by Caroline | Apr 1, 2015 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR
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...
by Caroline | Mar 25, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting
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...
by Caroline | Mar 18, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
It’s spring break in Texas, and all along the coast, business owners and non profit executives may have one eye on their kids playing in the surf and the other on their smartphones, checking their inboxes. You know it’s true. One of the most challenging things for...
by Caroline | Mar 11, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Recruiting
It’s SXSW. The most brilliant minds in tech from all over the world will converge on Austin and this is where you can pick off the next Sergey Brin or Jony Ive and take your idea global. So what do you do? You throw a huge party with really expensive alcohol, of...
by Caroline | Mar 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
It doesn’t take long as a business owner or manager to figure out why they say it’s lonely at the top. The downside of all that autonomy and the fancy office and the big bucks (proverbially speaking) is that you have to think a lot harder about how you interact with...
by Caroline | Feb 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting
People put it different ways: If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. A players hire A players and B players hire C players. Hire people who know more than you and get out of their way. The point is, the rule of thumb when it comes to...
