Being Found on LinkedIn is Good Business
By Catherine Lang-Cline While LinkedIn occasionally turns into something beyond a social network for business, we really want it for business. We look for connections and contacts but is your account set up so people can find you? Staying in the shadows may make you feel like you are hiding from solicitors, etc., but you […]
A Day in the Life: Q+A with Jenny Patton
A native of California, I’ve fallen in love with Columbus, where I teach in the English department at The Ohio State University and lead yoga-writing workshops. An avid journaler since age seven, I feel the impulse to write is in my veins. As a reporter and copywriter, I wrote other people’s stories, but now I […]
Flexibility Will Keep the Best Employees and Attracts New Talent
By Catherine Lang-Cline What was once a business perk is now the way we are all doing business. Employees are working remotely due to COVID-19 and according to this Smart Business Trends survey, 57% wanted to keep working remotely, 48% felt that they were more productive working from home, and more companies are embracing this […]
Employment Law: The 2020 Coronavirus Edition
By Kristen Harris Like previous years, we recently attended the American Staffing Association’s Staffing Law Conference to stay on top of laws and legislative issues related to hiring, employment, and human resources management. Of course, this year was like no other. The conference was virtual, but the content was as useful as ever. With many […]
Does Your Business Need To Pivot or Restructure?
By Catherine Lang-Cline All of the businesses that grew up along with us have seen a number of challenging local, national, and international events that have affected our businesses. Now, we as entrepreneurs and owners, have a challenge in front of us that means we may have to change how we do business entirely. A […]
Continue to Grow with Virtual Employees
By Catherine Lang-Cline We are in the second half of 2020 and it seems that we are going to have COVID-19 for longer than we expected, meaning, we still have a lot of people working virtually. For some companies, working virtually has been a whole new adventure. For others, it hasn’t been challenging at all. […]
Keep Up The March
By Catherine Lang-Cline When we started this business we had no idea how naive we were. That is really how it is supposed to be though, right? You start a new chapter in your book of life and it is all new and exciting. Back in 2005, we knew marketing and we knew people so […]
You Create More Diversity When You Pay Your Interns
By Catherine Lang-Cline We are all familiar with internships. Many of us had them or at least knew about them in school. Companies take on interns for a wide variety of reasons and they are typically all good reasons. You are offering a potential kick-start to their career but you may not be getting a […]
Remote Networking: An Introvert’s Dream?
By Kristen Harris I’ve written past articles about networking, especially as an introvert. I don’t love big events, lots of hand-shaking, or blanketing a room with my business card. Since we’re doing a lot of working from home and most events have been canceled or postponed for the near future, you’d think this would be […]
Inclusion: Stop Hiring for Culture Fit and Start Hiring for Values
By Kristen Harris We hear this all the time–“we hire for culture fit,” “not sure that person is a culture fit,” “we’re looking for someone who fits our culture.” I’ve personally said that phrase an endless amount of times. Finding a “culture fit” for your team has seemed to be the holy grail…”this person has […]