In Part 1, you thought about your culture, and built your lists. In part 2, you developed your questions, and thought about the data you wanted to gather. You started with closed or behavior-description questions, so you had a place to start the conversation. Now, in part 3, you’re going to think about when to
You have your lists from What Culture Do You Want in a New Job, Part 1. That means you have six lists: Three things you enjoyed talking about at work Three things you shook your head about, or made you say, “Huh, what is going on here?” Three things that you enjoyed about how the
One of the things I suggest in Manage Your Job Search is to think about your culture when or before you start interviewing. How do you do that? An organization’s culture is made of these three things: What’s okay to talk about? How do you treat people? What do you reward? You can’t just ask
I have a post, What’s the Culture on Your Project? that discusses the project issues of the Romney campaign. But there is a deeper issue. On a post that no longer exists there was an insightful comment from someone named redcal: who you hire to do the job DEFINES how well you do your job
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