Doing (good) Business

Our September happiness guest is Blake Harris from Zoom. Blake is a Zoom Sales Recruiter & the 2019 Happy Crew President. Yes, we did say Happiness Crew! 

Did you know that Zoom’s mantra is delivering happiness? Their Happy Crew is international & when Zoom went public in 2019, the Happy Crew got recognition and is now being branded throughout the organization!

What’s important to know:

Glassdoor reviews are amazing - happiness positively impacts culture and retention

Zoom holds unique events - like bring your parents to work day - that foster happiness

All Happy Crew events recorded with Zoom so you can revisit the happiness!

Zoom adopts a fail forward philosophy

Kelly and Lara are back with their first solo episode of Season 2, and they’re talking Happiness. If you’re happy (or want to be) and you know it, listen in!

How to find personal happiness? Look for meaning.

How to create professional happiness at a corporate level? Make it part of your strategy!

Resources:

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/happy_life_different_from_meaningful_life

https://www.tenpercent.com/dan-harris-books

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-differences-between-happiness-and-meaning-in-life/

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_four_keys_to_happiness_at_work

Takeaways to consider:

Micro - What are your ingredients for a happy life? If they’re not all present right now, how can you add them back in?

Macro - What did it look like when you developed something new in your organization? How can you replicate that?

Would you like a realtor who genuinely wants what’s best for the client AND who donates a home for every home bought or sold? We sure would, which is why we were so excited to discover Casa Real Estate in Southern CA. Their slogan? Your home builds another.  Yup - you read that right! They took the buy one give one model and applied it to homes! We knew we had to talk to them. 

In fact, Casa is approaching 100 homes built (all 100 have been donated, and are built or waiting to be built) in only 2.5 YEARS!
Follow them on Instagram & Facebook @CasaMovement

Key takeaways:

• Long term vision is key for this model
• Hiring people who want to grow themselves and become better in different areas
• One of the owner’s daily affirmations includes “I operate my life with integrity in and out of business” 
• Start Something that Matters book 
• Clients have the opportunity to join them in trips to Guatemala to build the homes their profits donated
• Chad & Nick’s advice for businesses who want to incorporate this kind of model in their business

We are kicking off Season 2 with a bang! Our first 2 episodes feature incredible guests who are truly doing good business. In September, we’ll officially get into our Season 2 format of 2 episodes per month - both around a specific topic and both chock full of powerful takeaways and small steps you can take in your life and work.

We are thrilled to start the season with Jennifer Brown, a leading diversity and inclusion expert, dynamic keynote speaker, best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur and host of The Will To Change podcast, which uncovers true stories of diversity and inclusion. As the founder, president and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, Jennifer’s workplace strategies have been employed by some of the world’s top Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits—including Walmart, Microsoft, Starbucks, Toyota Financial Services, T-Mobile, and many others— to help employees bring their full selves to work and feel Welcomed, Valued, Respected and Heard℠.

Her new book, How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive (Berrett-Koehler), released in August 2019, has an important message for business leaders everywhere: it's time we turned the promise of inclusion into a reality. 

Key takeaways & helpful links:

• How to know when you’ve got a problem with D&I?
• Why to put I before D, and how does belonging play into the conversation? 
• Who is doing it well & why re: D&I?
• D(g)B Episode 15 - Inclusion 
• Peter Drucker - Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
• Reversing the Generation Equation 
• www.inclusiveleaderthebook.com - assessment to learn where you are in your inclusive leader journey

You guys! Doing (good) Business has released 31 episodes! That's 1 episode per week since October 2018. We are thrilled with the reception we've gotten and can't wait to do more. 

Walking our talk is a top priority for us, and to make the podcast sustainable, we decided to move to a season format. That means you have the whole summer to catch up on the 31 awesome episodes from Season 1! 

We'll be back in your podcast feed on Monday August 19th with Season 2 - we'll have all new episodes, a new bi-weekly format, more actionable steps to take between episodes, and more great information on how you can do good business!

