In a world wherein change is constant, products and services are continuously improved every year. Amidst the pandemic and other times of crisis, how does your organization keep up with the competition? Does your organization have the right strategies, tools and resources ? Does your organization have what it takes to keep your competitive edge alive in ever-changing market conditions? On today’s podcast episode, we interview Elvin Turner who is the author of Be Less Zombie: How Great Organizati...
Mar 14, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Meetings are vital in every organization. Due to the pandemic, we are forced to become more flexible in terms of meeting types. Hybrid meetings are a simultaneous mixture of in - person and virtual meetings. The main challenge in leading such meetings is how to conduct engaging, conducive and productive meetings with some people in the room and some joining remotely. On today’s podcast episode we have Karin Reed–CEO of Speaker Dynamics, an Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, and co-author of the book...
Mar 07, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Due to the pandemic, the world is put on a status of uncertainty. Leadership roles in workplaces– whether on-site or remote– have been challenging. Leaders struggle on how to become stronger and effective because of these challenges. On today’s episode, we're privileged to have Tom Kolditz, a retired Brigadier General who led the department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point for 12 years. You will learn how to become an effective leader in the face of uncertainty, and also learn...
Feb 28, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Burnout is real. It is officially identified by the World Health Organization as an occupational phenomenon. At the root of burnout are broken and unfair policies, and it can't be fixed by wellness and meditation practices. That's like putting a bandaid on a failed artery. In today’s podcast, we have Jennifer Moss, the author of the Burnout Epidemic and Unlocking Happiness at Work. Jennifer is an international speaker and expert on burnout and an award-winning journalist and syndicated radio col...
Feb 27, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Virtual teams are becoming more and more prevalent in business today. Many companies have employees working from multiple locations. When email and video conferencing become your main modes of communication, it can be a struggle sometimes to make sure everyone is on the same page. In today's podcast, we interview leadership and culture consultant David Mead. David co-authored the book, Find Your Why, with Simon Sinek. Today we learn how leaders can build greater connections through genuine feedb...
Feb 14, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 78
The great resignation is upon us. Workers are leaving their jobs in droves as they retool and seek lives full of passion. Leaders are left wondering what went wrong and are wondering how they can retain their employees. So what does a leader do in times like this? On today's podcast, we interview Raj Subrameyer, tech career strategist and author of Skyrocket Your Career. Raj breaks it down and offers four solutions that provide the key to keeping employees engaged. All of them are based on trans...
Feb 07, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 77
As team leaders, business owners and managers, we have a new responsibility when we bring our employees together and that's to make those gatherings effective, memorable, and frankly, worth the effort to drag our team members from their homes to the office. Yet there are limited resources on how to create those gatherings. On today's podcast, we interviewed a returning guest, Carolene Méli, an Experience Strategist, who has created a tool to help anyone design a gathering that your employees wil...
Jan 31, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Only 15% of companies that try to make a culture change are successful. Yet culture, according to Satya Nadella at Microsoft, is the biggest predictor of future success. The main reason that culture change rarely ever works is because it's really, really hard to change. That's why if you're trying to change your culture, you'll want to read Kevin Oakes' book, "Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakable Company." In today’s episode, we interview Kevin Oakes, the CEO and co-f...
Jan 24, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 75
When it comes to gainful employment, it’s a buyers market. Power has shifted to employees and now companies require the best from their leaders to create the conditions for high engagement. In today’s episode, we interview Scott Miller, leadership expert and podcast host of FranklinCovey on Leadership with over 7 million downloads per week, and author of Wallstreet Journal Bestseller book, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager . You’re going to learn why people quit their jobs, what they are focusin...
Jan 15, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Currently, you can drive to the local coffee shop whenever you want and kind of get your work done. But the challenges you’ll face include noise, lack of equipment like printers and projectors, and no private meeting rooms. What if the coffee shop was set up to provide the ideal workspace that you could rent by the hour? The concept is called VEL. On today's podcast, you'll meet Mo Hamzian, CEO at VEL , a work cafe that merges the best of Starbucks and WeWork but with the price and flexibility t...
