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InvestHumanIH040 | Bart Bailey | Unconscious Bias and BelongingIn this episode, Bart Bailey takes us on a journey to broaden our understanding of tribal behavior and our need to connect with folks like us. According to Bart, it’s natural and that need is strongly tied to our childhood stories. That said, being mindful about what we are thinking and feeling, sets us up for true awareness and options regarding impact and choices. As leaders, we hold the responsibility to foster a safe climate for people of all backgrounds to thrive. 2019-02-0700 minInvestHumanIH039 | Lee Kiper | Kindness - The Secret to a High Performing TeamTo Lee Kiper, kindness is bringing value to people’s lives without expecting anything in return. He believes when you lead with kindness, then it will lead to success. He doesn't only believe it, he lives it. Lee runs the #1 top performing sales group in Sprint’s BISO unit and accredits their success to a culture of kindness. They have not only been the top producers, they have consistently had the highest employee engagement - even during tough trying times - and have also promoted more people than any other business unit. Lee shared how he’s sustained this people...2019-01-3100 minInvestHumanIH038 | Todd Uterstaedt | From Founder to CEOTransitioning from being a baby to an adult has many shaky regions in between, such is the same with moving a startup into a full-fledged organization, but with less time and a lot more people to manage. In this episode Todd discusses with us the ins and outs of successfully moving your people from startup phase to being well on your way to Fortune 500. Hear what he has learned from hundreds of Founders who have become CEOs of large organizations, about leadership, hiring and company culture. Learn about becoming a CEO that Cultivates the right leadership at...2019-01-2400 minInvestHumanIH037 | David Goldsmith | Steps to EmpowermentIn this discussion with David Goldsmith he discusses with us how some simple shifts in our way of thinking can help us to better ensure that we are really empowering our people to thrive as individuals. David gives us a step by step guide that can be used across the board in any industry and any country to empower our people to get things accomplished in a way that brings out the best in them. Amidst it all he discusses raising our awareness when interacting or forming a view around a thing or person; challenging our own views; leading...2019-01-1000 minInvestHumanIH036 | Andy Storch | Experiential Learning In this episode we’ll take a dive with Andy on Experiential Learning. We will discuss: The reasons people learn best through experience The importance of connecting learning programs to strategy The importance of communicating the “why?” behind a strategy and decisions The importance of coaching and other tools to reinforce learning 2018-12-1300 minInvestHumanIH035 | Kristin Sokol | The Thought RevolutionOur guest, Kristin Sokol, designed the Thought Revolution because she saw a trend with her coaching clients - like many of us, they were at war in their mind. In this episode we talk about how to manage thoughts and emotions because, as Kristin explains, when you’re aware that you’re in a negative thought cycle then you can regain control and change your thoughts. Listeners will learn the science behind why we’re often driven by our emotions, a helpful model to manage your thought process and how to practically apply this model which could ultimately change your q...2018-11-2900 minInvestHumanIH034 | Dr. Anita Chandra | Fostering Wellbeing Beyond the WorkplaceOur lives don’t start at 8am when work begins and they don’t end at 5pm when work is over. In this episode we move beyond the norms of employee wellness programs and discuss dimensions of wellbeing beyond the workplace. This is important because fostering wellbeing on the city and regional level undoubtedly trickles down to the workplace level. In this episode Dr. Chandra leads us as we explore how companies can actively facilitate wellness beyond the working hours and how it can positively impact the workplace.2018-11-1500 minInvestHumanIH033 | Karen Pelot | The Truth About ConflictConflict is defined as a serious disagreement or argument, a quarrel a squabble, a battle, it's uncomfortable, it's awkward... none of that sounds pleasant does it? Yet somehow, Karen is able to see the light in this terribly uncomfortable situation and helps others work through conflict in an incredibly healthy and helpful way. She uses her years of expertise at intense mediation tables, supportive research from scholars and well-designed strategies to help give conflict a better reputation.2018-10-2500 minInvestHumanIH032 | Jacqueline House | Leveraging the