Thank you for all of your support and for making our first season such a success.  Please share this podcast with your friends, rate & review us on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcast, and don't be shy! Drop us a line over the summer on our website, Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter. 

See you in August!

Kelly & Lara are thrilled to welcome Mark Puncher, Chief Energy Officer of Employer Branding Australia, to Doing (good) Business. Mark is a fantastic Aussie who makes it his business to help companies define their employer brand - authentically. What’s an employer brand? You didn’t know employer branding was a thing? Well, have we got the podcast for you! Learn what employer branding is, how to do it honestly and with authenticity, and how differentiate your company. Mark shares his top tips for you (including why you shouldn’t have a ton of expensive videos!).

Check out:

Employer Branding Australia’s Purpose (scroll down)

What does Olivia Bland’s whistle-blowing mean for employers?

Employer brand is a deeper version of the corporate brand

Get more in depth info on these tips in the episode and find Employer Branding Australia on Facebook & Mark on LinkedIn.

Note - the video Mark mentions hasn't made it into the world yet, so keep your eye on his social media to see it soon!

To help fantastic, imperfect employers attract fantastic, imperfect people.

We're obsessed with the powerful collaboration between talented people and the progressive organisations they choose to work for. Our job is to bring those everyday stories to life to attract and engage your current and future workforce.

Our (highly) secret ingredient: Authenticity.

We bring the expertise, the objectivity and the energy to help you and your people celebrate who you are.

Second half of the panel discussion around Culture. This episode includes audience Q&A and our panelists #1 tip to put a Culture Mindset to work in your business.  

Panelists:
Diana Asbury, Marketing Director at Workzone

Hope Bear, Chief People Officer at AWeber

Jim Bishop, President & Founder at Cornerstone Clubs

Kevin Nolan, Founder & CEO at Nolan Painting

Special thanks to Alex Dingley for recording this event and AWeber for hosting!

Kelly and Lara moderate a panel discussion around Culture - how it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money, how it positively impacts retention, and how you can put a Culture Mindset to work in your business.

Panelists:
Diana Asbury, Marketing Director at Workzone

Hope Bear, Chief People Officer at AWeber

Jim Bishop, President & Founder at Cornerstone Clubs

Kevin Nolan, Founder & CEO at Nolan Painting

Special thanks to Alex Dingley for recording this event and AWeber for hosting!

On April 29th, Kelly & Lara took the podcast outside of the box and hosted a live Doing (good) Business event (which will air in 2 parts on May 13th and 20th). It inspired the hosts to think about how going outside of the box is part of doing good business!

Kelly’s What If You Could workshop is ALL about thinking outside the box, Lara touches on out of the box hiring practices, and Lara’s cat Auryon makes a little guest appearance a couple of times - she’s clearly an outside the box thinker!

Listen to learn Lara’s favorite out-of-the-box practice to get out of negative thinking, and some of Kelly’s favorite tips courtesy of Edward de Bono.

Get out of the box with:

6 Thinking Hats

deBono Thinking Systems

Lateral Thinking Techniques

Socrates - it is only the unknown where new ideas can spring from (or something like that!)

Dr. Kristen Donnelly is is the EVP of Abbey Research and the COO of Abbey Color, and you wouldn’t be wrong if you said she wears a lot of hats!  D(g)B is excited to discuss open hiring with Dr. Donnelly because her family’s company Abbey Color, has been doing that for longer than it’s been a trendy word in talent acquisition spaces - nearly 30 years!

Listen to find out what they do require from their folks, how they are working to end generational poverty, and why you should (and shouldn’t!) consider open hiring policies.

Find her at www.Abbey-research.com or as Abbey Research on Twitter Instagram Facebook

Things we loved & referenced:

“You can’t build relationships w/ anyone who is hungry”

“I have no desire to do business any other way”

“Every act every day either strips or builds dignity... and my job is to enhance dignity”

Greyston’s Center for Open Hiring

CNBC Article

The Mate’s Inn