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 18, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Non profit HR, teamwork
We all know what it’s like to be in a group of people you don’t trust. You spend a lot of time watching your words, making sure you don’t reveal anything vulnerable, measuring what can be used against you or twisted into something else. If you’re in an organization...
by Caroline | Feb 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
So here in Austin it seems it’s a part of the community culture for folks to complain about how much better things used to be before the city grew so much. How there used to be no traffic and there were all these other great eateries and Willy Nelson or Stevie...
by Caroline | Jan 28, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
House Republicans have filed suit over the Affordable Care Act last week, the most recent of many filed against the ACA by opponents of the law. Meanwhile, the dates and numbers for various ACA compliance issues keep changing and it just seems like it would be easier...
by Caroline | Mar 5, 2014 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting
In honor of SXSW, when film, music, comedy and tech lovers descend upon Austin en masse, I like to focus on using technology to free up human resources for the people side, not the paper side. Human resources has evolved a lot, but one thing that stays is the...
