by Caroline | Sep 24, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork
She looked like a great fit when they hired her. She had all the skills on the list and her former employer actually gushed over her. But she just…didn’t fit…and it was hard for my client to pinpoint why. Turns out, it was a motivation issue. People are motivated by...
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 | Jul 23, 2014 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Recruiting, teamwork
Many of our clients are startups so I really appreciate the concept of disruptive companies and Zappos is about as disruptive as they get. I mean, when you think about it, they sell shoes—so it’s not like they invented the consumer jet pack (when is that coming out by...
by Caroline | Jul 16, 2014 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting
There was the case in which Silicon Valley’s CEOs conspired to keep pay artificially low for the area’s engineers, so the companies wouldn’t have to deal with supply and demand—basic tenets of a free economic system. Then there was the fact that GM and the National...
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...
