EQ-Based Hiring Solutions For High-Impact Teams.

Stop Adding Bodies. Start Multiplying Your Leadership.

Balance The Equation

HireEQ^TM is the only hiring process designed to increase your emotional intelligence as a leader while you hire.

It just happens to also be an evidence-based way to identify your next A Player, saving you the pain and expense of hiring the wrong person.

Hire better people to build your team. Use a better process to build yourself. Book your free demo today.

Dramatically Improve Hiring

Grow Your EQ

No Added Training Cost

Tasks requiring collaboration have grown by 50% over 20 years. Most of what we value in the modern economy is produced through teamwork. The increased odds of conflict that result place new strains on both hiring and leadership. Still, companies overpay to dull the urgency of open roles while underinvesting in training.

By identifying candidates with the right EQ, we strengthen teams. By reinventing the hiring process to grow your EQ as you hire, we develop leaders. Turnover represents risk for most. Our clients use it as an opportunity for growth.

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly is HireEQ?

HireEQ integrates benchmarks, assessments and expert coaching to place team culture at the forefront of hiring.

It makes assessing culture as fast and tangible as assessing skills. Because skills are easy to measure, they are often prioritized over other factors, leading to poor hires.

Building tools to measure culture fit is also a means of developing emotional intelligence in the leader. Leaders without EQ face well defined limitations, yet companies underinvest in EQ training while overspending on recruiting.

EQ helps leaders find the right person for their team and develop their leadership skills without the expense of training.
How would you explain HireEQ to a 5 year old?

It’s a special way of choosing who gets to work at a company. The boss is already good at knowing which person will be the best at doing work. This helps the boss see what people’s special skills are, like being friendly, helping others without being asked, and not getting upset really easy.

It also helps the boss become an even better boss by teaching them special skills that bosses need but don’t always have time to learn because they have so much to do.
What will HireEQ do for me that I can’t already do on my own?

First and foremost, it prevents the wrong person from joining your team. No leader's gut is fine-tuned enough to do this. Plus, no leader's brain can ignore the stress of filling a vacancy while trying to keep up.

In the same way that you notice the car you want to buy everywhere you look when considering it, your brain uses sophisticated mechanisms to force choices. Getting rid of the strain caused by weighing options is all it cares about. When hiring, a single skill that matters to you can make the wrong candidate look great, while blocking out a better fit that lacks this one skill.

The second point is, when you hire on your own, you can't develop your EQ. There are specific stressors and biases that show up when we evaluate other people. Hiring creates an opportunity to explore them. However, you need an expert trained to spot them in order to reveal them to you. We use them to teach you amazing things about yourself that are difficult to learn any other way.
How do you ensure this works?

We design three specific benchmarks for you. One for each of: communication style, fit with the team, and trust-building. The reports generated allow for direct comparisons between candidates, removing any bias.

Following the exact same process with each candidate eliminates randomness - referred to as noise - that can affect decisions as much as bias. It's like sanitizing an operating room before surgery. Nothing gets in that may contaminate your decision.
What do I need to do to ensure this works?
What can I compare HireEQ against for context?

The closest comparison would be traditional recruiters, but there is a significant difference. Few have any more tools to assess fit than you do. Speed is their value proposition. They have the time to reach out to candidates that you lack.

Sourcing candidates isn't the problem though. The selection process determines whether you get a bad apple. Recruiting firms don't pay to train their people on talent assessment. They pay for sales training. Who do you want as your last line of defence? Someone trained to sell to you? Or someone trained to recognize the damage the wrong candidate can cause - even if it means pushing you to keep the position open until the right candidate emerges?
When can I expect to see results?

In terms of a better hiring experience, immediately. Our custom tools, interview questions, and our presence in the room will help you feel more prepared. How long it takes to fill the role is partially determined by the market. However, we fill roles just as quickly as traditional recruiters, even with the extra rigor.

In terms of building your EQ, that's up to you. It's a muscle. Input yields results. We'll ensure you get the right sets and reps though.
What new problems might using HireEQ create for me?

If there are cracks in your team, our process will expose them. We build benchmarks tailored to your culture. Any tension will be revealed, since we need to know if the candidate can handle it. It's how we make sure they're a proper fit.

To be clear, this rarely impacts the hire itself. Your problems are ones that the ideal candidate would like to solve, but is unable to do so in their current position. We tell clients all the time to "sell their flaws" because someone somewhere is geeking out over them.

