Leadership Institute

Selection and Retention

Recommended Solution for: Selection and Retention

It would be difficult to say which causes the most pain and has the greatest impact on the bottom line -- poor selection decisions or hiring the best people only to lose them to the competition.  That is why it is important for organizations to:

  • Align individual performance with the company’s vision, values, and business strategies.
  • Identify the competencies needed to be successful in all key positions.

And for:

  • Interviewers to competently and confidently determine the best match for the job.
  • Leaders to identify the development needs of employees and guide them to take charge of their own development.
  • Employees to continually assess their strengths and development needs and develop a plan to close performance gaps.

Course Recommendations

These programs help organizations select and retain employees.

Essential Interviewing Skills (SM) -- This behavior-based interviewing course teaches hiring managers how to interview for the behaviors, knowledge, and motivations needed for success on the job. (No prerequisite course required)

* Essentials of Leadership is the prerequisite course for most leadership courses.

  • Achieving Your Leadership Potential -- Shows leaders how to initiate, create, and execute their own development plan. (No prerequisite course required)
  • Coaching for Success -- Helps leaders guide people who are identifying development opportunities through the use of critical thinking skills.
  • Developing Others -- Helps leaders understand the critical role they play in developing organizational talent, and provides a process for them to follow in doing so.
  • Motivating Others -- Teaches leaders how to proactively create an environment in which people are highly motivated to perform.
  • Retaining Talent -- Helps leaders understand their critical role in retaining organizational talent, and creating an environment in which people feel valued and satisfied in their job.

Supplemental Courses

  • Taking Charge of Your Development -- Enables employees -- with their leader’s support -- to initiate, create, and execute their own development plan.
  • Targeted Selection® -- Identifies the competencies needed for all key positions, builds interviewer skills and confidence, and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the selection process. Note:  Additional DDI certification required.

Rationale

It is not enough to hire or promote the right people -- organizations increasingly struggle with how to retain top talent.  DDI’s selection and performance review technology helps organizations keep the best people by leveraging competency-based data.  This information is used for associate development, leadership effectiveness training, promotional consideration, and compensation -- the very factors that lead to higher retention rates.  In addition, DDI’s training and development solutions provide a development process and appropriate skill-training courses to help ensure people are motivated and developing in ways beneficial to themselves and to the organization’s current and future needs.  DDI’s performance review technology holds associates and their leaders accountable for development plans and organizational results, driving both retention and performance.