This Guy
Posted on May 1, 2009. Filed under: At Will, Employee Performance, Employee Relations, HR, Human Resources, Incentivizing/Incentives, Managing to Strengths, Mandy Cooley, staffing, This Guy, Uncategorized, Using Human Resources | Tags: at-will-employment, Blogs, Business, Business Owners, Clients, Employee, Employee Performance, Employee Relations, Employees, Employment, HR, Human Resource, Human Resources, Indianapolis, Management, Relationships, Work Relationships |
I am not lacking in skill: for example, I am good at finding deals! Shopping is a skill of mine… Not necessarily a skill my husband likes me to hone, but one that is good for my family (and my wardrobe). We recently acquired a new client who had managers with a lot of skills, [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2009. Filed under: Blogging, Employee Manuals, Employee Performance, Employee Relations, Guest, HR, Human Resources, Incentivizing/Incentives, Laina Molaski, Law, Lindsey Taylor, Management Minute, Mandy Cooley, Policy, staffing, Termination, This Guy | Tags: Box, HR, Human Resource, In a Box, Test, Test Tube |
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Posted on April 27, 2009. Filed under: At Will, Employee Performance, HR, Human Resources, Law, Mandy Cooley, Policy, Termination, This Guy, Using Human Resources | Tags: consulting, Employee Relations, Firing, HR, Human Resource, Rules, sexual harrassment, Work Relationships, Zero Tolerance |
This Guy walks up to one of his employees: “Hey, you wanna grab a drink after work?” Employee A: “Aren’t you married?” This Guy to Employee A, with a smug look on his face: “Not if you don’t want me to be.” Seriously? I know I am in HR Consulting, not Dating Consulting, but, Seriously? [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2009. Filed under: Blogging, Employee Relations, Guest, HR, Human Resources, Laina Molaski, Lindsey Taylor, Mandy Cooley, Networking, Policy, This Guy, Using Human Resources | Tags: Blogs, Business, Encouragement, HR, Human Resource, Link, Running a Business |
If you ever lose sight of why you started doing what your doing then follow the link below to get some encouragement. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8212-Indianapolis-Small-Business-Examiner~y2009m4d23-Remembering-the-WHYs-of-running-a-business
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Posted on April 17, 2009. Filed under: Blogging, Guest, HR, Human Resources, Laina Molaski, Lindsey Taylor, Mandy Cooley, Networking, Policy, This Guy, Using Human Resources | Tags: Blogging, Facts, Figures, Fun Facts, Guest Blogs, HR, Human Resources |
Here is a post I found online that looks pretty interesting as far as fun facts and figures dealing with HR goes (yes there are fun aspects of the HR field). Check it out. Lindsey Taylor
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Posted on March 30, 2009. Filed under: At Will, Employee Manuals, Employee Performance, Employee Relations, Finance, Guest, HR, Human Resources, Incentivizing/Incentives, Laina Molaski, Management Minute, marketing, MS, Policy, recruiting, staffing, Team, Termination, This Guy, Uncategorized, Using Human Resources | Tags: Communication, Employees, HR, Human Resources, Management, People |
No reason, well except for the fact that your company can’t run without good employees. Well I guess it can but it would only be a matter of time before you ran yourself into the ground and your business would only get so big before it outgrew what you alone are capable of doing. If [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2009. Filed under: HR, Human Resources, Laina Molaski, Policy, staffing, This Guy, Uncategorized | Tags: Clients, Gossip, HR, Human Resources, Manners, Social Networking, Technology, Vendors |
Where are our manners? Growing up in an environment where it was required to address people as yes ma’am and no sir and to always respect my elders, I have always modeled my business practices and personal behavior as an adult around this embedded behavior from my upbringing. With this conservative upbringing it has always [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2009. Filed under: At Will, Employee Relations, HR, Human Resources, Termination, This Guy | Tags: at-will-employment, HR, Human Resources, terminate, This Guy |
At a recent seminar, I fielded a question that comes at me often: “How can I fire ‘this guy’ that just isn’t working out?” As I began to probe into the situation, there were numerous events that led the business owner to feel that ‘this guy’ was not the best person for the job: showed [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2008. Filed under: At Will, Employee Relations, Finance, HR, Human Resources, Laina Molaski, Management Minute, marketing, Policy, recruiting, staffing, Team, This Guy, Uncategorized, Using Human Resources | Tags: Business, Business Owners, Clients, Consultant, HR, Human Resource |
As a practicing consultant, I am often asked about what I actually consult. So many businesses have worked with consultants who are pushing a particular agenda – which, in my humble opinion, does not make one a consultant. (Rather, I think that makes one a sales person.) Others have worked with consultants who seem to [...]
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