by Caroline | Mar 3, 2016 | Company Culture, HRIS, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Tomorrow is Employee Appreciation Day, which most people assume is about leaders and managers appreciating employees. And it is about that. But here’s a statistic I picked up from the Society of Human Resources Managers recently: according to a 2012 report by SHRM and...
by Caroline | Feb 25, 2016 | Company Culture, Management, Training
There’s a lot of news lately about discrimination and harassment, which is discouraging. A couple of weeks ago I posted about the story of the former city employee who used a derogatory map as a joke during a presentation. And coming up, SXSW is doing an entire day of...
by Caroline | Feb 17, 2016 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards
Last week was Valentine’s Day which, for obvious reasons, is something we celebrate here at ValentineHR. Traditionally Valentine’s Day is about sweethearts. But we think of it as a day to show appreciation for the people you care about—including your customers and...
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 | Feb 3, 2016 | Company Culture, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
Yesterday was Groundhog Day which always reminds me of the movie with Bill Murray. I love that movie. In case you haven’t seen it—is that even possible? Groundhog Day is about a guy who keeps living the same day over and over again and eventually sees it not as some...
by Caroline | Jan 28, 2016 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Leadership, Management, Training
Austin has a unique culture. On the one hand, we live in a world where trigger warnings and micro- aggressions are a huge issue for people, and many Austinites take fair and compassionate treatment for people of all colors, creeds, sexual preferences and gender...
