HRchat Podcast

In this special episode, Bill Banham and Chris Bjorling chat about the first year of the popular People and Performance Podcast, produced in partnership with the team at The HR Gazette. They also offer predictions for what to expect for workforce planning and performance management in 2022 in light of the outbreak of the Omicron variant of Covid. This is a special crossover episode that'll go live on both the People and Performance Podcast and the HRchat show just ahead of the holidays! Each episode contains  exclusive content and unique insights so be sure to check out both versions!We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat episode, we talk about building and maintaining relationships. Listen too as we talk about lessons from the world of social media marketing that can be transferred to leadership and HR.Bill's guest is Ted Rubin, a leading Social Marketing Strategist, International Keynote Speaker, Business Advisor, Author, Connector, and Provocateur. In March 2009 Ted started using and evangelizing the term ROR, Return on Relationship, hashtag #RonR. His book, Return on Relationship, was released January 2013, How To Look People in the Eye Digitally was released January 2015, and The Age of Influence… Selling to the Digitally Connected Customer was released in May 2017.Ted is currently writing his latest book, along with business partner and Retail Thought Leader John Andrews titled Retail Relevancy. Learn more about Ted at TedRubin.com.We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat episode, we talk about talent attraction, onboarding and a big announcement in the Canadian recruitment tech space.Bill's guest this time is Yves Boudreau, CEO of Alongside, an HR tech company working to improve the ways candidates and companies discover each other. He’s also CEO at the spin-off onboarding tech company AllOnboard HR.Yves has a long history of successful entrepreneurship. He started his first company at the age of 19, a digital creative agency. He then worked in Business Development, helping local businesses start or expand their operations.In 2014, Yves co-founded Alongside, the first Atlantic Canadian company to be accepted into 500 Startups in San Francisco. In 2017, Yves led the negotiations on Alongside’s first multi-million-dollar enterprise deal.Yves and his team recently made the exciting move to buy one of Canada’s leading job boards, CareerBeacon.com. And we’re going to talk about the acquisition of CareerBeacon in today’s show.Questions Include:The CEO of ZipRecruiters said your ATS is one of the best he’s seen! In 90 seconds or less, introduce Alongside.How can online recruiting be impersonal and off-putting to candidates if not done in the right ways? Conversely, what are the chances of success when online talent attraction is managed in ways that better connect the candidate with the employer brand?You are also CEO of AllOnBoard HR. I understand that AllOnBoardwas originally going to be a feature within Alongside but your team felt the challenges of onboarding are so huge that you and you decided to create a new product. Tell me about AllOnBoard.It was announced this week that Alongside has bought CareerBeacon. Why did Alongside decide to acquire one of Canada’s leading job boards? What are the plans for both companies? Can you share the roadmap for platform developments and growth in the Canadian market?Enjoyed the conversation with Yves? Check out his recent appearance on the Recruitment Flex Podcast with our friends Serge and Shelly. We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In HRchat episode 374, we talk about making smarter decisions and achieving higher performance.This episode has a kick because you'll hear how to start learning "a veritable conversational martial art". Bill Banham is joined by Craig Weber, author of the best-selling book, Conversational Capacity: The Secret To Building Successful Teams That Perform When The Pressure Is On (McGraw-Hill, 2013) and the sequel, Influence in Action: How to Build Your Conversational Capacity, Do Meaningful Work, and Make a Powerful Difference (McGraw-Hill, 2019).Craig says he's "on a mission to help people build more healthy, engaged, and adaptive organizations" and he shares practical skills for putting good ideas to work: from running better meetings and making smarter decisions, to facilitating more productive change and crafting more effective strategy.Questions Include:What does "inspiring constructive change" mean to you?Conversational Capacity: Your methods "have been used to bolster the performance of executive groups and flight crews, as well as surgical units and CDC emergency response teams." Can you give our listeners an overview of how you help leaders and highly skilled professionals to perform at top levels?What are some approaches you've seen that lead to more productive meetings? Can you share any case studies?From running better meetings and making smarter decisions to facilitating more productive change and crafting more effective strategy, your approach is, in over a dozen U.S. states, even helping Democratic and Republican legislators work together more effectively as they craft public policy. Tell us about that. pork-barrel politics v polarizedInfluence in Action: You go deeper, showing how to put the principles in your book Conversational Capacity into practice. You use a step-by-step program that includes case studies, sample dialogues, skill-building exercises, and powerful conversation techniques. Can you briefly run through some of the steps and share how that can lead to higher performance?We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat episode, we look at ways to empower unrepresented groups in the workplace and consider tech to help level the playing field.  