In this week’s episode, Naomi Titleman has a chance to connect with Stephen Friedman who, amongst other interesting things, is a Professor of Organizational Studies at Schulich School of Business.

It’s the start of a new term, and Stephen shares his early insights from engaging with 650 students – and his tricks to remember their names!

Once they cover their mutual love of ice cream, they go on to explore a range of interesting topics based on Stephen’s fascination with business and human relationships.

They talk about a range of topics including performance management, unlimited vacation and the 9-box grid.

You can connect with Stephen at LinkedIn here –

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenfriedman1/

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In this week’s episode, hosts Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman introduce listeners to The Burnout-Growth Curve.

According to research from Gartner, over 50% of HR leaders are struggling with too much to do making the risk of burnout for the profession a real possibility.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/08-14-2023-gartner-says-less-than-10--of-hr-functions-are-achiev

The Burnout-Growth Curve introduced by Nick Petrie provides a framework based on research that shows the likely steps people go through when they feel burnt out and identifies some steps to take to ensure sustainable change.

In the episode, Naomi and Mark share their perspectives around dealing with burnout and how it is specifically impacting the HR function.

You can learn more about The Burnout-Growth Curve here –

 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nick-petrie-1b60156_when-we-interviewed-people-who-had-burned-activity-7104554982787452928-7cet/

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In this week’s episode, Naomi Titleman has a cross-over podcast guest with Josh Levine.

Josh Levine is on a mission to help organizations harness its power. His book, Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, presents the tools business leaders need to understand, design and manage their own culture. He also has his own podcast – Great Mondays Radio!

You can learn more about Josh and his work here – 

https://www.greatmondays.com/

Josh and Naomi have a far-reaching conversation about hybrid work and the importance of relationships in building successful cultures. Josh introduces his framework for culture with 6 components that he talks through.

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In this week’s episode, Naomi Titleman meets with Deb Mashek is a business advisor, professor and collaboration consultant who wrote the book Collaborhate.

You can find out more here about Debs here –https://www.debmashek.com/

In the conversation, Deb shares her perspective on collaboration – something we know is important but something that can be very hard to do creating some mixed emotions and mixed results.

Deb defines collaboration as ‘two or more known individuals working together intentionally to advance specific shared goals’.

In the conversation they talk about when collaboration fizzles and when it sizzles! If it fizzles and you’re in a collaborhate situation the impact on individual’s health can be very negative.

Take a listen to learn how to ensure collaboration is a success by learning the key behaviours to make you a successful collaborator and use the Mashek Matrix (see below) to understand more about how collaborative your relationships are.

To read more about Arthur Himmelman’s collaboration continuum follow this link -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pIfDItDSwXuHFruAuatNg2ojUv9GAxQi/view

Here is a link to Naomi’s Global & Mail article that features Deb Mashek’s “no to collaboration”.

http://collaborativity.ca/how-to-say-no-in-no-vember-for-a-happier-healthier-more-productive-work-life/

Here's a link to The Mashek Matrix –

https://tinyurl.com/mashekmatrix

And finally here are the questions to help set expectations at the outset of a collaboration -  

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/relationships-intimate-and-more/202105/10-questions-to-ask-before-beginning-a-collaboration

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In this week’s episode, Naomi Titleman is joined by special guest Minette Norman who is an author, consultant and former Silicon Valley executive.

Minette recently launched her second book, The Boldly Inclusive Leader. In the podcast she reflects on her career as a leader in technology firms and how badly prepared new leaders are to lead particularly when it comes to leading diverse and multi-cultural teams.

They talk about the importance of human-centric leadership and how multi-faceted it is. Leaders are human too and it’s important to acknowledge that leaders will make mistakes and need to learn from these mistakes. Human leadership is also about recognizing that nothing gets done without the people in our organizations so it’s critical to ensure the organization creates an environment where people can thrive.

The most important first step on a journey of human-centred leadership is self-awareness so we can understand ourselves and understand our emotions. Minette then talks through the behaviours inclusive leaders should demonstrate to be an inclusive leader. 