The 'problem' is - we're the messenger that just gave you bad news. Though positive in the long run, hiring a firm to fill a role only to have them tell you there's an issue on the team? It's like getting an oil change and then being told you need to replace your entire transmission. It sucks, which is why we're so upfront about the potential of it happening.
Why should I prioritize this over everything else I currently have on the go?

An open role always jumps to the top of a leader’s priorities. This was built to take advantage of that. Filling the role is urgent. Developing yourself is important. When you work with us, your own EQ is put on the same level as the fire you need to extinguish. You're balancing urgent and important without having to choose.

In the decade plus we've been doing this, the biggest barrier we see to leaders building their EQ has been getting off the treadmill long enough to get the training. We built this for that reason.

Still have questions? Book a free demo. From hiring strategies to your own self-development, or anything in-between, we are here to help.

Never Look At Hiring The Same Way Again.

HireEQ^TM is unlike anything you've seen. Maybe that’s because it fixes problems you don't realize you have. Actually, that's not true. You know you have them. You've just never connected them. Which is why you're stuck playing whack-a-mole trying to tackle each on it’s own.

We took 10 years of coaching leaders to grow their EQ and applied it to our combined 50 years of recruitment experience. In doing so, we built the only tool that fixes all three problems at once.

Problem #1: Hiring

The traditional hiring process is broken. Time constraints, the pressure to fill positions, and the stress of the process itself make hiring biased and inaccurate.

Positions open without warning, making no two hiring processes the same. Something as seemingly irrelevant as the time of day leaders conduct interviews affects their perceptions of candidates. In a controlled study, 80% rated identical candidates differently in morning interviews than they did in the afternoon.

Problem #2: Leadership Development

Many leaders are plateauing. The modern knowledge-based economy requires leaders to be skilled at navigating change, coping with pressure, and making unpopular decisions.

Most leaders know their industry inside and out. They've developed solid technical skills. These are no longer the things that distinguish them from their peers. Modern leaders need mental models that allow them to handle stress, build trust with stakeholders, and make sound business decisions aligned with their company's goals and values.

The Missing Link

Emotional intelligence solves both problems. It improves self-awareness, empathy and interpersonal skills. Each one is essential when navigating the complexity of more senior roles. They just happen to also make leaders better at hiring.

An emotionally intelligent leader is more aware of and honest about their own limitations. They know exactly what skills to hire as a result. Their empathy gets deeper responses from interviewees, which leads to better insights. It's easier for them to be reflective, eliminating impulsive hiring decisions.

Which brings us to problem #3…

According to Harvard Business Review, only 12% of companies prioritize emotional intelligence training, seeing it as time-intensive and expensive. That doesn't stop them from overspending on recruiters and wasting time hiring poorly.

Companies don't hesitate to spend 20% or more of a candidate's base salary on recruitment fees to make the short-term pain of hiring go away. Why are so many willing to invest so poorly to find new people, while investing so little in developing the ones they already rely on?

We got tired of asking that question. So we came up with THE answer. HireEQ^TM is the first ever hiring process that develops a leader's emotional intelligence as they hire. You'll eliminate costly hiring mistakes. You'll develop critical leadership skills. All without needing budget approval for training.

It is the smartest, most effective way to hire. You've worked hard. You deserve the skills of a modern leader. Your team works hard. They deserve a new teammate - not another coworker. Let's make both happen. Book a demo today.

Why Leaders need emotional intelligence.

Some athletes depend on power. Others rely on speed. Some need strength. For others it's endurance. Decathletes need all of the above. A leader's EQ is just as multifaceted. Leadership begins to fail when any aspect of self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, or accountability is removed. And that’s the problem.

Leaders train as specialists for years, honing their skills and becoming experts in their field. Eventually, they're promoted into a position requiring muscles they've never had to use.

According to the International Journal of Selection and Assessment, two thirds of all leaders derail at some point in their career. Derailment usually happens within months of transitioning into a more senior role, and eight of the nine associated behaviours are all related to low-EQ.