Power of Your FollowersUnderstanding the dynamics of theory allows leaders to strategically manage relationships and begin to move teams toward maximum productivity. Grasping the basic variables will afford leaders an opportunity to positively structure relationships with followers empowering them to work beyond their job descriptions. A group of followers who are creatively engaged can catapult a team beyond the sum of its parts. In this episode, we’ll discuss Leader-Member Exchange Theory; Propose a Fresh View on Appointing Leaders; and The Importance of Leaders Caring about their Followers.2018-10-1100 minInvestHumanIH031 | Nachi Junankar | AI – A Win-Win for Both Recruiters and CandidatesAI? I thought we were investing in humans. You are right! In this episode Nachi Junankar shares with us how AI allows humans to do what they are best at and machines to do what they are good at. We will learn how machine learning is a powerful way to transform and enable companies in hiring the right people in and engaging and transparent way. AI brings no elephant into the room of human-ness, it helps us to be humans.2018-09-2700 minInvestHumanIH030 | Mi’Shon Landry | Inclusive Leadership: Traits and Behaviors that create an Inclusive and Welcoming EnvironmentResearch shows 80% of individuals who work with an Inclusive Leader were more productive, motivated, and loyal to the organization as well as willing to go the extra mile. Inclusive leaders understand that in order for collaboration to be successful, individuals must be willing to share their diverse perspectives and experiences. However, only two thirds of the respondents stated that in their experience less than half of their managers and Senior Leaders actually demonstrated inclusive behaviors and traits. Given this, how do we then identify and create more Inclusive Leaders to adopt methods that produce sustainable outcomes? In today’s ep...2018-05-0300 minInvestHumanIH029 | Thomas Harrell | Corporate Training is Dead: Here’s Why?Learning and development practitioners are tasked to move at the speed of business. But the reality is, it’s not feasible. As a result, L&D practitioners and the learners they serve must have a mind shift that: Recognizes there’s a ton of learning going on AWAY from the company’s LMS L&D leaders must be okay with this and not see it as a threat L&D leaders must build the correct ecosystem to acknowledge the learning their team is gobbling up L&D leaders must encourage self-directed learning even more to augment their efforts In t...2018-03-0700 minInvestHumanIH028 | Ravi Hutheesing | Leading a Global Future of WorkThe future of work on a global scale looks very bright. However, when analyzing the individual contributors to its potential success we can get a little overwhelmed. Today Ravi will discuss with us some of the major factors that will influence the trajectory of the global future of work. We’ll discuss aging patterns, education, globalization and technology. What will work look like? His theories will take us on a surprising thought provoking journey and he’ll help us to navigate a proactive approach to an amazing future in the global landscape of human productivity and world peace!2018-02-2200 minInvestHumanIH027 | Sky Jarrett | Mindfulness at WorkMindfulness has been identified as one of the top 10 trends globally in 2017. Many Big large corporations are cultivating mindfulness as a practice at work. As a society, we are now operating in an attention economy where our attention is constantly under siege and leads us to a condition scientists call Attention Deficit Trait. In this episode, Sky Jarrett will discuss with us the case for and neuroscience of mindfulness, the myth of multi-tasking, and mindfulness performance programs.2018-01-2500 minInvestHumanIH026 | Kelly Merbler | From Crystal to CallingWhat does success mean to you? Do you feel fulfilled by your work, awards and achievements, or promotions? Or are you someone who loves your job, but still yearning for more? In this episode Kelly Merbler shares with us her journey and talks to us about how finding our purpose or passion doesn’t always mean leaving our job or our company, we can find fulfillment in any environment that helps us cultivate our strengths and unleash our fullest potential.2018-01-1100 minInvestHumanThe Space of Grace—Creating a “Wholistic” WorkplaceIn truly meeting the needs of our employees in today’s workforce, we have to create a “wholistic” workplace. This episode explores how we accomplish that. We discuss the importance of authenticity, values, and supported heart transparency in the workplace. Mary shares with us five key strategies for moving from pain to power, as well as moving beyond our egoistic stories, imprints, old language and beliefs; and learning to understand and manage our energy in order to maximize productivity.2017-12-3100 minInvestHumanHow Strong Employee Brands Can Build Stronger Company BrandsEmployees can also be your company's best brand advocates. And since 50% of employees on social media are already posting about their company (based on MSL Group Social Employee Advocacy 2015 study), it's to the benefit of the company brand to ensure employees understand not only the company's brand voice but also their own and how the two are connected. On this episode Diane Diaz helps us to explore how we can find the happy medium between personal brand and company brand and use this to create winning organizations. 