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 | May 20, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
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....
by Caroline | May 13, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, teamwork
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...
by Caroline | Apr 22, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
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...
by Caroline | Apr 8, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
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...
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...
