How to Support, Motivate, and Retain Parents in the Workplace with Greer Van Dyck
10/24/23 • 23 min
Organizational coach Greer Van Dyck joins Roy to explore how organizations can better support, motivate, and retain people throughout their parenthood journey.
Maintaining a full time job and starting a family presents unique challenges – along with an opportunity for organizations to more effectively support their employees in the process. Through her coaching business, Windrose, Greer works with management and leadership teams to foster psychological safety, transparency, and support for employees in all stages of parenthood. In her own words, Greer is “helping change the way organizations lead.”
Highlights from our conversation include:
- Greer’s approach to supporting clients (2:36)
- Challenges, failure points, and risks organizations run into around parenthood (4:38)
- When leaders should look for outside support (7:29)
- How to address troubling workplace statistics related to parents and parental benefits (9:51)
- The importance of communicating needs in order to affect organizational change (13:19)
- How somebody might initiate a dialogue with their company around parental support (15:36)
- How candidates can evaluate parental support within an organization (16:45)
- Incorporating and communicating parental support within the recruitment process (18:52)
- Initial steps to make your company more parent friendly (19:57)
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Organizational coach Greer Van Dyck joins Roy to explore how organizations can better support, motivate, and retain people throughout their parenthood journey.
Maintaining a full time job and starting a family presents unique challenges – along with an opportunity for organizations to more effectively support their employees in the process. Through her coaching business, Windrose, Greer works with management and leadership teams to foster psychological safety, transparency, and support for employees in all stages of parenthood. In her own words, Greer is “helping change the way organizations lead.”
Highlights from our conversation include:
- Greer’s approach to supporting clients (2:36)
- Challenges, failure points, and risks organizations run into around parenthood (4:38)
- When leaders should look for outside support (7:29)
- How to address troubling workplace statistics related to parents and parental benefits (9:51)
- The importance of communicating needs in order to affect organizational change (13:19)
- How somebody might initiate a dialogue with their company around parental support (15:36)
- How candidates can evaluate parental support within an organization (16:45)
- Incorporating and communicating parental support within the recruitment process (18:52)
- Initial steps to make your company more parent friendly (19:57)
Visit HowIHire.com for transcripts and more on this episode.
Follow Roy Notowitz and Noto Group Executive Search on LinkedIn for updates and featured career opportunities.
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Seth Ellison (Nike, Levi’s, Quiksilver) on his Favorite Interview Questions, Cultivating Internal Talent, the Elements of Successful Talent Strategy, and More
Seth Ellison has led teams at iconic brands like Nike, Levi Strauss & Co., and Quiksilver. Today, he joins Roy to discuss how these roles have shaped his hiring philosophy and what we can learn from the talent strategy of top apparel companies.
Seth has decades of experience in brand building and merchandising, having led and built global teams for legendary brands. Seth’s extensive resume includes the growth of large-scale DTC and wholesale businesses across international markets, industry leading corporate strategy, widely successful C-Suite leadership, extensive team building and brand development, and high level execution across diverse consumer segments.
Highlights from our conversation include:
- Lifelong lessons from Seth’s early days in the surf apparel business (4:15)
- How his time at Nike shaped his hiring philosophy (9:05)
- Developing internal talent vs. seeking external talent (11:55)
- Opportunities and challenges he experienced during Nike’s acquisition of Hurley (15:26)
- Seth’s process for making decisions on important hires (18:13)
- Seth’s interview strategy and criteria (22:35)
- The elements of successful hires vs. hiring mistakes (25:22)
- Advice for young and emerging leaders (27:31)
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John Vlastelica on Ways to Improve Hiring Efficiency, Quality and Diversity
John Vlastelica is the founder and CEO of Recruiting Toolbox, a consulting and training firm helping companies recruit and hire better; with more speed, efficacy, and diversity. John and Roy dig into current and future trends in recruiting, common mistakes that companies make in the hiring process, and how clarity and alignment can make all the difference in attracting and retaining top talent.
John brings an incredible wealth of recruiting experience and perspective to the conversation. He has spent the last two decades refining effective hiring tools and processes, developing employment sourcing and interviewing strategies for a wide range of legendary brands like Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Pepsi, Nike, and many more. John and his team at Recruiting Toolbox develop customized training for corporate recruiters and hiring managers to help them improve who and how they hire.
Highlights from our conversation include:
- How John and his team help client companies (2:46)
- The components and importance of a holistic talent strategy (3:45)
- When companies need to start thinking about talent strategy (6:20)
- Trends, challenges, and opportunities facing talent acquisition leaders (11:56)
- Where companies are falling short in talent acquisition (13:41)
- How John and his team help companies determine what good looks like in hiring (15:54)
- Ways in which companies can inventory their processes and personnel to enhance the recruitment process (19:25)
- Helping companies avoid false negatives and improve their hiring decision quality (22:41)
- John’s predictions for the future of recruiting (25:33)
- Hiring advice for smaller companies without talent acquisition leadership (30:42)
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