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 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 | Feb 10, 2016 | Company Culture, Culture, HRCompliance, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards
When Zenefits started, it had a great mission. It wanted to disrupt the insurance industry, making it easier for people to sign up for benefits and for organizations to manage their employees’ benefit plans. Let’s face it, industries with a lot of regulations can...
by Caroline | Jan 7, 2016 | Culture, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Most of the people I know who take on a leadership position would love to be great at it. They want the vision of Steve Jobs, the efficiency of Jeff Bezos, the moxie and mentorship skills of Barbara Corcoran. But leadership is hard. And the most difficult thing about...
by Caroline | Dec 30, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Holiday Wishes!!, HRCompliance, HRIS, HRSafety, Labor Law, Management, People Evaluation, rewards, teamwork
2015 was, in a lot of ways, a big year of shifting. With a crazy battle for talent and everybody trying to figure out how to create a winning culture, there were many organizations wrestling to figure out how to flatten their hierarchies and what benefits would really...
by Caroline | Dec 9, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, HRSafety, Management, Non profit HR
It’s time for the annual holiday party and management folks everywhere are trying to figure out how to make this a fun, festive celebration without any catastrophes. Or let me say, some of them are. I’ve known CEOs who grabbed the DJ’s microphone and announced “Hey I...