Here are just a few barriers high-EQ leaders regularly overcome compared to lower-EQ colleagues:

Building & Maintaining Stakeholder Relationships
Handling High-Stakes Situations Under Pressure
Adapting To & Leading Through Change
Making Difficult & Unpopular Decisions

Strategic Thinking & Complex Decision-Making
Inspiring & Motivating Others Toward common Goals
Navigating Complex Political Situations
Fostering A Positive, Performance-Based Work Culture

Don't wait until you’re facing a complex leadership challenge before developing the EQ necessary to succeed. Particularly when a vacancy on your team presents an opportunity to provide safe and effective training. Book a demo. We'll help you grow as your team grows.

Are you a designated professional? Every hour you spend with us working on your hire earns you one hour of Verified Professional Development. We track and calculate your hours automatically and issue you a certificate. No more last minute webinars just to get your hours in.

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Why Traditional Hiring Is Broken

Hiring, especially for senior positions, is rarely planned. A position opens and must be filled. Assessing culture fit can be challenging and subjective. It's also time-consuming. Skills can be measured quickly and easily. Skill therefore becomes the deciding factor far more than it should.

C Players turn teams toxic. Their capability convinces them they’re right. Their lack of vulnerability makes it impossible for others to offer feedback when they're not.

Hiring without a culture lens is expensive. Increased turnover, decreased productivity, and low employee morale are just a few of the costs. A meta study combining decades of research revealed the most common flaws in the traditional hiring process, and the reasons companies struggle to abandon them:

An Unstructured Process

Inconsistency in the hiring process leads to random hiring decisions, which result in higher turnover and finger-pointing when the hire proves to be a mistake. The most common reasons processes remain random are:

1) Hiring is still largely seen as a subjective process.

2) Leaders want autonomy over how they hire.

3) The fact that needs arise without warning makes standardizing the process challenging.
Lack Of Soft-Skill Assessment
Relying Too Heavily On Resumes

Hiring processes are hampered by unconscious bias more than any other factor. Nothing brings that bias forward more than a resume. We've seen brilliant candidates vilified for having a single typo on their resume. Resumes remain an ineffective first screen because:

1) Few leaders are aware of the impact of bias on hiring.

2) There is increased speed in scanning resumes (the average one gets 11 seconds), and companies need an efficient method of screening applicants.

3) They lack the resources to use any other method.
Limited Team Involvement

Trust is everything. When teams are left out of the discussion regarding a new hire, it signals that the leader doesn't trust them. This leads to low morale and poor collaboration. The most common reasons for not involving the team are:

1) The belief that hiring is exclusively a management function.

2) The worry that a lack of consensus across too many people will slow the process.

3) Inability to coordinate the schedules of several people.

Lack of Transparency
Managers Are Not Trained How to Hire

Hiring happens infrequently, causing most training and development budgets to be allocated to vocational training. Inexperience thus leads to mistakes. This remains an issue due to:

1) The belief that hiring managers should know what they're looking for given their domain expertise.

2) Hiring is seen by executives as something “anyone can do”.

3) Lack of budget to invest in training for hiring managers given inconsistent hiring needs.
A Lack Of Pre-Hire Assessments
Subjective Assessment of Culture Fit

The stakes of hiring poorly only increase as your team grows. As you add people, the connections you need to foster between them grow exponentially. A 3-person team holds 3 connections. A 10-person team has 45.

Sure, a vacant role drives your need. But protecting the engagement of your current team must be your focus. What's the likelihood of that happening without a validated way of measuring soft skills?

Who to hire is one of the most important decisions a manager will make. Yet our analytics suggest they fail to choose the right candidate for the job 82% of the time.”

- Gallup: Why Great Managers Are So Rare.

Stop struggling with bias and noise during the hiring process, leading to hurt feelings and poor hires.

Schedule a demo. Transform your hiring process with our emotionally intelligent solution. We’ll add evidence to intangibles and eliminate unconscious biases from the entire process. We’ll make your team feel heard, creating culture benchmarks using their input. We’ll advise you with training and guidance throughout. Put an end to missed opportunities and ineffective hires. Adopt a more efficient and far more intelligent approach.

How It Works:

We'll take you from haphazard hiring to precision placement without the chaos, frustration and anxiety of going it alone. Here’s how:

Step 1: Benchmarking:

Benchmarks are a measure of best performance for a process or outcome. We work with you to build three of them: Technical, Team and Trust.

Technical: The requirements and expectations of the role. By assessing the constraints your new hire will need to work under, we can compare their experience with the requirements you actually have.

Team: Social norms of the group. In the same manner that drivers unconsciously keep up with traffic on the road, each team has a shared set of behaviors. We quantify these, resulting in interview questions that can't be gamed.