2017-11-3000 minInvestHumanIH 0023 | Tara Gidus Collingwood | Your Body is Business RelevantIn today’s episode, Your Body is Business Relevant, Tara will walk us through not only the importance of taking care of our total wellbeing, but how this directly ties to our output in business. Wouldn’t you love to have more energy? Better, more consistent results? Then you won’t want to miss all of the knowledge Tara is going to share on how we can achieve our fullest potential by simply, taking care of our bodies.2017-11-1500 minInvestHumanIH022 | Nancy Robin | Management is Dead!In today’s world, the workforce is looking to management for leadership. Gone are the days of do as you’re told and not as I do if you want to collect a paycheck. Therefore, coaching and Leadership are the keys for business success today. The key objective of the leader is to ensure their teams have the resources to get the job done along with assisting to remove any obstacles along the way. As evolved and technology driven as we may be as a society, success and the level of success we achieve is people driven. During this podcast...2017-11-0300 minInvestHumanThe Fear FactorThis topic of fear impacts everyone at some point in our lives and our careers. In this episode, Dayne Gingrich is going to share with us the healthier side of fear, and challenge us to push back against the notion of being “fearless” and instead fearLIVE by acknowledging its presence and facing it head on. He’s known to push his clients to redefined personal expectations, evolve their internal dialogue, and create intentional winning habits. #fearlive2017-10-1900 minInvestHumanIH020 | Dr. Laura Gallaher | The Human Element: Getting Real Work Done by Getting RealA lot of time is wasted every day, every week, every month, every year, on the "people" issues that get in the way of being productive. If everybody was more open and authentic from a place of self-assuredness, the workplace would be much more effective and efficient. In this episode, you’ll hear from our panel and Dr. Laura Gallaher on how to communicate in self-accountable and self-aware way. 2017-10-0500 minInvestHumanIH019 | John Eades | Effective Leadership in the Modern Work EnvironmentLeadership has always been important but it’s more important than ever before. Through LearnLoft’s work and research with their Welder Leader Program, they’ve uncovered what the most effective leaders do differently. “They simultaneously use high levels of “love” and “discipline.” In this episode John will take us into a deeper understanding of how leadership IS for everyone and how organizations can think differently to facilitate this in their employees, in order to achieve success for both the individual and the organization.2017-09-2100 minInvestHumanIH018 | Michael Gaines | The Power of StoryStorytelling has become the most effective part of internal and external customer gain. On this episode we explore how to communicate your story and how the power of story can be used for leadership efficacy in order to better lead your teams and position your product. 2017-09-0700 minInvestHumanIH017|Terri Lewis|Women in Leadership: Take up Your CrownIn previous episodes of this podcast we’ve covered a bit of the historical implications of women in leadership and the need for us to stop waiting to be facilitated. This episode's guest, Terri Lewis, helps us to dive deeper into the topic of Women in Leadership. Terri encourages women to take up their crowns. Set aside some of our societal fears and just be the right person for the right opportunity. This episode 17 covers preparation to receive the right opportunity and do well in it. 2017-08-2400 minInvestHumanShaping and Sustaining Cultures of Voice**To our dear listeners, Please excuse some of our noise blunders due to technical difficulties in this episode. The content was just too good not to share it with you!