Hiring and firing are too crucial to get wrong. Eliminate the guesswork in the two most important tasks you face as a manager. Hiring and firing are difficult to get right and potentially costly to get wrong, both for your career and for the business. Hiring & Firing is the indispensable guide you absolutely must have by your side. Business expert Brian Tracy breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to both bring stronger employees on board and weed out those not up to par. By learning to implement these techniques that Tracy can testify firsthand to the effectiveness of, you will make better leadership decisions that positively effect you and the business. In Hiring & Firing, you will be able to: Write appealing and accurate job descriptions Use the law of three in interviews to find suitable candidates Ask the right questions Probe past performance Listen for the questions that indicate interviewees are qualified and serious Provide clear direction and regular feedback De-hire gracefully, and more! At best, hiring and firing are key to improving your team and reaching your goals. Bringing on and letting go of the wrong people wastes company time and money while also reflecting poorly upon you. At worst, it could be crucial for the business in several ways. Hiring & Firing will ensure that you make the right decisions.

Hiring and firing are too crucial to get wrong. Eliminate the guesswork in the two most important tasks you face as a manager. Hiring and firing are difficult to get right . . . and potentially costly to get wrong--both for your career and for the business. Do you really want to take that kind of risk? Business expert Brian Tracy says you don't have to! Hiring and Firing is the indispensable guide you absolutely must have by your side. This handy resource breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to both bring better employees on board and weed the weaker ones out. By learning to implement these techniques that Tracy can testify firsthand to the effectiveness of, readers will be able to: Write appealing and accurate job descriptions Find suitable candidates Ask the right questions Probe past performance Listen for the questions that indicate interviewees are qualified and serious Provide clear direction and regular feedback De-hire gracefully And more At best, hiring and firing the wrong people wastes crucial company training time and money, while also reflecting poorly upon you. At worst . . . it could literally mean the beginning of the end for the business. Are you willing to take that chance?

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The selection process is the key to your success as an executive and the success of your company. When you have to hire, the best rule is to hire slowly and carefully. #2 When you are in the position of hiring someone, it is common to make the mistake of hiring as a solution to a problem. You are overloaded with work, and you have a hole that needs to be filled. You then go into the marketplace and grab someone and throw them at the problem. #3 Selecting the right person is extremely important. It is expensive to hire someone who doesn’t work out, as it takes you time to go through the selection process, prepare, interview, and hire them. Firing is also expensive in terms of morale, as it raises the turnover rate of staff in the company.

Unlock the secrets to turning even ordinary employees into extraordinary performers! Do you want to become invaluable to your company? The unparalleled key to achieving that notoriety is to learn how to boost your managerial skills and bring out the best in your people. If that sounds simple, that’s because it is! Great managers are made, not born. Renowned success expert Brian Tracy has written Management, a handy, easy-to-follow guide to help you improve yourself as a manager and a professional in general. In Management, Tracy shows how anyone can easily: Set performance standards Delegate productively Define key result areas Concentrate attention and resources on high-payoff activities Hire and fire effectively Build a staff of peak performers Hold meetings that work Communicate with clarity Negotiate successfully Remove obstacles to performance, and more! Filled with practical, proven techniques and tools, Management is an essential guide that shows you how to bring out the best in your people--and be seen as an indispensable linchpin by the leaders of your organization.

When you can delegate and supervise well, you will not believe how efficient and easy managing your team can be. Managers’ performance reviews, their salary increases, and basically their fate within the company in general are judged by the results they deliver, yet those results are usually produced by a team of employees working under them. Thus, the most important and broad-reaching aspect of a manager’s job is the ability to delegate and supervise extremely well. In this book, success expert Brian Tracy reveals time-tested ways any manager can use to boost the performance and productivity of their employees. In Delegation & Supervision, Tracy shares helpful tips including how to: Define work, assign it, and set measurable, targeted standards for performance Match skills to job requirements Use Management by Objectives to delegate longer-term tasks to trusted team members Monitor, control, and keep on top of projects with minimum effort Turn delegation into a teaching tool and build the confidence of your staff Avoid reverse delegation Free up time for higher-level tasks only you can tackle, and more When done right, delegation and supervision will allow your employees to learn, grow, and become more capable. Delegation & Supervision shows you how to impress the higher-ups with all that you and your team accomplished.

The Brian Tracy Success Library Powerful, practical and pocket-sized, the Brian Tracy Success Library is a fourteen-volume series of portable, hardbound books that interweave nuggets of Tracy’s trademark wisdom with engaging real-life examples and practical tools, tactics and strategies for learning and honing basic business skills. This is a powerful, handy, reference series for managers, professionals, employees just about anyone who wants a quick, easy, reliable and effective overview of and insights into aspects critical to business. The strength of any organization is determined by the quality of its managers. What they do and how they do it is the key determinant of corporate success. Want to become invaluable to your company? Boost your managerial skills. The good news is that great managers are made. . . not born. When you discover what the most successful managers know, you will unlock the secrets to turning even ordinary employees into extraordinary performers. Filled with practical, proven techniques and tools, Management, an essential guide shows you how to bring out the best in your people―and hit new heights in your own career. Success expert Brian Tracy reveals how anyone can easily: Set performance standards Delegate productively Define key result areas Concentrate attention and resources on high-payoff activities and eliminate distractions Hire and fire effectively Build a staff of peak performers Hold meetings that work Foster team spirit Communicate with clarity Negotiate successfully Remove obstacles to performance Set the right example Make good decisions quickly and more.

The pressure surrounding the sales manager is intense. Given the task of recruiting, managing, and motivating a top team of high-performing sales professions, so much of the sales manager’s success is dependent on others. Or is it?Sales expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying the most successful sales managers and professionals in every industry. In this indispensable pocket-sized resource, he has encapsulated 6 key characteristics of a winning sales team. In Sales Management, he distills these simple but powerful strategies so that sales managers can learn how to:• Select and recruit sales champions• Establish clear objectives• Inspire singleness of purpose• Motivate people with the right incentives• Develop winners through continuous coaching and training• Conduct game-changing performance reviews• De-hire poor performers• And moreDon’t leave your success as a sales manager in the hands of others. Learn today how YOU can increase your sales team’s effectiveness, improve their bottom line, and advance your own career in the process.

Learn how to make meetings shorter, more effective, and more satisfying to everyone in attendance! In most workplaces today, meetings have become dreaded, meaningless, and at best, a necessary evil. Neither should be acceptable to management. All meetings should be powerful tools for solving problems, making decisions, exchanging ideas, and getting results fast. What is the secret to turning pointless into production? Based on years of experience consulting for companies around the world, Brian Tracy has learned firsthand what works in meetings and what doesn’t. In Meetings That Get Results, Tracy will help you learn how to: Structure different types of meetings Establish meeting priorities Set an achievable agenda Summarize discussion points and decisions Gain agreement on action steps, assign responsibility, and set deadlines Maximize the return on time invested, and much more! When you are leading a meeting, both your superiors and your subordinates are assessing your performance. This invaluable pocket-sized guide reveals simple, proven ideas for managers and other leaders to impress your coworkers with your improved skills. Meetings That Get Results shows you how to use structure, purpose, presentations, and more to make your performances more effective and compelling.