Trust: Vulnerability met with accountability. One person exposes themselves to possible risk, the other prevents it. Trust builds with each cycle. Cognitive Colors are assessed for every stakeholder the role supports. This defines the "vulnerability" the new person needs to be accountable to.

How This Develops Leader EQ:

Self-Awareness
Empathy
Self-Regulation

Step 2: Interviewing & Assessing:

Although benchmarking simplifies and improves the interviewing and assessment stage, it is here where hiring succeeds or fails. We ensure the latter thanks to three things: Cognition, Customization, and Coaching.

Cognition: Learning the applicant's Cognitive Colours as well as your own. By doing this, you can ask better questions, make them feel more comfortable, and dig deeper than you would normally.

Customization: Custom benchmarks create custom interview questions. The questions for each candidate will differ slightly based on their assessment responses, ensuring the most accurate and positive experience.

Coaching: With our core program, we are with you during every interview. Sometimes, we'll ask questions, sometimes, you'll ask and we'll observe. It will not only make you better at hiring, it will make you better overall.

How This Fixes Hiring:

Better Interviews
Tailored Fit For Both

We're often asked, "Are candidates willing to go through all this?". You've been a candidate. Wouldn't it be worth investing time in a process to avoid something that isn't a match? Our candidates appreciate this as much as our clients.

In fact, one of our biggest sources of new clients are candidates who are so grateful we prevented them from making the wrong move that they ask us to audit their current company's hiring process.
Impartial Expertise

How This Develops Leader EQ:

Active Listening
Feedback
Psychological Safety

The Psychological Safety of a team refers to the sense that the team is a safe place for people to ask questions and own their mistakes. Google found it to be THE most significant factor in whether a team is successful. It is essential for every leader to know how to build it. It is most vulnerable when someone feels judged. We use the interview to help you learn how to evaluate people without them feeling judged. This skill will pay dividends for years.

Step 3: Decision-Making:

'Decide' comes from the Latin words 'de' which means 'off' and 'cide' which means 'kill'. It is the act of 'killing off' potential consequences. It results in hiring the 'least problematic' applicant. By contrast, choice means 'operating from a place of preference'. Choice requires three things: Intention, Independence, and being Informed.

Intention: Staying true to what you set out to do. Leaders don't recruit in a vacuum. Things continue to happen around them. Many hire simply to get the process over with, causing problems. We keep you focused on hiring the best, not the best available.

Independence: Operating free of coercion. Decision time brings competing opinions. Past histories and power dynamics often cause people to follow others' wishes. Our selection process is driven by logic, not influence, and ensures all voices are heard.

Informed: Studying all options, and the risks and benefits of each. In contrast to a decision, a choice offers options. Using our proprietary Disconfirmation Process, all options are considered. Deliberations often include comparing two candidates, deciding whether to go back to market, or restructuring the team to eliminate hiring altogether rather than forcing a poor fit.

How This Fixes Hiring:

Increased Accuracy
Increased Buy-In

How your team welcomes the new hire is key to a successful process. Those who were not on board, mostly because they raised questions they felt weren't taken seriously, may struggle to support the new hire. This has nothing to do with the person hired. Their presence simply serves as a reminder to your person that their voice was not heard. People don't really want you to hire 'their choice'. But they do wish to have their opinions about the hiring process validated. We make sure it happens.
Remove Confirmation Bias

In the FAQs, we explained that the brain focuses on making quick decisions, not accurate ones. This is because deciding between two very different things takes energy away from other things it deems more essential. As a result, it speeds up the process by confirming what you already believe. We offer frameworks that reduce decision-making strain. Additionally, we are able to recognize the biases that reside within your Cognitive Colour, and we will point them out if they begin to influence your decision.

How This Develops Leader EQ:

Impulse Control
Perspective Taking
Accountability

The APA defines accountability as someone's willingness to answer for their choices. As career recruiters, we cannot tell you how many times we have heard leaders say, usually in a semi-joking manner, "If it doesn't work out, we can always fire them." We don't just help you make your decision, we help you own it. From onboarding, to training, to handling any issue that may arise, we use your decision to set the stage for the leadership that must follow.

Products & Pricing:

Tired of having your entire recruitment fee based exclusively on the successful candidate’s salary instead of the services you actually use? We hear you. With HireEQ^TM you only pay for what you need.

