Holiday Policies Offer The Flexibility Employees Are Looking For
The city of Seattle will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on October 14, a day when many organizations are observing the federal holiday of Columbus Day. Indigenous Peoples Day recognizes and honors Native American history and culture rather than Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. There’s a lesson here for companies thinking through their holiday policies. With increasingly […]
Take charge of your values
If you go to any company and ask employees to name the values they see lived out in the organization, they’ll have answers – be decisive; have fun; customer first; this isn’t a safe place to make mistakes. The question companies should be asking is what their lived values are, if those are the values […]
Supporting Working Parents During Back-to-School Season and Beyond
Back-to-school season is an important time for company leadership and managers to be aware of the challenges faced by their employees who are also parents. The beginning of a new school year involves a number of stressful changes for working parents, such as more complex commutes and busier mornings getting children ready for school, lining […]
Four Ways to Improve Hiring Diversity at Your Company
After working in HR in close proximity to diversity my whole career, a couple of years ago, I realized I didn’t really know how to increase diversity on my own team. To be honest, I was embarrassed to even talk about it. I’d built a strong team, but it was more homogeneous than I wanted. […]
How To Make Every Hire Irreplaceable
You know that feeling when you finish talking to a candidate and you can’t get their offer out fast enough? Chances are, you’ll behave something like this: You’ll ask an employee to take the candidate for coffee, then quickly put together an offer so you can seal the deal before the individual leaves the building. […]
