
Elephants Before Unicorns
Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies to Save Your Company
Caroline Stokes(Author)
Entrepreneur Press
Published on 10. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-1-59918-658-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Irvine
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59918-658-0 (9781599186580)
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E-Book
09/2019
Simon + Schuster LLC
€14.83
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Persons
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.
Content
Foreword: Darrell West, VP Brookings and author of 'The Future of Work'
Prologue: Why I wrote this book
Chapter 1: Elephant: Pressure to Hire Too Quickly
Chapter 2: Elephant: Recruiters are Hated: What are you going to do about it?
Chapter 3: Elephant: Recruiters' Attitudes Suck
Chapter 4: Elephant: Bad Employer Brand
Chapter 5: Elephant: Impersonal Onboarding Process
Chapter 6: Elephant: Feedback Avoidance
Chapter 7: Elephant: Employee Disengagement
Chapter 8: Elephant: Non-Inclusive Workspace
Chapter 9: Elephant: Negotiation
Chapter 10: Elephant: Lack of Coaching
Chapter 11: Elephant: Action Addiction
Chapter 12: Elephant: Reskill Your Teams or Go Extinct
Chapter 13: Elephant: You Resist Emerging Work Trends
Chapter 14: Elephant: Fake Unicorn
Chapter 15: Be Like World Bank
Chapter 16: Where We're Heading
Prologue: Why I wrote this book
Chapter 1: Elephant: Pressure to Hire Too Quickly
Chapter 2: Elephant: Recruiters are Hated: What are you going to do about it?
Chapter 3: Elephant: Recruiters' Attitudes Suck
Chapter 4: Elephant: Bad Employer Brand
Chapter 5: Elephant: Impersonal Onboarding Process
Chapter 6: Elephant: Feedback Avoidance
Chapter 7: Elephant: Employee Disengagement
Chapter 8: Elephant: Non-Inclusive Workspace
Chapter 9: Elephant: Negotiation
Chapter 10: Elephant: Lack of Coaching
Chapter 11: Elephant: Action Addiction
Chapter 12: Elephant: Reskill Your Teams or Go Extinct
Chapter 13: Elephant: You Resist Emerging Work Trends
Chapter 14: Elephant: Fake Unicorn
Chapter 15: Be Like World Bank
Chapter 16: Where We're Heading