by Caroline | Sep 16, 2016 | Assessments, Communication, Company Culture, Culture, Data, Feedback Mechanism, Leadership, Management, Recruiting, Research, Survey
Culture. What do we hear most from business owners and non-profit directors about this topic? It’s usually one of these two statements: We are going to create a great culture! OR We are going to work hard at keeping our great culture as we grow. And what is the...
by Caroline | Nov 20, 2015 | Assessments, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting
Last week I wrote a blog about the perils of leaning too heavily on personality profiles for hiring, which bothered some people who are in the industry. Lest I be misunderstood, I don’t think we should ditch personality profiles. They’re a really useful tool as a part...
by Caroline | Nov 11, 2015 | Assessments, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting
The other night I tuned in to the movie Divergent and was frankly distracted, the entire time, by how much the plot reminded me of how a lot of people hire these days. In Divergent, kids are given a test at 16 which pretty much tells them which post-apocalyptic...
by Caroline | Oct 14, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork
Last week I heard a TED talk by Margaret Heffernan about productivity and chickens. In a study mentioned in the talk, a researcher cultivated several generations of chickens, eventually culling the most productive into one coop and leaving the others in a different...
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...
by Caroline | May 13, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, teamwork
The client called me frantic. He had hired an executive assistant three weeks before and now he was on a deadline with a project and it turned out his executive assistant didn’t know how to use PowerPoint. “Did you ask the employee whether he knew PowerPoint when you...
