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Motivation-based Interviewing: A Revolutionary Approach to Hiring the Best

Stop Asking the Wrong Interview Questions and Start Hiring High Performers. The candidate seemed to have it all—a great resume, the perfect skills and confident responses to all of your interview questions. You had a good feeling about this one. Finally, a high performer—that terrific hire who undoubtedly would produce extraordinary results. But that’s not how it turned out, was it? Here’s a little secret: Before you can hire a high performer, you have to correctly identify a high performer. And to identify a high performer you have to ask effective interview question… and know how to evaluate the answers. Hiring the best requires more than just assessing a candidate’s skill. Interviewers must also determine the candidate’s attitude toward overcoming obstacles and how passionate they are about achieving your goals—both proven predictors of future success. Hiring expert and popular keynote speaker Carol Quinn provides a complete guide for accurately and reliably assessing skill, attitude, and passion, so you can expose the incremental differences that separate the pretenders from the genuine high performers. Once you discover the power of Motivation-based Interviewing, you’ll never conduct an interview any other way!

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Curriculum-Based Motivation Group: A Five Session Motivational Interviewing Group Intervention

This five-session motivational interviewing group intervention elicits and effects positive change in the lives of people struggling with life choices and personal behavior (e.g. addictions, compulsive behaviors, anger management, leaving an abusive relationship, illegal behaviors).This curriculum group model has broad application for all human service practitioners, treatment providers and educators. Also available in Spanish. See “Grupo Motivacional Con Base Curricular”.

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Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook (Applications of Motivational Interviewin)

Developing expertise in motivational interviewing (MI) takes practice, which is exactly the point of this engaging, user-friendly workbook. The volume is packed with real-world examples from a range of clinical settings, as well as sample interactions and hands-on learning activities. The author is an experienced MI researcher, clinician, and trainer who facilitates learning with quizzes, experiential exercises, and reproducible worksheets. The reader learns step by step how to practice core MI skills: raising the importance of behavior change, fostering the client’s confidence, resolving ambivalence, solidifying commitment to change, and negotiating a change plan. The utility of the book is enhanced by the large-size format and lay-flat binding. The book shows how to navigate each session using microskills that many clinicians already know: open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening and summaries, or OARS for short.

This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series.

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Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewing)

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions.

This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series.