Come to think of it, they’ve been all men. Unshaven men wearing “Alcatraz” t-shirts and smelling of taco trucks and Mountain Dew and playing Rock Band or World of Warcraft or Words with Friends. Okay, that’s a unfair exaggeration, and my apologies to my tech brethren, but it is true that every single technology company [...]
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Learn to play nice with girls in tech playgrounds
Posted: 12th March 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Career Management, Employment Brand, Human Resources, Leadership, Marketing Communications, Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Community, Training and Development, Workplace CultureTags: Recruiting, Talent Networks, teaching girls, women in tech
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Performance reviews are like bad high school movies
Posted: 6th January 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Assessments, Human Resources, Leadership, Performance Management, Talent Management, Training and Development, Workplace CultureTags: best practices, business case, human resources, performance appraisals, performance reviews, TChat, tchat recap
It’s like a bad high school movie — where one clique picks on another less popular clique. But in this movie, it’s not the popular kids who taunt the geeky ones. No, in this movie the still popular kids are traditional Annual Performance Reviews and the geeky aberrations are the pundits pushing to change the [...]