Hiring With Intention
About the Course
Course Description
Hiring isn’t about speed; it’s about fit, timing, and clarity. This course helps leaders slow down just enough to hire smarter—aligning roles with business needs, company phase, and long-term impact. Leaders learn how to move past gut instinct and avoid costly hiring mistakes that show up six months later as turnover, burnout, or performance issues.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, leaders will be able to:
Assess whether a role truly needs to be filled—or redefined
Align hiring decisions with the current phase of the company or team
Identify competencies, not just credentials
Conduct interviews that reveal capability, values, and potential
Make confident, defensible hiring decisions that reduce turnover
Who This Course Is For
Leaders who hire but don’t have HR training
Small business owners scaling their teams
Managers tired of rehiring the same role
Who This Course Is Not For
Leaders looking for quick hiring hacks or shortcuts
Organizations outsourcing all hiring responsibility
Anyone unwilling to slow down to hire well
Course includes sample forms and documents.
Your Instructor
April Simpkins, PHR, SHRM-CP, CDP
April Simpkins is a workplace strategist, leadership consultant, and mental health advocate with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations build confident leaders and healthier workplace cultures. As the founder of Paragon Strategy Partners, she specializes in practical, human-centered leadership development for small and mid-sized businesses—bridging the gap between people management and real-world execution.
