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...
by Caroline | Aug 6, 2014 | Company Culture, Management, teamwork, Training
We’ve all heard the expression of someone being “promoted to the level of his incompetence.” It’s a truism that lots of employees find very frustrating. But most companies have no idea how very, very expensive it can be to promote someone over other people without...
by Caroline | Jul 9, 2014 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Management, Recruiting, Training
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Seneca said it first, then everyone from Oprah to Mary Engelbreit quoted it. Luck is what happens when you get yourself ready for opportunity. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, with respect to leaders and...
by Caroline | May 28, 2014 | Company Culture, Management, teamwork, Training
Change happens. Some people dive into change with abandon but for most of us, any change can really flip the needle on our stress meters. Even good change, like getting married or moving to a new place you’re excited about can be stressful. In companies, change takes...
by Caroline | May 21, 2014 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Recruiting, Training
I recently read an article about a bunch of Conde Nast interns suing the company for underpaying them because they did menial tasks that didn’t help their careers and could have been done by employees. The article wondered: Is this the end of internships? No!...
