Hr Works: The Podcast For Human Resources

Guest: Sanja Licina, Ph.D., President of Workforce Experience, QuestionPro The needs and concerns of employees have changed significantly over the last year and a half. But have they become more difficult to address? Today’s guest does not believe so. She believes employers need to get out of the transactional mindset that pervades employment and take some time to reexamine their employees. She also believes that tried-and-true solutions to the current set of employee issues will work only if employers can identify what those issues are. I am pleased to have with me in this episode Sanja Licina, Ph.D., President of Workforce Experience at QuestionPro (https://www.questionpro.com/). She has 20 years of experience as an executive and senior leader in high-growth organizations, as well as a researcher and product manager. For nine years she held multiple strategic roles at CareerBuilder, including product management, talent intelligence, and workforce analytics. Prior to joining QuestionPro she led the Future

Guest: Greg Portell, Lead Partner in the Global Consumer Practice, Kearney Is the 8-hour workday dead? Today’s guest thinks so and maybe for good. What will take its place? Will organizations move into new territories with grace? I am pleased to have with us today Greg Portell, Lead Partner in the Global Consumer Practice of Kearney (https://www.kearney.com), a strategy and management consulting firm. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq). We are also now regularly uploading content to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/BLRInc).

Employee benefits, and especially health plan costs are among the top costs that employers have. Therefore, they have a vested interest in the health and wellbeing of their employees. But there is a big difference between encouraging healthy behavior among employees, and employees actually sticking to them. That divide costs employers big every year, especially in regards to chronic diseases. In this episode, we are joined by Sean Duffy, CEO of Omada Health (https://www.omadahealth.com/) to discuss methods for creating wellness that sticks by considering the employee experience when it comes to health benefits.

Perhaps the best indicator of the current hiring crisis is the extent to which large organizations, especially those from the fast food industry have gone to try to acquire talent. That includes everything from posting pay at the drive through to offering extensive benefits; this is a symptom of a larger issue at play and one we are going to talk about briefly today with our guest. I am pleased to have with us today Andrew Hunter, Co-Founder & Economist at Adzuna (https://www.adzuna.com/), a comprehensive job search engine. You can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

Guest: Zenita Henderson, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at SCTE If you are looking for a STEM industry that got gender equity and diversity right, look no further than the cable industry. Today's guest shares how she helped create and maintain these goals over her thirty year career. I am pleased to have with me today Zenita Henderson, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at SCTE (https://www.scte.org/). In 2020, Zenita Henderson was named a “trailblazer” on the cable industry's list of Most Influential Multi-Ethnic Executives.  As the vice president of marketing and business development, Zenita also played a pivotal role in the success of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo® 2020, and there will be a 2021 expo on October 11th – 14th Atlanta, Georgia—despite circumstances driven by the pandemic—and received the prestigious Women in Technology Award in 2019. Here is the report that we discussed in the episode: https://www.wict.org/research/wict-par-initiative/

It may be odd to say there has never been a better time than now, during the recruiting crisis, to be a recruiter, but today’s guest maintains that this is true, and she can back up the claim. I am pleased to have with me today Barb Bruno, CEO of Good As Gold Training (https://goodasgoldtraining.com/). Barb will be conducting a webinar with us on August 17th at 2:00PM Eastern Time called Proactive vs. Reactive Recruiting (https://store.blr.com/recruiting-081721). The program is 1 hour long and is valid for 1 SHRM-CP or SCP Professional Development Credit and is pending HRCI credit approval. There is a link to the webinar registration page in the description. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

Guests: Brandy Rosner, VP of People Operations and Rachel Lutz Guevara, VP of Global Wellness & Resiliency, TaskUs Today’s episode is part of the HR Daily Advisor’s HR Appreciation: Leadership Week, 2021 (https://bit.ly/3iAbGbc), which features unique content like this and online sessions and talks each day this week. There is a link with more information in the description. I’m also pleased to announce that today’s episode is sponsored Namely, the only all-in-one HR solution everyone on your team will love. Many organizations found themselves managing remote talent since the pandemic began, and the search for talent has brought others to hire nationally or even globally to fill their needs. Those situations come with a whole slew of new logistical challenges. Chief among them is the need to grapple company culture across regions and nations in a completely remote environment. Today we are going to tackle this and related challenges with two guests who know more than a little about them. Today I am please

