HR Happy Hour Network

HR Happy Hour 427 - Supporting Small Business HR Needs in a Crisis Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Alison Stevens, Director of HR Services, Paychex It’s clear that business owners are going through a time of unprecedented uncertainty and are facing challenges they likely never thought they’d face.  Paychex understands this. Many organizations are concerned about business continuity, making payroll, and ensuring the health and safety of their employees and are turning to Paychex to help. From solving cash flow issues to managing state unemployment insurance to navigating new HR and regulatory environments, Paychex is supporting businesses through this turbulent time. Visit paychex.com to find out more about how Paychex can help This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were joined by Alison Stevens, to talk about the most pressing and important HR and business challenges that many small businesses are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Alison and her team of 800+ HR professionals are working to help these small businesses work through these unprecedented times. Alison also shared how the types of HR questions that they are receiving are evolving as the pandemic has also evolved - from remote work challenges, to technical solutions for workplace functioning, to the hard challenges of employee layoff and furloughs, the HR needs and need for information has been incredible. And with Return to Work now on the front burner, the HR needs of small businesses are only going to be more critical. Find out more about the Paychex research we discussed. This was a great show, thanks to Alison for joining us! Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour wherever you get your podcasts

Guest: Larry Dunivan, Namely HRWins Founder George LaRocque is joined by Larry Dunivan, CEO of Namely, the growing HRIS and payroll provider serving middle-market employers, to discuss leading through the COVID-19 crisis. The result is an incredibly transparent conversation with Larry sharing the difficult decisions he, like CEOs and leaders around the world, have had to make. Get a unique view of how a CEO at a high-growth HR technology scale-up has navigated the challenges brought on by COVID-19 for the tech provider and its many customers.

HR Happy Hour 426 - Thinking about Business and HR Like an Anthropologist Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guests: Martha Bird, Business Anthropologist, ADP This episode of the HR Happy Hour is made possible by Workhuman.  Their solutions replace isolation with recognition, connection, and celebration.  Keep morale high by celebrating the new babies, birthdays, much-needed well-wishes, and all your special occasions with Life Events.  Give and receive continuous peer feedback, have regular check-ins between managers and direct reports, and set goals to stay aligned with Conversations.  Now you can try these free through March 2021.  Visit welcome.workhuman.com to learn more. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were joined by Martha Bird, to talk about the role of the business anthropologist, and how thinking about business and technology through the lens of the anthropologist can create benefits and value for the organization. Anthropologists are trained to listen, look, and understand what people are really doing with the tools and technologies we create, as well as understand what customers need from the tools we build. We also talked about our favorite kinds of pie - and Trish shared her favorite Vinegar Pie, which I suspect might be a new one for you, and we discussed the best ways to make pie crust This was a really interesting show, thanks to Martha for joining us and check out her book recommendation, Ethnographic Thinking. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour wherever you get your podcasts

Host: Madeline Laurano Guest: Quincy Valencia According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 82 million workers in the United States are paid hourly, representing 58.5% of all wage and salary workers. Hourly workers comprise the largest segment of today’s workforce yet, these individuals are too often ignored. Madeline Laurano talks with Quincy Valencia about the challenges, strategies and technology impacting hourly recruiting. They discuss everything from communication to rejection to Alexander Mann’s new Hourly product.

HR Happy Hour 425 - Talent and the Unbound Business Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Heidi Spirgi, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Cornerstone OnDemand Sponsored by Paychex. Paychex understands that many business owners are going through a time of unprecedented uncertainty and are facing challenges they likely never thought they’d face. COVID-19 has many organizations concerned about business continuity, making payroll, and ensuring the health and safety of their employees. Visit paychex.com to find out more about how Paychex can help. This episode of the HR Happy Hour is made possible by Workhuman.  Their solutions replace isolation with recognition, connection, and celebration. Now you can try these free through March 2021.  Visit welcome.workhuman.com to learn more This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were joined by Heidi Spirgi, to talk about Heidi’s first year at Cornerstone her new podcast with the Cornerstone team, driving innovation in employee-focused talent management, and the shifts from talent management to talent experience. Heidi also shared an update on the recent Cornerstone acquisition of HR tech provider SABA, and some of the ideas and plans for the combined company moving forward.  We also talked about our favorite villains from movies and TV. This was a really interesting show, thanks to Heidi for joining us! Learn more about Cornerstone Cares here. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour wherever you get your podcasts

