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Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders with Mick Spiers
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07/20/22 • 38 min
It’s time to revolutionize leadership development. In this episode of Transform Your Workplace, Brandon Laws and guest Mick Spiers, founder of The Leadership Project, discuss Mick’s new book, You’re a Leader, Now What?. Get a glimpse into best practices for how to transition from contributor to leader and build effective leadership habits through applied learning.
TAKEAWAYS
- More emphasis needs to be placed on leader preparation instead of placing contributors into leadership roles without adequate development.
- When it comes to leadership, it doesn't matter what you know but rather how much you care about your people.
- A true leader should be motivated by helping people unlock their best version of themselves.
- Through smart and clever questioning and coaching, new leaders can quickly accelerate through the learning curve.
- The Leadership Project embraces concepts of collaborative or social learning to get people talking, reflecting, and building habits for successful leadership.
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BONUS EPISODE - Annie Oxenfeld on Disaster Relief
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10/18/24 • 20 min
Annie Oxenfeld discusses disaster preparedness for companies with multi-state employees. She emphasizes the importance of having contingency plans, flexible work arrangements, and support systems in place. The conversation covers communication strategies, employee assistance programs, and ways to maintain operations while prioritizing employee safety and well-being during natural disasters.
TAKEAWAYS
- Develop and regularly update disaster preparedness plans.
- Offer flexible work arrangements and support resources for affected employees.
- Integrate safety and disaster preparedness into company culture.
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How to Retain Your Best People with Jeff Kortes
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07/25/17 • 25 min
It’s straightforward stuff: retaining your talented employees is necessary for your organization to grow and thrive. What’s less straightforward is where to start with accomplishing that task. What kind of turnover is healthy turnover, and what can you do about the preventable turnover? What kind of data tracking should you be doing, and how do you use those numbers to make improvements? What’s an easy way to go about stay and exit interviews to ensure you’re getting honest, raw feedback?
Jeff Kortes, employee retention speaker and author, joins Brandon Laws in a discussion of all things employee retention. Listen in to hear about practical tips and tools to introduce into your workplace practices as well as the meaning of Jeff’s “C.R.A.P.” leadership system and what it could do for your company and people.
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About the Guest:
Jeff Kortes didn’t become an employee retention speaker, author and expert by accident. His early career spanned 25 years as a human resources professional, trainer, and consultant. He has held leadership roles in companies such as ConAgra, Midas International, SPX, and Regal Ware, Inc.
Jeff's no-nonsense approach is reflected in his C.R.A.P. Leadership System, which instills positive supervisory and managerial behavior while driving results in the organization. Jeff also works as a “headhunter,” finding candidates to fill organizations’ talent needs and constantly learning about what drives candidates to choose one employer over another.
Jeff speaks and conducts workshops nationwide as an employee retention trainer. He draws on his experiences as a human resources professional, father, coach, martial artist and U.S. Army veteran to provide thought-provoking programs that yield results.
The Path to Trauma-Informed Leadership with Carolyn Swora
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08/22/23 • 37 min
In this episode of the Transform Your Workplace podcast, host Brandon Laws welcomes Carolyn Swora, a trauma-informed leadership and culture consultant and the author of Evolve: The Path to Trauma-Informed Leadership. The two discuss Carolyn’s personal journey from navigating her husband’s terminal kidney cancer to her eventual path to healing. Listen in to learn the impact of trauma in the workplace and how leaders can adopt more compassionate and human-centered approaches toward their people.
TAKEAWAYS
- Being attuned to others' experiences and valuing their perspectives is at the core of self-awareness and leadership.
- The foundation of leadership lies in awareness and the ability to navigate emotional complexities in a noisy world.
- The terms "care" and "trauma" aren’t often used in the corporate context, but the collective trauma experienced during the pandemic has brought these concepts to the forefront, making it crucial for workplaces to acknowledge and address them.
- Leaders must understand trauma, its effects, and how they can foster a sense of belonging by honoring the diverse experiences of their team members.
- Evolved leaders recognize the interconnectedness of safety, authenticity, and consistency.
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Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces with Jennifer Kahnweiler
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10/06/20 • 37 min
Introverts and extroverts work differently. Their environment plays an important role in how they show up at work.
Most companies don’t really think about whether their workplace and culture are fit to cater to both extroverts and introverts. Mainstream company work culture tends to value extroversion over introversion. And this undermines the strengths of the quiet ones.
