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Book SynopsisHow 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.
Table of ContentsForeword: 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
