New Book Provides Perfect Guide to Hiring and Developing Top Talent

  WARREN, NJ - 05/07/2018

The world of retail management is more challenging today than it has ever been. That makes having top talent on your team more important than ever. Smart managers take advantage of every edge they can find to improve their hiring and talent development success. In The Retail Leadership Profile; A Guide to Hiring, Developing, and Becoming Top Retail Talent, author Jon Dario pulls from his extensive experience in retail leadership to offer clear, concise, and practical tools designed specifically for retail managers.

This book introduces thirteen elements of a leadership profile that forms the basis for an ideal candidate model. Dario then describes how to use that model to identify and select the best candidates and to build growth plans to develop the skills of high potential employees. The book also includes instruction for how employees can use the profile to develop their own skills and build a personal brand for themselves. All of the processes taught in the book are supported by tools which can be downloaded from Dario’s website. While the concepts and tools are designed for use in retail businesses, they are applicable to all types of management and leadership.

Best-selling author and management consultant Bruce Tulgan, author of It’s Okay To Be the Boss, says this about Dario’s book – “Jon Dario's thirteen-point leadership profile is a powerful tool for leaders and would-be leaders to use to assess their own strengths and weaknesses.  His hiring and development insight will take everyone on your team to the next level."

Foreword to the book is written by Carrie Gennuso, long time retail executive turned successful talent recruiter. Gennuso states, “If everyone were to read this book and follow the processes Jon lays out, then we wouldn’t need so many other books; you know, the books about how to fire the bad people we shouldn’t have hired in the first place.”

Filled with real-life illustrations of the book’s central ideas as well as detailed instructions for their implementation, The Retail Leadership Profile is a must-have book for any retail manager or organization interested in hiring and growing top talent for their teams. The book is available in paperback, audio, and Kindle versions on Amazon.com.

About the author:  Jon Dario has more than thirty years of experience in retail management and leadership. His background includes time with many of the retail industry's leading companies, including Macy's, Gap, Bank of America, and the world's leader in retail foreign currency exchange, Travelex. This is Jon’s third book in his series of retail management manuals that are aimed at improving the consistency of execution and performance from front line teams. Jon is currently the president of a market-leading retail self-storage company, and he is the founder of The Retail Management Formula, a consulting company that helps managers become more effective leaders. Jon is a graduate of Penn State University, and he lives in Warren, NJ with his wife and two children.