by Caroline | Jul 3, 2013 | Telecommuting, company culture, management
Everybody’s focused on recruiting these days. Where do we find talented workers? How do we get them to sign on? Good, skilled people are frankly hard to find. But recruiting is a whole process that can easily be mangled at every step. So since we’ve been through this...
by Caroline | Jun 26, 2013 | Company Culture, rewards, Training
Last week I attended the annual international SHRM Conference in beautiful Chicago. The keynote speakers were an amazing lineup including Fareed Zakaria, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Blake Mycoskie of Tom’s Shoes, Daniel Pink and Gabby Gifford. I was on some kind of...
by Caroline | Jun 19, 2013 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, rewards
Change is hard. Personal change is tough enough. But what about changing the operating style of an organization? Add to that the emotional and fiscal drama of changing the way you pay employees and you’re looking at a potential firestorm. We’re talking, of course,...
by Caroline | Jun 12, 2013 | Compensation and Benefits, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, rewards
These days, it’s considered very cool to be a “transparent” organization that shares with employees its earnings, costs, goals…. But just how transparent do you want to be? A lot of our clients wrestle with the idea of making salaries transparent:...
by Caroline | Jun 5, 2013 | Company Culture, Hiring, rewards, teamwork
Last week I talked about hiring diversity and how people have a tendency to turn their organizations into the equivalent of a high school clique where everybody in the company is a jock, or fashionista, or one of those kids who hangs out on the hill, smoking....
