Choose
Before you meet a candidate.Define the job, price the hire properly, and ask the questions that actually predict whether a placement lasts.
Book 1, Hiring a Domestic Helper in Singapore. 115 pages.
Read moreWhich book do you need today
Three workbooks, one framework: choose, lead, do. Each one covers a different moment, and you only need the one you are in.
Start here
Not hired yet. Book 1. Define the job, price the year, run the interview.
She arrives soon, or arrived recently. Book 2. The fortnight, the standards, the cadence.
She is settled and you want the practical standards in her hands. Book 3.
Every book also opens with a one page version of this, so a reader who has bought the wrong one can find the right one.
Lead
Day one to day ninety.Onboarding, one written standard the two of you agree on, and a check-in rhythm that catches problems while they are still small.
Book 2, The First 90 Days with a New Helper. 90 pages.
Read moreDo
Day one onwards.The practical standards themselves. Cleaning, laundry and home health for humid and air-conditioned homes. Written for her, bought by you.
Book 3, The Domestic Helper Training Handbook. 139 pages.
Read moreWhat these books do not do
They do not certify anyone. The Shared Standard is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by the Ministry of Manpower or any government agency.
They do not give legal advice. Every regulatory figure is sourced to the agency that sets it, with the date the source page was last updated, and requirements change. Check the source before you rely on a number.
They do not tell you what people from any country are like. Where country of origin matters it is because a regulator has set a rule that binds you, and those rules are stated with their source.
How they are made
Written by Lisa Gewald, founder of The Shared Standard, out of an MBA thesis on trust in cross-cultural teams graded 1.2, and a survey of employers in Singapore published in full.
Read in draft by a panel of first readers before release, and revised against what they found.
Formats and delivery
Paperback through Amazon, printed and shipped locally. PDF workbook direct from this site, delivered immediately, priced through a merchant of record so tax is handled wherever you are.
The workbooks are made to be written in. If you are buying to use rather than to read, buy the paperback.
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