APQC Podcasts

As part of APQC’s Big Thinkers, Big Ideas interview series, APQC CEO Carla O’Dell recently talked with Sherry Turkle, a clinical psychologist, author, and founder/director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. In her new book, ”Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,” Sherry examines how smartphones and social media have crowded out real conversation. Her insightful conversation with Carla raises awareness of this issue and Sherry shares some of the tools needed to change our behavior so we can rediscover the value of conversation

we all know when we go to conferences we have several questions that surface as

we attend presentations. To facilitate getting answers to those questions APQC

introduced its inaugural Voice of Conference. Throughout the conference

attendees were encouraged to place questions on whiteboards and rate the ones

they found particularly meaningful. APQC’s staff then answered the most popular

questions submitted. 

this podcast APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Jeff Varney answer all of the

questions that were not addressed at the conference on a range of process

management topics (e.g., cross-functional processes, governance, and buy-in). 

we all know when we go to conferences we have several questions that surface as

we attend presentations. To facilitate getting answers to those questions APQC

introduced its inaugural Voice of Conference. Throughout the conference

attendees were encouraged to place questions on whiteboards and rate the ones

they found particularly meaningful. APQC’s staff then answered the most popular

questions submitted. 

this podcast APQC’s Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Jeff Varney answer all of the

questions that were not addressed at the conference on a range of process

management topics (e.g., cross-functional processes, governance, and buy-in). 

APQC CEO, Dr. Carla O'Dell, recently interviewed Chip Heath, and asked Chip about confirmation bias and his newest book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work. Chip is a professor at Stanford University, and along with his brother Dan Heath, is a master at taking complex ideas based on cognitive science research and translating them into actionable advice. The Heath Brothers have had best sellers with Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard.

Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!

APQC CEO, Dr. Carla O'Dell, recently interviewed Chip Heath, and asked Chip about confirmation bias and his newest book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work. Chip is a professor at Stanford University, and along with his brother Dan Heath, is a master at taking complex ideas based on cognitive science research and translating them into actionable advice. The Heath Brothers have had best sellers with Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard.

Remember to follow us on Twitter @apqc!

APQC CEO, Dr. Carla O'Dell, recently interviewed Larry Prusak, co-author of Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know, as part of

APQC’s Big Thinkers, Big Ideas series to discuss the concept of wisdom and how leaders get it.

APQC CEO, Dr. Carla O'Dell, recently interviewed Larry Prusak, co-author of Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know, as part of

APQC’s Big Thinkers, Big Ideas series to discuss the concept of wisdom and how leaders get it.

process and performance management research program manager, Jeff Varney,

senior adviser, and Lauren Trees, knowledge management research program manager

answer questions received from the attendees of the November process and

performance management webinar, Innovative techniques for Process Improvement.

Listen as they cover topics including the benefits and best practices of

Communities of Practice, crowd sourcing and hack events within organizations.

Holly also shares examples from an APQC case study on Liberty Bank and how they

achieved success using inventive methods.

process and performance management research program manager, Jeff Varney,

senior adviser, and Lauren Trees, knowledge management research program manager

answer questions received from the attendees of the November process and

performance management webinar, Innovative techniques for Process Improvement.

Listen as they cover topics including the benefits and best practices of

Communities of Practice, crowd sourcing and hack events within organizations.

Holly also shares examples from an APQC case study on Liberty Bank and how they

achieved success using inventive methods.

No single role in HR suffers from a crisis of identity more than the HR Business Partner (HRBP). While many are calling for HR to serve a more strategic role, there are others who say HR’s job is to function as a hub dedicated to the administrative tasks that keep employees shuffling along. Amid these diametrically opposed concepts comes the HRBP– a role designed to serve as a conduit between the tactical and the strategic functions of both HR and the business.

So what’s holding back HRBPs? Is it the skills gap associated with training generalists to become strategists? Is it a lack of organizational enablement or recognition of the strategic power of the role?

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