Get Reworked

By Siobhan Fagan

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Forget the status quo — Get Reworked. Join the editors of Reworked, your guide to the r/evolution of work, as they interview business leaders transforming the way work gets done today.

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Get Reworked episodes:

06.10.2024
PG&E's Spencer Mains on Getting Tech on the Onboarding Agenda
Think back to your first day at work. You met your new colleagues, learned about the corporate culture and maybe got some branded company swag. But did you get the tools you needed to actually accomplish your job? In this...
05.06.2024
Karin Hurt on The Good Side of Workplace Conflict
Conflict is an unfortunate truth in life, society and the workplace. Some might call it a necessary evil. But is it really that bad? Without healthy tension, diversity of thought and spirited debate, we can’t have innovation, growth or change...
04.09.2024
Andrew Pope on Reclaiming Your Focus With Asynchronous Collaboration
The number and variety of tools in our workplaces have steadily grown over the last 10 or so years, but their ranks exploded during the pandemic. With that explosion came confusion over which tool to use when, with the default...
01.23.2024
AWS's Prudence Pitter on Normalizing the Conversation Around Employee Well-Being
Normalizing the conversation around employee well-being is one positive outcome that came out of the pandemic. Businesses now understand the role they have in supporting employee well-being and the bottom line cost of ignoring this area. In this episode of Get...
12.11.2023
Joe Makston on Breaking the Middle Management Boom-Bust Cycle
Middle management has been the butt of jokes for years — and often bear the brunt of layoffs, as was the case in 2023. But in the right hands, middle management can act as the glue that helps employees see...
11.14.2023
The U.S. Air Force's Heather Knuffke on Making Change Stick
Managing change is tough. Now imagine managing a change initiative that involves overhauling 118 legacy systems for 750,000 stakeholders under the watchful eye of Congress. In this episode of Get Reworked, Air Force enterprise change manager Heather Knuffke gives an inside...
10.10.2023
Andre Martin on Why Everybody Loses When a Job’s the Wrong Fit
What does commitment mean in the context of work? From an employee's point of view, it can mean a reduction in stress, increased meaning, as well as the capacity to do their best work. From the employer's side, it can translate...
09.19.2023
Northwestern Mutual's Don Robertson on Taking a Business-First Approach to Being a CHRO
Human resources — and the role of the chief HR officer with it — has been seeking a proverbial "seat at the table" for years now. The difference now is, more of them are not only gaining that seat, they...
07.18.2023
Deb Mashek on What It Takes to Build a Collaborative Organization
Collaboration can be taught and learned. Yet few organizations are actively teaching employees how to master this critical skill. In this episode of Get Reworked, we speak with Deb Mashek, founder of Myco Consulting, LLC to learn how companies can move collaboration...
07.05.2023
Northern Trust's Shaelyn Otikor-Miller on Helping Employees Help Themselves Through Citizen Development
Low-code tools promise to put the power of easy process fixes into the hands of employees. But beyond individual productivity improvements, citizen development offers employees a chance to improve collaboration skills, increase their technical know-how and gain visibility for work...
06.20.2023
LinkedIn's Laurel Dzneladze on Community-Based Employee Communications
How does the world's largest professional network help its own employees build connections? In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Laurel Dzneladze, employee communications, digital platforms leader at LinkedIn about the community-based approach to employee communications at the company...
05.23.2023
IBM Quantum's Bradley Holt on Closing the Quantum Skills Gap
Applications of quantum computing in the workplace may still sound like a theoretical future, but the need for workers capable of working with quantum is immediate and real. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Bradley Holt, program director of...
05.12.2023
Tapestry's Dante Ragazzo on Reducing Friction in the Digital Workplace
Delivering a digital workplace that works for multiple teams, in multiple locations, all with different end goals is challenging to say the least. But sometimes it comes down to communications and training as much as it does to the tools...
05.01.2023
Employment Attorney Peter Rahbar on Why Your Workplace Needs a Generative AI Use Policy
Generative AI is the latest shiny toy in the workplace technology toolbox. The difference in this case is the bar to use it is very low. Anyone with an internet connection and a computer can access it. In this episode...
04.24.2023
Rob Cross and Karen Dillon on What Microstress Is Doing to Our Work and Our Lives
When we hear the word "erosion" we tend to think of nature: water erosion, soil erosion, wind erosion. But much like the natural elements, daily stressors can wear us humans down too. In this episode of Get Reworked, Karen Dillon and...
04.11.2023
Josh Bersin on What It Takes to Be an Irresistible Company
What makes a company irresistible? That's the question behind Josh Bersin's most recent book, "Irresistible: The 7 Secrets to the World's Most Enduring, Employee Focused Organizations." And what it comes down to is a focus on their employees. At a time...