Guest: Danny Nelms, President, Work Institute Next week is the HR Daily Advisor’s HR Appreciation: Leadership Week 2021 (https://bit.ly/3iAbGbc) during which there will be daily events and a daily offering of unique and relevant content. Today we are going to set the stage for that event with our guest, Danny Nelms, President of Work Institute (https://workinstitute.com). You can find a link to HR Appreciation Leadership Week in the description. Danny is here today to talk about what HR should be doing right now amid a hiring crisis and amid mass worker resignations. We’ll also discuss how to rethink our leadership development. Finally, Danny and the team are working on a video series called the Retention Roundup where we explore cutting-edge research conducted by Work Institute that explores everything from the reasons that employees leave their jobs to how you can tackle employee engagement. You can learn more about the Work Institute’s 2021 Retention Report here (https://workinstitute.com/retention-repo

In this episode, we are going to visit a long-overdue topic: employee burnout. What is it precisely? Why is it still a problem? Do we have solutions? If we do, how do we apply them successfully? Today’s guest has dedicated herself to understanding and addressing this destructive condition. I am pleased to have with me today Paula Davis, JD, and author of her recently published book Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret of Well-Being and Resilience (https://bit.ly/3eWH6rb). Paula is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute (https://stressandresilience.com/about-paula-davis/), a training and consulting firm that partners with organizations to help them reduce burnout and build resilience at the team, leader, and organizational level. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

Guest: Guest: Kerry Unflat, Chief People Officer, Zipari Because HR is such a people-facing role, it requires a certain level of intuition and perception to master. Today's guest says her superpower is understanding people's strengths and how to leverage them for everyone's success. It's a skill she has honed over years and one that you likely will find in yourself as an HR professional. I am very pleased to have with me today Kerry Unflat, Chief People Officer, Zipari (https://zipari.com/). If you enjoy today’s episode, consider checking out the rest of the interview which I will release on our Faces of HR (https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/category/faces-of-hr/) column next Thursday, July 29th. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

Guest: Minal Bopaiah, Founder & Principal Consultant, Brevity & Wit It takes more than passion to create and/or maintain a successful diversity program. That is the topic I tackle in this episode with an expert dedicated to helping organizations improve their diversity and inclusion efforts. Minal Bopaiah, Principal & Founder of Brevity & Wit (https://brevityandwit.com/) is a marketing, communications, and branding strategist with 20 years of professional experience. She is an expert in using psychological principles to create brand identities and communications that win both hearts and minds. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

The pandemic saw record levels of data insecurity from every imaginable angle. But were you aware that stressed employees lead to a significant portion of those issues? Today’s guest is here to discuss the relationship between workplace stress and data exposure. I am very pleased to have with me today David Powell, President at Prodoscore (https://www.prodoscore.com/). Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

Guest: Gaylyn Sher-Jan, Chief People Officer, Bright.md If you've ever suspected that performance reviews were not achieving the results you were hoping for at your organization, this episode may help. With employees and organizations being as complicated as they are, this system of assessment has a hundred ways to go wrong. In this episode, I dig deeper into the impetus behind performance reviews, and how we can all aim higher. Today's guest is Gaylyn Sher-Jan, Chief People Officer for Bright.md (https://bright.md/), an organization dedicated to delivering virtual care. Gaylyn was also a guest on a recent Faces of HR column which you can read here (https://bit.ly/3xD3dKt). Gaylyn is an experienced human resources and organizational development executive with more than 20 years leading HR across high tech, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing industries—with specific expertise scaling high growth companies. Gaylyn previously held roles at CrowdStreet, Insitu, and Zoomcare, and is leadership ce

Guest: Mindy Honcoop, Chief People Officer, TimeClock Plus How difficult do you think it would be to explain HR to an alien? Today's HR Works 5-Minute Friday guest takes a pretty good shot at answering that question. Meet Mindy Honcoop, Chief People Officer at TCP Software (https://www.tcpsoftware.com/). If you enjoy today’s episode, consider checking out the rest of the interview which I will release on our Faces of HR” (https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/category/faces-of-hr/) column next Thursday, July 15th. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

