When I first started interviewing candidates, I got the simplest and most impactful advice that I have received yet: Kill the Deal. I should not be looking to confirm that this person is the one I want to hire, but rather I should spend my time asking questions to figure out why they won’t work. …
Hiring well is the single most important thing that a company can do to succeed. It allows for rapid development of capacity, increases diversity, and upskills the team quickly. It is the way to shape the culture and move the company towards its goals. It is how a company grows. When talking with job seekers,…
Last week, Kaydi joined Visual Thrive for their weekly business podcast, Business Over Breakfast. The full broadcast is here: If you are pressed for time, there is a 3 minute highlight recording that you can watch here.
“Burnout” is something that nearly everyone experiences at some point in their lives and careers. Periods of sustained stress can lead to the social withdrawal and decreased productivity that are characteristic of burnout. Burned out employees are negative, unproductive and hard on their colleagues. The factors at work that lead regular stress to develop into…
I grew up in New York, and while I never sounded like Bernie Sanders, I did have an accent. It was something that was frequently remarked on when I moved to the west coast. Not the biggest deal, but I gradually learn to say “coffee” without the “w” in the middle. After 20- odd years,…
A good manager will guide a company to success by setting goals, then organizing activity around reaching that goal. If this path is well thought out, the company will grow in the ways that are planned. That growth will form the basis for the next set of goals for the company to work towards. If…
Remember the first time you walked into your high school cafeteria? In those first few moments, your brain reeled! Where should you sit? What if they don’t welcome you and you feel left out? What if you don’t like them? How will you find your people? If you were lucky, you knew someone already, but…
Like so many businesses, we have found the need to communicate differently in our new Covid- shifted world. The networking events we had been using to meet potential clients have been paused for 10+ months. In-person trainings and site visits with clients have been replaced with webinars and zooms. While we are hopeful that we…
In case you missed it, here is the link to the video from last week’s webinar “Leveraging Company Culture to Improve Retention” presented at the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce:
While a good business book can inspire, clarify, or articulate great ideas to put into practice, a lot of them are painfully boring to read. Even some of the best of the bunch can become repetitive by the end. When a new contact recommended The Dream Manager to me last month, I told her I…