by Caroline | Jul 11, 2016 | Company Culture, HR Strategy, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Leadership, Management, teamwork
The election year, Orlando and Dallas shootings, Gretchen Carlson and Fox News…we’re living and working in the midst of current events with highly emotional triggers. Documented in social and traditional media outlets are people who feel abused, discriminated...
by Caroline | Jun 22, 2016 | Company Culture, HR Technology, HRCompliance, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Recruiting, HR, talent acquisition, culture, people management, all of the above have become the subject of so many interesting experiments in recent years. Zappos initiated holocracy and lost 30 percent of their employees. Companies like Workday and VMWare offer...
by Caroline | Jun 8, 2016 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, teamwork
There are certain kinds of “Help! It’s an emergency!” calls I get regularly. One of them is “I really thought this person was going to be great. I thought I asked all the right questions. But after three months I can’t even look at them…..” It turns out the employee...
by Caroline | Apr 6, 2016 | Company Culture, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
Stephanie Izard won Top Chef in the fourth season of the show. I remember watching and thinking she was a cool customer- calm under pressure, creative, team player, communicative, fierce competitor. She was the first woman to win the competition. I am an avowed...
by Caroline | Mar 3, 2016 | Company Culture, HRIS, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Tomorrow is Employee Appreciation Day, which most people assume is about leaders and managers appreciating employees. And it is about that. But here’s a statistic I picked up from the Society of Human Resources Managers recently: according to a 2012 report by SHRM and...
by Caroline | Feb 3, 2016 | Company Culture, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
Yesterday was Groundhog Day which always reminds me of the movie with Bill Murray. I love that movie. In case you haven’t seen it—is that even possible? Groundhog Day is about a guy who keeps living the same day over and over again and eventually sees it not as some...