** Organizational silence can be detrimental to an organization’s success. Some may assume employee silence means everything is running smoothly. However, culture, morale, creativity, and innovation are negatively impacted in organizations that are not encouraging employees to share their feedback. In this podcast, we discuss organizational culture, causes of workplace silence, signs of a culture of silence, and propose key strategies for shaping cultures of voice. ...2017-08-1000 minInvestHumanIH015 | Joe Cox | Management Macro SkillsVerifiable evidence of managers’ impact on their department's productivity and contribution to profit derives from frequent, qualitative use of two macro skills - Leadership and Nurturing. Leadership satisfies intrinsic motivators while nurturing satisfies extrinsic motivators. Employees positively reciprocate when their needs are being met. That's engagement! Managers' needs usually differ from employees’ needs. In some cases, this discrepancy leads to insensitivity in manager and employee interactions. So, what’s the solution? That’s the focus of this podcast where we discuss the need to measure satisfaction, provide feedback, develop management macro skills, and assign accountability; and how all of this can ge...2017-07-2700 minInvestHumanIH014 | Jeff Wald | The Future of Work and On Demand EmploymentIn this episode Jeff will take us through an exciting podcast giving us a view of the future of work and on demand employment. The discussion will help both individuals and organizations begin to prepare for much of what’s ahead as it relates to the shift in work that we are currently experiencing as generations change and technology gives that extra boost forward. Some of the things we will cover include, break in lifetime employment contract; the key changes facing business today; and what a future state looks like for companies, worker and society. We also cover who ma...2017-07-1300 minInvestHumanIH013 | Daniel Nemzer | Developing Intrinsically Motivated TeamsOrganizations often focus on connecting with employees’ extrinsic motivators but often find it difficult to connect with employees’ intrinsic drives. On this podcast, we look at intrinsic motivation and propose strategies for tapping into what truly moves employees intrinsically for enhanced organizational performance. Some of the topics we cover include moments of impact, the bottom up approach, and intrinsic sprinting.2017-06-2900 minInvestHumanIH012 | Michael O'Brien | Building A Trusting Tribe Through ConversationsOne could say, conversations are like air, no one needs to tell you how breathe – and no one really has to tell us how to engage in conversations, right? It’s mainly talking, a little bit of listening (lol). But in fact, conversations are critical to building all of our relationships. In this episode Michael will enlighten us about not only the importance of effective conversations, but how we can build trust and therefor stronger relationships, by having better-quality conversations.2017-06-1500 minInvestHumanIH011 - Jean-Philippe (J.P.) Michel - Developing Talent Before They are in the DoorIn this ever changing environment many jobs are either ceasing to exist or going through some sort of revamp. As well many new job types are rapidly appearing in the job market. This makes it difficult to find talent prepared for a specific job. So how do we prepare talent to be ready for the jobs in our organization before they even enter our pool of potential talent. In today’s session we will discuss with Jean-Philippe (J.P.) Michel, developing talent before they are in the door.2017-06-0100 minInvestHumanIH010 - Angela Sebaly - Courageous LeadershipLeadership and leadership development is important to every organization’s success. In this podcast session, we’ll explore the relationship between leadership and pain. Some of the things we explore during this session are what are pain thresholds, why is it important to know our pain thresholds, and what are some painful roles of leadership?2017-05-1800 minInvestHumanIH09 - Dr. Edwiygh Franck - The Importance of Learning Transfer in the WorkplaceOrganizations today, are spending an average of just over $700 per learner on training and development. Increase the numbers of employees requiring some form of training and that cost sky rockets quickly. Yet, the impact of those learning experiences is rarely measured beyond the “how was the training experience” perception shared by learners. In this podcast, we discuss strategies for maximizing learning transfer and measuring training and development impact. 