by Caroline | Jul 5, 2016 | Company Culture, Culture, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation
No matter what kids’ show you grew up with, bullies are almost universally represented as maladapted kids from troubled homes who can’t show vulnerability and instead go around waging power struggles to make themselves feel less afraid in the world. Workplace bullies...
by Caroline | Jun 22, 2016 | Company Culture, HR Technology, HRCompliance, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Recruiting, HR, talent acquisition, culture, people management, all of the above have become the subject of so many interesting experiments in recent years. Zappos initiated holocracy and lost 30 percent of their employees. Companies like Workday and VMWare offer...
by Caroline | Jun 13, 2016 | Company Culture, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR
Would you enter a bike race without training for it? Or a 10K? Or a boxing match? No. No you wouldn’t. Because you know it would be painful, and embarrassing and you would fail and people wouldn’t say “Good try!” They would say “For heaven’s sake what were you doing...
by Caroline | Jun 8, 2016 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, teamwork
There are certain kinds of “Help! It’s an emergency!” calls I get regularly. One of them is “I really thought this person was going to be great. I thought I asked all the right questions. But after three months I can’t even look at them…..” It turns out the employee...
by Caroline | Jun 1, 2016 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Culture, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Leadership, Management
People struggle with change. It scares us and makes us feel unsettled. Some of us respond to that by getting mad. Some respond by saying “This isn’t fair” which essentially means, “This isn’t what I was expecting.” If you have to change something in your organization,...
by Caroline | May 19, 2016 | Compensation and Benefits, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, rewards
The Department of Labor released new rules yesterday which include significant changes to how employees are classified as exempt or non-exempt, which means you may have a bunch of employees who are suddenly going to be eligible for overtime beginning December 1st of...