Jan 10, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 73
In today’s episode, we speak with Ket Patel, a certified Change Management Master Practitioner who teaches us how to build trust in the hybrid workplace through managing change. When it comes to managing change, Ket walks us through two main areas of pain when it comes to leading a team from anywhere: the people side and the technology side. Change Fatigue in a Hybrid Work Environment People experience change fatigue when they have to take a normal habit, change that normal habit with an alterna...
Jan 05, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 72
What if you can measure team interactions and use that data to give memorable recognition and rewards to your hybrid team? What if you could build a culture that gives employees the one thing they’re begging for: consistent and authentic recognition? On this week’s podcast, we interview Dan Kasper, CEO of Wishlist , an HR tech company that focuses on engagement and culture. Wishlist is an app with both a marketplace and social media feed that allows employers and employees to give recognition an...
Dec 27, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a commitment. It’s a way of being and a way of leading. It's a continual commitment to make it safer, have better conversations, deeper conversations, and continually raise awareness of the different experiences all of us are having. Today we interviewed Annemarie Shrouder, an expert on DEI shares with us how to make your organization more caring, more empathetic, and more inclusive as you Team Anywhere. Diversity & Inclusion Meaning For business, Di...
Dec 20, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Safety? Empathy? Comedy? To build thriving hybrid teams, leaders must create psychological safety, demonstrate empathy, and have a sense of humor. Discover what psychological safety looks like in a Hybrid Workplace. Today we interview returning guest and author of The Human Edge , Greg Orme. Greg teaches us what we need to know about psychological safety in the hybrid environment so we can Team Anywhere. What is Psychological Safety Psychological Safety is the foundation of any high-performance ...
Dec 13, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 69
What if every leader in your company created a contract or a covenant that stated their obligations to their team? What if every team created a covenant where they shared their obligations as a team with their manager? Certainly, the employee working 1000s of miles from the home base would feel more taken care of since he or she would know exactly what to expect from the leader. They would also have the ability to share with their leader just how the leader is doing. On today's podcast, you will...
Dec 06, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 68
When making strategic decisions, who's supreme? Shareholders or employees? On today's podcast, Andy Alsop, CEO of The Receptionist, shares his enthusiasm for building a truly hybrid company where the focus and attention is on prioritizing employees over shareholders. What is Employee Supremacy? Shareholder supremacy, a term coined by Milton Friedman in the 70’s and 80’s, was basically about decision making. Under shareholder supremacy, leaders are responsible for increasing the value of shares t...
Nov 29, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 67
When it comes to business in 2021, we need to resonate on a human level. How many of us actually ask ourselves how well we are interacting and impacting other human beings? In today’s hybrid and virtual environment, creating human connections is something that must be strategically planned and measured. In today’s episode, we interview Zach Giglio, Founder, and CEO of GCM, where he creates human connections through communicating and marketing. Zach has found that companies that are leading in th...
Nov 22, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Company culture and change is one of the most important discussions today. With the hybrid work challenges, and as some companies work through mergers and acquisitions, leaders need to get very clear on certain elements to help build a solid foundation so that they can Team Anywhere. Today on the podcast, we interview Kim Clark Pakstys, thought leader and strategic advisor on mergers and acquisitions. Kim shares with us her experience with successful leaders who've been managing difficult merger...
Nov 15, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 65
The way we communicate is more diverse than it ever has been. Or is it really? If you think about it, since the dawn of time, the two ways human beings have had to communicate are print and verbal communication. Today, we see those in perhaps newer ways through our email, chat groups and DM’s. Communication avenues haven’t changed much since the beginning, yet today, communication is getting increasingly more and more complicated. This begs the question, are these avenues we currently have truly...
Nov 08, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 64
The difference between a good company and a great company.... is fun. Fun is the number one factor between the companies that made the 100 Best Companies to Work For list and those that didn’t. In the companies that made the list, 82% of the employees said that they have fun at work. Alternately, that number was closer to 60% for those companies that didn’t quite make the cut. Today on the podcast, we have Dr. Bob Nelson and Mario Tamayo, authors of Work Made Fun Gets Done . Dr. Nelson and Mario...
