Podcasts by Workplace Champions
Workplace Champions: The strategies of talent-minded business leaders are exposed inside the realm of mid-sized businesses when business journalist Jack Sweeney and performance thought leader Brett Knowles spotlight innovations in human capital management (HCM). The Workplace Champions Podcast is all about inspiring business leaders as they learn from the failures, Ah-ha! moments, and workplace successes of other small and medium business leaders. It’s no secret that small and mid-sized businesses adapt more aggressively and innovate more nimbly than firms many times their size. And yet, in the realm of employment these companies are less visible and vastly less reported upon than large enterprise business, but their combined influence is large and growing larger as a new class of workplace champions emerge.
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Ep 27: Why Hiring Could be a GPT Sweet Spot from 2023-03-24T20:01:50
Brett & Jack discuss how the hiring function is expected to become the sweet spot for Chat GPT and other AI offerings as the technology emerges as a powerful tool for finding and qualifying tale...
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Ep 26: The Year of HR Slogans from 2023-02-17T22:21:05
Brett and Jack discuss the social application Workplace by Meta, and how social media continues to play an important role in human capital communications. Meanwhile, the different finance leader...
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Ep 25: The Chatbot Chill: Why Business Will Be Anything But Usual from 2023-01-20T13:12:53
Our resident thought leader Brett Knowles explains how artificial intelligence is already being used to predict employee turnover, job satisfaction, and other key metrics, allowing managers to t...
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Ep. 24: Managers admit to “quiet firing” from 2022-12-23T17:34:31
Brett & Jack discuss what might be a popular response to employees "quiet quitting" or what among managers has been dubbed "quiet firing" - the withdrawal of coaching, support and career develop...
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Ep 23: The Friday Elon Slept Late from 2022-11-23T08:00
Brett & Jack discuss the workforce rantings of Elon Musk and the new Twitter owner's November 16th deadline for employees to decide whether to leave or stay. Is Musk...
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Ep 22: Hires, Fires and a Stable Economy | A Workplace Champions Episode from 2022-10-14T19:46:42
Brett & Jack discuss how hiring challenges have led certain organizations to be more tolerant of poor employee behaviors – a development that could be putting growing numbers of businesses at ri...
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Ep 21: The Employee Value Proposition from 2022-09-09T17:56:28
Brett & Jack discuss why organizations must have a value proposition for their employees. This episode each of our featured Workplace Champions gives us different perspectives on what they've d...
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Ep:20: Keeping Leadership in Step with Workforce Priorities from 2022-07-31T18:00
Brett & Jack discuss how the economy's is sending the hiring environment mixed signals and how the inefficiencies of the recruitment function continue to be a drag on industry aspirations for bu...
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Ep 19: It's About the Team from 2022-06-30T20:46:02
Brett & Jack discuss how employee teams may hold the key to improving employee morale and retention, and why the growing popularity of remote hiring is likely to lea...
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Ep 18: The Hard Truth About Retention from 2022-05-13T07:00
Brett & Jack discuss how growing numbers of businesses are facing an employee retention crisis as they battle escalating workforce attrition and struggle to fill job vacancies. As the crisis gro...
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Ep 17: Employers Dropping Degree Demands from 2022-04-22T07:00
Brett & Jack discuss why a 4-year degree isn’t quite the job requirement it used to be and how finance leaders are reworking their company’s talent equation. Featuring the commentary and insight...
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Ep 16: Hiring for Hypergrowth from 2022-03-31T17:51:37
Brett & Jack discuss how finance leaders of high growth firm’s are becoming increasingly focused on the ebb and flow of their firm’s talent pipelines. Featuring the commentary and insights of wo...
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Ep 15: Employee Engagement&the Less Social World from 2022-02-25T21:15:45
Brett & Jack discuss how learning and development is one of five key elements of employee engagement - and explore reasons why L&D too often gets overlooked. Featuring the commentary and insight...
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Ep 14: When HR Becomes a Borderless Function from 2022-01-28T08:00
Brett and Jack discuss how the leadership narrative benefits hiring, and why department hiring budgets may someday soon be replaced. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions ...
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Ep 13: Hiring is The Beginning of Your Go-To-Market Funnel from 2021-12-16T22:07:48
Brett and Jack weigh-in on Zoom firing squads, the move to hybrid workplaces and hiring’s enormous impact on your company’s funnel. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions C...
