The Edge of Work

Note: This is a recording of a LinkedIn Live.Stephen Bailey is the CEO and Co-Founder of ExecOnline, a leadership development platform that works to make leadership development accessible to more leaders. In this conversation, Stephen spoke about some of the trends and insights he’s seeing from the companies he speaks to about leadership development, as well as from the insights he and his team are seeing from the completion of programs on their platform. As the world of work continues to evolve and change, so too must the way we think of and train our leaders inside of organizations who are responsible for leading it. Stephen spoke what's new and different about leading in today’s workplace, why the it’s important to learn faster than the rate of change, the impact that technology like data, analytics and generative AI has on learning and the world of work and what it means to leaders. And finally, Stephen also spoke about why leaders need to also focus on the human skills in order to lead and empower people in the workplace.Links:ExecOnline: https://execonline.com/LinkedIn Live Recording: https://www.linkedin.com/events/theedgeofworklive-thefutureofwo7087479409347096577/comments/ 

Christine Cruzvergara is the Chief Strategy & Education Officer at Handshake, a technology platform that connects early career talent with jobs and internships at 650,000+ employers. In her role, Christine spends time connecting, advising and listening to employers, students, and Career Development offices on college campuses and has a keen sense of the labor market for early career professionals.During our conversation, Christine spoke about some of the recent trends in preferences about work, careers, and employers from Gen- Z talent, including:What kinds of companies students are interested in (hint: not tech companies!)The top elements that Gen Z talent is interested in out of a job and employerWhy Gen Z views upskilling and reskilling as critical to their first job and their entire careerLinks:Report: https://joinhandshake.com/network-trends/new-grad-future-of-work/Handshake Website: https://joinhandshake.com/Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/new-college-grads-worried-about-being-overworked-in-their-first-jobs.html Christine’s Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinecruzvergara/ 

Emily Field is a Partner at McKinsey & Company, and a Co-Author of the book: Power to The Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work. As a Partner in McKinsey’s Talent and Organization Practice, Emily works with companies to implement best in class talent management strategies, and as a Co-Author of this book, has spent a great deal of time researching the state of the manager in today’s workplace, what is challenging, and what needs to change.During our conversation, we spoke about the challenges of the modern manager today, as well as some of the realities that Emily and her co-authors uncovered in their research, including a time study of how managers spent their time each day.Emily also shared some strategies for companies who want to fix the role of the manager, why we need to re-think the manager experience like we might revamp a customer experience, as well as sharing some of her thoughts on how in the future of work, empowering the middle manager will be a key lynchpin to success. Links:Book: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/power-to-the-middleMcKinsey Research: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/stop-wasting-your-most-precious-resource-middle-managers Emily’s Profile: https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/emily-field 

Cat Ward is a Vice President at JFF (Jobs For the Future) a non-profit committed to equitable economic impact. In her role, Cat works with employers to help them think creatively and innovatively in order to recruit, retain, and grow diverse talent.During our conversation, Cat spoke about the work JFF is doing to create economic opportunity for all by working with employers to rethink their approaches on talent attraction and development so that they can recruit and retain diverse talent, and why specifically in today’s workplace in 2023, these topics are so critical and relevant.Cat also shared examples of “Impact Employers” who were using new approaches to recruiting and retaining diverse talent, some of the challenges that come with trying to transform your talent strategies, and the importance of fostering career mobility to unlock the potential of diverse talent and create a better world of work for all.Links:https://www.jff.org/https://fortune.com/2023/01/05/next-era-of-work-skills-degree-jobs-raman-ward/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/wardcatherine/ 

Linda Cai is the Vice President of Talent Development at LinkedIn. While now a talent development leader, Linda started her career working at the intersection of technology and change management, and has used this background to  design and lead holistic talent development strategies inside of LinkedIn. During our conversation, we reviewed some of the most recent findings of the 2023 Linkedin Global Talent Trends report and got  Linda’s perspective on topics like reskilling, internal mobility, and career development.Linda also spoke about how the talent development team at Linkedin has used a strategic and integrated approach across their organization to talent development initiatives around internal mobility, job shadowing  and reskilling programs, and manager  development. Finally, Linda also spoke  about their intentional efforts to focus on embedding career mobility and a "next play" mantra into the cultural fabric of the organization to help LinkedIn employees grow and thrive in today's changing world of work.Links:Linda Cai: ​​https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindajcai/2023 LinkedIn Global Talent Trends Report: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/global-talent-trends#internal-mobility