Bill Banham's guest is Tiffany Pham, Founder & CEO of Mogul, a leading diversity recruitment company. She developed the first version of Mogul, which through its patent-pending inventions now enables recruitment access to over 430MM women and diverse professionals across 195 countries. Praised by Sheryl Sandberg as “the number one platform” and referred to as "the perfect business" by Melinda Gates, Mogul is backed by investors SoftBank, Hearst Corporation, the Founders of Comcast, LinkedIn Learning, and Match.com.A TV personality, Tiffany has been a Judge on the TLC TV Show "Girl Starter" and is a cast member on The History Channel TV Shows “The Machines That Built America” and "The Toys That Built America." In 2021, she became the face of Lexus, appearing in their “More Than Intelligence” TV campaign. She has appeared across advertising campaigns for Asana, Amazon Audible, Naturalizer, Dell, Captain Morgan, Visa, LUNA, Bumble and bumble, and GoDaddy.Questions For Tiffany Include:You've had side hustles in your career. Share your story. Can you also suggest why it's important for young women who are starting out in their careers to get a wide variety of experiences in different fields, and how that approach ultimately benefited your career?How much of The Great Resignation and the scramble for talent do you attribute to the rise of the gig economy since the start of Covid? As a successful CEO and author of two books, what advice do you have for our listeners about how to achieve their goals?What trends do you see happening in the year ahead for HR and Talent pros?We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

Businesses need the right HCM technology systems in place to allow them to operate at full capacity and in the best interests of their employees. Before you embark on your next HCM technology purchase, listen to this episode for inspiration around defining an HR service delivery model, creating an HCM technology strategy, defining the system evaluation and selection process, undewrtaking system implementation, and what to expect post-implementation. In this HRchat, Bill Banham talks with Jacqueline Kuhn, Co-Owner and Executive Vice President, Strategic Services at HRchitect and author of the new book HRchitect's Guide to HCM Technology: What you should know before your next HCM technology purchase. Among other topics, Jacqueline will talk about what's needed to apply one's HCM technology know-how within your organization in practical ways that will make an immediate positive impact.We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat interview, we'll drill down on what worked for job adverting pre and post-pandemic and look ahead to understand how the recruitment industry's tech toolkit will continue to evolve through 2022 and beyond.Bill's guest this time is Christian Forman, CEO and founder of Appcast, a leader in performance job advertising software. With more than 25 years of industry experience and serial entrepreneurship, Chris is a pioneer in the development and deployment of smarter technology tools that have helped thousands of companies recruit and hire millions of job seekers around the globe. He is a nationally (US) recognized expert in recruiting and talent management and has been quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Staffing Industry Review.Interview Questions Include:Appcast helps HR, hiring managers and TA pros post jobs across 10,000+ job, professional, niche, and social sites to drive more active and passive candidates to open jobs. Can you provide an overview of Appcast and the technology behind it?  What aspects of recruiting and recruitment marketing have been permanently impacted/changed by the events of 2020/2021?  What do you think will stay the same and why?Looking ahead to 2022/23, from your lens, what does the future of recruiting look like? Will job boards continue to play an important role in the recruitment toolkit?  How could the omicron variant change things? To summarize our conversation today, what do you believe are the key characteristics of talent acquisition teams who are equipped to win the “War for Talent”?If you find this conversation interesting and helpful, you'll probably also enjoy our 2021 year-in-review special on December 30th with Chris's colleague and Labor Economist, Andrew Flowers!We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast, and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

