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A great team can make ALL the difference. As the leader of your organization these critical decisions affect everything. The Hiring Success category is a place to find helpful information to make your next hire a great hire.

Why Are Business Owners Experiencing Workers Compensation Rate Increases?

Why Are Business Owners Experiencing Workers Compensation Rate Increases?

Workers’ compensation insurance rates have experienced a steady rate increase over the past few years, as you have probably noticed. If you’re an employer that Read More

High Potential Employees: Love ‘Em or They’ll Leave

High Potential Employees: Love ‘Em or They’ll Leave

I recently worked with an insurance executive and business owner who had a receptionist who demonstrated many high potential behaviors. Within six months he had Read More

Going Beyond Compliance – Prevention Pays!

Going Beyond Compliance – Prevention Pays!

Does your safety program (commonly referred to in California as an Injury, Illness and Prevention Plan or IIPP) lend itself towards compliance with state Read More

Company Culture During Rapid Growth

Company Culture During Rapid Growth

As a consultant and coach, I have experienced a lot of company cultures over the years both good and bad. The worst are the companies Read More

Do I Have to Meet with YOU? What To Do When You Hate One-to-One Meetings With Your Direct Report

Do I Have to Meet with YOU? What To Do When You Hate One-to-One Meetings With Your Direct Report

Cheryl leads executive development sessions for Vistage.com as a Chair in NE Ohio and also leads 4 local peer advisory boards, comprised of CEO’s and Read More

The Three Ingredients to Asking Open Questions: Ingredient #3- Technique

The Three Ingredients to Asking Open Questions: Ingredient #3- Technique

So far we have covered the first two ingredients of asking open questions. The third ingredient is the easiest. It is the technique or how Read More

The Three Ingredients to Asking Open Questions: Ingredient #2- Manage Your Interference

The Three Ingredients to Asking Open Questions: Ingredient #2- Manage Your Interference

In my last blog, I reviewed the first ingredient of asking open questions- showing up with the intention to learn and understand.

The second Read More

Four Steps to Improving Your Employer Brand

Four Steps to Improving Your Employer Brand

You know about personal branding—what makes you unique to the workplace and how to leverage that for the best career opportunities; you also know about Read More

3 Tips to Inspire a Healthy Corporate Culture

3 Tips to Inspire a Healthy Corporate Culture

Culture eats strategy for lunch.

~~ Peter Drucker 

Business leaders reach C-Level status by developing innovative business plans, out maneuvering the competition, and shifting Read More

Employee Engagement, Start with Best Practices

Employee Engagement, Start with Best Practices

The degree to which employees are engaged with their work at your company has a significant impact on how successful your company can be, and Read More

Talent Derailed

Talent Derailed

What is a leader to do when one of their top team members starts to fade? What happens with high potentials that lose their shine? Read More

Are Your HR Practices Helping or Hurting Your Workers Compensation Premiums?

Are Your HR Practices Helping or Hurting Your Workers Compensation Premiums?

Time and time again, I see employers hurting themselves with their human resource policies. Poor policies (or lack of policies) can directly affect their workers Read More

Addiction in the Workplace

Addiction in the Workplace

Employees are every organization’s most valuable asset. CEOs and other top executives know that keeping their employees healthy, productive and committed to the organization ranks Read More

Quick Start Guide to Hiring Effective Executives

Quick Start Guide to Hiring Effective Executives

© 2012 Johanna Rothman 

The good news is your company is growing. The bad news is time to bring in more executive management.

Why is Read More

End-Of-Year Bonuses and the Equal Treatment of Unequals

End-Of-Year Bonuses and the Equal Treatment of Unequals

I have written for many years now that end-of-year bonuses are a waste of money (“OOPs! 13 Management Practices that Waste Time and Money Read More

Exploring Executive Compensation for Your Growing Business

Exploring Executive Compensation for Your Growing Business

Executives are important to your business in a number of ways, and are often the backbone behind huge growth, innovative changes, and the ultimate success Read More

Developing and Training Behavioral Interviewers

Developing and Training Behavioral Interviewers

In the last post on behavioral interviewing, I discussed how to purposefully create and develop a system of questions when using behavioral interviewing to Read More

Consider Emotional Intelligence Before Making That Hiring Decision

Consider Emotional Intelligence Before Making That Hiring Decision

As we all know, intelligence is an important factor in success. However, there is more than one type of intelligence, and one being considered more Read More

Creating an Effective Employee Pay Structure

Creating an Effective Employee Pay Structure

Determining the best way to compensate employees is difficult.  Pay too little, and your best people will leave.  Pay too much and your cost structure Read More

5 Tips for Starting an Effective Safety Program

5 Tips for Starting an Effective Safety Program

Safety is a basic, bread-and-butter issue that companies cannot do without. Many companies don’t realize that Safety is an element of Sustainability. Safety is considered Read More

3 Steps to Give Your New Hires a Terrible Onboarding Experience

3 Steps to Give Your New Hires a Terrible Onboarding Experience

Do you want to make sure that your new employees are dazed and confused from day one? Do you know the secret to keeping them Read More

Should You Make Assessments Part of Your Onboarding Process?

Should You Make Assessments Part of Your Onboarding Process?

Yes. Assessments can be good pre-hiring tools as well as effective tools during the onboarding process.

Organizations that integrate assessments beyond the hiring phase are Read More

A Guide To Evaluating Talent Management Software Systems

A Guide To Evaluating Talent Management Software Systems

Because you know that talent management is crucial to the success of your company, you’ve decided you need a new talent management system. Maybe Read More

Maintaining an HPO: Employees Make the Difference

Maintaining an HPO: Employees Make the Difference

As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, one of the goals of any business is to become an HPO — a high performance organization. That means Read More

Human Rights: The Scoop on State and Federal Monitoring

Human Rights: The Scoop on State and Federal Monitoring

Every state has a human rights commission that is tasked with investigating charges made by employees against their employers in issues of fairness. The federal Read More