by Caroline | Jul 24, 2013 | Company Culture, Labor Law, Management
So, around Valentine’s day, I wrote a blog about how hiring is like dating. Here’s the other side: firing is like breaking up. There are a lot of reasons to fire someone. The employee might not be living up to performance expectations. He might blatantly neglect his...
by Caroline | Jul 10, 2013 | Company Culture, Management
We have interesting mythologies about leaders. That leaders are always inspiring. That they have a commanding presence. That they’re exemplary people. But when you really examine the lives and personalities of some of the most revered people—from Lincoln to Gandhi...
by Caroline | Jun 26, 2013 | Company Culture, rewards, Training
Last week I attended the annual international SHRM Conference in beautiful Chicago. The keynote speakers were an amazing lineup including Fareed Zakaria, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Blake Mycoskie of Tom’s Shoes, Daniel Pink and Gabby Gifford. I was on some kind of...
by Caroline | Jun 19, 2013 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, rewards
Change is hard. Personal change is tough enough. But what about changing the operating style of an organization? Add to that the emotional and fiscal drama of changing the way you pay employees and you’re looking at a potential firestorm. We’re talking, of course,...
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:...
by Caroline | Jun 5, 2013 | Company Culture, Hiring, rewards, teamwork
Last week I talked about hiring diversity and how people have a tendency to turn their organizations into the equivalent of a high school clique where everybody in the company is a jock, or fashionista, or one of those kids who hangs out on the hill, smoking....
