How to be clear about your organizational values and goals
Organizational values can only effectively shape a company if its employees buy in to them. If you can’t explain why corporate values are important, there’s not much chance that individual employees...
View ArticleConsult Employees when Defining Organizational Values
Do you want to build an organizational culture that is social, supportive, and enhances your company’s brand and environment? To do so, you’ll need to establish a common set of corporate values and...
View ArticleWho is a Pro, What does that Mean, and Why does it Matter?
The term “professional” carries a lot of different meanings and connotations. It’s also connected with a wide range of practices: sports, entertainment, medicine, law, engineering, etc. But what does...
View ArticlePreparing for The Job Audition
You’ve got your candidates lined up and scheduled for interviews. All that’s needed now is to prepare for the audition. That’s right, the job candidate isn’t the only one trying out for the role—you’re...
View ArticleJazz Up Those Job Descriptions
Good help, as they say, is hard to find. Hiring managers often feel as if they’ve got to find the needle in the haystack, sifting through hundreds or thousands of identical resumes hoping to find a...
View ArticleNew Employee Orientation to Set Sailing on the Sea of Success
What do sports and human resources have in common? To celebrate the 2012 Summer Games, we’re finding out! Check out yesterday’s rowing post, Teamwork is Rowing and Growing Together. Sailing through new...
View ArticleWading With Caution Into Your Candidate Pool
With the U.S. unemployment rate at 8.25 percent—including 5.2 million “long-term unemployed”—it’s no surprise more job-seekers are retaining the services of freelance HR professionals. There are...
View Article12 Career-Ending Ways to Fire Employees
There are few easy ways to break it to an employee that they’re being let go, but there are techniques that can help make the transition easier for everyone involved. The following 12 tips, however,...
View ArticleHow to be Taken Seriously in the C-Suite
In highly competitive industries, C-suite executives rely on communities of employees who are dedicated to success for the enterprise and energized by opportunities to solve difficult problems. In...
View ArticlePresidential Politics Makes for Hot Water in the Cooler
The HR news that’s making waves for the week ending October 19th, 2012: Playing Moderator in The Office After the U.S. Presidential debate Tuesday night, employees in offices all over the country were...
View ArticleHR and Open Lines of Cat Stories
Okay, so an HR manager walks into a bar… Started the joke that no one has ever told. As most recently personified by Toby on “The Office,” those who work in HR don’t exactly get a lot of credit for...
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