What are the critical skills and L&D trends of 2021? That’s what we aim to learn in this episode of HR Works Podcast with the Senior Director of LinkedIn Learning Solutions, Amy Borsetti. LinkedIn Learning (https://www.linkedin.com/learning/) recently released their 2021 Workplace Learning Report (https://learning.linkedin.com/resources/workplace-learning-report), and it had a lot of very interesting findings. In this episode, we are going to focus on skill-building, including re-skilling and up-skilling employees. Amy Borsetti is a human behavior expert and industry leader in learning & development. Over the past 15+ years, Amy has partnered with hundreds of organizations to help them reimagine how to harness the power of their people and leverage technology to achieve more. In working with LinkedIn’s largest customers, Amy helps business leaders connect their business strategy to their talent strategy—reimagining the future of work. As a leader, Amy is deeply passionate about creating a more diverse, inc

What is the secret ingredient to HR? Today's guest, Alyssa Lahar, CHRO at ZoomInfo (https://www.zoominfo.com/) said building trust and relationships with employees and leaders. Learn what else we talked about in this episode. If you enjoy today’s episode, consider checking out the rest of the interview which I will release on our Faces of HR (https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/category/faces-of-hr/) column next Thursday, July 8th. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

Guests: Ella Slade, Global LGBTQ+ Leader, IBM and CV Viverito, Deputy Director of Global Programs & Stakeholder Engagement with Out & Equal Workplace Advocates As part of Pride Month, I wanted to tackle LGBTQ+ discrimination in the workplace. Discrimination against individuals of the LGBTQ+ community was codified as illegal just about a year ago, in June of 2020 by the US supreme court when they added sexual orientation and gender identity to classifications protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It was a victory for equality, but as we all know too well, legal protections do not equal the end of discrimination. A recent IBM Out & Equal survey found significant and persistent discrimination against the LGBTQ+community in the workplace. I am pleased to be joined today by two experts. Ella Slade is Global LGBTQ+ Leader at IBM (https://www.ibm.com). They work on IBM's global diversity and inclusion team within HR and have been in their role for two years. Ella first joined IBM as an intern in 2014 an

Guest: Cassie Whitlock, Director of HR, BambooHR The pandemic really did force a lot of organizations to consider the employee experience in a way they had not before. I find that to be one of the best things to come out of the pandemic, and today's guest agrees. I am pleased to share some of my recent conversations with Cassie Whitlock, Director of HR at BambooHR (https://www.bamboohr.com/). If you enjoy today's segment, feel free to check out the rest of my interview with Cassie which will be shared on our “Faces of HR” (https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/category/faces-of-hr/) column next Thursday, July 1st. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

Guest: Mark Stadler, CEO, AccessHope A new mutli-cancer early detection blood test called Galleri has been created by an organization called GRAIL. Detecting cancer early is often the difference between a treatable illness and one that is not. What does this have to do with Human Resources? Some organizations, like the one today’s guest is a part of, helps organizations bring services like these in the form of benefits packages to their employees. Early cancer detection saves lives, but it also reduces medical expenditures and promotes better employee lives. We are pleased to be joined today by Mark Stadler, CEO of AccessHope (https://www.myaccesshope.org/), a company that provides cancer expertise to employers and their healthcare partners to discuss the new test, and cancer benefits in general. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audible (http://adbl.co/30uhdaq).

Guest: Jignasha Amin Grooms, Chief Human Resources Officer, Epicor Software As an HR professional, you are often called up to learn the truth. These can be high-stakes scenarios like workplace investigations, but also when it comes to basic employee relations. But what is the truth? Today's HR Works 5-Minute Friday guest says there is your truth, my truth, and The Truth. Understanding the differences can go a long way towards navigating difficult workplace situations. Today I am happy to share a few minutes of my recent interview with Jignasha Amin Grooms, Chief Human Resources Officer at Epicor Software (https://www.epicor.com/en-us/). If you enjoy this episode, please consider checking in next Thursday, June 24th in our “Faces of HR” (https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/category/faces-of-hr/) column where I’ll share the rest of our conversation. Remember you can always follow us on Twitter at @HRWorksPodcast (https://bit.ly/3l0dzP3), and we are also now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/3t8of13) and Audib