by Caroline | Apr 1, 2015 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR
When I was in college, I worked at a women’s clothing boutique. One of the girls I worked with also had a part-time job at the shoe store down the street and offered everyone at the clothing boutique her employee discount from the shoe store. We were thrilled, until...
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 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
It doesn’t take long as a business owner or manager to figure out why they say it’s lonely at the top. The downside of all that autonomy and the fancy office and the big bucks (proverbially speaking) is that you have to think a lot harder about how you interact with...
by Caroline | Feb 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting
People put it different ways: If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. A players hire A players and B players hire C players. Hire people who know more than you and get out of their way. The point is, the rule of thumb when it comes to...
by Caroline | Feb 11, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, teamwork
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we always pay homage to the fact that—in a lot of ways—an employment relationship is like a romantic relationship. Recruiting is like dating. The first 90 days are like the first few glorious months of the relationship. And then comes the...