Nov 01, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Today we interviewed Brant Cooper, author of the newly released book Disruption Proof. Brant suggests in a time of continuous disruption, we must spend more of our time innovating in what he calls “exploration mode”. Leaders need to be more open to trying things out, experimenting, exploring and finding solutions to near-term ever-changing problems. As companies innovate, they must work towards building a “RAD” organization (Resilient, Aware, Dynamic) so that they can empower their teams, and cr...
Oct 25, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Today on the podcast, we have David Nour, a trusted adviser to global clients, corporate leaders, and rising entrepreneurs and the author of the recent book, Curve Benders . David is an expert in Relationship Economics: how to build enduring relationships that last a lifetime. Inside this episode, David shares how deepening relationships is the way to succeed in today’s distributed workplace. David proposes three relationship-centered goals for leadership development in a hybrid work environment...
Oct 18, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 61
The post-pandemic workplace is not going to be like it was when you worked in the office before 2020. As companies grapple with their hybrid work plans, leaders are taking this moment to refresh and reset. Leaders need to think consciously about creating a post-pandemic workplace that creates meaningful gatherings in new space designs. In today’s episode, we interview Tracy Brower, a PhD sociologist, author and a principal with Steelcase Applied resource and consulting group. Tracy explains that...
Oct 10, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 60
In today's special episode we interview Rachel Casanova for our second round discussion on how to build a hybrid work model. Who is accountable for designing the hybrid work plan? If we leave it exclusively up to leadership, we may disenfranchise the employees and frankly, they'll leave. If we leave it up to the employees, will they have the best interests of the company in mind? Rachel recommends that this be a collaborative quest where leaders partner with their employees to come up with sever...
Oct 04, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Most return-to-office conversations begin with a binary perspective: are we in the office or are we out of the office? This question leads companies into discussing a hybrid strategy. But when leaders don't clearly and explicitly describe what their hybrid model will really mean and fail to create a clear strategy, they end up setting themselves up for more trouble. So is this question about “returning to the office” really the right question leaders should be asking? Tara explains that leaders ...
Sep 26, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 58
In today’s episode, we interview Liane Davey, a New York Times bestselling author and contributor at the Harvard Business Review. Some of the nicest, most empathetic, most wonderful managers are making the biggest mistakes in planning their back to the office agenda. They're trying to be empathetic and nice and wonderful. They're asking their employees, “what are you thinking about return-to-office?” The only problem is that trying to be nice and fair just isn't working. How can you be fair to e...
Sep 16, 2021•33 min
In this podcast, Renee McGowan states that success in a virtual or hybrid environment depends on getting clear on the new and ever-changing expectations of employees. Spoiler alert: if you don't find out what those expectations are, you will be toast! In today's world, you will need to master empathy, vulnerability, and even deeper levels of trust. With these new practices and a greater appreciation for agility and flexibility, you will truly succeed as you team anywhere. The level of organizati...
Sep 14, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Hybrid work has changed the way businesses operate and radically changed the way teams operate. For many organizations, hybrid work is here to stay and a lot of industries are embracing operations in a hybrid environment. So today, there is a responsibility for those leaders and teams to figure out how they are going to operate in a hybrid environment and how to create an inclusive culture when team members are often dispersed. In today’s episode we interview Perrine Farque, Author of Inclusion:...
Sep 06, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 55
In today’s episode we interview Dave McKeown, author of The Self-Evolved Leader. In this week’s episode, Dave talks about how successful hybrid teams need to have more conversations than they might think as we figure out the hybrid work environment. Additionally, Dave discusses how the pandemic shifted what leadership styles are working. The old “here’s my vision, follow me” approach no longer works as leaders are called upon to embrace the unknown and create a unified vision with their team. Su...
Aug 30, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 54
The rules have changed. What used to work for you as an employee, as a manager, or as an organization isn't going to work anymore. Today on the podcast we have Vice President of User Experience at RingCentral , Michael Peachey. Michael has been at the forefront of Human Centered Design, especially looking at how teams collaborate from anywhere. In this episode, we explore the rules that change and your new responsibilities as an organization, a team leader, a team member. If you're remote, or if...
Aug 22, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 53
