Dr. Denis Cauvier
Human Resources & Leadership Expert
Dr. Denis Cauvier is widely recognized as North America's top speaker on the topics of finding and keeping great staff. As the developer of highly effective teams, Cauvier creates practical low-cost methods of attracting, pre-screening, selecting, leading, developing, engaging and retaining exceptional people. He has designed/implemented dozens of recruitment and retention campaigns, having personally conducted more than 5,200 selection interviews. With over 22 years experience as a professional speaker, Dr. Cauvier has spoken to over one million people across America, and 45 other countries. The best-selling author of eight books, Dr. Cauvier is a frequent expert in The New York Times, LA Times, CBS, ABC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, MSNBC, and Forbes.
Dr. Denis Cauvier is widely recognized as North America's top speaker on the topics of finding and keeping great staff. An active developer of highly effective teams around the world, he has created practical low-cost methods of attracting, pre-screening, selecting, leading, developing, engaging and retaining exceptional people. Dr. Cauvier has designed and implemented dozens of low cost/high impact recruitment campaigns and has personally conducted over 5,200 selection interviews. With over 20 years of experience in training and human resources, Dr. Cauvier has spoken to or consulted with over one million people across Canada, the United States and 45 other countries. He is a frequent expert in the national media such as The New York Times, LA Times, CBS, ABC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Forbes, Woman’s Day, Woman’s Health and The New York Daily News.
Dr. Cauvier is the best-selling author of eight books: How To Hire the Right Person, How To Keep Your Staff Productive & Happy, Achieve It! A Personal Success Journal, The ABC's of Making Money, The ABCs of Making Money For Teens, Attracting, Selecting & Retaining Great People, and 101 Low Cost/ High Impact Recruiting Methods.
Dr. Cauvier’s latest book, Hired 2.0 Recruiting Exceptional Talent at the Speed of Light, shows recruiters how the Internet is revolutionizing the recruitment landscape. With the proliferation of sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, industry blogs and podcasts, recruiters are faced with much broader outreach channels when searching for talent. The interactive makeup of these sites not only allow for organizations to promote opportunities, but also gives them immediate access to much more in-depth information about prospect hires than would be available through the use of more traditional recruitment methods. Dr. Cauvier’s book shows recruiters how to tap into the global talent pool with effective word-of-mouth recruiting at the speed of light!
Dr. Denis Cauvier's Blog Entries:
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2. Behavioral Based Interviewing
It has often been said that history has the tendency of repeating itself. This adage holds true for predicting on the job performance. Unfortunately many employers fail to account for this during the interviewing process. The majority of interviews are future focused dealing with "hypothetical what would you do in the future" type questions. Behavioral interviews (often referred to as competency based interviews) focus on past behaviors and ask candidates how they handled certain situations in the past.
Each behavioral based question should pertain to one or more core competencies as defined in the position's job description. Asking the right questions and knowing what to look for in the answers will provide critical insights into whether the person possesses the core competencies and appropriate attitudes required for the position. It's vital to remember that great employees are individuals that posses two critical elements; a great attitude and the required core competencies Attendees will be able to:
- Create competency based job descriptions
- Compile a short list of qualified candidates based upon core competencies - Prepare for the Behavioral interview process
- Determine if the candidate possess the requisite core competencies
- Discover if the candidate has the right attitudes for the job and the organization
- Select from over 50 of the best Behavioral based interview questions
- Uncover valuable insights into the candidates competencies and attitude based on their answers
- Objectively assess and rate the various candidates
- Avoid the common pitfalls of Behavioral interviewers that most employers make
- Ultimately select the best person for the position
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1. Succession Planning, A Plan to Succeed
With the recent recession behind us, Canada’s strong economic performance, and the country’s abundant resources in high demand coupled with the forth coming rampant retirement of large numbers of baby boomers over the next decade, organizations will find that the battle for key and hard-to-hire talent will heat up. It is vitally important to ensure the continuity of staffing for all key leadership and high-skills positions within both the private and public sectors in order to maintain a competitive advantage. Savvy organizations that invest in effective succession planning will become Employers of Choice in the coming decade.
