by Caroline | Feb 14, 2018 | Annual Review, conversations
Traditionally, people celebrate anniversaries with a dinner out, a weekend away, chocolate, or presents. For many, an anniversary is a time to set aside all the things that may frustrate you about your partner and celebrate your relationship. But some couples do it...
by Caroline | Jan 31, 2018 | Company Culture, Crisis Management, Planning
In the last three weeks, we have experienced an ice storm that shut down major East coast airports, wildfires and mudslides on the West coast and a flu epidemic that is closing schools nationwide. That’s some crisis management. So what is crisis management? It...
by Caroline | Jan 17, 2018 | Communication, Leadership, Sexual Harassment
It’s a little baffling for some of us how shocked some people are about all the revelations of sexual harassment in the workplace. After all, it’s not a new phenomenon in any regard. But what’s even harder to comprehend is how many fingers are being pointed in...
by Caroline | Jan 4, 2018 | Benefits, Company Culture, Generations
If you’re like most companies, you have employees from three, possibly four, generations working for you these days: Baby Boomers, GenX, Millennials, and even Plurals. Yet many companies still try to fit one benefit plan around people who are thinking of retiring,...
by Caroline | Nov 30, 2017 | Leadership, Management, Sexual Harassment
I love Saturday Night Live’s “Claire from HR” character but I have never loved her schtick so much as when she came on the show’s Weekend Update recently to give a multiple choice test on sexual abuse and harassment. Among her questions: When you are in an office...
