Open Workshop
Join a scheduled public session alongside other business leaders and hiring managers, working through a real hiring scenario together. The easiest way to experience the workshop before committing your whole team to it.
The workshop
Three Hours That Fix How Your Team Hires
The keynote shows you the framework. The workshop makes your team run it. Two or three hours, hands on, built around a real hiring decision: a shared case study when we run it as an open session, or your own live roles when we bring it in-house.
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ways to bring it in: open, in-house or on stage
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frameworks applied to a real hiring decision
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to the room, from a learning breakout to a full team
Why this, why now
Talks Teach The Framework. Workshops Change The Behaviour.
Most hiring managers already know, in the abstract, that they should interview better. What they don't have is the practice. A keynote shows the framework. A book explains it. But a workshop is the only format where someone actually writes the SPEC, weighs the TALENT criteria, and runs the mock interview before it matters.
So the first time they do it for real isn't the first time they've done it at all.
A working session, not a talk
Your Team Builds The Process In The Room
Training that ends at the door changes nothing. In this session your hiring managers write the SPEC, argue out the criteria, draft the questions and practise the probes, against a shared case study in an open session, or roles they are genuinely trying to fill when we run it in-house.
By the time it finishes, the process is written down, agreed and owned by the people who have to use it.
However You Want It Delivered
Three Ways To Bring It In
Private, In-House
Run just for your team, built around the live roles you're hiring for right now, on-site, at a venue, or delivered live online. Your team leaves with a hiring process built on their own open roles, not a hypothetical.
Conference & Event Sessions
A tailored session for a learning event, conference breakout, leadership offsite or team day, same framework, shaped to fit the time and format you've got.
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What you leave with
Outputs, Not Just Notes
A finished SPEC
For a real hiring decision: the shared case study in an open session, or one of your own live roles in-house.
An agreed scorecard
Every hiring manager scoring the same criteria the same way.
A ready interview guide
Competency questions and probes, mapped to your criteria.
A reference script
Structured, personalised, and used only on your finalists.
A shared language
Your team talking about candidates in evidence, not impressions.
A hiring process your team can run next week.
The facilitator
Why Have Stephen Run This With Your Team?
Stephen leads Talent Select, where psychometric assessment and validated aptitude testing have shaped real hiring decisions since 1985. He doesn't run this as a theoretical exercise — every framework in the room has been pressure-tested against actual client hires, and he adapts the session live to whichever roles and personalities are actually in front of him.
Four decades of assessment science
The same rigour behind Talent Select's client work, not a workshop invented for the room.
A working session, not a lecture
Known for getting a room to actually produce the SPEC, the scorecard and the interview guide, not just take notes.
Real hiring decisions, not hypotheticals
Frameworks built from real client placements, not generic training content.
Adapts to the room
Shapes the exercises around founders, HR leaders, or a mixed hiring panel, whichever is actually there.
Leaves a process behind
The goal isn't a good session, it's a hiring process your team is still using six months later.
The details
Practical Information
- Length
- Typically two to three hours, tailored down for a conference or event slot, or extended into a longer in-house day.
- Group size
- Private sessions are capped so everyone takes part. Open workshops run at the right size for the room, and event sessions are shaped to your format.
- Who it is for
- Founders, hiring managers, HR teams and interview panels
- Format
- Open sessions for a room of business leaders, private in-house training for one team, or a tailored session for a learning event, conference or leadership event.
- Preparation
- Works out of the box against a shared case study. For an in-house session, send us one or two live roles in advance and we build it around them instead.
- Follow on
- Optional Talent Select Strategy Call or assessment setup for any role you want to apply this to.
Run The Workshop With Your Team
Send us your open roles and your dates. We will confirm availability and shape the session around what you are hiring for.