Tag: Pinnacle Solutions
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An Open Letter to Our Leadership Team
To the other members of the Leadership Team, You guys aren’t right in the head. Well, some people would say that, anyway. See, you are not like most companies. You think differently. You frame decision-making with two separate (but related) lenses: customers and employees. That’s so uncommon that I just had to let you know…
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Is Human Resource Management a Good Career? (Yep!)
The story of my human resource management career rolls merrily along… Well, it happened. I knew the day was coming, and it is finally here. My manager recently announced her plan to go to part-time and semi-retire from the company, and with her support I was moved to be the lead of all HR/recruiting activities…
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How to Become a Best Place to Work
If you’re looking for ideas on how to become a best place to work, maybe I can help. On Tuesday I had the opportunity to attend the Huntsville Best Places to Work Awards ceremony, and Pinnacle received an award in the “micro” size business category. Over 200 companies were nominated to kick off the process,…
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Our accidental wellness program
A quick decision at work last fall has led to untold hours of friendship and fun, and it was entirely unplanned. This is the story of our accidental wellness program. August 2011 One of our engineers decided to start training for a local marathon. She was already running some, and a few of us at…
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How to Create a New Hire Welcome Letter
Have you ever wondered how to send a new hire welcome letter to get the employment relationship started on the right foot? I started sending a letter to new hires last year, and I’ve tweaked it over time to cover more questions, beef up explanations, and pretty much share as much information as I possibly…
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Job interview test-Let’s see what you can do
Ever been quizzed in a job interview? Test prep is difficult when the interviewer moves away from the rote questions and asks you to actually perform the job as a display of your competency. I ran across this great post the other day by Jorden Bartlett and just had to share. She talks about using tests…
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Never underestimate the power of face-to-face interaction
We are a small company, but we have employees scattered around the US. Last Friday, Mike (our CEO) and I headed down to Fort Walton Beach for our quarterly All Hands Briefing. We only have three employees there, but when we showed up, it was so much fun to see how excited they were to…