03.27.2023
Google Cloud's John Abel on How Companies Can Support Neurodivergent Employees
Between 10% and 20% of the world's population is considered neurodivergent, according to Deloitte. Yet companies still default to one-size-fits-all approaches to management, which rarely suits anyone. In this episode of Get Reworked, John Abel, technical director, office of the CTO at...
03.21.2023
Real-Life Customer Experience Fails — and Lessons Learned
While positive employee experiences can enhance customer experiences, negative employee experiences can have the opposite effect. A famous SNL sketch parodies the frustrating experience of trying to cancel cable service, with a customer being repeatedly put on hold, transferred to different departments...
03.14.2023
WWT's Ann Marr on Creating Award-Winning Employee Experiences
Although employee experience is a relatively new term, the concept behind it isn't: support your employees to do their best work and they will support your business in turn. In this episode of Get Reworked, World Wide Technology's executive vice president of global...
02.28.2023
Udemy's Melissa Daimler on How to Intentionally Design Corporate Culture
Back to office advocates have used corporate culture as an argument for why employees need to return to a central location. But corporate culture isn't defined by a physical place. Ideally, it's a combination of behaviors, practices and processes. In...
02.14.2023
Kraft Heinz's Tope Sadiku on Taking a Design Thinking Approach to Digital Employee Experience
At a time when the number of available workplace tools is exploding, how can a company meet employee demands for technology while not overwhelming them with choice? In this episode of Get Reworked, Tope Sadiku, global head of digital employee...
01.30.2023
Walmart's Maren Waggoner on Scaling Voice of the Employee to 1.2M Employees
How can a company communicate with employees who are distributed across multiple locations, roles and time zones? More importantly, how can companies ensure these communications are two-way and not a top down broadcast? In this episode of Get Reworked, Maren Waggoner,...
01.17.2023
National Council on Aging's Ramsey Alwin on the Benefits of a Multi-Generational Workforce
Our workplaces hit a milestone in recent years: it was the first time on record that five generations shared the workplace. While there's been no shortage of articles on the needs and desires of individual generations, not much has been...
12.06.2022
Allstate's Eloiza Domingo on What It Takes to Move the Needle on DEI
Diversity efforts typically fall under HR's remit, and for good reason. But talking about people and culture will only take a company so far. To move the needle on DEI efforts, organizations need to follow the money. In this episode...
11.22.2022
Professor and Author Christina Maslach on What Organizations Can Do About Burnout
What causes burnout? So often, conversations around burnout center on the effect — the burnout itself — rather than the cause. It is only when the conversation focuses on the chronic job stressors at the root of burnout, can organizations...
09.27.2022
The Future Forum's Sheela Subramanian on Why Flexibility and Trust Define the New World of Work
The ongoing debate between return to office or work from home misses the point. The question isn't where we work, but how. Over the last two and a half years white collar workers have taken part in a grand experiment...
07.19.2022
Executive Coach and Author Howard Prager on Why We Need More Kindness in the Workplace
How do you stay positive in the middle of a tragedy? It's a question that became all too real for our next guest, who found himself at the scene of the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in...
07.05.2022
Author and Executive Soon Yu on Why Your Workplace Needs Good Friction
The word friction typically carries negative connotations, seen as an abrasive or discordant force. Yet the right kind of friction can also inspire feelings of belonging, engagement and meaning. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Soon Yu, author and...
06.21.2022
The LEGO Group's Timothy Ahrensbach on What Makes an Office Worth Going To
Mention LEGO and most people will immediately picture building and playing with the company's famous multicolored bricks. But there's another whole level of design that goes into building an office where employees can't wait to come to work. In this...
06.07.2022
APUS's Marie Harper on HR as Change Agent
Human resources has come a long way since its days as the personnel department. Yet tensions remain between organizations that view HR as a strategic partner and those that still see HR people as paper pushers and party planners. In...
05.24.2022
RBC's Aaron Kim on the Digital Workplace as an Ecosystem
In any ecosystem, it's the balance that is important. Too much of one thing can lead to negative consequences for the whole. It's a concept that carries through to the digital workplace. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to...
05.10.2022
Vi's Judy Whitcomb on How to Get Employee Communications Buzzing
There's no single recipe when it comes to internal communications. But one thing that's consistent is the importance of employee feedback. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Judy Whitcomb, senior vice president of organizational strategy and effectiveness at...
04.26.2022
GitLab's Betsy Bula on How to Make Remote Work
