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Books

The FutHRist: 5 Mindsets of the Future HR Pro
The FutHrist is about the five mindsets for leading workforce transformation, plus a self-diagnostic to find your own blind spot in leading it.
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Sprint Recruiting by Trent Cotton: Agile Methods for Recruiting
The book that started the Sprint Recruiting methodology. Agile principles for talent acquisition teams drowning in competing priorities.
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High Performance Recruiting: 7 Traits of Elite Teams
The traits, environments, and leadership styles that separate elite recruiting teams from average ones. The companion to Sprint Recruiting.
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All things FutHRist

The FutHRist Productivity Planner: A Weekly System Built on the Eisenhower Matrix
Most HR leaders don’t have a time-management problem. They have a prioritization problem. Everything feels urgent, so everything gets treated like it’s important. Then the week is gone and the actual priorities never got touched. The FutHRist Productivity Planner gives you a simple weekly and daily system
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FutHRist Team Assessment Kit: 90-Day Plan in 2 Weeks
Score your team, run the session, and leave with a two-mindset 90-day plan. Includes workbook, pre-work emails, guide, & debrief deck.
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FutHRist Team Scoring Workbook: Find Your Team’s Blind Spots
Turn individual FutHRist assessment scores into team-level charts: radar overlay, gap heatmap, tier distribution. No macros. Works on Mac and Excel Online.
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Value of Work Matrix Toolkit: Map Time to Value
Map your organization’s work by value and focus with an auto-calculating dashboard and a 19-slide facilitator deck for a live 90-minute workshop.
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Sprint Recruiting

Sprint Recruiting by Trent Cotton: Agile Methods for Recruiting
The book that started the Sprint Recruiting methodology. Agile principles for talent acquisition teams drowning in competing priorities.
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Sprint Recruiting Bootcamp: Six Modules to Fix Your Pipeline
Six modules to fix recruiting’s core dysfunctions: no priorities, no rhythm, misaligned success, broken feedback. Video, decks, workbooks.
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