Start with Screening to limit the time you spend with those who are not a fit. Add Selection to have a CultureSmith expert join you in every interview. Need to outsource the entire search? Add a Sourcing package for a fraction of what traditional recruiters charge.

Screening Only

Ideal for firms with an already robust hiring process and clear hiring requirements, yet who want to preserve their team dynamic when they hire.

Steps:

1) You will source and pre-screen your own candidates.

2) You will then send them a link to complete the assessments we will design for you.

3) We prepare reports that measure their Cognitive Colours and fit with your team norms, and generate custom interview questions for both.

4) You get these in easy-to-understand templates that make interviewing simpler than you ever imagined.

Total investment is $1,125 per role or unlimited hires for 12 months for $9,995 annually ($832 per month) or $925.00 monthly.

Add Selection

Designed for leaders whose hiring requirements are straightforward, but who are worried about screening and selecting the right people. This uncertainty usually leads them to pay a recruiter. However, recruiters do not possess any more tools or means than they do for assessing fit.

Steps:

1) All steps from Screening retained.

2) Once candidates are selected, CultureSmith experts attend all in-person interviews.

2) Once interviews are completed, the expert facilitates decision-making sessions. As well as ensuring the right candidate is hired, this acts as the leader's primary EQ workshop.

4) Leaders are given additional online lessons to expand on the EQ topics raised. Runner-up applicants get free EQ coaching to improve their next interview.

Total investment: $5995 per role (includes screening fee) or unlimited hires for 12 months for $39,950 annually ($3,330 per month) or $4,995 monthly.

Add Sourcing

Leaders who know they need to get their role right, who want to ensure continuity, and want to widen the candidate funnel, outsource the entire search process to us.

Steps:

1) All Screening and Selection steps are retained.

2) You can advertise the role through your channels with applicants directed to us for screening to enhance your recruitment brand.

3) CultureSmith will run additional ads, mine our existing network for referrals, and 'headhunt' candidates with the desired skills.

4) The CultureSmith team manages the entire candidate experience, including offer presentation and feedback to unsuccessful candidates.

5% of the base salary of the successful candidate on top of Selection Package ($5,995). Those on an annual Selection plan will only pay this 5% fee - and will only pay it on roles CultureSmith sources applicants for.

Screening services are provided for roles at all levels. We offer Selection and Sourcing services for roles with salaries starting at $90,000 and above.

Recruiting at this level carries a hard cost of $4,500, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. Using this as a benchmark, you can compare hiring on your own vs HireEQ. The toggle lets you compare us with traditional recruiters on fully outsourced hires.

Source Your Own Applicants

Agency Sourced Candidates

	Do It Yourself	HireEQ	Traditional Recruiter
Cost	$ 4,500 $ N/A	$ 5,995 $ 10,495	$ N/A $ 18,000
Assessments & Reports
Behaviour / Personality	N/A
Team Fit	N/A
Culture Fit	N/A
Interview Support
Customized Interview Questions For Each Candidate	N/A
Interview Rating Tool	N/A
Joined By Expert In All Interviews	N/A
Extras
Replacement Guarantee	N/A
Develop Leader EQ	N/A
Trust-Based Onboarding	N/A
Earn Verified PD Hours	N/A
Pay For Only What You Need	N/A
Save With Subscription Option	N/A

Pricing FAQs:

If your program is better than traditional recruiters, why are you less expensive?

It's because we're better that we're ABLE to be less expensive. Traditional recruiting is a numbers game. We know. We played it from the late 90's right up until we launched CultureSmith in 2014. You need to make your margin on the placements you make to make up for the effort lost on the ones you don't.

Every person gets value from our process. Especially the candidates you don't end up hiring. For more on that, see CareerSmith at the bottom of this page. For now, know that our ability to offer them more than a promise to "keep their resume on file", adds tangible goodwill to our business that allows us to keep our pricing where it is.
If I start with a lower tier package, can I upgrade at any point during the hire?
If I start with a higher tier package, can I downgrade at any point during the hire?
When does it make sense to go with your subscription offering?
For companies above 200 employees, the Screening only service is almost a no-brainer.

Nationally, turnover rates rate between 15-20%. At even 10% turnover, that’s 20 hires per year, not factoring in growth. It only takes hiring poorly on one of them to cost you far more than the $9,995 annual price.

