Theadora Kaiser is an Editorial Designer for Comstock’s magazine. She earned her B.A. in design from The University of California Davis and volunteers with Creative Mornings Sacramento when she’s not freelancing. Her design thinking skills allow her to create high-quality, user-centered designs. (theadora.design)
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Listen to the Listings
Three pricing tips for selling your house in 2019
You can hire the best agent in town, stage your home and get the
most professional photographs ever, but if you don’t understand
the relationship between sales and listings, you may struggle to
sell.
Dilemma of The Month: Coaching An Inexperienced Manager
I’m in my 50s and the HR manager for a startup — about 80 people and the average employee is under 30. I’m dealing with a 20-something problem employee. She’s dramatic, often disrupting work with her grievances. Despite my recommendation, her manager (also young) won’t put her on a performance improvement plan over concerns it will reinforce the idea we have a toxic environment. What can I do?
Dilemma Of The Month: How To Handle An Activist Employee
One of our employees is a vegan activist, and has started posting material on the “evils of eating meat” outside his cubicle or leaving them strewn around shared spaces (in the kitchen, near the copier, etc.). Is there anything I can do about this behavior?
Just Don’t Do It
Four things to avoid when remodeling your home
You don’t have to be a licensed contractor to fix up a home, but it’s easy to sniff out quality work versus something an owner did after a weekend of binging on HGTV.
Dilemma of The Month: When HR And Department Heads Clash
I’m the HR manager for my company, and a director wanted to write up an employee for posting an article titled “Employees Don’t Leave Jobs, They Leave Managers” on her personal LinkedIn account. The director had already spoken with the employee and asked her to remove the article from LinkedIn, which she did. However, this doesn’t appear to be a violation of our organization’s social media policy. What should I do?
We Need a Local Manufacturing Revolution
Manufacturing is too important to ignore, and the Capital Region needs to harness this sector for prosperity
How CEOs Can Identify Their Blind Spots
Leaders need to seek outside help to improve organizational culture
Do CEOs really want to know what their employees say about them? Do they actually want to hear about inefficiencies, overly-complex workarounds or gossip going around the coffee machine? Of course they should — although many don’t.
Which Path Forward?
How to fund a business may be the most important decision an entrepreneur makes — here are some tips for finding your way
Having a great idea is easy. But turning that idea into a business is a bit more difficult. From creating a product with market viability, to hiring staff and growing to scale, the road to entrepreneurship is rife with obstacles. But, perhaps none are as fundamental as the age-old question of how to fund.