For many companies, remote work was just a stopgap measure to address a temporary disruption to business as usual. For others, it's a way of life. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Betsy Bula, all-remote evangelist at GitLab,...
04.12.2022
Why It's Time to Be More Transparent About Pay
For many people, talking about pay is one of the most difficult conversations they have at work. One reason is that it's so tightly tied up into their perceptions of their own self worth and value. In this episode of Get...
03.30.2022
How to Create Community in a Remote and Distributed Workforce
A craft circle may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about how to bring a dispersed workforce scattered across the globe together. But it might just be the answer you're seeking for the complex...
03.15.2022
How to Get Good People to Stay During the Great Resignation
The reason why employees decide to quit is often not very complicated. But that doesn't mean the solutions are easy, particularly as the Great Resignation has legions of workers looking for the door. And with more and more companies heading...
03.02.2022
The Superpowers That Introverts Bring to the Workplace
In many ways, the leaders organizations need today are exactly the ones they're most likely to overlook. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Jennifer Kahnweiler, leadership expert and author "The Introverted Leader," about the strengths that introverts bring to...
02.15.2022
Why VR Training Is Poised to Grow
The future of the metaverse may be the topic of the day for many tech pundits, but the reality is that it's already here. The virtual reality, that is. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Derek Belch, CEO...
02.01.2022
Now Is the Time for Bold Thinking About Workplace Change
The current moment is a powerful opportunity to reshape and remake work. But getting it right is both relatively straightforward and fiendishly complex. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Alan Pelz-Sharpe, information management expert and founder of advisory...
01.18.2022
How to Build a Culture of Inclusion That Delivers Results
Many organizations have been serious about diversity and inclusion work for decades, so why has so little progress been made? In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Cynthia Owyoung, vice president of inclusion, equity and belonging at Robinhood and author of...
01.04.2022
Is TV the Solution to the Recruiting Challenges of the Great Resignation?
Could your TV be the answer to the challenges of the Great Resignation? It just might be, in part at least. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Meredith Sadoulet, vice president of talent, strategy and experience at Comcast,...
12.21.2021
Collaboration Overload Is Crushing Innovation at Your Company
Before COVID pushed many workers into remote work, collaboration consumed as much as 85% of people's work time. In the post-pandemic world it's gone even higher, adding five to eight hours to the average work week. We're collaborating more, which...
12.07.2021
How to Interrupt Bias in Your Company
Remote and hybrid work is a golden opportunity to make real progress toward diversity and inclusion goals, but only if companies handle it right. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Joan C. Williams, professor at University of California Hastings...
11.23.2021
An Inside Look at How Unilever Builds an Award-Winning Employee Experience
Employee experience has become a primary objective for organizations as they look to retain pandemic-fatigued employees and recruit in-demand talent. But it's easy to get it wrong. In this episode, Tom Dewaele, global head of employee experience at Unilever, shares...
11.09.2021
How to Design a Hybrid Workplace That Actually Works
Hybrid work is the order of the day for many companies as they ponder their future. But what does hybrid work actually mean and how do you design it to work for both employees and the organization? In this episode...
11.02.2021
The Great Workplace Experiment of 2020 – 2021
The past year-plus has been one giant, often unwanted and unanticipated, experiment at work. From emerging collaboration tools and AI-fueled bots to new working models like hybrid and remote work, organizations large and small had to get comfortable with being...
08.11.2021
Why Collaboration at Your Company Is Complicated
From established tools like Slack, enterprise giants Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace, and emerging whiteboard tools like Mural, we have more ways to collaborate at work than we've ever had before. But that doesn't mean it's all sorted out. In...
07.27.2021
Why Your Business Strategy Should Be a Learning Strategy
In February 2020, Delta Air Lines was celebrating a record year for travel and looking forward to a 2020 that would potentially surpass even that. Thirty days later, nearly all of that business was gone. In this episode of Get Reworked,...
07.13.2021
How to Take Your Diversity Strategy From Intention to Impact
Corporate social responsibility gets thrown around a lot in business today. Organizations regularly tout the steps they take to make the world a better place and how they're endeavoring to create a more diverse and inclusive workplace. How much of...
06.29.2021
Breaking Down the Myths of Digital Transformation
The shift to remote and hybrid work is just the tip of the transformation iceberg. To make the most of the massive investment in digital workplace technology over the last year-plus, we need to think much more deeply about digital...

