Reading Time: 7 minutes When recruiting new team members, evaluating for “culture fit” is an outdated practice because it can lead to discriminatory hiring practices. When you rely on rapport as a major hiring criteria, you’ll prefer candidates with whom you easily connect … likely because of common ground
Reading Time: 10 minutes Inspired by Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game and King Arthur Flour’s Covid-19 response, Stories Inc. co-founder and partner Scott Thompson examines leading with an infinite mindset. With many people turning to baking as a source of comfort during the Covid-19 lockdown, King Arthur Flour flew
Reading Time: 7 minutes Tobi Lutke, Shopify’s founder and CEO, is one of my favorite business leaders and thinkers. The following story (which I’m paraphrasing from his interview on the Knowledge Project podcast in 2018), is incredibly timely given Shopify’s announcement today. These instances illustrate the relationship between leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stories Inc. launches Virtual Story Sessions, our new service that captures remote employee video content. Capture your employees’ stories in high-definition video and audio, and receive an array of content reflecting virtual workplace cultures and diverse employee experiences. Stories Inc. specializes in capturing distinct workplace
Reading Time: 6 minutes Having an unlimited vacation policy is very cool of you. It’s a hallmark of a progressive company. On it’s face, it seems like a great idea. Surely, this new policy will recharge your team and empower employees, all while promoting a culture of trust. Stories
Reading Time: 6 minutes Whether your audience is candidates, employees, customers, or all three, talking to your audience in the midst of the pandemic is challenging. Here’s a trick: include employee experience stories to show the impact of company decisions while give your underlying messages emotional and substantive heft.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Your team members have experienced tremendous change throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Employees want to share their stories of working in the pandemic, and these stories are important content for your employer brand. Your employees’ lives and work have changed dramatically in the pandemic. Some are
Reading Time: 7 minutes COVID-19 changed the employment world for nurses and other healthcare industry team members, seemingly overnight. However, what has not changed is a critical, long-term need to attract the best nursing talent. Nurse Appreciation Week is May 6-12, and the World Health Organization named 2020
Reading Time: 11 minutes I have been a member of the remote workforce and a parent who works from home since 2009. I’ve worked from home as a mom of babies, toddlers, preschoolers, big kids, sick children. It has never been as difficult as parenting and working during COVID-19.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Stories Inc. co-founder Scott Thompson shares his core beliefs on leadership during crisis, and why doing everything possible to avoid layoffs is of utmost importance. Watching the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 unfold—from my then perspective as a second-year MBA student—made a lasting impression on
Reading Time: 10 minutes Social media and employer brand have an important relationship during, and in the transition out of, the COVID-19 pandemic. This piece is part of Stories Inc.’s ongoing series on crisis communications for employer brand and recruitment marketing leaders. We don’t know exactly how long the
Reading Time: 5 minutes There are so many amazing stories happening at workplaces during the pandemic that candidates and team members will want to know about. Capture your employee stories during COVID-19 right now. You can share them with candidates later. One of my favorite writers and thinkers, Tim