Questions to Help You Decide Whether to Stay or Leave a Job

Originally published at https://www.thrivecoaching.io. If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions. — Albert Einstein Part of understanding the problem is making sure you’re asking the right questions. Unfortunately, we’re not taught in school how to ask ourselves better questions. Our ...

30-Day Earth Challenge

How fast do these things biodegrade if left in the environment? Vegetables? 5 days – 1 monthPaper? 2–5 monthsOrange peels? 6 monthsTin cans? 50–100 yearsStyrofoam cups? 500 years to foreverPlastic bags? 500 years to forever 500 years to forever 500 years to forever 500 years to forever 500 years to forever 500 years to forever ...

Marketing to HR: The Best Newsletters, Content Syndications, Slack Communities and Podcasts to Fuel Your Marketing

If you’re new to HR marketing/sales, then you know there’s a lot to learn. This is especially true for the majority of us who weren’t in HR or people Operations before. An excellent way to learn about the function is to immerse yourself in their world. One way I made the transition from marketing to ...

Company, people, and personal growth: me on the Wayfinding Growth podcast

Recently, I had the pleasure to join Remington Begg and Dan Moyle of Impulse Creative on their brilliant podcast, Wayfinding Growth. If you’re not familiar with the format, they interview authors like Chris Lochhead author of Play Bigger and founders Wistia’s Chris Savage, Tettra’s Nelson Joyce and me about our growth stories. The theme is ...

Reimagining the role and goal of employee perks

Last year, right before the holidays I created a video on YouTube highlighting one of the few many we’re re-thinking perks at Compt. Before creating the video, I wanted to see what other people thought about this new approach, so I shared the idea with everyone I could find. From POPs professionals to managers to ...

My Top 10 of 2018

Another year, another top 10 post. Here’s my highlights from 2018: Started my next career chapter. Invested in me and got a career coach. Attended SXSW Ran 2 half marathons. Hiked half of the Pemi-Loop Traveled to Montreal. Took a trip around Australia. New mom status: Arriving soon. Developed a financial investment portfolio and plan ...

Exciting new world ahead for HR (or People Operations, I should say)

If you’ve followed my journey for the past year, you’re aware that I left my long-time gig with HubSpot to build my own software company with two fantastic other people. It’s been 11 months since we officially started Compt and holy cow change. It’s more exciting and also more difficult than I previously imagined. Some things that stand ...

New HR Trends and Innovations Newsletter from Compt

Every month the Compt team puts out a newsletter full of new HR ideas, stories, examples, and other interesting content. Our purpose? To surface HR trends and innovations to you. Join the HR trends and innovations newsletter. ...

My top 10 of 2017

If you know me, you know that I emphasize the reflection process in my life as a way to learn, grow, and improve. Also, life moves fast, and so this is one of my favorite ways to capture the moments and look back on them too. Without further ado, this year’s top 10 moments in ...