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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – To Teach I Must Also Learn

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Some blog posts are written to be cathartic. When I write about a topic it is usually the result of research and soul searching. While the purpose of sharing ideas is to raise consciousness on certain areas of my profession, there is always an element of organizing thought processes by recording them for future reference. This week for this blogger has been very reflective. Highs and lows in the satisfaction of expectations are supposed to… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – To Teach I Must Also Learn

Five Ways Recruiters Think From the Candidate Perspective

There is no better laboratory to study human nature than a situation in which one person is in need and another person holds the key to fulfilling that need. Some examples that immediately come to mind are that of a parent and child, a teacher and pupil, or a doctor and patient. It is not a stretch of this concept to suggest that the relationship between a recruiter and candidate is similar. While there will… Read More »Five Ways Recruiters Think From the Candidate Perspective

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Everything I Need to Know About Culture I Learned from Yogurt

Yogurt is made by the fermentation of milk by bacteria known as “yogurt cultures.” When people are chatting, blogging, or referencing a company culture it makes me think of just how perfectly matched the analogy of yogurt to culture happens to be… a concept that upper management needs to keep in mind. All the best ideas are not at the top. In fact some of the most fruitful ideas in a company come from lower… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Everything I Need to Know About Culture I Learned from Yogurt

Ten Ways To Fix a Nasty Culture by Communicating

About ten years ago there was an upscale eat-in Chinese restaurant in the Danbury Square Mall with a huge marquee sign proclaiming in neon that it was the home of “DYNASTY RESTAURANT.” Of course, one cardinal rule of communication is to always be aware of the message you are sending. For some reason, the owners of this restaurant chose to ignore the maintenance on their sign even after there were several months of nightly blaring… Read More »Ten Ways To Fix a Nasty Culture by Communicating

Defining Company Culture and Making It Happen

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One of the cleverest employee pranks I have seen was a man who showed up on Halloween in a gorilla suit along with a doctored ID badge showing the picture of a gorilla and the name “King Kong.” He was waved through the front door by security, wandered about the building acting monkey-like, and nobody knew who he was until around Noon when he unmasked in the cafeteria to eat. Does anybody else see something… Read More »Defining Company Culture and Making It Happen