Carolee Colter

Organization:

CDS Consulting Co-op

Website:

http://www.cdsconsulting.coop

Email:

caroleecolter@cdsconsulting.coop

Carolee Colter is a member of CDS Consulting Co-op and is based in Nelson, British Columbia.

Articles by Carolee Colter

Updating Trends in General Manager Compensation

Issue: 156 October 2011

Note: There are additional charts in the pdf version of the story.

Several years ago in this magazine, Mark Goehring and I proposed a new process for management compensation (CG...

Questioning At-Will Employment

Issue: 152 Jan-Feb 2011

In the previous edition of this magazine (CG #151, November–December 2010) we read about the progress of the Domestic Fair Trade Association in establishing principles for domestic fair trade....

A Cooperative Grievance Procedure

Issue: #146 January - February - 2010

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What recourse do co-op employees have if adversely...

Evaluating the General Manager

Issue: #143 July - August - 2009

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A board evaluating the general manager (GM) of a...

Counting on Co-op Employees

Issue: #141 March - April - 2009

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Hiring a General Manager

Issue: #139 November - December - 2008

Back in 1997 I wrote a manual for the “Toolbox for Co-op Boards of Directors” series, published by Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund and distributed by Cooperative Grocer. Its purpose was...

Setting a Process for General Manager Compensation

Issue: #134 Jan - Feb - 2008

This article has charts and tables that are
available here in pdf form...

Evaluations That Inspire

Issue: #132 September - October - 2007

Mary Jones had reason to look forward with optimism to her upcoming performance review. She felt that over the past six months she had built a track record of good solid performance working as a...

Handling Emotional Conflict of Interest

Issue: #130 May - June - 2007

By now, probably most co-op boards of directors have a policy on conflicts of interest. For example, when a board member has a financial stake in a company that potentially or actually competes or...

Preparing for Disaster

Issue: #128 January - February - 2007

Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, pandemics. There was a time when the possibility of experiencing such disasters might have seemed remote. Hurricane Katrina woke us up to our...