A resume client of ours took a Director of HR position with a medium sized manufacturing company.
She's used to working for very large organizations.
She's a Fortune 500 kind of gal.
But after being out of work for nearly 6 months, they made her an offer and she took it.
She's used to working 60 or 70 hours a week.
They expect 40.
She's used to having to go through channels to get approvals for any new employee relations, hiring, and HR process changes....but she's it. They trust her and she makes her own decisions.
In her previous job, she played office politics, walked the line, dealt with a lot of egos.
Her new company is small, her boss straightforward, and everyone tells it like it is.
3 weeks after she took the role, her elderly parents were in a horrible car accident.
Her dad walked away mostly unscathed, but her mom broke her leg, her collarbone and had some internal injuries.
When her new employer found out, they told her "Go. Go to your parents." (her job is in North Carolina, her parents in Ohio).
So she did. She went to Ohio for a week.
During that time, her boss, the company COO, called/texted her nearly every day.
During that time, do you know how many times they talked about work?
Zero.
He was just sending well wishes, asking about her mom, and telling her that they'd hold down the fort in her absence.
When she sent me an email telling me about it, she said "They owe me nothing, but how they acted is everything."
Mom is on the mend, and our client is happily back to work.
Culture is not expensive.
It's not a program, or a policy, or a practice.
It's simple.
You treat people like humans. That's it.
And that's free.
You're welcome.
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