Jason Rosoff is the CEO of Radical Candor Inc, and a Co-Host on the Radical Candor Podcast. After working as a product management executive, Jason teamed up with Radical Candor author Kim Scott to teach managers and leaders how to be more effective managers and leaders. Between his podcast and the training that he does, Jason has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities for managers in the workplace. During our conversation, Jason shared some of what he felt were the challenges that managers face today, why management training goes wrong, and how he would rewrite and redesign the role of the manager fit for purpose in today’s world of work.LinksRadical Candor Podcast: https://www.radicalcandor.com/candor-podcast/ Radical Candor Website: https://www.radicalcandor.com/ 

Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale are Co-Founders and Partners at Raw Signal Group, a management training company. After working in startups and tech for over a decade, Melissa and Johnathan began blogging about their experiences with people management, which ultimately led them to starting a management training company. Now, in addition to training and coaching hundreds of managers each year on how to be effective managers in today’s world of work, they also co-author a management newsletter, and in our conversation we spoke about their journey to founding a management training company, some of the challenges that managers face, and how they believe we can train managers to be more effective and valuable in today’s modern world of work.The Raw Signal Newsletter: https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter Melissa’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shappy/ Johnathan's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnath/ 

Joe Whittinghill is Corporate Vice President of Talent, Learning and Insights at Microsoft. As an experienced talent and OD leader, Joe played a critical role in assisting in the cultural transformation at Microsoft. Led by CEO Satya Nadellla, Microsoft went on a journey to shift it’s culture from a “know it all” to a “learn it all” mindset, and critical to this was redefining leadership at Microsoft, as well as their expectations for managers inside their organization.In this conversation, Joe spoke about the journey of Microsoft’s cultural transformation, and the importance of defining leadership behaviors and frameworks to empower their managers to lead teams in a digital world of work. Joe also spoke about how Microsoft redefined expectations for their people managers, how they try to develop a consistent framework and approach to management across their entire organization as well as how they encourage and employees to lead regardless of their title, rank and role. Linkshttps://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-is-using-growth-mindset-to-power-management-strategy-2019-11 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/human-resources/leaders-manager-excellence 

Amelia Dunlop is the Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital. In her role, Amelia takes a data-driven approach to understanding the human experience, and working with leaders to create better experiences for employees, customers and partners. Amelia and her co-authors have taken a data-driven quantitative and qualitative approach to studying and understanding what Gen Z talent wants out of a job, company, and manager and as well with conducting interviews with managers on the same topics, and published some of their findings in a recent research study. During our conversation, Amelia shared some of the findings of this report, honing in on some of the disconnects they found between  Gen Z Talent and their managers, some of the nuances and “why”s they found when digging deeper into the motivations and ideas from Gen Z employees, as well as some of Amelia’s own observations and learnings from her own research and experiences working with Gen Z Talent. Finally, we also spoke about some of the ways that managers and leaders could better develop and grow the next generation of talent in today’s workplace.LinksAmelia Dunlop's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliadunlop/Deloitte Digital Gen-Z Research Report: https://www.deloittedigital.com/us/en/blog-list/2023/gen-z-research-report.html 

Meghan Grace is Speaker, Consultant, and Researcher that studies generations. She works at the Institute For Generational Research and Education and also the Host of the #GenZ Podcast. Through her work with Institute for Generational Research , Meghan has provided valuable insights to organizations looking to attract and retain top talent from this emerging generation. During our conversation, we spoke about  Gen-Z in the workplace, some of the common misconceptions of generational data, and some of the observations from her own research on Gen-Z about work, culture, and careers.  Meghan also shared some of the ways leaders can take the time to better understand and listen to the Gen-Z employees, attract & retain Gen-Z talent, and how companies can build better companies for all employees.  LinksWebsite: https://www.meghanmgrace.com/#GenZ Podcast: https://www.meghanmgrace.com/podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghanmgrace/