by Caroline | Jul 31, 2019 | Company Culture, Featured, Hiring, Management, Training
The client on the phone was completely freaked out. She’d gotten a call, she said, from a concerned father 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...
by Caroline | May 1, 2019 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management
Doing the right thing doesn’t always get rewarded. We all know the saying, “No good deed goes unpunished.” But that is not the topic of this blog. This time, doing good is being rewarded by the federal government. Shocked? Read on. There are tax...
by Caroline | Apr 3, 2019 | Company Culture, Leadership, Management, React to Change, retaliation
I recently read an article published by SHRM entitled “Employer Couldn’t Selectively Enforce Prohibition on Sleeping on the Job” and I thought “Oh, there has got to be a catch.” Yes, employers and HR professionals are sometimes flummoxed by EEOC decisions...
by Caroline | Jan 30, 2019 | Firing, Leadership, Management
I was chatting with a business owner last week and the topic of sunk costs came up in the conversation. Sunk costs? In economic terms, these are costs that cannot be recovered. Like when you’ve already invested $1,000 in repairing a beloved car and find out...
by Caroline | Nov 28, 2018 | Company Building, Culture, Holiday Party, Leadership, Management
This is not a “do’s and don’ts” holiday party lecturing kind of a blog. This is more like a “yeah, we are all adults, but sometimes some of us forget that” kind of a blog. “Tonight the decisions you make will have consequences that will haunt you for the rest of your...
by Caroline | Jul 25, 2018 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Recruiting, Telecommuting, company culture, management
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...
