People Strategy Forum
Every great leader inspires, motivates and rewards their people for performance. Welcome to the People Strategy Forum podcast, a show that guides leaders to elevate the workforce. People are at the heart of successful organizations. Team members’ well-being and career development are essential. This show discusses practical and effective leadership strategies for top executives, senior professionals, and talent managers. Aligning employer and employee objectives is a must. Every team member needs to feel fulfilled and satisfied in order to be fully productive and accountable. This show helps leaders create an engaged workforce that is happily accomplishing daily responsibilities and committed to the organization’s future success. Episodes focus on innovative and integrated talent management tools, including employee recognition, compensation, and development, as well as strategies for building a healthy workplace culture and improving the workforce experience. On a deeper level, the podcast centers around attracting, growing and retaining top talent. It addresses employee motivation, communication, performance, productivity and the genuine human connections that are essential for every successful organization. Each team member brings their own unique strengths, talents, interests, and passions. By touching on these personal areas, leaders create an environment where employees perform at their best. Sam Reeve, Char Miller, and Sumit Singla host the podcast. Sam has 20-years of diverse compensation experience at leading firms. His time at Barclays, BlackRock, and Automatic Data Processing (ADP) allowed him to see companies evolve from the startup phase to rapidly growing to mature organizations Char works closely with C-suite-level executive teams and advises organizations such as Vail Resorts, Banner, and Kaiser Permanente. She helps businesses determine performance goals and organizational objectives while constructing roadmaps for appropriate workplace cultures. Sumit has over 15 years of talent management practice across different sectors. His expertise in organizational framework, design thinking, performance management, and business storytelling is unparalleled. He is a favorite speaker at talent management conferences and events across the country. With these three forward-thinking, passionate people professionals at the helm of the podcast, talent-centric organizations can find relevant and helpful advice. Special guest co-host thought-leaders impart essential tips for making every workplace inspiring and rewarding. Beyond theoretical ideas, these experts share experiences as business leaders that shed light on overcoming challenges and celebrating wins. Even with generous budgets and advanced tools, having the right team in place is crucial to achieving goals and succeeding. By putting effective programs in place, leaders can expect deeper connections that result in healthy working relationships that spell success across the organization. Join Sam Reeve, Char Miller, and Sumit Singla on the People Strategy Forum podcast and learn the keys to elevating the workforce.
Latest episodes
Dec 24, 2021 • 48min
Elevated Leadership: Building A Strong Culture With Strong Core Values With Lisa Jackson
What are you doing in your business that’s keeping it sailing smoothly? Do you have core values that could drive change and elevate your leadership for success? Restore confidence and be the best leader you can be. If you’re looking for ways to provide more value in your organization, then you have to listen to Lisa Jackson, the President of Corporate Culture Pros. In this episode, she shares valuable insights on how you could bring a strong culture to your business. She discusses the core values she has that benefit everyone. Tune in to learn how to improve, execute effective leadership strategies, management practices, and overcome challenges!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Dec 17, 2021 • 52min
Be A Shaper: Craft Your Career And Your Life With Jonas Altman
Be a shaper. Be someone who has the ability to craft their own career. Don't just be stuck in doing one thing. Find your purpose, wear many hats, and enjoy your job. If you want to be an influencer or a coach on the side, go for it! Find your meaning with your hosts Sam Reeve, Char Miller, and Sumit Singla, and their guest Jonas Altman. Jonas is a coach, author, speaker, and is the founder of Social Fabric. Join in today's episode to learn more about his newest book, Shapers. Learn how to discover your passions so that you can shape your life. There is no point in life if you're not enjoying what you do each and every day. Listen in and become a shaper today!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Dec 10, 2021 • 48min
How Offering Meaningful Career Paths Increase Employee Performance With Wendy Graham Settle
How do you increase employee performance? By using career architecture. Sam Reeve’s guest today is Wendy Graham Settle, a Dynamic Learning and Development Professional with a passion for Marketing Communications. Wendy talks with Sam about how you need to create a vision of how your new talent can contribute to your company. The only way to do that is to look at your organizational structure to determine what positions you need to fill. Then use assessment tools to understand your employee’s talents and interests to match them with the fitting job description. If you’re passionate about increasing employee performance, you’d want to listen to this episode. Tune in! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Dec 3, 2021 • 50min
How To Hire Good People: Discussing The Hiring Process With Beth Smith
The success or failure of a business often hinges on whether or not you choose and hire good people. You need to have a process in place that lets you identify these people and get them hired. In this episode, Sam Reeve, Char Miller and Jules talk to the founder of A-List Interviews and creator of the Response Analysis System, Beth Smith. Beth talks about the process of identifying the right people and how to get these people on board. Learn more about HR and hiring secrets by tuning in.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Nov 26, 2021 • 54min
A Few Tips To Successful Professional Networking With Greg Roche
Networking might sound like a dirty word for many of us. It sounds transactional, salesy, even sleazy, but it isn’t. Professional networking is a vital skill if you want to keep business relationships whole and viable. So what does it look like? Sam, Jules and Char discuss this with career transition coach, Greg Roche. Greg talks about losing his job and starting from scratch, and how he rebuilt his career using his professional network. Tune in for more networking strategies in this special episode.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Nov 19, 2021 • 55min
Race In The Workplace: Bringing Diversity And Inclusion To Work With Dr. Dena Samuels
In order to maximize performance in the workplace, people need to thrive in it first. They can't thrive if there is no diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Diversity in the workplace doesn't only mean race. It can mean gender, sexuality, or anything that is a non-dominant social identity. Learn how to diversify your workplace as a leader with your hosts Sam Reeve, Char Miller, and Sumit Singla. Join them as they talk to Dr. Dena Samuels about diversity, implicit bias, microaggressions, and more. Dena is a mindfulness-based diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant that helps companies with workplace diversity. Learn what bias is and why people have it. Discover how to deal with microaggressions so that it doesn't become a bigger issue. And learn how to make a diversity equity and inclusion strategic plan for your company. Learn all of that and more in today's episode with Dr. Dena Samuels.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Nov 12, 2021 • 45min
The Onboarding Process: Why First Impressions Matter With Wendy Graham
When you get hired for a new position, first impressions matter. This is why the onboarding process is so important to any business. You want to make that person feel like they made the right decision to choose your company. Wendy Graham is here to talk more about onboarding, whether it be in-person or virtual. Wendy is a dynamic learning and development professional with a passion for marketing. She helps small and large companies implement, manage, and train HR systems. Listen in as she talks to Sam Reeve, Char Miller, & Sumit Singla about the importance of onboarding and what the latest trends are.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Nov 5, 2021 • 1h 30min
Talent Management In Today’s Post Pandemic World
The post-pandemic world demands a new normal and a new way of talent management. With the massive changes in how we do business unfolding, we need decisive leadership to pave the way for our employees. In this episode, Char Miller and Sam Reeve discuss the rapid changes the new normal is bringing to the world of business and talent management. We learn about the TMA method and how this will revolutionize talent management and HR practices. Tune in for more on how HR is disrupting the business world with new concepts for managing talent.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
