7 Tips for Firing an Employee Gracefully and Ethically
One of the most challenging decisions we have to make is to part ways with a team member as a leader. Of course, sometimes, this is inevitable.
Built For Teams: An HR System For People Who Don’t Know HR
Built for Teams is the most intuitive, prettiest HR system you’ll ever see.
Does Your Startup Have An “Employer Brand?”
Make sure your startup is pulling the best talent when it’s time to hire by building out your employer brand with Clinch.
7 Things To Consider Before You Start Hiring
Hiring is one of the most important things you will do in your business. Make sure you’re prepared to get the best team you can.
The Most Important Skills Early-Stage Hires Should Have
When it comes to your very first team members, which skills are more important to you?
3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee
The typical, “Why do you want to work here?” won’t really tell you want you want or need to know.
How To Recruit Top Talent In A Tech Startup (Video)
Simply offering to pay developers isn’t enough anymore. In this video, Hukkster founders Kate Finnegan and Erica Bell explain how to recruit top talent for a tech startup.
12 Ways To Positively Impact Your Company Culture
Even a small change can make a big impact! Successful entrepreneurs share twelve small changes that can impact your company culture in MAJOR ways.
10 Ways To Recruit This Year’s Smartest College Grads
Find out ten ways to recruit college grads for your startup.
8 Qualities To Look For In Your Newest Team Member
You can be the smartest and most technically gifted candidate that I’ve ever met, but if I can’t detect that you’ll do whatever it takes to succeed in your job and help drive the organization’s growth, I probably won’t take a chance on you. Self-starters with indisputably strong work ethics are almost…
Why Purpose Matters In The Workplace
Today’s employees want their work to have meaning. Today’s leaders have the largest influence in creating meaning in the workplace. But, more than 70 percent of American workers dislike what they do for a living. This poor engagement at work is costing an estimated $550 billion in loss of productivity in…
10 Tips For Putting Together Your First Performance Review
There’s a top-down and bottom-up approach to reviews. I’m a fan of bottom-up reviews, since coworkers often know more about one another’s work ethic than “the boss” does. The best thing I ever did was including myself on the anonymous ballot, allowing my team to assess me as a leader. It created more of an…
Three Key Hiring Lessons For Growing Startups
Recently, my startup Speek closed our Series A funding round. It was a lot of hard work, and I am incredibly proud of our team for making it through with our sanity (mostly) intact. But now it’s time to add to that team. We’ll be leveraging our Series A capital to bring two or three new people on board every…
3 Simple Ways To Attract Top Startup Talent
Adding to your startup’s staff represents a major challenge for many small business owners. While there’s no arguing that bringing on rock star employees can help advance your business objectives faster than bottom-of-the-barrel applicants, you may not have the leverage of high salaries, exorbitant…
Hiring Made Easy – Picking The Perfect Candidate From Your List Of Hopefuls
Last time we took a look about how best to go about getting started with the hiring process, including the best places to look to find great candidates. So, now that you’ve scoured AngelList, blew up a ton of LinkedIn inboxes and had one too many drinks at too many meetups to count, you’ve amassed an…
5 Tips For Leading Your Remote Staff To Success
In the past year, my content marketing agency has grown from a solo shop to a staff of nine. On any given day, I won’t see any of them – not my editorial director, who lives in Washington, D.C.; not my office manager, who lives just a few miles away from me in Baton Rouge; and definitely not the Air Force…
10 Right Ways To Fire An Employee
Firing someone is never easy, but you have to be prepared with what you’re going to say and not waver from that position. It’s unfortunate that, as an employer, you have to be wary about potential litigation when firing someone. That’s why it’s best to just keep it short and professional. It’s often a good…
Why Self-Evaluations And Job Descriptions Matter Even More For Startups
Startup culture is characterized by an almost universal hatred for archaic corporate bureaucracy and anything else that even remotely resembles a plot line for The Office. But in our haste to be less like our predecessors, have some of the more meaningful protocols fallen by the millennial wayside?
How To Get (And Keep) More Women In IT Positions
Solomon recently came alongside Kansas City Women in Technology, a new organization that aims to get more young women involved in IT and enable those already in the industry to advance their careers. I agreed to deliver the keynote address at KCWiT’s recent meeting and to lead a breakout session on IT…
How To Let An Employee Go Without Being A D-Bag
It is probably the worst part about being in charge – firing someone. Regardless of whether or not the economy is on an upswing, telling someone that they aren’t going to have a source of income (from your company anyway) any longer is really difficult. Let’s being real the firing process is uncomfortable for…
