What Your Employees Are Posting On Yelp About You

by Caroline | Feb 19, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting

Social proof is the new gold.  Research shows reading reviews by people similar to you powerfully influences whether you take a job, buy a product, form a partnership. Sites like Glassdoor and Yelp are the new Zagat or Consumer Reports. You know that guy you really...

Getting Real About Employee Handbooks

by Caroline | Jan 8, 2014 | Assessments, Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, teamwork, Training

I’ve noticed that some company managers and owners treat my constant admonitions to get an employee handbook the way kids respond when you tell them to wear their galoshes. They roll their eyes. They let out a soft “gah….” sound. Or sometimes they reassuringly...

HR Executives Drive Profits…Really

by Caroline | Dec 4, 2013 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting

So, people don’t generally say it to my face, but I know how a lot of people feel about HR. Like we’re all coming in with our little clipboards, enforcing rules no one ever heard of, creating work for ourselves by having complex recruiting rituals, insisting on...

Is Your Company Ready to Make Salaries Transparent?

by Caroline | Jun 12, 2013 | Compensation and Benefits, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, rewards

  These days, it’s considered very cool to be a “transparent” organization that shares with employees its earnings, costs, goals…. But just how transparent do you want to be? A lot of our clients wrestle with the idea of making salaries transparent:...

Hiring Diversity is Crucial to Your Organization’s Ecosystem

by Caroline | May 29, 2013 | Company Culture, Hiring, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, Training

So here’s a crazy paradigm that happens at a lot of organizations: You all wear jeans and loose t-shirts with funny slogans. You all watch Game of Thrones, or maybe it’s Downton Abbey. You’ve all got the COEXIST bumper sticker and you believe fervently in...

Is Your Unpaid Internship a Legal Liability?

by Caroline | May 1, 2013 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Non profit HR

Tis the season for summer interns. But if you’re stuck in the old, romantic idea that an intern is someone who will do “whatever it takes” to break into the business, or support his or her passion for your non-profit, you need to think again. Because interns have...