HR Happy Hour Network

HR Happy Hour 389 - Cultivating Next Generation Talent at Liberty Mutual Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Francis Hyatt, Executive VP of Enterprise Talent Practices, Liberty Mutual Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy. And also Sponsored by O.C.Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures, helps thousands of top companies create peak moments that inspire people to achieve, appreciate, and connect to purpose and each other. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Trish and Steve were joined by Francis Hyatt, Executive VP of Enterprise Talent Practices at Liberty Mutual, a Fortune 75 insurer,  to talk about how the giant company engages and approaches the new and emerging talent it needs to keep meeting their important and challenging hiring goals. On the show, Francis discussed how Liberty Mutual uses an understanding of what today's newest entrants to the workforce are looking for in an employer to shape and craft their programs and strategies for new hire recruiting, employer branding, internships, and onboarding for optimal results. Additionally, Francis shared how they connect Liberty Mutual's mission and vision, helping people feel secure, to their recruiting and talent programs. This was a fun and informative show, thanks Francis for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour wherever you get your podcasts.

HR Happy Hour 388 - How Cornerstone OnDemand Drives Learning in the Workplace Hosts: Trish McFarlane, Karen Hunter Guest: Jeff Miller, AVP of Learning & Organizational Effectiveness Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Visit cultureamp.com Sponsored by O.C.Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures, helps thousands of top companies create peak moments that inspire people to achieve, appreciate, and connect to purpose and each other. Sponsored by PeopleStrategy,  a full-service broker that works with clients to identify competitive benefits packages to meet the needs of employees, their families and the company's financial obligations.  This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Trish and Karen were joined by Jeff Miller, AVP of Learning & Organizational Effectiveness at Cornerstone OnDemand.  Jeff shared how CSOD is known for their learning platform, and how this is expanding into all areas of the workplace.  We talked about the career lattice and how it affects the employee promotion process.  Additionally, we discussed how to measure learning success and how moments of learning can be truly impactful! This was a great conversation, thanks to Jeff for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts.

HR Happy Hour 387 - Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: Free Solo Hosts: Trish McFarlane, Steve Boese Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy. And also Sponsored by O.C.Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures, helps thousands of top companies create peak moments that inspire people to achieve, appreciate, and connect to purpose and each other. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, it's the return of the Workplace Movie Hall of Fame series, with a deep dive into the 2018 Academy Award winning Documentary Feature "Free Solo". The movie focuses on professional rock climber Alex Honnold, and his quest and attempt to become the first person to free solo climb El Capitan, a 3,000+ foot granite mountain in Yosemite National Park. The movie touches on several important themes that we find in the workplace and in our careers - training and development, the importance of teams and mentors, the need to manage risk vs. consequences when making tough workplace and career decisions. On the show we talk about the parallels between taking on such an amazing challenge and what we can learn from it and how to think about our own challenges and our own career choices. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts.

HR Happy Hour 386 - Leadership Lessons from the Apollo Program Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Dick Richardson Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy. And also Sponsored by O.C.Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures, helps thousands of top companies create peak moments that inspire people to achieve, appreciate, and connect to purpose and each other. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were joined by Dick Richardson, Co-Founder and CEO of Experience to Lead, a firm that offers unique, immersive experiences to improve the leadership skills of senior business executives. He is also the author of Apollo Leadership Lessons, a book on how the leadership and decison making processes of the legendary Apollo Space Program's leaders can be applied in business today, from the C-suite to the front line. Dick shared his insights on the Apollo program and how he and his firm create incredible leadership development and learning opportunties for companies and executives that combine amazing access to historical places and events with modern thinking about business, leadership, culture and more. Dick is one of our favorite guests we've had on in ages, I am sure you will enjoy the show. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts.

HR Happy Hour 385 - The State of Recruiting in 2019 Host: Steve Boese Guest: Jim Stroud, Talent Acquisition Thought Leader Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve is joined by recruitment industry legend Jim Stroud, an expert in sourcing, recruiting, candidate attraction, branding and more to get the state of recruting in 2019 and the overall labor market and how that impacts organizations. Jim shared his insights on how the lack of candidates in particular industries like in trucking and in caregiving are impacting recruiting efforts for organizations in these fields. Jim also discussed how soft skills like empathy and interpersonal skills are increasingly important for candidates in almost all fields and especially for those in recruiting or who are aspiring to be in recruiting. Jim shared some tips for how to best improve and develop those skills as well. Finally, we talked about some of the newer tools and technologies that are emerging and evolving in recruiting in 2019 and beyond. This was a fun show, thanks so much to Jim for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts.

