Join Side Affects Producer Kenzie Fell and MB Director of Strategy and Innovation, David Homan with their guest, HR manager, Mary Howbert from G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers. They discuss how to tackle the curveballs of conducting a business's HR side, especially open enrollment, during this pandemic. Kenzie, Dave, and Mary share how with numerous locations, Open Enrollment is an imperative time to engage all employees with a consistent message. Listen and learn more!

2020 has turned most of us upside down, so it may be the time to try something new for your benefits communications. For this Side Affects episode, producer, Kenzie Fell has pulled our Director of Strategy and Innovation, Dave Homan, from behind the scenes, upfront to discuss different options for open enrollment. Dave has decades of health care communication experience and knows how to get your message heard. Keep it simple, make it fun, and do it all year long. Tune in to learn how to deliver your message to your workforce.

Please tune in to Side Affects Podcast with MB CEO Scott McGohan and his guest, Lance Tyson, owner, President, and CEO of The Tyson Group. The Tyson Group directs companies to develop strong business team leaders by first diagnosing the company's needs. With COVID-19 still a prominent hurdle, it is imperative to find an outlet to stay engaged with your clients, but at the same time, you need to KNOW your clients and the relationship that you have with them. Don't be tone-deaf to their situation, because everyone doesn’t adapt at the same level. Learn how to problem solve quickly because COVID isn't over and it won't be any time soon.

As everything around us continues to evolve, so do our radio spots. We are moving into a new phase of COVID-19, and as a result, we have updated our radio spot that is live and playing on the airwaves in Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus and Indy!

As we wrap up the HR Technology series with Kelly Zimmerman from BTR, we discuss how companies that have HR Technology in place may be spending too much on the wrong products. What is the shelf life of technology? What you needed in 2010 may not be what you need now. Side Affects Producer, Kenzie, Co-Host, Anne Marie, and Kelly highlight how important it is to build a relationship with your HR Tech vendor and ask them as experts the questions you don't know. You may not know what you need! Tune in to fix those red flags that are draining your budget and make sure the technology is working for you and you are not working for the technology.

Here is round two of the three-part series with HR Technology Consultant, Kelly Zimmerman of BTR. You’ve made the decision to bring in HR Technology, now take the next step of implementing it. Tune in as Kenzie and Anne Marie quiz Kelly on the best steps going forward for a successful transition of your HR Data. You must determine your priorities, requirements, and especially your budget. HR Technology can do as much or as little as you need! Remember, this is a process. Being prepared and consistent is key to a successful implementation.

What exactly is HR Technology? Get started with the first of three podcasts with our Director of Growth, Anne Marie Singleton and Side Affects Producer Kenzie Fell with guest speaker, Kelly Zimmerman from Benefit Technology Resources (BTR) to discuss the importance of HR Technology. No matter the size of your company, you will use some sort of technology to support your workforce. Starting with recruiting, on-boarding, and continue with employee payroll and more. Right now, COVID-19 has spotlighted the evident misses with HR Technology. There are so many options that are easy and inexpensive that can help close those gaps of support. It is a process, and it all starts with a strategy. Tune in to part one to build your foundation of HR technology knowledge.

Join Producer, Kenzie and co-host, Scott on MB’s Side Affects with Laura Putnam, CEO of Motion Infusion, to learn how to proceed as normal as possible as we stay at home or shelter in place as COVID-19 continues to run its course. Laura shares how important it is to know the facts, and at the same time, know this is nothing we can control directly. Our freedom is how we respond to this pandemic as individuals and as a collective. We are all in this together.

Join MB CEO Scott McGohan and his long-time associate, Ed Eppley from The Eppley Group, as they reflect on the recession of 2008-09 and how this health crisis imitates in emotion but is caused by different circumstances. Scott and Ed discuss how business owners, managers, and executives have accepted this fate of struggle for their business, but should look to the 2010 Harvard Business Review article, Roaring Out of Recession, to find the courage and confidence to overcome any fear that may prohibit being proactive toward growth.

COVID-19 has changed the health care process but our Side Affects guest, Shane Foss, Hooray Health CEO, has ideas on how telemedicine provides a reasonable, low-cost option to allow the uninsured to be seen by medical professionals. Telemedicine has been around, but like this pandemic, digital health usage has increased because of the convenience, and of course, the need. Tune in to hear Shane’s ideas for tele-health now and for the future.