Elephants Before Unicorns, Caroline Stokes
Elephants Before Unicorns, Caroline Stokes
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Elephants Before Unicorns
Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies to Save Your Company

Author: Caroline Stokes, Darrell West

Narrator: Caroline Stokes

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/19/2019


Synopsis

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; and adapt to industry trends and workforce shifts to earn the best results.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathan

Enjoyable with lots of great points. Too many businesses want to find a unicorn - that high performer who is going to save them - but they ignore all the elephants in their organization. Stokes provides a good list of common elephants. Work through these and you'll be more attractive to unicorns. I f......more

Goodreads review by Claire

I like the focus of this book and there were some good practices and ideas. However, though the author at times explicitly directs people to try things like meditation, she at times seems to express skepticism and even contempt for it. I think she sees it as nothing more than a momentary stress-reli......more

Goodreads review by Cristie

The author's painstaking research and attention to detail is obvious in the writing of this book. The author laid out the information in a manner that allowed the reader to form their own opinion on what information to utilize.......more

Goodreads review by Ben

A great read......more