ISM's Hiring and Dismissal Training service provides you with the hands-on training and tools needed to get the right employees on the bus—in the right seats—and the wrong ones off, safely and compassionately.

This training program focuses on preparing you to achieve a close match between new employees' skills, and your school's mission. You will also learn how to strengthen your faculty culture while avoiding both legal and financial risks that can occur as a result of poorly executed hiring and dismissal processes.

What We Do

Don't settle for a generic training session-one designed for managers in for-profit companies that have goals and needs very different from your own. We understand your needs and we're here to help.

The best fit for you and your team is a customized consultation, one that thoroughly identifies and addresses your specific challenges and needs in a private-independent school.

• Legal aspects of hiring and dismissal (federal and state)
• Mission-based hiring process and tools
• Recruiting strategies and sample ads
• Interviewing techniques
• Background screening and job offer protocols
• Supporting faculty performance improvement
• Corrective action and dismissal decisions
• Expect topics to be customized to your schools needs

Benefits to You

Hiring, retaining, and sustaining a highly engaged, mission-appropriate faculty can be a Head's most lasting legacy. This on-site service provides training on effective hiring, performance improvement, and dismissal practices as well as providing you with the following:

• Personalized instruction for your team that is focused directly on your mission, culture, and values
• Practical tools such as hiring specifications, characteristics identification, and interviewing forms that are tailored to your school
• Guidance on implementing a mission-based hiring process (using the above tools), to be used with your very next hiring season

The Details

ISM has been training private-independent school administrators for more than 30 years. Our HR Consultant is well-versed in ISM's principles as well as the current best practices in the HR field. He will work closely with you to understand your current practices, identifying opportunities for improvement, and will then present a best practice approach that is customized specifically to the mission, culture and values of your school for maximum impact. This training can be delivered to your team in a variety of ways, depending on the size and scope of your leadership team.

Day One: Management Team

• Key laws impacting hiring practices (federal and states)
• Mission-based hiring process
• Tools for managing the interview, assessment, and selection process
• Behavioral interviewing techniques
• Corrective action and performance improvement coaching
• Termination practices

Day Two: Department Chairs

Similar training, but focused on the hiring/corrective action-related roles and information needs of Department Chairs. Particular attention is paid to their unique roles in both interviewing and performance-improvement coaching.

To find out more about ISM's HR Services, e-mail Terri Gillespie, ISM's Consulting Coordinator, or call 302-656-4944 (ext. 134).

ISM provides management consulting services to private-independent schools. ISM is not a law firm. No service or information provided by ISM should be construed as legal advice.