Golden State HR

05/15/2014

Great PASCO program on Disaster Preparedness for HR Professionals today at the American Red Cross...are you prepared?

03/07/2014

March 7th is Employee Appreciation Day! Practice the "five pennies" rule. Put five pennies in one pocket and transfer each to another pocket. How? Every time you give an employee/co-worker positive feedback, move a penny over. Just a compliment, or a pat on the back. What a wonder way to make someone feel great and you'll feel great as well!

02/20/2014

Trashing the annual performance review! Here’s a very interesting article about a topic that a friend and colleague had with me describing Adobe’s decision to do away with the traditional annual performance review. The article suggests that the process is an administrative burden to managers and a stressful, valueless experience for the employee. The “replacement” system is regular check-ins with plenty of feedback. Funny, this is what employers should be doing to make the traditional annual process effective. Communicating goals and performance expectations, keeping an eye on what employees are doing and accomplishing, coaching to correct problems at the onset and plenty of feedback, both positive and negative are what make any performance evaluation process work well. I like eliminating the traditional system. I think stack-ranking is like muscial chairs or "voting someone off the island". To make Adobe’s new process successful requires well-trained managers to keep their vigilance and also to document performance somehow, sometime. Good read. Thanks, Michael! http://beta.slashdot.org/story/197877

11/19/2013

Attention California Employers! Sacramento is at it again. This newly enacted law is effective July 2014, but you need to think about it now.

Recently, changes were enacted to expand the definition of “family” with respect to Paid Family Leave, which is an employee-paid disability insurance program in California. Until now, it helped r...

11/19/2013

Wouldn’t you love to achieve all of your goals, spend time enjoying things you love and still have a little time left over? You can do it! It will require a bit of “reprogramming” your time.

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Cathy Taylor

11/15/2013

Your recruitment needs a strategic approach. Your process needs to reflect your organization’s vision and values. It needs to be well planned and executed. Each hire needs its own well thought out approach – it’s not a one size fits all. The ROI on talent procurements must be maximized to keep organization’s on target, competitive and profitable.

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Cathy Taylor

11/15/2013

My favored way of engaging in performance remediation is using a process coined by Dick Grote as “Discipline without Punishment”. He differentiates “discipline” into three categories: building superior performance, coaching and formal disciplinary action.