by Caroline | Nov 19, 2014 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Management, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
It’s that time of year when companies are self-nominating and some winning “Best Places to Work.” I was once in charge of a company HR department where the CEO wanted my job that month to include cajoling employees into filling out surveys in order to get recognition...
by Caroline | Nov 5, 2014 | Hiring, People Evaluation, Recruiting
There is one flaw I see most commonly among people interviewing candidates for a job: They don’t interview, they talk! They spend so much time talking at the candidate that by the end of the interview they’ve actually learned very little about him. The whole point of...
by Caroline | Sep 24, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork
She looked like a great fit when they hired her. She had all the skills on the list and her former employer actually gushed over her. But she just…didn’t fit…and it was hard for my client to pinpoint why. Turns out, it was a motivation issue. People are motivated by...
by Caroline | Sep 3, 2014 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Management, teamwork, Training
So, here are some things HR shouldn’t be asked to do. It’s not HR’s job to stand by the time clock and discipline people who show up late. It’s not HR’s job to figure out whether to hand out coffee cups or baseball caps to buck up a company’s crumbling morale. (Answer...
by Caroline | Aug 28, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Recruiting, Training
The client on the phone was completely freaked out. She’d gotten a call, she said, from some guy whose son had been looking up product reviews online and ran across a really racy one, filled with sexual innuendo…which was weird because the product he was looking at...
by Caroline | Aug 13, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, People Evaluation, teamwork, Training
Anyone who works in your organization has to hand over a lot of pretty sensitive, private information: Their social security numbers, their health information, their job history. They’re trusting that whoever has access to that information is going to handle it...