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Ep 12: Making Salary a Competitive Advantage from 2021-11-05T14:09:13
Brett and Jack discuss the move by Amazon and other companies to pay employees daily will trigger new approaches in salary administration. Plus, more developments in the age of the "great resign...
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Ep 11: HR by the Numbers from 2021-10-15T20:35:24
Brett and Jack discuss the marriage of fintech and human capital management, and the of the growing mandate for employee success. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions CF...
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Ep 10: Where Corporate Culture Trumps Exec Comp from 2021-09-03T18:02:40
Brett and Jack discuss the highs and lows of executive compensation, and why corporate culture may trump all. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions CFO Gregg Clevenger o...
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Ep 9: When the Mission Matters from 2021-07-31T14:52:40
Brett and Jack talk the power of the mission, the CEO return-to-work agenda and covid’s delta variant backlash. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions CFO Beth Clymer of J...
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Ep 8: Building a More Inclusive Culture from 2021-06-24T20:42:15
Prahanth Mahendra-Rajah, CFO, Analog Devices
Maria Manrique, CFO, O’Reilly Media
Ian Charles, CFO, Flexe
Scott McFalane, CEO, Avalara
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Ep 7: Culture&Competencies from 2021-05-31T18:00
Featuring the Workplace Champions
CFO Harmit Singh of Levi Strauss &Co.
CFO Mark Shifke, of Billtrust
CFO Bill Kelley of Treehouse Foods
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Ep 6: Trust&the Individual from 2021-04-30T13:15:35
Featuring the Workplace Champions
CFO Arleen Paladino of Crum & Forster
CFO Guy Blanchard of Aerofarms
CFO Mike Rasic of Synapse
CFO Ross Tennenbaum of Avalara
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Ep 5: Greetings From the Post Covid World from 2021-03-26T07:00
This Episode Features Human Capital Insights & Commentary from:
Tom Berquist, CFO, TIBCO,
Terry Coelho,CFO BioDelivery Sciences ,...
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Ep 4: For the Luv of Dictators, Marching in Step with OKRs from 2021-02-19T08:00
This Episode Features Human Capital Insights & Commentary from:
Dynshaw It...
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Ep 3: When Purpose Eases Workforce Stress | Four CFOs Tap the Powers of Purpose from 2020-12-29T14:24:46
This Episode Features Human Capital Insights & Commentary from:
Chad Cohen, CFO, Adaptive Bi...
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Ep 2: In Search of a Culture Metric | Four CFOs Measure What Matters from 2020-11-25T14:09:57
This Episode Features Human Capital Insights & Commentary from:
Ross Tennenbaum, CFO, Avalar...
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Ep 1: COVID Keeps People Top of Mind Among Business Leaders from 2020-10-23T18:34:45
This Episode Features Human Capital Insights & Commentary from:
Michelle McComb, CFO, Blueco...
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Season Two | Welcome from 2020-10-23T18:23:42
More keenly aware of the competitive price of employee burnout and workforce attrition — many midsize companies are today busy rethinking how they attract, hire and inspire employees. Listen
30: Building a Collaborative Team | Mike DeCata, CEO, Lawson Products from 2018-10-02T21:57:09
More keenly aware of the competitive price of employee burnout and workforce attrition — many midsize companies are today busy rethinking how they attract, hire and inspire employees.
The ...
029: Mike Walters, CEO, USA Financial from 2018-07-13T18:54:15
Join us when Mike Walters, CEO of USA Financial, explains how a loyal network of financial advisers and new technology adoption
-- and some solid hiring -- is helping the Grand Rapids, Mi...
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028: The Culture Integration Challenge| Nicole Latimer, CEO, StayWell from 2018-06-23T02:18:43
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027: Culture-Building&The CFO from 2018-06-13T15:30:26
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026: Silicon Valley Smarts, Midwestern Culture | Dave Kellogg, CEO, Host Analytics from 2018-06-04T20:56:53
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025: Why Hiring Must Come First | Andy McGraw, CEO, Adelman Travel from 2018-05-25T21:25:35
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024: When the Product is Your People | Phil Carpenter, Pan Communications, Boston from 2018-05-18T18:27:13
023: Behold the Employee Experience | Mathew Schiltz, CEO, Conga, Broomfield, CO from 2018-05-11T22:52:46
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022: When Hiring&Culture Are One | Ray Rothrock, CEO, Redseal, Sunnyvale, CA from 2018-05-05T16:08:29
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The Talent Transformation | Seven Corners, Indianapolis, Indiana from 2018-04-26T12:51:53
Indianapolis, Indiana—As companies grow and advance beyond their entrepreneurial roots, talent often becomes a major growth hurdle. To meet the demands of an expanding workforce...
