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It’s June! Where’s Your Intern?
It’s June! The wonderful month when all your employees are trying to go on vacation or get married and you need an intern to fill in the holes. Unfortunately, if you are just now thinking about this, you may have missed the boat. A lot of companies start thinking...
Time to Revamp Your Employee Communication Strategy?
I read this fun fact lately in the Society for Human Resources Management’s magazine: Nine percent of HR managers believe that the employees in the companies they work for know what their benefits are. Nine percent! That means 91 percent of employees don’t understand...
Job Descriptions Are A Crucial HR Building Block
Almost everybody underestimates the importance of a job description. Most people, from what I can gather, tend to think of it like filling out a template. “We need a __________ with _________years experience who can __________. The ideal candidate will have...
Austin City Council Gaffe: Check Your Baggage at the Door
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....
Hiring? Make Sure You Assess the Soft Skills Too.
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...
How to Celebrate National Small Business Week
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...
Don’t Blow Off Unemployment Insurance Tax
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...
Why May Be the Best Management Tool You Have
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...
MYOB Means Different Things with BYOD
The blurry controversy over public vs. private in the workplace just keeps growing. There are questions like whether your employees can rag about you on Facebook, and whether you can root around in candidates’ social media to find people who have the inside dirt on...
Culture Tip 4: Don’t Handle Mistakes Like Crimes
What happens when somebody makes a mistake at your organization? I don’t mean forgetting to turn off the lights when they leave the room, I mean a big mistake like accidentally putting the wrong information in a project for a new client or hiring someone it isn’t...
Beware the Slippery Slope of Ethical Compromise
When I was in college, I worked at a women’s clothing boutique. One of the girls I worked with also had a part-time job at the shoe store down the street and offered everyone at the clothing boutique her employee discount from the shoe store. We were thrilled, until...
Hiring? Don’t Waste That Referral Call
Hiring is scary for a lot of reasons. First of all, most companies tend to hire at the 11th hour, when they desperately need someone, so they're not feeling particularly strategic. Plus, it's a hairy process of recruiting, culling through resumes, worrying about...
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