Entry interviews, not exit interviews
Start the respect game early. Continue Reading
Onboarding
A dog walk, a baby, frosh year of college: These things can fix onboarding
Let me teach you how to onboard. Continue Reading
When HR rules trump logic, your culture collapses
“Well, if we do it for you, we’d need to do it for everyone…” Continue Reading
Onboarding best practices: You need a revenue tie
A compliance-oriented brain thinks “We need checklists and processes!” You do, but that misses the bigger point — and this drives turnover. Continue Reading
Your employee handbook sucks. Let’s fix it.
But the easy idea of “move it to marketing” has flaws too. Continue Reading
Your onboarding process needs authority
“This here is Larry in accounts receivable. This is our new hire. Meet Larry. He’s been here 11 years…” <--- We can replace this with a much better first day. Continue Reading
Your recruiting process alienates the best people
Here’s how I want to spend my Wednesday: uploading a resume and then filling out 18 tabs of exactly the same information I just uploaded. Wait, what? Continue Reading
Onboarding: Revolve it around stories
If people are truly job-hopping more than ever, then onboarding is tremendously important. But most companies still do it horribly. What if we shifted the focus ever so slightly, though? Continue Reading