Vacation policies are boring, dull, and yet totally essential for the health and morale of your company. Many businesses don’t have PTO plans because they don’t want to cover everybody fairly. Harsh but true. Some companies don’t want to put money away to pay out unused vacation when you quit, either. So they say things…
I’ve worked in human resources since 1995. Young men and women look to me as a role model, and I love being a mentor. I’ve worked with SHRM and several universities to help graduates find careers within HR that align with their talents and dreams. When I ask young HR professionals why they want to…
Welcome to 2017, everybody. A new year means a fresh start for each of us, including me. I am now a software CEO. My primary product, GlitchPath, is an online premortem that helps teams beat failure and find new paths to success. Our launch date for select users is January 23, 2017. The second product,…
I always end the year by writing about my accomplishments, failure, regrets and resolutions. This post is all about my biggest 2016 resolutions. I go back and forth on resolutions. Sometimes I think they’re valid. Sometimes it feels like a crock of shit. But a friend of mine who blogs under the name “HR Wench”…
I always end the year by writing about my accomplishments, failure, regrets and resolutions. This post is all about my biggest 2016 regrets, and the list is too long to replicate on my blog. My regrets fall into specific categories: angry conversations, missed opportunities, inconsiderate words, and inattentive behaviors. And some of my regrets are…
I always end the year by writing about my accomplishments, failure, regrets and resolutions. This post is all about my biggest 2016 failure, which is funny because I started a company to help teams beat failure. People might think I don’t like to fail, and that’s just not true. In fact, I believe that it’s…
I always end the year by writing about my accomplishments, failure, regrets and resolutions. This post is all about 2016 accomplishments. If I’m being honest, I had a record-breaking year of doing things the hard way. That’s 2016 for you. Everything was a slog. But here’s one thing I started doing right: I asked for advice…
Every year, I threaten to do performance reviews on the cats. This is the year it happens. Jake, 16 Glorious man cat. • #cats #catsofinstagram #tabbylove #jake A photo posted by Laurie Ruettimann (@lruettimann) on Mar 4, 2016 at 1:52pm PST Summary: Mister Jake is in the fourth quarter of life, so the fact that…
Years ago, I wrote for a magazine called The Conference Board Review. One of my editors was Vadim Liberman, and he was the sort of boss who taught me all about logical fallacies without overtly saying, “Hey, your article is a piece of garbage and makes no sense.” In return for his excellent editing and critical…
There’s a meme going around. It looks like this: If you spend any time on the internet, we all have that one follower who likes and comments on everything. Without that follower, we’d have nobody. It’s why the meme doesn’t sit well with me. It seems condescending because that one fan probably doesn’t realize she’s…