For the Selection Package, two types of clients tend to purchase it.
- The first is any company going through a growth spurt, with enough roles above $90K that they’d spend the annual cost on one-off hires within weeks.
- The second are firms with 7-12 emerging leaders. They see this as an excellent opportunity to give them valuable training in a cost effective manner.
What if I’ve already engaged another recruiter? Can I use you at the same time?
Are there any hidden fees in your service?

Absolutely not. However, most clients do end spending beyond the initial hire, asking us for EQ training for their broader team, to facilitate executive retreats, or to offer more intensive coaching to their senior leaders.

This has also factored into our pricing. You could receive your hire and an extensive amount of coaching or consulting for the cost of a single placement through a traditional recruiter.

Interested in coaching, consulting, or training to go along with your hiring plans? Book a demo and we'll customize a full solution for you.

Many leaders tell us the most challenging part of hiring is not knowing what to ask or how to act in an interview. For them we created TruHire, designed to eliminate much of the guesswork.

Before The Interview:

Interview candidates based on their Cognitive Colour and how it aligns with your own.

Using this approach helps you formulate questions in a more empathetic way, leading to more detailed responses. This is also a great way to practice general communication and learn the Colours system faster.

During The Interview:

Hire Success = Custom Questions + Standardized Rankings. Interview questions appear on the screen, along with what to listen for. Interviewers rank applicants' responses using the same scale. Confidentiality protects interviewers from biasing one another. Decision-making begins with everyone's aggregated rankings, providing objective data to work from.

Additionally, you can offer applicants feedback on how to improve, which we use to create coaching plans for those who opt to join CareerSmith.

After The Interview:

Leadership EQ lessons learned during an interview are supported by additional lessons and activities provided in scheduled prompts.

70% of what you learn every day is lost in your subconscious within 24 hours. Research has shown that the right drip of information can disrupt this "forgetting curve".

Sign up for a free demo. As a bonus, you'll receive your LeadershipEQ profile, including your Cognitive Colour and Emotional Blindspots, just for booking.

One More Thing…

Emotional ROI

CultureSmith’s mission is to turn work into a source of emotional well-being for all people.

It is part of our mission to ensure that every candidate who goes through the process receives some return on their investment of time and emotion - especially those who are not hired.

CareerSmith

You help make this possible when you use HireEQ^TM. The feedback you provide is used to help candidates improve their communication and EQ skills.

There is a lack of feedback in many organizations, and this hiring process can offer a rare opportunity for growth for these candidates. In the event we do end up working together, please accept our thanks in advance for helping us achieve this meaningful part of our mission.

EQ-Based Hiring Solutions For High-Impact Teams.

Stop Adding Bodies. Start Multiplying Your Leadership.

Balance The Equation

Dramatically Improve Hiring

Grow Your EQ

No Added Training Cost

By identifying candidates with the right EQ, we strengthen teams. By reinventing the hiring process to grow your EQ as you hire, we develop leaders. Turnover represents risk for most. Our clients use it as an opportunity for growth.

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly is HireEQ?

How would you explain HireEQ to a 5 year old?

What will HireEQ do for me that I can’t already do on my own?

How do you ensure this works?

What do I need to do to ensure this works?

What can I compare HireEQ against for context?

When can I expect to see results?

What new problems might using HireEQ create for me?

Why should I prioritize this over everything else I currently have on the go?

Still have questions? Book a free demo. From hiring strategies to your own self-development, or anything in-between, we are here to help.

Never Look At Hiring The Same Way Again.

HireEQTM is unlike anything you've seen. Maybe that’s because it fixes problems you don't realize you have. Actually, that's not true. You know you have them. You've just never connected them. Which is why you're stuck playing whack-a-mole trying to tackle each on it’s own.

We took 10 years of coaching leaders to grow their EQ and applied it to our combined 50 years of recruitment experience. In doing so, we built the only tool that fixes all three problems at once.

Problem #1: Hiring

The traditional hiring process is broken. Time constraints, the pressure to fill positions, and the stress of the process itself make hiring biased and inaccurate.

Problem #2: Leadership Development

Many leaders are plateauing. The modern knowledge-based economy requires leaders to be skilled at navigating change, coping with pressure, and making unpopular decisions.

The Missing Link

Emotional intelligence solves both problems. It improves self-awareness, empathy and interpersonal skills. Each one is essential when navigating the complexity of more senior roles. They just happen to also make leaders better at hiring.