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Get Reworked episodes:

PG&E's Spencer Mains on Getting Tech on the Onboarding Agenda

Karin Hurt on The Good Side of Workplace Conflict

Andrew Pope on Reclaiming Your Focus With Asynchronous Collaboration

AWS's Prudence Pitter on Normalizing the Conversation Around Employee Well-Being

Joe Makston on Breaking the Middle Management Boom-Bust Cycle

The U.S. Air Force's Heather Knuffke on Making Change Stick

Andre Martin on Why Everybody Loses When a Job’s the Wrong Fit

Northwestern Mutual's Don Robertson on Taking a Business-First Approach to Being a CHRO

Deb Mashek on What It Takes to Build a Collaborative Organization

Northern Trust's Shaelyn Otikor-Miller on Helping Employees Help Themselves Through Citizen Development

LinkedIn's Laurel Dzneladze on Community-Based Employee Communications

IBM Quantum's Bradley Holt on Closing the Quantum Skills Gap

Tapestry's Dante Ragazzo on Reducing Friction in the Digital Workplace

Employment Attorney Peter Rahbar on Why Your Workplace Needs a Generative AI Use Policy

Rob Cross and Karen Dillon on What Microstress Is Doing to Our Work and Our Lives

Josh Bersin on What It Takes to Be an Irresistible Company

Google Cloud's John Abel on How Companies Can Support Neurodivergent Employees

Real-Life Customer Experience Fails — and Lessons Learned

WWT's Ann Marr on Creating Award-Winning Employee Experiences

Udemy's Melissa Daimler on How to Intentionally Design Corporate Culture

Kraft Heinz's Tope Sadiku on Taking a Design Thinking Approach to Digital Employee Experience

Walmart's Maren Waggoner on Scaling Voice of the Employee to 1.2M Employees

National Council on Aging's Ramsey Alwin on the Benefits of a Multi-Generational Workforce

Allstate's Eloiza Domingo on What It Takes to Move the Needle on DEI

Professor and Author Christina Maslach on What Organizations Can Do About Burnout

The Future Forum's Sheela Subramanian on Why Flexibility and Trust Define the New World of Work

Executive Coach and Author Howard Prager on Why We Need More Kindness in the Workplace

Author and Executive Soon Yu on Why Your Workplace Needs Good Friction

The LEGO Group's Timothy Ahrensbach on What Makes an Office Worth Going To

APUS's Marie Harper on HR as Change Agent

RBC's Aaron Kim on the Digital Workplace as an Ecosystem

Vi's Judy Whitcomb on How to Get Employee Communications Buzzing

GitLab's Betsy Bula on How to Make Remote Work

Why It's Time to Be More Transparent About Pay

How to Create Community in a Remote and Distributed Workforce

How to Get Good People to Stay During the Great Resignation

The Superpowers That Introverts Bring to the Workplace

Why VR Training Is Poised to Grow

Now Is the Time for Bold Thinking About Workplace Change

How to Build a Culture of Inclusion That Delivers Results

Is TV the Solution to the Recruiting Challenges of the Great Resignation?

Collaboration Overload Is Crushing Innovation at Your Company

How to Interrupt Bias in Your Company

An Inside Look at How Unilever Builds an Award-Winning Employee Experience

How to Design a Hybrid Workplace That Actually Works

The Great Workplace Experiment of 2020 – 2021

Why Collaboration at Your Company Is Complicated

Why Your Business Strategy Should Be a Learning Strategy

How to Take Your Diversity Strategy From Intention to Impact

Breaking Down the Myths of Digital Transformation

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