I wrote a series on cultural fit for my Pragmatic Manager email newsletter. In reverse order they were: How Do We Treat Each Other? What Does Your Organization Reward? What is Okay for You to Discuss? Those are the three biggies when you talk about organizational culture. That’s what candidates see when you hire. That’s […]
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Vol 9, #15: Your Culture:How Do We Treat Each Other? October 3, 2012 ISSN:2164-1196 In This Issue: Your Culture:
I’m finally writing a Pragmatic Manager email to my faithful readers. That’s when I noticed I had forgotten to post my July email newsletter. Yikes! So, here is What Does Your Organization Reward? I am committed to emailing another email newsletter this week. Are you on my newsletter list? Sign up on my site or
Now, say you are looking for a job as an agile project manager. Some people might say that’s a crazy job. But hang in there with me for a minute. Imagine you have two or three teams, larger than two pizzas might feed. So, you might well need an agile project manager to coordinate the
If you are looking for a project manager, what questions might you ask? Well, it might depend if you are agile, or geographically distributed, or how large a project or program you have. All of those pieces of your context are going to feed into your question development. I hope you ask behavior-description questions. That
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.Vol 9, #14: Your Culture:What Does Your Organization Reward? July 31, 2012 ISSN:2164-1196 In This Issue: Your Culture: What
I wrote the first of a three-part series about looking at culture when you hire people last month. I posted that Pragmatic Manager, Your Culture: What is Okay for You to Discuss? and forgot to tell you. If you are on my email list, you received today’s Pragmatic Manager about what the organization values and
Jeff Haden, over at Inc, says that these three interview questions reveal everything. You are supposed to go down the person’s resume and ask them about each and every job they have ever had. The questions are: How did you find out about the job? What did you like about the job before you started?
In an interview, you have an opportunity to ask questions. Good interviewers will ask What Questions Do You Have For Me? What questions do you ask? It depends where you are in the interview process. Start with Culture I like to start with culture. As a candidate, these are ideal questions to ask in a
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Vol 9, #13: Your Culture:What is Okay for You to Discuss? June 13, 2012 ISSN:2164-1196 In This Issue: