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 15, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR
The blurry controversy over public vs. private in the workplace just keeps growing. There are questions like whether your employees can rag about you on Facebook, and whether you can root around in candidates’ social media to find people who have the inside dirt on...
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 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...