You can learn more about Minette and her book at her website here –

www.minetternorman.com
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In this episode Naomi Titleman shares her experiences with fellow-Peleton lover Erica Anderson Rooney. Erica is Chief People Officer of Blue Acorn and a coach and consultant who is passionate about creating the best people experience.

They talk about creating fresh starts, well-being and sticky floors! Listen to learn more. 

Learn more about Erica here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericarooney/

And visit her website here:

https://www.ericaandersonrooney.com/

Where you can find a link to her podcast – From Now to Next.

The Deloitte report that Naomi refers to can be found here:

https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/health-care/employers-aging-and-health.html

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In our third episode of season two, Naomi Titleman connects with Rachel Cooke, a former colleague from her time at American Express. Rachel now runs her own consulting practice ‘Lead Above Noise’ and is host of podcast ‘The Modern Mentor’. 

Rachel is passionate about the employee experience. She shares her insights about how organizations should be thinking about creating an employee experience that allows colleagues to deliver, develop, connect and thrive.

In the conversation they discuss the critical role leaders play in enabling that employee experience by asking their team members the right questions and helping them to reach their potential. This is by leaders being humble and open to feedback and ideas.

They also talk about HR’s role as the shepherd of the employee experience by creating the right conditions and a clear north star.

Learn more about Rachel’s work:

Her website - https://leadabovenoise.com/

And a link to her podcast - https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/modern-mentor/

The random check-in generator Naomi used can be found here - https://thedigitalworkplace.com/checkin/

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In this episode co-host Naomi Titleman had the opportunity to take a trip down memory lane with one of her early mentors from Deloitte – senior partner and author Chuck Saia.

You can learn more about Chuck and his work here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chucksaia/

Chuck is the author of two books – ‘You Got This, Kid!’ one for young leaders and one for children. Based on his self-exploration, the book shares a series of lessons from his career and relates them to the animal kingdom.

Chuck shares a number of valuable insights using stories about eagles, butterflies, ducks and armadillos – to name just a few! 

You can see Chuck’s books here –

 https://www.amazon.ca/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AChuck+Saia&s=relevancerank&text=Chuck+Saia&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

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Welcome back to Season 2 of foHRsight where co-hosts Mark Edgar and Naomi TItleman share some of their highlights from both their summer break and the HR press.

In addition to tales of Mark’s cross-country tour and Naomi’s attendance at the final tour of Grateful Dead offshoot Dead & Company, they share some of the news that has jumped out to them over the summer including:

Insights from upcoming season 2 podcast guest Rob Sadow who is the co-founder of Scoop – a technology company who have created the ‘Flex Index’ and who have research that suggests an optimal of 2.5 days per week in the office. You can read more here:

https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/hybrid-work-becoming-norm-bosses-workers/

Research from a recent ADP study that showed the number of HR people in companies is rising.

https://www.adpri.org/hr-staffing-ratios/

Some interesting findings from McKinsey that reinforce the importance of the middle manager.

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/stop-wasting-your-most-precious-resource-middle-managers

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Remote Not Distant

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We’re excited to have our first guest on this week’s episode of the foHRsight podcast – Gustavo Razzetti. Gustavo is on a mission “to help people to do the best work of their lives” and in this episode Naomi had the opportunity to chat with him about his new book Remote Not Distant.

The book provides a provides a roadmap for organizations and team that want to build a strong culture that helps team thrive in a hybrid workplace.

There were so many great take-aways from the conversation … here is just a flavour:

• The importance of companies deciding where and when work gets done based on the work not the schedule
• The myth that collaboration has to be done in person … not to mention Naomi’s bug bear that cultures can’t be maintained in a hybrid environment and likely need to evolve
• Proximity does not automatically lead to belonging
• The importance of discipline in creating what people really want - freedom

You can learn more about Gustavo and his work at Fearless Cultures here – https://gustavorazzetti.com/

And it’s COMPETITION TIME … one more lucky listeners who shares a post on LinkedIn about this episode will win a signed copy of Gustavo’s excellent book! Don’t forget to tag Naomi and/or Mark!

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