by Caroline | Oct 21, 2015 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, rewards
Every year, there is at least one book and a spate of articles about the evils of annual performance reviews. Basically it’s the same theme – Toss the reviews! Ban the process! These writers think performance reviews shouldn’t exist. They say managers hate them...
by Caroline | Sep 23, 2015 | Company Culture, Management, Training
There was a story in the Wall Street Journal recently that I just don’t think got enough play. It was about Wal-Mart’s decision to “upskill” its employees. In other words, it plans to train its entry-level workers. People expect managers to be trained. They expect...
by Caroline | Sep 5, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting
One thing that candidates often tell me when they’ve been interviewed by a company I work with is: “I know a lot about the company now. But they didn’t ask me anything about myself.” Argh! I know exactly what happened in that interview. The hiring manager and others...
by Caroline | Aug 26, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, teamwork
The only thing worse than making a bad hire is dragging your feet about getting rid of them. Yes, it’s upsetting to realize you hired badly and then start questioning your judgment and the judgment of others who gave this person the thumbs up. You try to think about...
by Caroline | Jul 29, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, rewards, Training
We’ve been in a weird phase in employee recruitment and retention the last decade. No matter what size your company, everybody who wants to hire top talent feels like they need to lure people in with margarita machines, giant beanbags and having a masseuse come in...
by Caroline | Jul 15, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting
In the passionate pursuit to be authentic and create an awesome culture, people keep wanting to do away with really crucial stuff, like job application forms. They don’t want their first interaction with someone to be filling out a bunch of boxes. They just want to...
