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The Grant O Show PodcastEpisode 71- Dr. Melissa ClayOn Episode 71 of The Grant O Show, we sit down with Dr. Melissa Clay, MSN Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor in the Thibodaux Regional Health System School of Nursing at Nicholls State University.With a career built on compassion, leadership, and education, Dr. Clay shares her journey from bedside nursing to higher education — and how Nicholls is preparing graduates to meet the challenges of an ever-changing healthcare system.Tune in as we discuss:What makes the Nicholls MSN program stand out in Louisiana and beyondHow nurse educators are shaping the fu...
2025-11-0320 min
Little Minds Big Thinkers36. I Can Do This with Melissa ThibodeauxIn today's episode, I chat with Melissa Thibodeaux about her first-grade thinking classroom experience. It's simply impossible to walk away from this conversation feeling anything but inspired!
Mathematics Task for the Thinking Classroom (green book)
Wipebooks
2024-08-2338 min
Staffing ConfidentialMastering Growth: Unleashing Strategic Brilliance in Business DevelopmentTake a deep dive into dynamic business development for the staffing and talent acquisition industry. With my guest, Jennifer Peavy, a master at partnering with her clients, we discuss how to prevent competitors from invading your clients by being a real partner and positioning yourself as the expert! You won't want to miss this very real and open discussion about how to win and KEEP important clients.
2023-10-1641 minStaffing ConfidentialFour Tactics To Rescue Your Operation from Recruiting Mediocrity. Really! With Terry EdwardsOn this fantastic episode of Staffing Agency Confidential, I am joined by Terry Edwards of Make More Placements. Terry is also known as The Renegade Recruiter around LinkedIn! Terry's advice and methods on pinning down the Hiring Manager are REAL and they WORK. He enunciates the common sense mechanisms so well, it will leave you scratching your head. Ready for RESULTS??In addition to his successful training organization in the UK and North America, Terry has written three books: The Persuasion, LinkedIn Lead Rush and 7 Deadly Threats to Your Recruiting Operation. You can...
2021-10-1138 min
LinkedIn RichesHow To Start (and Scale) a Lucrative Consulting Business with Melissa ThibodeauxAs a star performer in the staffing industry, making over 63,000 sales calls, winning numerous awards & growing operations into multi-million dollar powerhouses serving global employers, Melissa Thibodeaux has more than put in her time in the trenches.On this episode of Nemo Radio, she shares her journey in pivoting out from a successful career into her new adventures as a full-time consultant - and how other successful executives can follow her path to success!EPISODE LINKSConnect with Melissa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmcallister/
2021-08-1737 minStaffing ConfidentialStaffing: Retention, Onboarding & GrowthAs a GUEST on David Wilson's "Ring of Hire" show, we covered so many topics and staffing issues along with tips, onboarding importance, retention, recruiting and sales performance and how not to be an order-taker. Listen as we cover staffing industry issues, tips, candidates, and present-day staffing industry topics and what YOU can do to overcome the problems we are facing today!Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed chatting with David. Let's talk! Reach out to Melissa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmcallister or email her at Melissa@staffACUMEN.com...
2021-05-251h 00Staffing ConfidentialStaffing: Trenches, the Holy Grail and Contagious CulturesMike Baer, a true staffing expert and influencer, and I talk candidly about living in today's staffing industry trenches. Sprinkled with information about contagious staffing cultures, and the holy grail of present-day staffing: retention. Listen as Mike and I dissect what it REALLY takes to experience success as an organization or as an individual in the staffing world. Mike Baer has been in the industry for 22+ years. Serving as Tom Bicke's (EmployBridge CEO) executive coach for 10 years, Mike moved into the Chief People Officer role for EmployBridge in 2008. Retiring in 2020, Mike is now...
2021-05-2443 min
Quarantine ChroniclesEpisode 32 "One week of Reading"Hey there QC FAM!! Hope all is well!!
Today is Sunday, which means we have another challenge episode. This week you guys blessed me with a "one week of reading" challenge rather than having one week of cold showers. .... (thank you for that BTW, lol).
So in this episode, I try to make it as entertaining as possible. I talk about how I hate reading, some odd books I got as gifts, BUT (there's always a but).. how the book I'm reading now... has changed my thoughts about hating to read. That book is ......... "Untamed" by...
2020-08-3134 minStaffing ConfidentialMaintaining Performance in the Midst of Chaos. HOW??Special guest, Beth Armknecht Miller and I discuss this chaotic world and ENGAGING methods for holding on to your team's progress and performance. How do you care for them (and yourself!) to ensure your organization comes out the other side in tact? Is it really possible to emerge as a stronger unit? Beth Miller is an esteemed Leadership Development Advisor, Executive Coach and an overall extraordinarily calm force. You may learn more about Beth on LinkedIn or her website www.Exectuive-Velocity.com.
2020-06-1938 minStaffing ConfidentialStaffing + Recruiting Foundational Prep: Insight on What to Do NOWCatching up! Scott Poniewaz and I have a fantastic conversation!"Fresh eyes" now replaced with affinity for industry nuances, Scott's insight remains refreshing. As he sits on both sides of the table every day, he witnesses the effectiveness (or lack thereof) between client and agency. Our frank conversation about client bias' toward "the new agency on the block" shines light on a frustrating fact of staffing life. Seeing successful agencies interface with happy clients: SOLID OPERATING FOUNDATIONS are KEY to agency advancement: aka, "well oiled and efficiently running on all cylinders"!We examine how agencies can maximize...
