People Strategy Forum
Sam Reeve & Char Miller & Sumit Singla
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, Howard Nizewitz, 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 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-hosts 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, Howard Nizewitz, and Sumit Singla on the People Strategy Forum podcast and learn the keys to elevating the workforce.
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May 7, 2023 • 48min
Cultivating Your Leadership Presence: How To Lean Into Your Brilliance And Walk Into The Room With Confidence With Natalie Jobity
When a great leader walks into a room, chances are you can feel it instantly. There is something intangible that they exude that compels everyone to pay attention, give respect, and listen to what they have to say. That is what leadership presence is. It’s the way you carry yourself, command the attention of everyone, and make an impact with everything you say and even with what you don’t say. How do you cultivate that as part of your personal brand as a leader? Joining us on this forum is Natalie Jobity, an author, speaker, and Personal Brand Strategist at TheUnveiledWay.com. Natalie explains the key elements to leadership presence – Command, Communication, Confidence, and Clothing – and how each one can be optimized to cultivate the leader’s brand that you want to convey. She also talks about her book, It’s Your Time to Shine Girl, and what it has to offer, especially to emerging women leaders who struggle with leaning into their brilliance and showing up as themselves. Tune in and be empowered by Natalie’s powerful and practical message to every aspiring leader!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
May 6, 2023 • 42min
Harnessing The Power Of Trust In Building Productive Teams With Paddy Moran
Productive teams are nothing without the power of trust. It binds people together and creates harmony at all levels, which leads to incredible results. Joining the People Strategy Forum is Paddy Moran, Founder of Neuro Coach. He discusses how to measure trust in an organization and how its power can mend a fragmented leadership. Paddy presents the four keys to trust, its numerous facets, and the right way to cultivate a trust-centered culture. He also talks about the role of trust in bringing people together in a hybrid setup and how the neuro mindset paves the way toward a more diverse workplace.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Apr 30, 2023 • 51min
Making Teams Comfortable In Running Experiments With Pattie Money
If a team sticks to their original strategies and refuses to evolve, they will be left behind and fail to grow. That’s why running experiments must be part of team building if they want to achieve success. Joining the People Strategy Forum panel is Pattie Money who explores the importance of testing and playing in the sandbox to assure quality results. She talks about how assumptions and theories are effective elements in shaping a learning culture that promote open-mindedness, healthy competition, and inclusivity. Pattie also explains how leaders can improve velocity and how technological advancements like AI impact experimentation within the team.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Apr 17, 2023 • 47min
Key Interpersonal Skills For Leaders To Facilitate A Psychological Safety Culture With Stephan Wiedner
A mark of a great leader is having good interpersonal skills. They know how to communicate effectively with their teams, moving them in the right direction. However, not many have mastered this necessary tool and it’s costing them more than they are aware of. If you’re looking to improve your interpersonal skills, this episode is for you. Joining the panel is Stephan Wiedner. He co-founded Noomii in 2007, which is the global leader in delivering psychological safety-based coaching. Bringing to the table a mixed set of skills and experience, including business, technology, and coaching, Stephan provides us with great insights into why interpersonal skills differentiate good leaders and managers from bad. He also dives into psychological safety and its significance in creating a culture that lets people feel that their voice matters. It's easy to be a manager and a leader when things are going well. But when the going gets tough, the bad ones get weeded out and the great prevails. What separates them is their interpersonal skills. Tune in to this great conversation to find out how you can better this key leadership prowess so you can continue bringing your team to the top.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Apr 9, 2023 • 41min
Cross-Cultural Coaching: How The TMA Method Appreciates Cultural Diversity With Mardi Huiting-Bijleveld