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021: A Workforce Pilgrim's Progress | Glenn Nott, President, simPRO, NA, Broomfield, CO from 2018-04-20T20:00:35
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020: When Scale&AI Become Part of the Talent Solution | Risk Strategies Company, Boston from 2018-04-12T22:04:30
Having grown to 38 offices and more than 900 employees, Risk Strategies Company has entered the ranks of leading national insurance brokers with a strut that signals an appetite for M&A. Join us...
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019: Incentives For All | Power Financial Credit Union, Miami, FL from 2018-04-03T07:00
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018: Where Culture&Brand Are One | Anchor Brewing, San Francisco from 2018-03-28T15:45:53
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017: Scalable Business, Scalable Values | Ahead, Chicago, Illinois from 2018-03-22T22:23:38
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016: Holacracy and the Self-Management Priciple | Best Upon Request, Cincinnati, OH from 2018-03-15T00:57:26
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015: The Servant Leader | Datron World Communications, San Diego, CA from 2018-03-07T19:59:53
Thrilled to introduce our first WORKPLACE CHAmPIONS e-Book. Featuring employee hiring and retention insights from a DOZEN talent minded CEOs from midsized firms
LINK To Downlo...
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014: A.I. and the Future of Compensation | Xactly Corp., San Jose, CA from 2018-02-28T14:46:48
What if your company had unique lines of sight into the compensation best practices and approaches of your customers, and what if those lines of sight annually generated reams of data endowing y...
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013: Energizing Your Workforce With Open Book Management from 2018-02-21T21:12:18
Featuring CFO Thought Leaders
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012: Once Private, Now Public : Protecting Your Workforce Culture | Appian, Reston, VA from 2018-02-14T23:32:22
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011: Why Generational Wisdom is Social Wisdom| American Textile Company, Duquesne, PA from 2018-02-07T02:21:27
Eight years from now, when Lance Ruttenberg blows out the candles on a birthday cake celebrating his company’s 100th birthday, the CEO of American Textile Company will be savoring an industrial ...
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010: Hiring&The Power of Three | Demac Media, Toronto, Canada from 2018-01-31T02:43:10
MMTL: Along the way, you’ve made a lot of hires, so we’re going to ask you, “How do you make a great hire?” Matt: We follow this principle that we picked up in a book called Traction, by a guy n...
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009: The Fruits of Decentralized Management | Spreadshirt, Berlin, Germany from 2018-01-24T00:03:50
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008: Why You Should Only Hire "10s"| InterLinc Mortgage, Houston, Texas from 2018-01-16T08:00
FREE E-Book: Learn how talent-minded CEOs from a dozen midsized companies Get, Retain and Engage Top Talent https://workplacechampions.gr8.com/
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007: Why Employee Behavior Trumps Skills | Formstack, Indianapolis, Indiana from 2018-01-09T08:00
Join us when Chris Byers charts the evolutionary path that is leading Formstack to open a new chapter of growth as the software developer grows its workforce and sheds new light on its hiring th...
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006: (S1) Achieving a Talent Transformation | Seven Corners, Indianapolis, Indiana from 2017-12-28T15:34
Indianapolis, Indiana - As companies grow and advance beyond their entrepreneurial roots talent often becomes a major growth hurdle for companies that must steadily enhance their talent best pra...
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005: (S1) A Firm's Talent Crossroads | Atrion from 2017-12-28T15:33:05
Warwick, Rhode Island — Join us when Tim Hebert, CEO of Atrion, explains how by making Atrion's focus on attracting and retaining talent a top priority the IT services firm would experience mor...
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004: (S1) Where Work Advances Dreams | Jancoa Janitorial Services from 2017-12-28T15:31:47
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003: (S1) A Culture Rooted in Helping Others | Coast to Coast Computer Products from 2017-12-28T15:30:37
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002: (S1) Remedying the "Haves" & "Have Nots" | Worldwide Supply from 2017-12-28T15:29:23
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