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How to avoid the most common – and expensive – business mistake (one that even the smartest professionals make)

Hiring the wrong person can destroy your business. Learn how to save yourself the time, expense and headache of another bad hire!

Dear Professional,

Your business is important to you. You’d never leave in the hands of someone inept and unreliable - on purpose.

Unfortunately, businesses often experience tremendous losses – sometimes repeatedly – because of one simple mistake: hiring the wrong person.

We read about the consequences every day in the newspapers:

Embezzlement. Stolen property. Fraud.

We hear horror stories from our colleagues:

Lost information. Mismanaged accounts. Neglected details.

And we’ve all had disappointing experiences of mismatched personalities, exaggerated skill sets, or low performance in the workplace.

If this sounds familiar – or even like a familiar concern – read on. It doesn’t have to be this way. You can minimize your risk and learn to protect your business from shady or underperforming employees.

In fact, you can do much more than that. You can find – and keep – the most exceptional employees you’ve ever had, and work with a caliber of people who make it their personal responsibility to move your business forward… IF you take the right approach.

If you’re ready to get off the hiring treadmill, and if you want to create a powerful and dynamic support team for your business, it’s time to start Building a Hire Vision.

The voice of experience

As a professional business coach, I work with savvy and intelligent business people who have built an impressive list of accomplishments. They work hard to run successful businesses, and people pay them handsomely for their products, services, and guidance.

And yet, most of them are making the same mistake. And it’s a big one.

I used to do it, too. Years ago, I took the typical approach to filling a position: write a brief job description, place an ad, sort through piles of resumes, spend a couple days interviewing, hire the strongest candidate, and hope for the best.

What I got wasn’t the best.

• I got a charming personal assistant… who really wasn’t a fit.
• I hired a sharp and personable accountant… who hated her line of work.
• I even hired someone who seemed great in every way… until I realized his actual skills were a mere shadow of his resume.

At first I thought it was me. I wondered about my own judgment and ability to read people. But then I started asking around and doing some research, and the more I learned, the more I realized one thing:

The typical approach to hiring just isn’t good enough.

So I started asking, What’s missing? What can I do better? How can I increase my chances of finding – and keeping – the right support people?

It all became crystal clear when I took these questions to some of the sharpest business people I know.

The combined expertise of SIX business coaches

I belong to a mastermind group of highly successful business coaches, each with a thriving business and a deep commitment to helping others succeed.

We’ve all built and run successful companies, and we spend our days teaching others how to do the same. We’ve read the books, talked to the experts, and tested the different strategies. Collectively, we have over 75 years of hiring experience.

Our clients are constantly asking us, “Should I hire? And if so, who and how?” We also spend a lot of time helping people deal with the consequences of a bad hire. Most employment problems can be avoided when you have the right information up front, and after watching hundreds of clients suffer through the same expensive mistakes, we felt compelled to create a solution.

So we spent an entire year collaborating, comparing notes, and building a powerful e-book that will guide you through the hiring process in the easiest, fastest and most efficient way possible.

Unlike other books on hiring practices, this one covers far more than just the stages of the hiring process. Building a Hire Vision offers a refreshingly different – and more effective – approach to the entire process.

Why this book is different

Written specifically for the small-business owner, Building a Hire Vision is more than just a book. It’s a step-by-step Hiring Program, complete with insights, tips, forms and tools that no other hiring book provides.

"Building a Hire Vision really helped me develop the ideas and instincts I had about hiring, but it did so much more! It helped me define the intentions and values I want to promote in my organization, and created depth to what had otherwise been a one-dimensional, task-focused way of hiring." ~ Chris Michie, Sales Manager

Of course, we cover the basics:

• How to write a functional job description
• How to find truly exceptional candidates (without advertising)
• The fastest way to weed through resumes
• Which questions will reveal what you’re really looking for – and which ones to avoid at all costs
• How to conduct background checks that offer genuine insight into your candidate

But that’s just the beginning. This book was designed to inspire and support you in finding, hiring, and keeping people who will move your business forward, with or without you. You’ll learn:

• To identify your professional values, your personal needs, and your particular hiring style – and how to make them work for you (page 11)
• Whether you should hire an in-house employee, outsource a task, retain a specialist, or consider a Virtual Assistant (page 32)
• How to communicate your standards and expectations in a way that is unquestionably clear – and how to get everyone committed to them (page 64)
• How to empower your team to accomplish more with less supervision – and even run the business without you (page 66)

We wanted this book to be as practical and useful as possible. More than just theory and advice, it includes:

• An Appendix of Hiring Tools, with forms and outlines that you can put to use immediately
• Links to key websites, books and other resources you’ll want to explore
• Real-life, detailed examples of Hire Vision in action
• The most common blind spots and legal pitfalls, and how to avoid them
• What you need to know about working with headhunters, staffing companies, and contractors

We’ve even included the best-kept secrets and shortcuts, such as:

• A screening tool that weeds out unqualified candidates – before you waste any time with them (page 73)
• How to attract the strongest candidates – even when you’re not looking (page 43)
• The one question that separates the leaders from the drones (page 52)
• Why a warm welcome translates to long-term loyalty (page 62)
• Savvy interviewing questions that get to the point (page 75)

But here’s the best part. This book teaches you how to unify your team around a common vision, one that makes them excited to show up and give everything they’ve got to give, every day. When you read Building a Hire Vision:

• You’ll understand how the Ritz Carlton inspires employees to provide flawless service, and how to duplicate that in your own business.
• You’ll see why the right conversation on the first day of work can affect performance for years to come.
• And you’ll know how to communicate your vision in a way that translates directly to your bottom line.

