by Caroline | May 20, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
So, that was embarrassing. Austin Assistant City Manager Anthony Snipes has been suspended after hiring Jonathan K. Allen, former city manager for Lauderdale Lakes, Florida to come and speak to the Austin city staff about how to interact with female elected officials....
by Caroline | May 13, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, teamwork
The client called me frantic. He had hired an executive assistant three weeks before and now he was on a deadline with a project and it turned out his executive assistant didn’t know how to use PowerPoint. “Did you ask the employee whether he knew PowerPoint when you...
by Caroline | May 6, 2015 | Management
It’s National Small Business Week, which has me thinking about my business journey and all that I’ve learned over the past decade of running ValentineHR. One of the most important lessons has been that everyone—but especially small business owners—needs a support...
by Caroline | Apr 29, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
Okay, you know all those annoying, gnat-like parts of life that you tend to ignore when you’re trying to run a small business? Little fees and seemingly insignificant regulations and accidental slides into overtime and things that just don’t seem like a big enough...
by Caroline | Apr 22, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
Toyota has the five Whys. Other organizations have seven or three. The point of the whys, however many you use, is to understand the root cause of a thing. For example: We’re not going to make our numbers this quarter. Why? Because we’ve been down two sales people for...
