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Understanding Motivation-Based Interviewing: A Video Interview with Carol Quinn

What is motivation-based interviewing? Learn the 3 components ALL top performers share in common that enable them to achieve above-average results. When it comes to hiring, learn why skill-assessment is NOT enough, and why behavior-based interviewing simple doesn't work! Hiring Expert, Carol Quinn, provides overview of MBI.

What Is Motivation-Based Interviewing? LinkedIn 

Motivation-based interviewing, or "MBI" for short, is the world's most effective interviewing method—PERIOD. It's the simplest and fastest way to improve your employee selection process and hire only High Performers. Your interviewers will learn how to assess the three components ALL High Performers share: skill, attitude, and passion. Interviewers who use MBI can correctly identify job candidates who are self-motivated and willing to go the extra mile. MBI requires no additional interviewing time and can be used to fill every job opening. It's interviewer training perfected.

Why Is MBI Superior to Behavior-Based Interviewing for Employee Selection?

Traditional behavior-based interviewing training does an okay job of teaching interviewers how to assess skills but falls short when it comes to accurately assessing a candidate's motivation. That's a Big Deal!  Why? Hiring decisions based on skill alone produce mixed hiring results because it takes more than just skill to succeed. Think of skill as being analogous to a car. Think of motivation as its fuel. A car without fuel runs great...but only going downhill. Employees with the skill to do the job but not the self-motivation... Read More

4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO LEARN MBI — Use Chloe, Our AI Chat, To Guide You To The MBI Training That's Best For You!

1. Learn MBI Online—Now!

The online course is our most popular and fastest way to learn motivation-based interviewing. It's perfect for individual learners or everyone in the organization. This on-demand, self-paced course takes approximately 4.5 hours to complete. You can learn MBI from anywhere, at any time. How cool is that!  Employee Selection Expert

2. Register For MBI Open-To-The-Public Zoom Classes

This highly interactive option is ideal for individuals or small groups who prefer to learn motivation-based interviewing with an instructor's guidance. These classes are taught on Zoom, and are offered several times a year. Check our schedule to see upcoming class dates and to register.

3. Book Private MBI Instructor-Led Classes Starting at $3500

Private classes are an excellent option for organizations with 10 to 100 interviewers who need to learn how to hire High Performers and prefer an instructor to lead the training. These classes are offered both virtually via Zoom and onsite (our instructor travels to you). Click the button to learn more.

This 88-page workbook is included in most MBI training options.

4. Become an MBI Certified Trainer and Teach It! ❤️

Do you have an entire organization filled with managers who have never learned how to hire High Performers? If yes, the MBI Train-the-Trainer program may be perfect for your organization. Becoming an MBI Certified Trainer is easy and convenient... with self-paced, online eLessons and four instructor-led Zoom classes. Includes a comprehensive Facilitator Guide and access to all training materials once certified.

 

Read What SHRM Wrote:

The word is getting out! So far, SHRM has published two articles featuring motivation-based interviewing. The Society for Human Resource Managers picks hot topics to write about at their annual conferences. MBI most certainly has their attention!

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Financial Times (MBI Article)

The Cure For ‘Have-a-Go’ Interviewers! Peter Whitehead talks to an expert in sorting out the genuine high performers from the rest: For Carol Quinn, it was inevitable that she would make her business all about perfecting how companies make hiring...

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Client Letter: MBI Results!

I read about motivation-based interviewing in a book written by Lee Cockerell (former Disney executive) and decided to give it a try. I absolutely loved it and implemented it company-wide. It is now mandatory (and company paid) for all...

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