by Caroline | Oct 14, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Last week I heard a TED talk by Margaret Heffernan about productivity and chickens. In a study mentioned in the talk, a researcher cultivated several generations of chickens, eventually culling the most productive into one coop and leaving the others in a different...
by Caroline | Oct 7, 2015 | HRCompliance, HRIS, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
I read a statistic recently that 77 percent of HR professionals say their departments have gone paperless. And I started thinking about the other 23 percent, having people come in and get a piece of paper and fill out all the boxes—oops, mistake? Scratch it out, or,...
by Caroline | Sep 30, 2015 | HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management
So here’s the fun thing about the fourth quarter: You’ve only got so much time to get stuff done before the holidays kick in, making everything merry…and complicated. One of those things you really need to make sure gets done is planning for your Affordable Care Act...
by Caroline | Sep 23, 2015 | Company Culture, Management, Training
There was a story in the Wall Street Journal recently that I just don’t think got enough play. It was about Wal-Mart’s decision to “upskill” its employees. In other words, it plans to train its entry-level workers. People expect managers to be trained. They expect...
by Caroline | Sep 16, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management
People always say: Hire slow and fire fast, but I don’t think most people understand what that really means. I think it’s construed as “Be careful who you hire and when it turns out they’re not great, get rid of ‘em.” That’s not the point of Hire slow and fire fast....
by Caroline | Sep 9, 2015 | Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
I heard a story today about the changing culture of work. They talked about the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant that was formed in Fremont, California, between GM and Toyota. The old GM plant had been one of the worst plants in the history of auto...