“76% of all organizations with 500+ employees have no formal succession plan, this number increases as the number of total employees is smaller… the risk of failing to plan for the timely succession of key and hard to fill positions becomes critical with smaller organizations.”
-American Society of Training & Development – June 2010
Succession Planning: The process of identifying long-range organizational needs and cultivating a supply of internal talent to meet those future needs. Succession planning is used to anticipate the future needs of the organization and assist in finding (internally and externally), assessing and developing the human capital necessary to the strategy of the organization.
Dr. Denis Cauvier will share with your group:
· How effective succession planning is vital to your organization
· The “Planning to Succeed: Five Step Succession Planning Model”
· How to overcome the most common problems in getting started on Succession Planning
· Succession Planning Readiness Questionnaire ™
· Solving workforce gaps
· Low Cost/ High Impact ways to make your Succession Plan works -
3. Hired 2.0: Recruiting Exceptional Talent at the Speed of Light
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10. How to Keep Your People Productive & Happy
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9. How to Achieve Sales Results by Propelling Your Team into Action
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8. Stop Spending Money on Staff... Maximize Your Returns on People Investments
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7. How Workplace Literacy & Essential Skills = PROFITS
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6. Becoming Multi-lingual, How to Speak to & be Understood by Different Workplace Generations
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5. How to Attract & Retain Exceptional Talent in Today's Labor Market
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4. How to Engage Your People & Create Strategic Advantages During Tough Economic Times
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Denis you are an excellent speaker! Your energy, enthusiasm, practical stories and experiences made the workshop most worthwhile... even specialists gained valuable global insights.
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...Personally, I wish to compliment you on your style, research and manner of presentation. You are an excellent speaker... thank you for a fantastic seminar.
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Your presentation was the highlight of the entire conference.
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Your three city speaking tour on How to Hire the Right Person was simply the best series of professional development HR workshops to hit India!
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Dr. Cauvier's programme on Successful Recruitments Strategies was the best workshop I've attended in my entire career.
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The conference was extremely successful this year and it was in large part due to your level of professionalism, flexibility and adaptability, in a world that promotes teamwork, collaboration and leadership, you lead by example.
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Dr. Denis L. Cauvier's presentation and workshop at the Management Conference 2008 in Estonia offered a new perspective to the 500 participating CEOs and middle management executives of how to engage talented people in the today's difficult economic circumstances in Estonia. He illustrated different measures to gain and maintain success and how to create innovative solutions in the new environment.
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January 2010Hired 2.0
Recruiters have always sought the fastest, cheapest methods to increase both the quantity and quality of applicants. The growth of the Internet is revolutionizing the recruitment landscape, with the proliferation of sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and industry Blogs plus podcasts, recruiters are faced with much broader outreach channels when searching for talent. The interactive makeup of these sites not only allow for organizations to promote opportunities, but also gives them immediate access to much more in-depth information about prospect hires than would be available through the use of more traditional recruitment methods. Tapping into the global community via social media recruiting is the perfect combination of
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December 2008101 Low Cost/High Impact Recruiting Methods
This book offers quick, common sense solutions to dealing with one of the most challenging issues facing leaders today… attracting large numbers of high quality job seekers. With the labour market becoming tighter and every major indicator suggesting that the competition for talent will only get tougher, this book will provide your organization with the winning tools to find and attract great people. This book is loaded with 101 practical, proven, low cost/high impact recruiting methods that will directly improve your levels of customer satisfaction, reduce staff turnover, decrease costs and boost your bottom line.
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October 2004Attracting, Selecting & Retaining GREAT People
Attracting, Selecting & Retaining GREAT People takes a step-by-step, common sense approach to dealing with one of the most important issues facing leaders today…dealing with the people side of their organization. This book covers every key aspect of attracting, selecting, leading, developing, motivating, engaging and retaining great people.
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