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What if recognizing employees was as easy and personalized as shopping on Amazon? Join us for an insightful conversation with Steve Sonnenberg, the visionary co-founder and CEO of AwardCo, as he shares his journey to revolutionize employee recognition. Inspired by the traditional methods from his father's career, Steve has crafted a modern recognition system that caters to individual preferences and resonates with today's diverse workforce. Transforming the outdated one-size-fits-all approach, AwardCo offers customizable options that ensure every employee feels appreciated in a way that truly matters to them. Discover how this innovative approach aligns with the expectations of newer generations and prevents anyone from feeling overlooked.

In the quest for nurturing purpose-driven cultures, we examine how companies like Patagonia and Starbucks seamlessly integrate strong values into their operations, attracting and retaining talent even amid the Great Resignation. Steve emphasizes the critical role of authenticity in fostering a vibrant culture, as he illustrates how AwardCo uses social recognition platforms and tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams to highlight value-driven behaviors effortlessly. By incorporating discretionary monetary points, managers can fortify the connection between employee efforts and the organization's mission. This episode promises to provide valuable insights into creating an environment that not only appreciates employees but also imbues their work with meaning and purpose.

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Discover how to turn every workplace interaction into a moment of growth and connection with insights from our esteemed guests, Jackie Stavros and Sherry Torres. These renowned authors of "Conversations Worth Having" share the keys to transforming the way we communicate at work by adopting appreciative inquiry. Learn how to tune into your mindset and lead conversations that positively impact relationships and even our brain function. Jackie and Sherry provide actionable strategies to ensure your conversations are above the line—appreciative and constructive—propelling your team towards success.

Ever wondered how to stop venting and start solving? We dive into techniques to shift from unproductive complaining to constructive discussions. Using tools like generative questions and positive framing, we guide you in transforming dissatisfaction into solution-oriented thinking. Visualizing issues can make them more manageable, and our guests share how recalling past positive experiences can influence future interactions. These approaches promise to enhance workplace satisfaction and foster more meaningful, productive relationships.

For those navigating conversations during challenging times, this episode offers wisdom on framing dialogues for positive outcomes. We emphasize how crucial constructive conversations are, especially in educational settings during the pandemic. Plus, Jackie and Sherry open up about their favorite books and the significance of listening to emerging voices in the workplace. As an added bonus, explore the transformative potential of conversation boot camps that retrain the brain for effective communication. Don’t miss this jam-packed episode filled with practical advice and resources for HR professionals eager to revolutionize workplace dialogue.

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What if you could overhaul your entire HR department, making it more efficient and less reliant on paperwork? Join us for a thrilling episode of the Rebel HR podcast as we chat with Brenda LaMarche, VP of HR Services at Honkamp Payroll, straight from the State SHRM Conference in Iowa City. Brenda opens up about her captivating journey from a high school student to becoming a major player in the HR world with a degree from the University of Iowa. You'll be inspired by her passion for technology and hear about the game-changing innovations that are transforming HR processes today. Brenda's insights into challenging the status quo and the benefits of outsourcing HR tasks are not to be missed.

We dive into the nitty-gritty of navigating HR challenges in multi-state and international companies, with a special focus on handling complex regulations and ACA reporting. Learn practical strategies for justifying the budget to outsource HR functions, including a smart hack involving collaboration with a cost accountant. Brenda and I also explore the role of AI in HR, discussing its potential to enhance productivity while stressing the importance of proper verification. We wrap up with a critical conversation on advocating for a positive workplace culture and setting clear boundaries for acceptable behavior. This episode is packed with actionable advice and forward-thinking strategies to help you drive innovation in your HR practices.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-lamarche-b3469516/

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Kudos’ Chief Customer Officer Tom Short is an employees-first entrepreneur. In the last 25 years, he has founded several successful companies, all of which have employee experience as their cornerstone. In his current role, he is invested in advocating for employee recognition over rewards — favoring the long term effects of recognition on well-being and motivation over the short term “object perks” of rewards. 

Tom Short is the Founder of Kudos Inc., where he oversees business development, sales and marketing. Tom has founded numerous, highly successful, companies including Idea Machine, which was recognized as one of the top ten interactive agencies in Canada, which he later merged with Rare Method to create the largest independent interactive agency in Western Canada. Under Tom’s direction Rare Method was ranked as one of the fastest growing organizations in the Canada by Profit 100 Magazine several years running and as one of the top 50 small to mid-sized employers in Canada by the Queen's School of Business, Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing and Hewitt Associates.
 
At each organization Tom built, employee engagement was front and center as the key to building effective teams and successful companies. Kudos was the direct result of this philosophy and was a systematic way to build a systemic culture of appreciation. Today Kudos is quickly becoming a leader in social recognition and changing how companies around the world engage their team’s – one thank you at a time!

Tom’s Profile

linkedin.com/in/wtshort

Website

• kudos.com (Company)

Twitter

• KudosNow
• wtshort

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Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI), she is recognized #1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing in both leadership and life, whose mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, by enhancing hope, healing, and health as well as enhanced consciousness through the practices of resilience. 

By conducting two decades of original research on resilience, Dr. Taryn Marie developed the empirically based framework, The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People and believes that resilience is the key to individual, teams, and organizational growth and acceleration across the globe. Prior to founding RLI, she served as the Head of Executive Leadership Development & Talent Strategy at Nike, as well as Head of Global Leadership Development at Cigna. Dr. Taryn Marie earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland and completed pre- and postdoctoral fellowships in neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. 

Her book entitled The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why some flourish when others fold, and her online course, Flourish are available now! 

Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI) Website

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Projjal founded OnLoop in 2020 to create a category called Collaborative Team Development (CTD) to fundamentally reinvent how hybrid teams are assessed and developed. This was after over a decade of frustration with clunky, traditional enterprise performance management and learning processes and tools that were either hated or ignored by his teams at companies like Uber and Accenture where he spent many years. He is now dedicated to his lifelong mission of unleashing the full potential of the world’s 1 billion knowledge workers.

Prior to founding OnLoop, Projjal spent three and a half years at Uber in a variety of roles including leading Strategy & Operations for Business Development globally, leading Strategy & Planning for the APAC rides business, and GM of the Philippines rides business. Besides Uber, he also spent some time raising debt and equity from New York hedge funds for an industrials conglomerate (Essar), in strategy consulting in South East Asia (Accenture), and in early stage companies in Latin America (BlueKite, El Market) prior to that. Somewhere along the way he spent 2 years at Stanford (GSB), getting an MBA.

Projjal’s Profile

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Email

ghatak.projjal@gmail.com

https://www.onloop.com/

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About Alden

Hi, I’m Alden Mills

I’m going to be your swim buddy—Navy SEAL speak for your teammate. I’m here to help you succeed. There is no greater pleasure that I get than from helping others, their teams, and organizations go beyond what they originally thought was possible.

With over 40 years of success in different environments—sports, military, business, nonprofits, and community action groups—I know the rules for success are universal.

It starts with how you lead yourself and ends with how you serve others.

Principles of Success

These principles of success are what I call the three levels of Unstoppable Leadership. Think of them like ripples radiating from a pebble dropped into a pond’s still waters.

The techniques I share are ones I’ve used throughout my life—from leading Navy SEALs to creating an Inc. 500 company to leading communities to, and most importantly, raising my four boys.

https://www.alden-mills.com/

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Joshua Hawks-Ladds is co-chair of the Labor and Employment Law Department for Pullman & Comley, one of the largest law firms in Connecticut. On a day-to-day basis, he can be found consulting on and litigating business, labor, and employment matters – and navigating construction, civil rights, and municipal issues.

He has been featured in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of litigation - labor and employment and labor law-management since 2011, and was listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers to Businesses in Labor and Employment. 

He serves as outside general counsel to numerous countries with national and international foot prints. My concentration is in business matters, contract drafting, labor and employment consulting, noncompetition and trade secrets, construction disputes, municipal law.

Admitted in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court.

Rebel HR is a podcast for HR professionals and leaders of people who are ready to make some disruption in the world of work.

We'll be discussing topics that are disruptive to the world of work and talk about new and different ways to approach solving those problems.

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Unresolved workplace conflict wastes time, increases stress, and negatively affects business outcomes. But, Marlene Chism writes, conflict isn’t the problem—mismanagement is. The author, advisor, speaker, coach, and CEO of Marlene Chism Consulting’s new book From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading  details how the “three A’s”—aggression, avoidance, and appeasing—are common yet destructive ways humans avoid the emotions triggered by conflict.  

Chism’s book provides exercises, examples, and expert guidance to foster “conflict capacity,” stop workplace drama, and deal fearlessly with difficult issues head-on. Her techniques show leaders how to increase leadership clarity, identify obstacles, and reduce resistance to conflict.  

When leaders see conflict as a teacher, courageously face it, and continually work on transforming themselves, Chism says, they can get the resolution they are seeking and can change minds.

About Marlene 

From Conflict to Courage is Marlene Chism’s fourth leadership book; see her other works here.

She is a seasoned speaker, thought partner, advisor, coach, author, and widely recognized as the leading US authority on stopping workplace drama. She is CEO of Marlene Chism Consulting, which offers a comprehensive suite of consulting services to businesses and leaders. Marlene has a bachelor's degree in communications from Drury University, and a master’s in human resources development from Webster University.  She is an advanced practitioner in Narrative coaching. See her business page here, LinkedIn here, Twitter here, and YouTube channel here.

Rebel HR is a podcast for HR professionals and leaders of people who are ready to make some disruption in the world of work.

We'll be discussing topics that are disruptive to the world of work and talk about new and different ways to approach solving those problems.

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Join Kyle Roed and Molly Burdess as they dig into the book, "Show the Value of What You Do"!  

Sometimes the value of the work you do, the projects you undertake, or the initiatives you tackle are not clear. How do you know if your new venture has the potential to be a success? 

Show the Value of What You Do describes six steps to measure and improve the success of any project, program, initiative, or work effort. The Show the Value process involves connecting projects with a business measure, collecting and analyzing data to track progress, and presenting the results to the right audiences. The process is logical, credible, and easy to use. It offers a way for you to design work and deliver success so that others appreciate the value you contribute. 

Designed for specialists, consultants, project managers, team leaders, and career development professionals, this invaluable guide will help to ensure readers keep their work relevant, their careers on track and their organizations healthy.

Patti P. Phillips, Ph.D., is co-founder and CEO of ROI Institute. She is a driving force in the global adoption of the ROI Methodology and measurement and evaluation to influence organizational change. Her work as an educator, researcher, consultant, and coach supports leaders as they build the capacity to create and deliver value from investments in all types of endeavors. Her work spans private, public, nonprofit, and nongovernmental organizations.

Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D., chairman of ROI Institute, is a world-renowned expert on accountability, measurement, and evaluation. Jack provides consulting services for Fortune 500 companies and major global organizations, and regularly consults with clients in manufacturing, service, and government organizations in 70 countries. The author or editor of more than 100 books, he conducts workshops and presents at conferences throughout the world and has received several awards and honors for his work.


https://roiinstitute.net/

https://www.amazon.com/Show-Value-What-You-Measuring/dp/1523002271/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AN8AC50E6O6C&keywords=show+the+value+of+what+you+do&qid=1655389630&s=books&sprefix=show+the+value+o%2Cstripbooks%2C93&sr=1-1

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