What if they have more to offer, but it doesn’t get into the table because leaders and employees don’t really understand how their introvert people operate?
Join me in this episode, as we learn and understand the introverts' traits and how companies can bring out their true strength and talents!
Jennifer Kahnweiler is an author and speaker hailed as a pioneer of the past decades' introvert revolution. Her books are focused on how introverts can lead and inspire others at work by tapping into their natural quiet strengths.
She will talk about her book, Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces: How to Unleash Everyone’s Talent and Performance, and explain how your organization can create an introvert-friendly workplace where everyone thrives!
We also touch on the myths related to introverts that’ll make you cringe and why introverts are not what you think they are.
Create a welcoming culture that maximizes the introverts' skills and talents by listening to this episode as Jennifer offers the guides to introvert inclusion!
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In this episode, you will learn about:
- How to assess whether a workplace is set up for introverted employees
- What is the introvert revolution?
- Extrovert focused systems
- Jennifer talks about the common hiring process in several high performing companies
- Hiring an introvert vs. an extrovert person
- Questioning our own biases and perspective when hiring people
- Jennifer’s thoughts on hiring people for the future of the business
- The best way to deliver training, learning, and development systems to power introverts
- How companies and organizations are serving their introvert employees
- The LOUDership leadership
- Whether extroverted skills are more valued inside of a workplace
- Educating people about what introverts are
- Preparation, the real differentiators for introverts
- Understanding and nurturing relationships with your introvert people
- The good meeting hygiene
- Myths about introversion that’ll make you cringe
- The modes of communication that introverts tend to rely on
- Silence and the power of the ‘pause.’
- The relevance of creating an introvert-friendly workplace
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Introverted Leader by Jennifer Kahnweiler
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord
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How a Fear-Based Work Environment Could be Holding your Organization Back
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06/27/17 • 40 min
Fear can often be a helpful emotion – it keeps us from ending up in risky, potentially harmful situations. But when does fear hold us back from reaching our full potential either as individuals or organizations? Darrin Murriner, author of Corporate Bravery: Eliminate Fear-Based Decision Making, joins the podcast to discuss how mistrust and being overly cautious can set us back personally as well as how it can impact a company’s growth and success. Drawing on personal stories, the current political climate, and more, listen in on the discussion and find out how encouraging people to be comfortable with the potential for failure leads to ultimate success.
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About the Guest:
Darrin Murriner has over a decade experience with some of the largest corporations in America. Darrin has worked as an outside consultant, led operations and finance teams and worked in risk management. These experiences has provided the thesis for Corporate Bravery. In addition to his corporate experiences, Darrin has also started businesses as well. He founded BabysitEase with his wife Peggy in 2005 and the local news site Fort Thomas Matters in 2008. In late 2014 he started his latest venture - Stockpilz.com, a marketplace for commercial paper, with the idea that business to business sourcing can be accomplished more efficiently. He is currently the President and Co-Founder of Cloverleaf, a development tool for teams. In addition to his business experiences he lives with his wife Peggy and three children in Fort Thomas, Kentucky - a small suburb located a couple miles from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Making Better Decisions: Learning from people who shaped the future of the world through their choices with Robert Dilenschneider
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08/25/20 • 23 min
Every single day, we make hundreds of decisions, consciously, and unconsciously. Some are small and some require more thinking. How we make those decisions will ultimately affect our lives and others.
No one wants to be in a position where they have to make hard decisions. It’s not always easy to make the right choice. When time is of the essence, even if the knowledge we have at that time is scarce, we have to think quickly and act immediately. Otherwise, it’ll lead to unfavorable results that we might regret later on.
Whether it’s something small and mundane or a matter of life-and-death situation, how do you make better decisions? How do you make choices that’ll positively affect your future and the people around you?
You just made the right choice today! And that is to listen to this episode!
Get empowered and achieve a higher level of decision-making, as business strategy expert, Robert Dilenscheider joins us to talk about making decisions better decisions and the choices of people who shaped the world we live in today and how we can apply them in our daily life!
Robert is the founder and chairman of The Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations, and communications consulting firm headquartered in New York City. He wrote the book Decision: Practical Advice from 23 Men and Women Who Shaped the World, where he helps make life better for people by highlighting the choices of notable peoples from history and how their decisions shaped what’s going tomorrow.
