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Elephants Before Unicorns: Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies to Save Your Company - Paperback

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by Caroline Stokes (Author), Darrell West (Foreword by)

How do you hire, onboard, and retain a great team?

You start by viewing your company through the EQ lens to discover your organizational obstacles-the elephants standing in the way of your company's success.

Headhunter and executive coach Caroline Stokes delivers a blend of recruiting and emotional intelligence strategies essential to helping you identify and tackle your elephants and acquire and retain key hires-those unicorns-that will help your company stand out, stay resilient, and drive growth.

Each chapter walks you through an organizational obstacle, gives you easy-to-implement advice, unpacks a key emotional intelligence factor, and offers questions for reflection so you can unlock your team's ability to hire the best candidates for the job. You'll also learn how to:

  • Take a human-centric approach to your recruiting process
  • Create an onboarding process that fits your company culture
  • Deliver honest feedback with emotional intelligence and empathy
  • Sharpen your negotiating skills so you can focus on what matters most to key hires
  • Break your team's addiction to busy and reclaim your creativity
  • Find the root cause of your fake unicorns

Plus, get an inside look at how industry leaders are setting the pace for diversity, inclusion, and support to help you navigate today's workplace landscape.

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How do you hire, onboard, and retain a great team?

Driven entrepreneurs seem to always be in search of their "unicorn" team--that match made in heaven that opens the door to freedom and endless possibility. Unfortunately, huge obstacles--the "elephants"--tend to get in the way.

Bringing her expertise from HR to EQ, Caroline Stokes offers real-world solutions to the people management problems business owners like you face right now. Dive into this book and learn how to:

  • Hire the right people by taking your time
  • Build an onboarding process that fits your company culture and makes new hires feel welcome
  • Keep employees happy, healthy, engaged, and educated so they always perform their best
  • Think smart before acting so strategies are their most effective
  • Adapt to industry trends and workforce shifts to earn the best results

    Author Biography

    Caroline Stokes is a human capital entrepreneur helping everyone move forward in the 4th industrial revolution. She founded FORWARD executive headhunting and executive coaching company designed for global innovation leaders and hosts The Emotionally Intelligent Recruiter podcast and learning platform to help recruiters evolve in the AI age.

    Number of Pages: 180
    Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
    Publication Date: September 24, 2019
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