Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization Show

Josh Levine has a disturbing message for HR and executives in the C-Suite: ignore company culture at your own risk. New SHRM stats prove his point. 1 out of 4 Americans dread going to work. Nearly 1/2 of all workers are thinking about leaving. A bad company culture is not only bad for employees. It’s bad for business. Company culture is the difference between a vibrant business and one that flounders. (Yes, we talk about the rise and fall of WeWork and Uber too!)  Listen while Josh discusses his new book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture That Employees Love. Where do you start? Click play. Buy Great Mondays View SHRM's 2019 Culture Report

“Leadership needs to evolve,” says our guest John Dame. “Leaders need to lead with purpose.” Employees need leaders who they can trust, deliver compassion, provide stability, offer hope. Creating such a company culture that attracts, engages, inspires, and retains workers takes more than a few motivational posters and a wordsmithed vision statement hung in the lobby and break rooms. Listen to John describe how he helps both emerging and experienced leaders lead with purpose.

Pandit Dasa, a former monk, has an extraordinary vision for Workforce 2030, quite different than the dystopian view of robots and machines kicking us out of jobs over the next decade. Pandit imagines a workforce where leaders and managers inspire, support and encourage; where ego battles don’t stifle progress; where colleagues celebrate each other‘s success ; and employees develop positive social connections at work. But he also warns that without all of us being more mindful, our workplaces will become more toxic.

“Conflict can be like fertilizer. It stinks while you’re in it, but in the long run, it fosters growth,” says our guest Kira Nurieli, founder of Harmony Strategies Group. During this episode Kira reveals 3 crucial skills every manager and employee must learn to resolve and leverage conflict management. She describes why she recommends “Circles” strategy and how she has applied it to boost productivity, increase engagement, and help people feel like they matter.

How would you explain artificial intelligence to your 4 year old or 95 y/o mother? That might seem like a silly question to ask our guest Ben Eubanks when our audience includes so many HR professionals and business executives. Sadly, it’s not. Because according to the author of "Artificial Intelligence for HR," 90% of HR leaders don’t have a firm grasp on what AI is and how it works. That’s a huge problem because more than half a billion dollars flowed into AI-enabled HR technology last year alone. Listen as we talk about: What is AI for HR? How will AI disrupt jobs and work? What skills will we need?

HR has a human bandwidth problem. The demand for talent is skyrocketing at the same time companies struggle with unprecedented competition for labor. Unfortunately inefficiencies and task-intensive workloads overwhelm recruiters and HR, diverting them away from engaging top talent quickly and frequently - even when they come knocking. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day or resources available to do what's needed to deliver a spectacular candidate experience.  The solution is simple: Use HR tech to humanize recruitment. During this episode ConveyIQ CEO Danielle Weinblatt walks us through the critical human touch points of recruitment, identifies which ones can be automated and improved, freeing up humans to personalize and humanize the candidate experience.

When Dave Sanderson sat down on that plane 10 years ago, he had no clue that he was about to experience a "plane crash moment" that would alter his life forever. Prior to that day, Dave had no flight or rescue training. But his lifelong investment in personal development and a belief that you must lead yourself to lead others paid off. Dave was literally the last passenger off the plane that day and the first to realize it was time to pay it forward. You don't want to miss a minute of this episode when Dave shares his thoughts and life lessons learned during this life-changing experience and how that plane crash led him to a life of helping others learn to lead, succeed, and pay it forward.  

Talent acquisition is at the tipping point. The way talent acquisition gets done should scare the SHIFT out of management. Recruiting is broken and for many companies, that means it’s either game over or game on. The labor market looks nothing like it did 20 years ago. Heck, it’s almost unrecognizable to what it was like just 5 years ago. And yet HR and TA still functions like it has for decades long gone. That’s why we turned to our guest Tim Sackett, author of The Talent Fix and one of HR’s favorite bloggers, for some answers and solutions. First of all, It’s time for talent acquisition professionals to stop lying to themselves. The labor market has moved beyond post-and-pray job listings, and yet nearly 100% of companies still use this same-old-strategy to advertise job openings. And while HR technology is accelerating, it’s often Finance and IT that drives the selection and owns the solution, not HR. That’s nuts ...and bad for business.  What do and your company need to do to fix your talent acquisition? Whether you aspire to become a top-notch recruiter or you have 30 years under your belt, don’t miss this episode.

What good is a futurist if he can’t predict? According to our guest Frank Diana, “prediction isn’t my job.” That seems to be a pretty odd thing for a futurist to say. But Frank’s response unleashed a flood of ideas when he said “It’s my job to help people rehearse for the future." Frank belongs to a growing community of thought leaders from all walks of life and backgrounds who are trying to help people make sense of a world of unknown unknowns. "Connecting the dots has never been so complicated." What does it take to rehearse for success when the future holds a world of unknown unknowns?  Listen now.

The American Workplace is Broken. Eighty-three percent of workers say they’re stressed about their jobs and 50 percent say it’s interfering with their sleep. We can no longer expect our employees to compartmentalize their personal emotions and still show up to work at their very best. In fact, in this new age of HR, care for the whole employee should be the biggest goal. Leadership must change the way they manage and communicate with people. What is causing all this stress and disruption? For this episode, we called upon Lise Schwartz. She is an executive leadership coach who is passionate about helping individuals and organizations understand and drive change in both work and personal lives. Listen as Lise talks about how you can drive change in the workplace.