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Nov 22, 2021 • 21min
Using Data to Remove Friction in the Digital Employee Experience
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mike Schumacher about the impact of poor digital employee experience and using data to remove friction in the employee experience
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- April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK
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- May 10-20, 2022
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- Feb 22, 2022
- June 21, 2022
- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
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Nov 12, 2021 • 23min
Making hybrid working work
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick Iovacchini of Kettle about making hybrid working work in the post-pandemic world and the ability to put people space and time together in ways that create successful experiences for employees and organisations.
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- May 10-20. 2022
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- Feb 22, 2022
- June 21, 2022
- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
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Nov 5, 2021 • 23min
The value of playfulness and mindfulness in work
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Amaranatho Robey about playfulness, mindfulness and his journey from AI developer to monk to executive coach.
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- May 9-20. 2022
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- Feb 22, 2022
- June 21, 2022
- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
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Oct 29, 2021 • 24min
Career and Leadership Advice for Engineers and Technical Professionals
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Perry about the important leadership and people skills that technologists are often not trained in, why career coaching can be valuable, being deliberate about career choices and advice for technical leaders.
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- Nov 1-12, 2021
- May 9-20. 2022
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- Feb 22, 2022
- June 21, 2022
- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
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Oct 24, 2021 • 25min
Creativity and Idea Generation in Remote Teams
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Will Burns of IdeasicleX about creativity and idea generation in remote teams.
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- Nov 1-12, 2021
- May 9-20. 2022
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- Feb 22, 2022
- June 21, 2022
- July 19, 2022
- August 23, 2022
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Oct 15, 2021 • 29min
Growing Teams and Retaining Culture in Remote Health Care
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Damon Lanphear about recruiting and growing remote teams, hanging the interviewing process, governance as an accelerator of innovation and applying AI to primary healthcare.
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- October 19, 2021
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- November 1-12, 2021
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Oct 8, 2021 • 24min
The Amazon Way with John Rossman
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to former Amazon executive John Rossman about the latest edition of his book, The Amazon Way.
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- October 19, 2021
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- November 1-12, 2021
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Oct 1, 2021 • 27min
Moving from Individual Contributor to People Leader
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sam McAfee about helping technologists move from being individual contributors to leaders of teams.
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- October 19, 2021
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Sep 25, 2021 • 33min
Helping Your Boss Help You with Ken Kousen
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ken Kousen, Java Champion, NFJS speaker, and author of Kotlin Cookbook, Modern Java Recipes, Making Java Groovy, and Gradle Recipes for Android about his new book Help Your Boss Help You.
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Sep 17, 2021 • 34min
New Approaches to Engineer Onboarding with Kristen Buchanan
In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Kristen Buchanan about new approaches to engineer onboarding and reducing time to productivity for new hires.
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- September 21, 2021
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