How to Hire Your Next A-Player with Dr. Sabrina Starling

Today’s show focus is very near and dear to my heart: hiring A-players. I’ll explain what small business owners are getting wrong and why traditional hiring practices will only bring difficulties and heartache. The mis-hiring process is painful because of the time and effort involved in screening applicants and interviewing, and statistics show that 75% of business owners are mis-hiring. Join me in today’s episode for a look at what not to do and what will give solid results in attracting A-players to your team. I’ll wrap up with simple tips to help you uplevel your team this year for profitable growth.

Because we love to celebrate wins here at Tap the Potential, we have a big win to celebrate with you today. This is the 5th anniversary of the Profit by Design podcast! That means that we have come to you weekly for five years, sharing tips, tools, and strategies to help you design your business to be sustainably profitable. Along with that, we are ranked in the top 5% globally in a field of over three million podcasts, and that is only possible because of our devoted listeners. We appreciate each listener and each piece of feedback we receive!

The truth is that a single A-player can outperform 9-12 average team members and greatly impact your leadership experience in positive ways. Don’t you want to leave traditional hiring practices behind and learn how to attract and hire valuable and productive A-players for your team? The first step is to attend our free workshop, Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. It’s on February 22. Click the link to sign up today!

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Show Highlights:

  • What we are getting wrong with traditional hiring practices
  • How we inadvertently set up our A-players to fail by not aligning their role with their strengths
  • Why a training and onboarding plan are essential for a newly hired team member
  • How your immutable laws should be developed out of your core values—and be a determining factor in your hiring process
  • Why you shouldn’t expect A-players to stay with you for life
  • Why you need to understand what motivates your A-players, what their career goals are, what opportunities they crave, and what intangible perks they value most
  • Why you do NOT have to offer top salaries and wages to attract A-players
  • How our How to Hire the Best course can help you spend less time dealing with performance issues; start with our free workshop on February 22
  • Simple tips to uplevel your team for profitable growth this year:
    • Learn how to hire A-players.
    • Hiring soon? Start NOW.
    • Identify your “warm bodies” and make a plan to replace them with A-players in the next 6-12 months.

Links and Resources:

Coming soon: Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. This free workshop is on Thursday, February 22, and you do not want to miss it! Sign up today!

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About The Author

Tap the potential of your team and double profit!

Sabrina Starling, Ph.D., PCC, BCC, The Business Psychologist, is the international bestselling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation®.

The third generation in her family impacted by entrepreneurial hustle culture, Dr. Sabrina is transforming the story of success from long hours and grinding it out to work that supports and enhances life.

Hustle culture often means sacrificing our health, well-being, and relationships, all for the sake of success. Dr. Sabrina’s research shows this leads to burnout and pain in our relationships. There is a better way. Work supports life, not the other way around!™

Dr. Sabrina is revolutionizing the workplace with concepts like Work Supports Life™, 4 Week Vacations®, $10,000 an-hour activities, 25-hour workweeks, and unlimited vacation and sick time in highly profitable businesses winning the war for talent. She inspires transformation in a world where work often overshadows life, sharing insights from her ongoing research with over 650 entrepreneurs and their high-performing teams.

Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and Thrive Global, Dr. Sabrina is the founder of www.tapthepotential.com and the globally top-ranked Profit by Design Podcast. Listed in The Daily Hustle’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022, Dr. Sabrina is on a mission to get 10,000 business leaders taking the Work Supports Life™ Pledge.

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