No two humans are alike. When you add culture to that, we get to appreciate our diversity even more. This is especially true for coaches who had to move around the world. And in today’s People’s Strategy Forum, we have a guest who is well-familiar with this and has employed cross-cultural coaching using the TMA Method. Mardi Huiting-Bijleveld is an experienced and inspiring life, career & leadership coach, specializing in early grads, young professionals, managers, and executives. She founded Valenti to help people reach their full potential. Mardi moved from the Netherlands to the US, where she found herself working with more diverse clients. In this conversation, she tells us how her clients in the US differ from Europeans and how she was able to work around the differences through cross-cultural coaching. Mardi also shares her thoughts on finding a job that aligns with your talents and passions, appreciating different perspectives, and collaborating. Tune in to this episode and learn more about cultural diversity in coaching and the benefits of the TMA Method.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Apr 3, 2023 • 49min
Creating A Legend In Your Leadership Instead Of A Unicorn With Patrick Sutton
When taking a leadership role, you want to do something you will be remembered for, not only by your current team but even future generations. But you cannot achieve this just by becoming a unicorn – you have to go to the next level and start creating a legend. The People Strategy Forum panel chats with Patrick Sutton, who presents five tips on shaping yourself as an effective leader who would go down in history as a legendary individual who did monumental feats in team building. He explains why every leader should be vulnerable, relatable, and always willing to learn. Patrick also talks about pushing the DEI conversation forward without creating further biases or hiring individuals simply because of their appearance.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Apr 3, 2023 • 46min
Creating A Fulfilling Workforce Experience With Sam Reeve
Getting paid competitively is not enough for many people nowadays. Most of them are looking for a workforce experience that will give them fulfillment. Sam Reeve leads the conversation about how leaders can create a workplace culture that attracts the best people, retains top performers, and motivates every single person within the team. They talk about building trust in leadership, the importance of one-on-one employee conversation, and the power of collaborative teamwork. They also touch on the best approach to accommodating individuals at different stages in their lives, how to provide employee benefits equally, and why you must align with everyone’s personal values.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Mar 21, 2023 • 42min
Using Competencies For Success: A People-Centric Approach To Business Growth With Jeff Griffiths
Wouldn’t it make for a great business and business environment if we have the right people with the right skills in the right roles? For Jeff Griffiths, this is where the value of competencies show up as we move our business towards success. He is a performance and growth consultant who specializes in diagnosing the human side of mid-sized industrial companies' businesses. In this episode, he discusses how a people-centric approach with the use of competencies makes companies more agile, capable, and future-proof. He talks about talent management strategies in the workforce and walks us through getting the executive buy-in. At the end of the day, people love it when what they do matters. When the business or organization takes care of that, it snowballs, and you will grow by leaps and bounds.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Mar 20, 2023 • 42min
The Whole-Person Workplace: Building Supportive Workplaces Where People Thrive With Scott Behson
A truly supportive workplace doesn’t stop outside the walls of the office. It takes care of its people not just at the workplace but also in the other parts of their lives. This is what the concept of the whole-person workplace means, and there is no better person to discuss this than Scott Behson. He is a Management Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is also a speaker, consultant, and author of three books. His new book, The Whole-Person Workplace, is the reason why we’re all tuned in. Tune in as he joins the People Strategy Forum and shares his wisdom and experience in all things talent management and human resources. Find out what a supportive workplace really means and how things like employee engagement, workplace culture, and diversity and inclusion fit into the whole picture.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Mar 5, 2023 • 54min
How To Use PAUSE Journaling In A DEI Conversation With Wade Forbes And Angela Chiraza
The DEI conversation is being pushed in every organization and industry today to promote fairness at all levels. But this concept is deeply rooted in systemic historical patterns, and real change cannot happen in just a blink of an eye. Wade Forbes and Angela Chiraza partner up to come up with a different approach to DEI to make it deeply inspirational and meaningful. Speaking to the People Strategy Forum panel, they present PAUSE journaling to help people be quiet with their thoughts and discover positive ways to deal with DEI. Wade and Angela also break down the most common problems leaders face when embracing the DEI concept, particularly in transforming cultures that have been existing for many decades.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
