In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest DeRetta Rhodes, SVP & Head of HR at Atlanta Braves.

Episode highlights

[04:04] - How DeRetta constantly challenges herself?

[05:17] - What has been your approach to crisis management post-COVID?

[07:29] - How have you gone about shifting the mindset of your leadership team?

[09:53] - Why performance management is more important now than ever

[11:17] - What is crisis fatigue?

[13:58] - Practical steps we can take to manage during a crisis

[16:23] - How building frameworks are the key to making sustainable change

[22:21] - Tips on dealing with a crisis without becoming overwhelmed

[25:52] - HR Leaders Quick Fire Round

[29:33] - Parting advice for you

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guests Karin Hurt, Chief Executive Officer & David Dye President at Let's Grow Leaders.

Episode highlights

[04:14] - What's it like working together as a married couple?

[05:02] - What was the inspiration behind the book?

[08:15] - How have you structured the book?

[11:13] - What is it that stops employees from speaking out?

[14:09] - From your research, what surprised you the most?

[16:18] - Examples of companies that are doing this well

[20:22] - Why the antidote to uncertainty is clarity

[21:47] - Do you have examples of when this wasn't done properly?

[24:00] - 3 behaviors that shut people down

[25:59] - Practical steps to avoid this happening in our own business

[29:08] - What is at the core of a courageous culture?

[31:51] - The impact on companies that down follow these practices?

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guests Simon Brown, Chief Learning Officer at Novartis and Co-Founders Garrick Jones & Paul Ashcroft at Ludic.

Episode highlights

[01:12] - How did you come to meet?

[02:02] - Where did the inspiration from the book come from?

[04:11] - How did you go about writing it and for how long?

[05:15] - How would you define curiosity? 

[06:50] - The power of curious teams

[08:41] - What does a Big Mac have to do with curiosity? 

[09:47] - Why is workplace curiosity so important?

[11:52] - Can we learn to be curious? 

[14:24] - What effect does curiosity have on the brain?

[18:10] - How learning happens whether it's a positive or negative experience

[22:57] - Why it's important to create a culture that encourages high volume low impact failure

[32:47] - How has this journey into curiosity changed you personally?

[34:47] - Parting advice for you

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In this special episode of the HR Leaders Podcast we are joined by 4 of the worlds Chief Learning Officers. Vidya Krishnan at Ericsson, Simon Brown at Novartis, Stefaan van Hooydonk at Cognizant and James Fulton at Goldman Sachs.

Episode highlights

[02:04] - How to build the resilience for a fast-changing world?

[08:54] - What it takes for our leadership to engineer empathy at scale

[19:19] - How leaders are embracing data and the correlation between attrition and learning

[25:50] - How to foster a culture of curiosity that recognises and rewards curiosity?

[32:09] - How problem solving has become as important as problem finding

[34:31] - How to locate curiosity in the present

[42:03:] - Can we learn to be curious?

[43:06] - Parting advice for you

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Lisa Calicchio, SVP and Chief Human Capital Management Officer at WCG.

Episode highlights

[02:20] - Was a career in HR the plan?

[03:11] - What was it like taking a role as CHRO at the beginning of a pandemic

[04:16] - Did the crisis accelerate your plans?

[05:29] - Why empathy is the new competency of leadership

[08:43] - How this pandemic has become the great equaliser

[13:46] - Why people are our greatest asset

[15:54] - Has the crisis made you re-evaluate policies and practices?

[19:01] - How are you supporting your people during this time?

[23:29] - Why leaders need to be vulnerable enough to say they don't have all the answers 

[28:47] - What are your hopes for this new world of work?

[39:32] - Parting advice for you

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Chuck Davis, Director of Human Resources at New Balance.

Episode highlights

[02:14] - How New Balance remain agile

[03:57] - How are you supporting your people during the crisis?

[06:29] - What is parent's day?

[08:26] - How productivity is being measured and a look at pods

[12:19] - What is your policy on remote working post COVID?

[14:28] - Why stopping an action rather than adding more can lead to more results

[15:46] - How have you prepared your leaders to manage remotely?

[20:08] - Why burnout could be more of a problem during this crisis

[22:42] - What have been your biggest takeaway from this crisis?

[25:08] - What about personal learnings?

[27:36] - Parting advice for you

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Vidya Krishnan, Global Chief Learning Officer at Ericsson.

Episode highlights

[02:00] - Trust barometer - How employee's fear they'll lose their jobs due to a lack of skills

[03:08] - How do you build a culture where your people are continuously reinventing themselves?

[05:11] - A culture with zero-tolerance for zero learning

[05:55] - 5G and what is an empathy engine?

[09:33] - Emotional EQ: How systems can be limited by people and not always the systems themselves

[11:26] - How have you prepared and supported your leaders through this crisis?

[13:33] - How Degreed has helped Ericsson become an empathy engine

[15:52] - How do we build the skills we need for the future, now?

[20:07] - What are your thoughts on how the learning function has transformed?

[25:09] - The relationship between failure and success

[27:13] - We need to embed learning in a way that it links to business outcomes

[30:13] - What are the challenges that business leaders are coming to you with?

[32:44] - Learning doesn't fit with just L&D it's the entire organisation

[34:58] - HR Leaders Quick Fire Round

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Gustavo Canton, VP of People Analytics at Schneider Electric.

Episode highlights

[03:36] - Where did the mantra "dare to disrupt" originate

[06:11] - Why business continuity should be a top priority for 2020 and beyond

[07:19] - How humanity is rising to the challenge during this crisis

[09:01] - Why we need technology to empower front line workers

[10:34] - People Analytics is currently limited to reporting and descriptive analytics

[11:22] - Using A.I to #Freeupyourenergy

[13:52] - What next? What are your priorities

[17:05] - Showing leaders the gap between what they are seeing and what's actually happening 

[20:56] - What are the common challenges that leaders come to you with?

[23:15] - Giving employees freedom leads to better results

[36:00] - Examples of business challenges Gustavo is hoping to solve with A.I.

[37:55] - Parting advice for you

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Elaine Mason, Vice President, People and Communities at Cisco.

Episode highlights

[02:28] - What are Horizontal Communities?

[05:35] - What were the trends that motivated this change?

[09:00] - This is a big undertaking, how did you go about shifting the mindset?

[11:43] - How have current events accelerated this change?

[17:52] - Shifting Business partner roles to become the compass of HR

[20:32] - How not having to "firefight" allowed leaders to see current trends

[22:21] - What does the training and upskilling look like for these leaders?

[24:07] - "If you are not a fan of grey space, then you do not belong here"

[25:52] - What does success look like for your team?

[29:01] - How are you leveraging the venture capital model

[32:41] - What's next for you and your team?

[37:38] - Parting advice for you

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Curt White, SVP and CHRO at Array Information Technology, Inc.

Episode highlights

[02:39] - Why did you make the decision to return to the corporate world?

[06:14] - Curt shares why he thinks everyone should take time outside of the HR function

[09:22] - How has your past experience helped you build successful HR Strategies?

[12:46] - What was the challenge your company was facing and how did you help?

[15:54] - What did your first few months in the role look like?

[17:49] - The importance of having a culture of constant communication

[20:07] - How the company employs an ageing demographic

[24:20] - Has talent acquisition been a challenge with this demographic?

[30:26] - Curt's thoughts on remote work and how it's been adopted

[33:22] - HR Leaders Quick Fire Round

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