The Hire Vision Hiring Program holds more value for the average professional than an entire year of business coaching. And you can soak it all up in the time it takes to read just 80 pages.

And then this book takes you one step further!

Beyond Hiring: Supportive Termination

Firing someone can be one of the worst moments in a professional’s career. Even when it’s completely justified, it just feels bad to “give someone the axe,” right? Not necessarily.

When you operate – and terminate – according to a Hire Vision, 3 things happen:

• 1. Everyone understands what is expected, how success is measured, and what their responsibilities are, so there are no surprises when that final day comes.
• 2. Regularly scheduled check-ins ensure that there are plenty of opportunities to discuss and redirect when something isn’t working.
• 3. Decisions are made in the best interests of everyone involved. If it isn’t in everyone’s best interest to continue the employment relationship, it ends.

Building a Hire Vision teaches you how to create a framework that supports everyone’s success. If an employee isn’t succeeding, you’ll know exactly what steps to take – and what to say – to resolve the situation. Even if that means letting someone go.

You can’t afford to hire – or keep! – the wrong person

It can cost you an average of three times the annual salary to replace a bad hire… and it can cost even more than that if you keep them!

Even worse than the financial cost is the human cost:

• The disappointment and frustration of starting over with someone new
• The time, energy and stress it takes to find a replacement
• The feeling of inertia while you get a new employee up to speed (again).

Building your support team is so much more than just filling a position. You’re building an environment. Most professionals spend more waking hours with their co-workers than they do with their family! Doesn’t it make sense to surround yourself with people who support your success, want to contribute, and are fun to be around? Of course it does!

When you consider the value of an environment that encourages and inspires you – such as the increased energy and satisfaction, and the decreased frustration and risk – you’ll realize that building an exceptional support team is one of the smartest, most profitable investments you can make in your company.

What are you waiting for?

A limited-time offer…
with NO risk!

If you download your copy of Building a Hire Vision today, you’ll receive our special introductory pricing. For a limited time we are offering this complete guide to effective hiring for only $97.

But we can’t guarantee this price indefinitely. Once it has been offered to our clients and colleagues, and we prepare for a mass-market release, the price will increase to $97 and this discount will no longer be available.

If it saves you even one bad hire, value of this book cannot be underestimated. And if it saves you even one hour of wasted time, the book has paid for itself!

I’m so certain that Building a Hire Vision will give you everything you need to Find, Hire and Empower Exceptional People that I’m offering a full one-year money-back guarantee!

The book is yours to read for an entire year! Test it out. Use the forms. Try the strategies. If it isn’t everything I’ve promised, and if you don’t think it’s worth every penny you paid for it, I’ll refund your money, no questions asked. There is absolutely no risk.

So for $97, you’ll get:

• The combined expertise of SIX elite business coaches, each of whom charge well over $200 an hour for their time, who spent hundreds of hours of brainstorming, researching, and investigating the most effective hiring practices… that value alone exceeds $200,000!
• A complete Hiring Toolkit with the best interview questions, screening tools, and templates that you can put to use immediately… the Toolkit alone is worth the price of the book!
• Volumes of insight and experience, condensed and organized into one focused, easy-to-read book – with strategies and perspectives that you won’t find anywhere else!

It just doesn’t make any sense to move forward without it. We’ve pulled together everything you need to know to Find, Hire and Empower Exceptional People.

As a special bonus, we’ll also include a Hiring Checklist. This tool was designed to simplify the hiring process by showing you every stage, where you stand, and what you need to do. It just might be the most actionable part of the book!

Remember, these are the exact tools and strategies we have personally recommended to our clients. They’ve paid thousands of dollars for this information… because it works.

And you can have it for only $97! So click here to download your copy of Building a Hire Vision – the complete guide to Finding, Hiring and Empowering Exceptional People – and take your first step toward new heights of professional success.

P.S. If you’re ready to take your business to the next level, take action now! This book will guide you through the process of creating a phenomenal support team that’s truly committed to results.

P.P.S. Remember, I’m so sure that this book will give you everything you need to Find, Hire and Empower Exceptional People that I’m assuming all the risk. Download the book, read it, and put it to the test for a full year. If you don’t feel this book was worth 10 times what you paid for it, I’ll refund your money. What have you got to lose, except an incredible opportunity to accelerate your success?

Building a Hire Vision
How to Find, Hire and Empower Exceptional People