatting with Halelly Azulay on her leadership podcast, The TalentGrow Show, about what an A Player is, how leaders can encourage and develop A-level performance in our employees, and what we should be doing about the B and C players on our team. Listen here: http://www.talentgrow.com/podcast/episode161

“Our job as leaders is to grow other leaders.”
~ Rick Crossland - A Player Advantage: Building a Team You Would Enthusiastically Rehire on episode 161 of The TalentGrow Show podcast with Halelly Azulay.

What percentage of your team would you enthusiastically rehire? Those are your A Players. What if your entire team was made up of A Players? Author & business coach Rick Crossland says that’s not only possible but a necessary part of realizing your business’s highest potential.

On this episode of The TalentGrow Show, Rick joins me to define what an A Player is, how we as leaders can encourage and develop A-level performance in our employees, and what we should be doing about the B and C players on our team.

You’ll learn about what Rick calls the seven Cs of leadership and find out what differentiates true leaders from non-leaders.

Listen here: http://www.talentgrow.com/podcast/episode161

09/09/2019

The best type of interview to accurately predict good hires.

Most interviews are woefully inaccurate in predicting the high performers that companies hope for. Here is one that actually works:

07/22/2019

How to define an A Player.

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Perhaps no element of human resources and talent management is more misunderstood, and in some cases controversial, than the notion of an

06/26/2019

Talent Assessment: is the #1 CEO Skill. CEOs and their team are invited to become better assessors of talent by learning crucial interviewer skills at the Columbus Business Growth Club on July 26th.

Since most businesses talk a good game about how they want the best people, why do so few of them invest time and energy into developing a great hiring and predictable interview process? In short, they want high performers, but the companies don’t hold themselves or their managers accountable for ...

06/20/2019

Many thanks to the Ohio Association of Mutual Insurance Companies for an awesome conference!

06/12/2019

PwC’s 2017 CEO survey reports that chief executives view the unavailability of talent and skills as the biggest threat to business

06/12/2019

In this tight hiring market, you will lose the best candidates if you go slow when you should be going fast. Use your time wisely. Keep things moving, and don't be like most companies and skip the things that really matter like: critical deep-dive assessments, behavioral interviews and reference interviews to confirm that you are truly hiring an A Player.

If you jerk a good candidate around, you will permanently sour them on your company.

05/01/2019

When the Talent Market is Tight, Don't Settle for B Players--Hire A Potentials Instead.

When A players are nowhere to be found, that doesn't mean you have to settle for B players.