HR Happy Hour 384 - The Critical Role of Managers in Employee Engagement Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Jim Harter, Chief Workplace Scientist, Gallup Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were joined by Jim Harter to talk about Gallup's most recent research, it's largest workplace study to date, and how the job of management has probably never been more complex. Jim is the co-author of 'It's the Manager', a look at how the role of manager has changed, how it remains critically important for employee engagement and organizational success. Jim shared several interesting findings from the research and the book, which all managers and leaders should understand as their workplaces evolve. Additionally, Trish shared her excitement with the recent St. Louis Blues Stanley Cup victory, Steve admitted he has not watched a hockey game in years, and whether or not it is ethical to A/B test management theories on your kids. This was a really interesting and fun conversation, thanks to Jim for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts.

HR Happy Hour 383 - Improving Health and Wellbeing at Work and in the Community Hosts: Steve Boese Guest: Tim State, Senior Vice President of Associate Health and Wellbeing, Humana Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Tim State of Humana, to talk about workplace health and employee wellbeing, and how Humana approaches wellbeing both inside their organization, and with the member organizations and employees they serve. Humana's 42K employees are focused on people, their wellbeing, and provides products and services to millions of people in the US and strives to help people reach their best health and life long wellbeing. On the show Tim shared some of the innovative approaches they utilize with their associates - seeing wellbeing as a personal and individual journey to help each associate reach their wellbeing goals.At Humana they have developed a common language and mindset to holistic wellbeing, which has helped people understand their own journey. Their four dimensions of wellbeing - purpose, health, belonging, and security - which is the foundation of overall wellbeing have helped the organization define, program, measure, and improve wellbeing at work. Learn more about Humana here. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts, just search for 'HR Happy Hour'.

HR Happy Hour 382 - Workplace Learning in 2019 Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Tanya Staples, Vice President of Learning Content, LinkedIn Learning Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show Trish and Steve were joined by Tanya Staples, Vice President of Learning Content, LinkedIn Learning to talk about learning in the workplace, advances in enterprise learning technology, and what HR and learning leaders should be thinking about and doing to help address the learning needs of their workforces. LinkedIn recently published their latest Workplace Learning Report, which takes a deep dive into the current state of enterprise learning, what are some of the key drivers of learning in the workplace today, and offers advice for HR and learning leaders to make their programs and efforts more effective. It has perhaps never been a better time to be a learning leader, and the learning function in the enterprise is more important than ever - with skills development, career development, and upskilling all being on the top of the list of HR and talent management priorities in 2019 and beyond. This was a really interesting conversation about an important topic in HR, learning, and talent management, thanks so much to Tanya for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts.

HR Happy Hour 381 - Building a Culture First Organization Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Damon Klotz, Work Culture Evangelist, Culture Amp Sponsored by Culture Amp, the platform that turns your company culture into a competitive advantage. Your employee data tells you what's happened in the past, but what if it could tell you what might happen next. See how with your free Predictive Analytics report at www.cultureamp.com/happy. This week on the show, Trish and Steve were joined by Damon Klotz of Culture Amp to talk about what it really means to be a 'culture first' organization, how values in the organization drive behavior and form culture, and how strategy and talent must work in combination with culture to create the best business and people outcomes. Additionally, we teased the next upcoming Workplace Movie Hall of Fame show, discussed boating on the Great Lakes, and we set the record for the longest pre-show pre-amble in HR Happy Hour Show history. This was a really fun and interesting conversation - thanks so much Damon for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts and learn more at www.h3hr.com.

HR Happy Hour 380 - Modern Approaches to Learning and Finding Knowledge   Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Sam Crumley, VP of Employee Experience, Panopto Sponsored by Panopto, or businesses and universities, Panopto is everything YouTube isn’t. With enterprise-grade security, built-in recording and live streaming, and a unique search engine that finds any word spoken in any video, Panopto is how professionals share knowledge. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish welcomed Sam Crumley, of Panopto to talk about what it is like leading the people function at a company that actually provides tools to other organizations and HR and people functions. Sam also shared how HR leaders and organizations have to respond to the new ways employees are seeking knowledge and how they want to learn new skills. It is no surprise, video has emerged as the primary media of choice for the modern workplace, and Sam shared some of the benefits and  added analytical value that modern technology Panopto can provide. Additionally Trish shared some of her observations from her role as Chairwoman of the recent HR Tech China in Shanghai. This was a fun and interesting conversation, thanks to Sam for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts