Category: Creating Your Culture
How do you create leave policies that are generous and practical?
Leave policies are a delicate matter for any company. As a small business owner, I, like you, often struggle with the balance of what is...
The best way to prepare for an employee leave of absence
Having an employee leave of absence policy in place can be a huge benefit if one of your employees goes through a major life change....
The best practices for onboarding employees in 2023
You’ve advertised your job opening. You’ve been bombarded with responses. You’ve interviewed a number of candidates. And you’ve – finally! – come to the point...
How to create a compensation strategy to attract and retain your ideal employee
Let’s be clear from the beginning: your compensation strategy may attract your ideal employee only if you are transparent, and it probably won’t help with...
How to make your hiring process objective
Keeping Score is Easy, Rating People is Difficult Scoreboards, report cards, and ratings all have the same intent—to clearly identify who is achieving and who...
Create Your Umbrella: values, mission, and people
What was your first job? This was an icebreaker question at a recent conference I attended, and the really cool thing was the group took...
Five hiring mistakes we’ve made (and what we learned from them)
Oh do I have stories for you about all of the stupid things I have done when trying to hire new employees… The list is...
How to get better at recruiting: best practice tips for getting the person you want
What are you good at? Maybe for you, it's sports or hobby-related – or maybe the first thing that you thought of has to do...
Should You Offer PTO?
Life is unexpected; sometimes it’s in the form of an emergency, and other times, it’s in the form of a miracle. Either way, we can’t...
The Time is Right: How to Approach Uncomfortable Conversations with Your Employees
I grew up without cable, which left us with limited tv options. Somewhere between Judge Judy and before American Idol, we indulged in gameshows. As...