2020-04-2050 minStaffing ConfidentialSMASHING Conversation with UK's Mark Gaisford: Recruiting, Pints & Leafy Plants.UK's Mark Gaisford requires no introduction. His award-winning Monty-Pythonesque recruiting videos leave us laughing and wanting to be him when we grow up! Mark has touched every recruiting vertical during his career. Three years ago, he founded RedSprout Media: a recruitment firm for Creatives and he is clearly having a blast! What I've learned from Mark: You be YOU!
2019-09-1939 minStaffing ConfidentialWOTC: Lobbying, Transformations, Heroes and 40%. And YOU Thought WOTC was Boring!Philip Wentworth, President at Clarus Solutions and part-time Lobbyist, talks straight about the spirit of WOTC.In this episode he speaks about WOTC's profound impact on staffing organizations and the subsequent "transformational economics". BONUS: He makes it interesting!
2019-09-0634 minStaffing ConfidentialSpray & Pray or Innovate & Disrupt? Staffing's Freshest Eyes, Scott Poniewaz, Reveals How Easy It's Done!In this episode, Scott and I talk about pain-free, easy ways to bridge the chasm between old school recruiting and maximizing recruiting efficiency with new technologies. Scott's "Fresh Eyes" perspective on the Staffing Industry's lost opportunities for innovation and disruption give us motivation to integrate new mechanisms into our processes. And it's MUCH easier than you think!
2019-08-1239 minStaffing ConfidentialThe Simple (and Surprising) Truth About Landing Large Staffing Contracts with Doug SiewertDouglas Siewert has spent the past three decades working inside the largest aerospace, logistics supply chain/3PL and automotive companies on the planet. On this episode of Staffing Agency Confidential, Doug shines a light on the simple (and surprisingly underutilized!) truth about what it takes for staffing organizations to WIN and HOLD ON to large clients as well as execute complex staffing programs in a way that ensures exclusive use.Doug is a fountain of business wisdom, and you won't want to miss his view from the inside out of what's working (and what isn't!) inside the client-staffing...
2019-07-1643 minStaffing ConfidentialBuilding a Bulletproof Staffing Agency with Gary JohnsonGary Johnson is the Founder and Executive Vice-President of Bear Staffing Services. He joins me on this episode of Staffing Agency Confidential to share a journey that started on a farm in rural Nebraska and led him to a successful 25 year career in the staffing industry.Based in Ft. Myers, Florida, Gary shares his early experiences doing door-to-door sales and how that prepared him for later founding and building his own Staffing Agency and opening branches in multiple locations across the United States.With a big-name client list and decades of success, Gary has officially achieved "...
2019-06-1429 minStaffing ConfidentialSecrets of Successful Staffing Organizations with Kay HawkinsKay Hawkins, CSP has been a top performer and leader in the staffing industry for more than 15 years. Kay joins me on this episode of Staffing Agency Confidential to share her story, lessons learned and how she's been successful landing large, lucrative clients, including Tier One Automotive Suppliers and may others, over the years.Kay also shares her experience moving from local to regional and now global staffing organizations, along with a surprising fact about our high school days!EPISODE LINKSConnect with Kay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kay-hawkins-csp-67644950/
2019-06-1436 minStaffing ConfidentialHow To Make Your Staffing Organization Recession-ProofI'll never forget the scene - it was the height of the 2008-09 "Great Recession" and yet when I pulled into the office parking lot each morning, we had a huge line of eager candidates wrapped around our building.They were there because they knew our staffing agency had the jobs and the opportunities they wanted.As a result, we were NEVER short on top employers and top candidates looking to use our services.Discover the three specific steps I took to ensure our Staffing Organization was recession-proof back in 2008-09 ... and how you...
2019-06-1407 min
The Gist of Freedom Preserving American History through Black Literature . . .Juneteenth, Mexican Warrior Gaspar Yanga, with Melissa Waddy-ThibodeauxTonight at 8pm ET join The Gist of Freedom as host, Preston Washington welcomes the world renowned Juneteenth Historian/Actress, Melissa Waddy-Thibodeaux! Melissa, a Texan will discuss Juneteenth and The Buffalo Soldiers. Please feel Free to call in ~ 347.324.5552! BlackHistoryBlog.com
Tonight The Gist of Freedom dedicates this show to Mexican Warrior Gaspar Yanga!
The first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect to find it — and it isn't exactly what you'd expect to find either. First, it's not in the United States. Yanga, on Mexico's Gulf Coast, Known as the Primer Libertador de...
2014-11-1251 min
Pee Dee Food Show - Regional and Local Food Culture in South CarolinaPDFS 046 - Desserts of Louisiana with Sarah ThibodeauxSubscribe to the Show
WELCOME BACK and THANK YOU for the download. It's time for the Pee Dee Food Show! This is the companion podcast to PeeDeeFoodie.com. It’s the first and only internet radio show dedicated to the food, foodies, and food culture of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. Join us each week for interviews, features, reviews, and round-table discussions. We do it all with good-natured humor and unique insight. Subscribe today.
Host: KEVIN & MELISSA BARRON, Publishers, PeeDeeFoodie.com (Facebook / Twitter)
Guests: SARAH THIBODEAUX, Online Mana...
2013-02-2349 min