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In this episode, you will learn about:
- The implications of the decisions that we will make
- Harry Truman and his decision to use the atomic bomb
- Malala Yousafzai and her decision to stand up and fight for what she believes in
- The outcome of Henry Ford’s decision about his workers’ wage
- What we can learn from Johann Gutenberg’s decision and having clear goals
- Common themes among the 23 people who shaped the world through their decisions
- How to make better decisions
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"Embracing Change" with Michelle Ray
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12/15/21 • 24 min
As leaders, we must evolve with the world around us, or we risk being left behind. In this episode of the Transform Your Workplace podcast, we dive into a discussion about leading well in an ever-changing workplace. Hear from Michelle Ray — author, speaker, and entrepreneur — about her new book, Leading in Real Time, and get tips about how to embrace change as you lead your team.
TAKEAWAYS
- If we want to see success in our businesses, our teams, and our own professional lives, we can’t lead in the same way we did even two or three years ago.
- Leaders must be transparent and acknowledge the feelings and passions that their employees express.
- Positioning yourself for success means connecting with your people, listening to them, and being open to what they have to say.
- If you can demonstrate to your people that the part they play has relevance and meaning, then they feel good about making a contribution and, consequently, good about themselves.
- Leaders must build their credibility so that their people see them as genuine, trustworthy, and honorable.
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Learn more about Xenium HR at xeniumhr.com
Ensuring Gender Equity in the Workplace with Kelsey Pytlik and Rachel Bauer
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10/24/23 • 34 min
In a world where organizations are striving to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, this episode of Transform Your Workplace explores why it’s essential for leaders to acknowledge and address disparities when it comes to gender. Guests Kelsey Pytlik and Rachel Bauer of Gild Collective shed light on the fact that women are still leaving companies at alarming rates post-pandemic, primarily due to a lack of supportive workplace practices and policies after recruitment. Tune in and learn more about how you can provide adequate support to retain your top female talent.
TAKEAWAYS
- Empathy is a critical soft skill for driving change, interrupting bias, and implementing equitable workplace systems.
- While many companies initially embraced diversity and inclusion efforts, resistance and a desire to return to the status quo can hinder their progress.
- Acknowledging and addressing personal biases is challenging, but awareness can lead to meaningful change.
- Women face unequal treatment at work, requiring a shift in how organizations address these disparities.
- Because diverse perspectives drive innovation, companies with greater gender and ethnic diversity tend to outperform their competitors.
- Organizations should avoid one-size-fits-all approaches and instead tailor gender equity initiatives to their specific needs.
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Conversations Worth Having with Cheri Torres & Jackie Stavros
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12/21/21 • 23 min
Are your communication efforts moving you forward and or are they keeping you stuck in a negative loop? Find out in this episode of the Transform Your Workplace podcast, where Brandon Laws interviews Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros, coauthors of Conversations Worth Having. The three discuss eye-opening tips for recognizing negative communication patterns and having meaningful conversations that move you and your team forward.
TAKEAWAYS
- Everything we do revolves around conversation either with others or ourselves.
- The conversations we have either move us in the direction we want to go or keep us stuck in a loop of negativity.
- Our conversations affect our wellbeing, our productivity, and our engagement.
- Appreciative Inquiry engages us around what we want to see and where we want to go; it’s about the outcome rather than traditional problem-solving centered around fixing the root of the issue.
- When we come from a place of destructive, depreciative conversations, we put people in protect-mode and hinder effective communication.
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📋 In his own words: “The Transform Your Workplace podcast is your go-to source for the latest workplace trends, big ideas, and time-tested methods straight from the mouths of industry experts and respected thought-leaders.”
Contact Brandon and Xenium HR:
Email [email protected] or connect on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Instagram.
Learn more about Xenium HR at xeniumhr.com
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How many episodes does Transform Your Workplace have?
Transform Your Workplace currently has 468 episodes available.
What topics does Transform Your Workplace cover?
The podcast is about Culture, Management, Leadership, Human, Podcasts, Jobs, Resources, Leaders, Small and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Transform Your Workplace?
The episode title 'Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders with Mick Spiers' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Transform Your Workplace?
The average episode length on Transform Your Workplace is 30 minutes.
How often are episodes of Transform Your Workplace released?
Episodes of Transform Your Workplace are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Transform Your Workplace?
The first episode of Transform Your Workplace was released on Jun 5, 2012.
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