HR Happy Hour 424 - Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: The Devil Wears Prada Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Sponsored by Paychex. Paychex understands that many business owners are going through a time of unprecedented uncertainty and are facing challenges they likely never thought they’d face. Paychex is here to help. Visit paychex.com to find out more. This episode of the HR Happy Hour is made possible by Workhuman.  Their solutions replace isolation with recognition, connection, and celebration.  Now you can try these free through March 2021.  Visit welcome.workhuman.com to learn more. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish break down the 2006 Film "The Devil Wears Prada" one of the great workplace movies of the last 20 years. "The Devil Wears Prada" is the story of how the just-graduated journalism student Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and executive of the Runway fashion magazine. We dig into the movie's explorations of HR and workplace ideas like hiring for culture fit, paying your dues at work, the importance of finding the right workplace mentor, and how it is to work for a tough minded, domineering boss with extremely high expectations. We also talked about auditioning for American Idol - check out our picks here and here This was a fun movie with lots of work and workplace ideas weaved throughout its story. Subscribe to the HR Happy Hour wherever you get your podcasts.

Join George LaRocque of HRWins as he looks at the current state and future of assessments with SHL's CEO, Andy Bradshaw. The two discuss SHL leaving Gartner and becoming independent again, how assessments and their role have changed, predictive analytics, the use of AI in assessments, and more.

HR Happy Hour 423 - Understanding and Communicating Employee Total Rewards Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guests: Peter Newhouse, Global Head of Reward, Unilever; Ken Charman, CEO, uFlexReward Sponsored by Paychex. Paychex understands that many business owners are going through a time of unprecedented uncertainty and are facing challenges they likely never thought they’d face. Paychex is here to help. Visit paychex.com to find out more. This episode of the HR Happy Hour is made possible by Workhuman.  Their solutions replace isolation with recognition, connection, and celebration.  Now you can try these free through March 2021.  Visit welcome.workhuman.com to learn more This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Peter Newhouse, Global Head of Reward, Unilever; Ken Charman, CEO, uFlexReward to talk about Unilever’s approach to managing, understanding, and communicating total employee rewards to its global population of employees. Their desire to make total employee rewards a more strategic element in their approach to HR and talent management led them to develop a new total rewards technology solution that gives both employees and HR leaders real time access and insight to total rewards data. This effort has launched uFlexReward, a new total rewards platform that organizations can leverage in their own total rewards management and communications. We also discussed our favorite board games, and new ways to buy enterprise tech. This was a really interesting show, thanks to Peter and Ken for joining us! Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour wherever you get your podcasts

HR Happy Hour 422 - Deep Listening and How it Can Make You a Better Leader Host: Steve Boese Guest: Oscar Trimboli The HR Happy Hour show is sponsored by Paychex. Paychex makes it simple for businesses of all sizes to pay and manage their employees. They make payroll easy and automatic and they handle benefits programs. Learn more at paychex.com. This episode of Happy Hour is also made possible by Workhuman®. When colleagues are empowered to recognize and reward each other for a job well done, it’s more than just a thank you. It’s a human moment. To learn more, visit www.workhuman.com This week on the HR Happy Hour show, we were joined by Oscar Trimboli an authority on how deep listening, i.e., hearing the unspoken 80% of what is communicated, can make us all better leaders, employees, friends, and collaborators. On the show, Oscar shared some of the science behind deep listening, how we process information at different speeds  depending on how it is relayed, and offered advice and tips on how to both become a better listener and to help people share more of their ideas and opinions. In addition, we talked about how the current Coronavirus pandemic has placed a premium on improving digital communication, and how making sure staying active, eating well and taking care or oursleves is key to making it through these trying weeks and months is necessary. This was a really fun conversation, thanks so much to Oscar for joining us. Learn more about him and his work at listeningmyths.com. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherver you get your podcasts.

Host: Madeline Laurano Guest: Bree Davern, Head of Business Development, RFX On this episode of Radical Research, Madeline Laurano interviews Bree Davern, Head of Business Development, at RFX- a women-owned transportation company in Massachusetts. Bree shares some of the challenges with recruiting and retaining employees, the impact of today’s global crisis on the trucking industry, and the importance of continuing to prioritize the employee experience.