by Caroline | Jun 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork
About the same time Abraham Maslow was introducing his hierarchy of needs, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom created another graduated triangle known as Bloom’s taxonomy. Bloom’s taxonomy looked at higher and higher levels of intellectual functioning, starting...
by Caroline | May 27, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting
Almost everybody underestimates the importance of a job description. Most people, from what I can gather, tend to think of it like filling out a template. “We need a __________ with _________years experience who can __________. The ideal candidate will have...
by Caroline | May 20, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
So, that was embarrassing. Austin Assistant City Manager Anthony Snipes has been suspended after hiring Jonathan K. Allen, former city manager for Lauderdale Lakes, Florida to come and speak to the Austin city staff about how to interact with female elected officials....
by Caroline | May 13, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, teamwork
The client called me frantic. He had hired an executive assistant three weeks before and now he was on a deadline with a project and it turned out his executive assistant didn’t know how to use PowerPoint. “Did you ask the employee whether he knew PowerPoint when you...
by Caroline | Apr 22, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
Toyota has the five Whys. Other organizations have seven or three. The point of the whys, however many you use, is to understand the root cause of a thing. For example: We’re not going to make our numbers this quarter. Why? Because we’ve been down two sales people for...
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...