2017-05-0400 minInvestHumanIH08 - Belinda Brown - The Critical Need to Invest in Women LeadersWe’re seeing a change with enrollment in undergraduate and graduate degrees with 65% being women. We’re also seeing a changing workforce, with more than half of the workforce today being comprised of women managing organizations. Join us as we discuss how this shift in demographics is impacting the workforce and how organizations can aptly prepare. During this podcast, we also explore female leadership as an asset for sustainability and profitability and propose strategies for empowering women in impacting communities and the world at large.2017-05-0400 minInvestHumanIH06 | Michael Sabbag | Measuring Organizational Culture: Identifying Attributes to Keep and ChangeOrganizational culture is a key driver of success. It impacts how leaders lead, office design, what is expected of people, and, ultimately, the experience people have with the organization. However, organizations rarely think about culture as a strategic tool and design the culture they wish to have. Rather, they do one-off projects like a leadership development class or introducing a new benefit and hope things get better without any metrics assessed as part of the design and with no overarching goal for change. Best practice organizations measure various aspects of their culture and strategically design how they...2017-05-0200 minInvestHumanIH07 | Lizeth Santamaria | Discover Your Leadership Power Through CoachingCoaching is a powerful leadership development tool not leveraged as often as it should be. During this podcast episode, we explore key issues to engage employees through coaching, elements necessary for successful coaching, and benefits of coaching.2017-05-0200 minInvestHumanIH05 | Deborah Whitehouse | The Evolution of Women in Leadership and Entrepreneurship With tremendous experience as a leader and successful entrepreneur within a predominantly male dominated field, the construction industry, Deborah discusses what attracted her to the field and to what she attributes her success. During this session, we also explore the root of unconscious bias and how to uncover it within gender bias, the role mentorship plays in women entrepreneur and leadership development, and the changing landscape of the past, present, and future for women entrepreneurs. 2017-04-2300 minInvestHumanIH04 | Geoff Colvin | 21st Century Critical Human Skills that Robots Aren’t Able to Fill.The world has an ever growing fear of change and the devaluation of human workers. It is true, technology is rapidly gaining on us and helping organizations to function we as humans normally do. So how can we prepare for this? In this episode, Geoff will discuss’ with us what humans have that robots don’t and what makes it the critical skill to the economy of today and tomorrow. You’ll gain some key insight on how to prepare individuals and companies for this highly technological world of work. You’ll also here Geoff’s insight on what im...2017-04-2300 minInvestHumanIH03 | Jennifer Brown | How Diversity & Inclusion Will Drive Next Generation WorkplacesGiven the growing diversity in our workforce, it’s important for organizations to devise strategies to leverage diversity and foster inclusion for creativity, innovation, and overall profitability. In this episode, we explore what “diversity and inclusion” has meant in the past and how it’s definition is shifting in the workplace today, the concept of covering, and powerful inclusive and “ally” behaviors leaders can embrace to help drive this movement.2017-04-2300 minInvestHumanIH02 | Angel Del Valle | Leveraging the Power of ListeningListening is a pervasive part of everyday life both at home and at work. We spend more time listening than we do talking, and listening is the critical component to effective communication. Yet when it comes to skill development, listening tends to take a back seat to flashier aspects of communication—like presentation skills. This podcast focuses on effective listening techniques and gaining a better understanding of the message that is being conveyed. In this podcast participants, will gain some insights to help answer the following: How well do I prepare, monitor, and correct my concentration so th...2017-04-2300 minInvestHumanIH01| Penny Zenker | Training Isn't EnoughThere are so many corporate trainings but they only scratch the surface and then everything goes back to the way it was. There has to be a follow-up system to engage people in getting the most out of any training. Do fewer training topics with a series and built in follow up. If you are going to say something is important to the organization then management has to be willing to allow people to dedicate time to re-enforcing it. In this episode we cover budgets and training; training curves; information overload; millennials and training; effective training in...2017-04-2300 minInvestHumanIH00 | Meet the Panel | Dr. Charlene Rousseau | Karen Millsap | Melissa PowellLearn about the hosts and their mission to reignite the appreciation for the human element of work. Who are Dr. Charlene Rousseau, Karen Millsap & Melissa Powell? What is this podcast all about? 2017-04-2300 min