Our guest in episode 370 is Edie Goldberg, Ph.D., Founder & President of E.L. Goldberg & Associates. She is a nationally recognized expert in talent strategy and organizational effectiveness and co-author of The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity (Lifetree Media, April 2020).  Edie holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and serves on the board of the SHRM Foundation. She is the recipient of HR People & Strategy’s Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions she has made to her profession.  In 2020 she was recognized as one of the top HR Executives in Silicon Valley to follow on Social Media, and in 2021 she was named one of the top 100 HR influencers.Questions Include:How has the gig economy changed the ways many companies manage their people and culture? Follow up: In your book The Inside Gig, you offer a new talent operating model that helps companies apply learnings from the gig economy but inside the organization. The idea is to break jobs into a series of projects and then offer projects to employees, beyond the scope of their day-to-day role, so that they can choose what work interests them and contribute to projects that help them learn, grow, and leverage all of their skills and interests. Tell us more.How much time should employees get, say per week, to work on these internal gigs? How can employers ensure the 'day job' is still getting done?DEI is a critical topic for most companies today. How would you hope your ideas are helping to facilitate greater equity and inclusion in the workplace?We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat, we talk about that weird and wonderful organ, the human brain, and how our biology impacts the ways we work. Our guest this time is Britt Andreatta, PhD, author, speaker and Chief Executive Officer at 7th Mind, Inc.Dr. Britt Andreatta is an internationally recognized thought leader who creates brain science-based solutions for today's challenges. She draws on her unique background in leadership, neuroscience, psychology, and education to unlock the best in people and organizations. She has over 25 years of experience consulting with executives from all types of organizations. Learn more at: www.BrittAndreatta.com.A highly sought-after and engaging speaker, Britt delivered a TEDx talk called “How Your Past Hijacks Your Future” and she regularly speaks at corporate events and international conferences receiving rave reviews like “best speaker of the conference.”She has served as the Chief Learning Officer for Lynda.com and Senior Learning Consultant for global leadership and talent development at LinkedIn.Questions Include: How have you embraced gratitude in your life to fight through adversity and tough times? Can you share some of the latest discoveries about the brain, and how to harness human biology to reduce resistance to change and change fatigue?You help talent professionals discover how to use neuroscience to unlock the potential of their people and organization. Can you talk to me about more discoveries about the brain and some ways to harness human biology to bring out the best in your talent?  Follow up - you recently presented at SHRM21 on The Neuroscience of Teams, based on your book Wired To Connect. Tell me about the session and some of the lessons from the book shared in that talk. What do you like about speaking at SHRM? From your book Wired to Grow, you state "Technology has completely transformed learning—both what we know about the brain science of learning as well as how we design and deliver learning experiences. New tools have made learning not only faster, but also more effective and affordable." Can you share some best practices and next practices in learning and how that’s shaping taleSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this episode, we consider ways to empower L&D pros and HR teams with the tools to unlock the potential of their distributed teams.Bill's guest this time is Tyler Muse, CEO & Founder at Lingo Live, an online coaching platform on a mission to help emerging leaders at multinational companies gain the skills they need to lead their teams effectively.Tyler is passionate about bringing the world closer together through meaningful human connections. As a leader, he experienced firsthand the transformative power of one-on-one coaching and built Lingo Live to marry the meaningful human connection of a private coach with the efficacy of skills-based development. Over the past 7 years, the company has grown 10x, scaled up to dozens of employees and 100s of coaches worldwide, and raised nearly $10 million in venture capital funding.Tyler is also the host of the awesome new Groundwork Podcast. Questions For Tyler Include:“We have incredibly talented engineers who work together to build innovative, superior products. Lingo Live is a key partner in unlocking the full potential of our technical talent by helping us remove our only significant barrier to success: communication and leadership gaps.” – Pat Poels, CTO, Eventbrite. Can you list some of the common leadership gaps and how they can impact performance when not addressed in a timely manner?What do you think is going on right now with this "Great Resignation / Great Reshuffling" happening in the labor markets post-covid? How can companies that can demonstrate they have the mechanisms for powerful ideation and innovation, be better placed to attract and grow top distributed talent? Your users or 'learners' are connected with a live coach who delivers personalized learning through live lessons online using your proprietary Skills-Based Coaching methodology. Lingo Live talks a lot about Skills-Based Coaching, what is that? How do you define it and why are you all so passionate about it?Lingo Live challenges teams to apply new skills throughout the process to ensure lasting behavior change. How do you help the lessons 'stick' through ongoing practical application?Impact Measurement: Lingo Live aims to align coaching with a company's objectives and collects 360-degree feedback to measure the business impact. What is the process of aligning and mSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events