by Caroline | Feb 13, 2019 | Coaching, Company Culture, Growth, Leadership, Managing Yourself
It’s Valentine’s Day so that means it’s time for our annual analogy about the similarities between businesses and personal relationships. Over the years, we have written about how hiring is like dating; how ending an employee relationship can be like breaking up; how...
by Caroline | Sep 5, 2016 | Company Culture, conversations, Culture, Leadership, Management, teamwork, Training
Did you know that when your organization treats conflict as a bad thing, it can really cost the organization? It can cost money, productivity, opportunity. Take, for example, the large company we consulted with several years ago where employees were discouraged from...
by Caroline | Aug 29, 2016 | Company Culture, conversations, Culture, Leadership, Management, teamwork
One thing many managers may not appreciate about being a manager is the necessity of having icky conversations. What is an icky conversation? It might be telling the associate, driving with you to the sales call, that his breath could stop a rhinoceros in full charge....
by Caroline | Feb 3, 2016 | Company Culture, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
Yesterday was Groundhog Day which always reminds me of the movie with Bill Murray. I love that movie. In case you haven’t seen it—is that even possible? Groundhog Day is about a guy who keeps living the same day over and over again and eventually sees it not as some...
by Caroline | Feb 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
So here in Austin it seems it’s a part of the community culture for folks to complain about how much better things used to be before the city grew so much. How there used to be no traffic and there were all these other great eateries and Willy Nelson or Stevie...
