by Caroline | Jul 18, 2016 | Compensation and Benefits, HR Strategy, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards
Every year, Payscale puts out a Compensation Best Practices Report. This year, they reported some scary employment compensation data: while 73 percent of companies believe they pay fairly, only 36 percent of employees report that they’re being fairly paid....
by Caroline | Jul 11, 2016 | Company Culture, HR Strategy, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Leadership, Management, teamwork
The election year, Orlando and Dallas shootings, Gretchen Carlson and Fox News…we’re living and working in the midst of current events with highly emotional triggers. Documented in social and traditional media outlets are people who feel abused, discriminated...
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 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,...
