by Caroline | Aug 5, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, Non profit HR
Everybody makes mistakes. But when you’re a small business owner, sometimes the mistakes seem so much BIGGER than other kinds of mistakes. There are ways in which small business owners try to be everything to everybody….probably because that’s how you feel when you’re...
by Caroline | Jul 29, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, rewards, Training
We’ve been in a weird phase in employee recruitment and retention the last decade. No matter what size your company, everybody who wants to hire top talent feels like they need to lure people in with margarita machines, giant beanbags and having a masseuse come in...
by Caroline | Jul 15, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting
In the passionate pursuit to be authentic and create an awesome culture, people keep wanting to do away with really crucial stuff, like job application forms. They don’t want their first interaction with someone to be filling out a bunch of boxes. They just want to...
by Caroline | Jul 1, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, Non profit HR
I’ve been on a rant lately, about the trendy topic of managers being extraneous. If I had to guess where this perennial nonsense came from, I’d have to say it comes from entrepreneurs who can’t really deal with the fact that their cultures have to change as their...
by Caroline | Jun 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork
About the same time Abraham Maslow was introducing his hierarchy of needs, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom created another graduated triangle known as Bloom’s taxonomy. Bloom’s taxonomy looked at higher and higher levels of intellectual functioning, starting...
by Caroline | Jun 10, 2015 | Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR
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...