Which brings us to problem #3…

According to Harvard Business Review, only 12% of companies prioritize emotional intelligence training, seeing it as time-intensive and expensive. That doesn't stop them from overspending on recruiters and wasting time hiring poorly.

Companies don't hesitate to spend 20% or more of a candidate's base salary on recruitment fees to make the short-term pain of hiring go away. Why are so many willing to invest so poorly to find new people, while investing so little in developing the ones they already rely on?

It is the smartest, most effective way to hire. You've worked hard. You deserve the skills of a modern leader. Your team works hard. They deserve a new teammate - not another coworker. Let's make both happen. Book a demo today.

Why Leaders need emotional intelligence.

Leaders train as specialists for years, honing their skills and becoming experts in their field. Eventually, they're promoted into a position requiring muscles they've never had to use.

According to the International Journal of Selection and Assessment, two thirds of all leaders derail at some point in their career. Derailment usually happens within months of transitioning into a more senior role, and eight of the nine associated behaviours are all related to low-EQ.

Here are just a few barriers high-EQ leaders regularly overcome compared to lower-EQ colleagues:

Building & Maintaining Stakeholder Relationships

Handling High-Stakes Situations Under Pressure

Adapting To & Leading Through Change

Making Difficult & Unpopular Decisions

Strategic Thinking & Complex Decision-Making

Inspiring & Motivating Others Toward common Goals

Navigating Complex Political Situations

Fostering A Positive, Performance-Based Work Culture

Don't wait until you’re facing a complex leadership challenge before developing the EQ necessary to succeed. Particularly when a vacancy on your team presents an opportunity to provide safe and effective training. Book a demo. We'll help you grow as your team grows.

Are you a designated professional? Every hour you spend with us working on your hire earns you one hour of Verified Professional Development. We track and calculate your hours automatically and issue you a certificate. No more last minute webinars just to get your hours in.

Why Traditional Hiring Is Broken

Hiring, especially for senior positions, is rarely planned. A position opens and must be filled. Assessing culture fit can be challenging and subjective. It's also time-consuming. Skills can be measured quickly and easily. Skill therefore becomes the deciding factor far more than it should.

C Players turn teams toxic. Their capability convinces them they’re right. Their lack of vulnerability makes it impossible for others to offer feedback when they're not.

An Unstructured Process

Lack Of Soft-Skill Assessment

Relying Too Heavily On Resumes

Limited Team Involvement

Lack of Transparency

Managers Are Not Trained How to Hire

A Lack Of Pre-Hire Assessments

Subjective Assessment of Culture Fit

The stakes of hiring poorly only increase as your team grows. As you add people, the connections you need to foster between them grow exponentially. A 3-person team holds 3 connections. A 10-person team has 45.

Sure, a vacant role drives your need. But protecting the engagement of your current team must be your focus. What's the likelihood of that happening without a validated way of measuring soft skills?

Who to hire is one of the most important decisions a manager will make. Yet our analytics suggest they fail to choose the right candidate for the job 82% of the time.”

- Gallup: Why Great Managers Are So Rare.

Stop struggling with bias and noise during the hiring process, leading to hurt feelings and poor hires.

How It Works:

We'll take you from haphazard hiring to precision placement without the chaos, frustration and anxiety of going it alone. Here’s how:

Step 1: Benchmarking:

Benchmarks are a measure of best performance for a process or outcome. We work with you to build three of them: Technical, Team and Trust.

How This Fixes Hiring:

Eliminates Ambiguity

Builds Trust

Increases Commitment

How This Develops Leader EQ:

Self-Awareness

Empathy

Self-Regulation

Step 2: Interviewing & Assessing:

Although benchmarking simplifies and improves the interviewing and assessment stage, it is here where hiring succeeds or fails. We ensure the latter thanks to three things: Cognition, Customization, and Coaching.

How This Fixes Hiring:

Better Interviews

Tailored Fit For Both

Impartial Expertise

How This Develops Leader EQ:

HireEQ^TM is unlike anything you've seen. Maybe that’s because it fixes problems you don't realize you have. Actually, that's not true. You know you have them. You've just never connected them. Which is why you're stuck playing whack-a-mole trying to tackle each on it’s own.

Tired of having your entire recruitment fee based exclusively on the successful candidate’s salary instead of the services you actually use? We hear you. With HireEQ^TM you only pay for what you need.