by Caroline | Jun 27, 2016 | Hiring, HR Strategy, HR Technology, HRCompliance, HRIS, Management, Non profit HR
Do you know how much your employees are costing you, relative to what they’re producing for you? Do you know what your turnover rates are, compared to other companies in your industry? Do you know who your most effective manager is? What I mean is, do you have data on...
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 13, 2016 | Company Culture, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR
Would you enter a bike race without training for it? Or a 10K? Or a boxing match? No. No you wouldn’t. Because you know it would be painful, and embarrassing and you would fail and people wouldn’t say “Good try!” They would say “For heaven’s sake what were you doing...
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 | May 19, 2016 | Compensation and Benefits, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, rewards
The Department of Labor released new rules yesterday which include significant changes to how employees are classified as exempt or non-exempt, which means you may have a bunch of employees who are suddenly going to be eligible for overtime beginning December 1st of...
by Caroline | May 11, 2016 | Company Culture, Hiring, HR Technology, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
Fraud is bad. But if you run a non-profit, fraud is more than bad, it can destroy your credibility, which scares off your donor base and cripples your efforts to fulfill your mission. That was the message of the presentation at the Capital Area Non-profit...
