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Want Honest Employee Feedback? Try These Strategies

An article in the October 2018 issue of Entrepreneur surveyed successful entrepreneurs on one question — How do you encourage your employees to give you honest feedback?  Their responses were both interesting and practical. One entrepreneur talked about the importance of establishing a culture that welcomes honest feedback.  She makes…

Landmark Study Finds Workplace Culture Is Strongest Predictor of Sexual Harassment

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has just concluded a major study on sexual harassment.  It offers some interesting new insights relevant to California employers and employees. According to the study, the strongest predictor of whether sexual harassment will occur (or not) in the workplace is…

What Makes a Company “Culture”?

In the current job market, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, good employees are more valuable now than perhaps ever.  Almost every one of my clients is looking to hire, and almost every one looking is complaining that that they “can’t find anyone good.”  It’s a seller’s market, and…