New Yawk HR

For years recruiters have been ghosting candidates so we are calling BS on candidate ghosting, the latest phenomenon to apparently plague recruiters and we discuss how to stop it.

Katrina Collier shows companies how to solve the problem of candidate engagement. Recruiters, HR and hiring leaders don’t have an issue finding people, they have an issue evoking a response, engaging people and stopping candidates from ghosting because for too long technology has been placed before the human. She is the author of The Robot-Proof Recruiter and uses her extensive industry experience to deliver keynotes and facilitate offsites globally, which inspire all those involved in the recruitment lifecycle to use a human-first mindset.

She is also the founder of 5 DisruptHR UK events inspiring people to express their ideas and be heard in a new community, an Ambassador for Hope for Justice aiming to end modern day slavery, and co-host of The #SocialRecruiting Show podcast. You’ll find her championing the #BeHuman cause on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @KatrinaMCollier.

Imagine you run HR for a company. You walk into the CEO's office with an idea - I want to bring the entire organization together for one week and have everyone review each other. They are going to hate doing it, the systems will be fractured, it will cost millions in employee's time, and the result will reduce productivity. The CEO would likely kick you out of her office or fire you because it's a really bad idea. Yet, we've been doing this for decades and most companies continue the practice of performance evaluations and reviews today.

We asked Janine Truitt to join us on the show to call bullshit on performance evaluations and reviews. As Janine says "the contributions of human beings deserve more than a once-a-year summary of highlights and flawed behaviors to describe what they contribute to a company. Like most things in HR, we look for ways to file and rank people like cattle because it makes creating one-size-fits-all strategies and programs easy. Paying attention to individual contributions and matching that with meaningful moments and recognition is what makes coming to work and sacrificing family, time, and energy worth it for many people, but we would rather prioritize a process over people."

Janine is the Owner/Chief Innovations Officer for Talent Think Innovations, LLC, a business strategy and management consulting firm. Her career spans fourteen years in HR and Talent Acquisition that has taken her through the world of pharmaceuticals, healthcare, staffing, and R&D. Janine is a dynamic speaker, entrepreneur, and an important and respected voice bringing both a human touch and business savvy to the companies and businesses she works with.

For years companies have used various motivation tools and strategies to try and get employees to meet and exceed their job expectations. We have used bonus plans, sales commission programs, competency frameworks as a means to solve the skills gap, frequent feedback conversations as the next answer for performance management, and org re-structures as the answer to all ills.

Well, a few researchers and our next guest, Ric Dec, call BS. In fact, in their book Primed to Perform, the folks at Vega Factor say that you can measure an organization's total motivation (or ToMo) by looking at 6 factors and that score correlates to sales, client/customer success and overall performance. Yes, an HR metric that you can impact that translates to real business metrics! 

Rich Dec heads the high-performance practice at Vega Factor and is a consultant and public speaker. Ever since he was a youth basketball player, he has been obsessed with figuring out how to create environments for people to thrive at work, at school, in sports, and in life. He has deep expertise and passion for partnering with organizations, teams, and executive leaders to enhance their levels of performance. He received his B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and coaching certification from the Teleos Leadership Institute. Vega Factor is a company building technology to help organizations of all sizes and in any sector transform their culture and achieve the highest levels of performance.

In this episode, we call BS on a billion dollar industry - leadership training. The topic that keeps most CEO's up at night is people, and leadership skills are at the heart of this challenge. Companies are investing within leadership training and development in unprecedented numbers, yet we haven't moved the needle as employee engagement is at an all-time low. Our guests, Roger Manix & Bobby Alexis of Play-Rx, help us call BS on leadership training and provide a new way of thinking about leadership training through play and emotion intelligence. 

Roger Manix | Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder is an international leader at the forefront of designing transformational experiences rooted in Play-based learning. His strengths lie in developing stronger collaborative skills, inspiring innovative thinking, and training more efficient workers and leaders. At The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, for six years Roger worked with MBA candidates to illustrate how their habitual patterns were limiting their capacity to problem-solve and communicate. 

Bobby Alexis | CEO & Co-Founder is a proven entrepreneur in the Emerging Technology space. In 2016, he founded a Virtual Reality technology company and successfully exited the business via acquisition in 2017. Throughout his career, Bobby has served as a thought leader, creative strategist, advisor, and action taker for startups and corporations looking to invest in their future.

New Yawk HR tackles a very topical subject - diversity and inclusion. Why hasn't the needle moved? We continue to struggle with gender and race diversity in companies of all sizes even with an increase in staffing, budget and focus around D & I. Is it because we are avoiding the root cause of systemic issues around people that are different? We are joined by LaToya Lyn to call BS and discuss ways to REALLY make an impact on diversity and inclusion. 

LaToya has cultivated a deep passion for people, especially people in the workplace. Holding a dual masters in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior - her professional experience spans from executive leadership coaching and alignment to drive key business results to work in a cognitive neuroscience laboratory contributing to the world of research about human behavior.

LaToya has also worked across many industries, including digital media, fashion, consulting and now technology. This passion for HR was cultivated when she was fired from her first job at the tender age of 16 years old when LaToya's then-manager told her “We need our people in their place to make sure everything goes right”. It was that moment on LaToya sparked an interested in understanding the dynamics and behaviors between people in the workplace.

We all know that the first slide in all our HR/People reports is headcount. Headcount last month, a few months back, and the entire year last year. It's typically a bar graph, showing the ups and downs of your headcount. For the eager analyst, there may also be a trend line. With the help of Maya Carmeli, CEO and Co-Founder of Cally, we are calling BS on current HR metrics. While the HR world has become a bit more interested in metrics, it has become focused on the wrong metrics (or at least useless metrics). Maya calls them vanity metrics and questions the data collection methods that are providing no strategic value for decision making (she LOVES the headcount metric too!). Maya also wants to call BS on siloed HR departments where this data and knowledge about the company and its people are held up. It's time to democratize people metrics to the folks that make decisions every day, your leaders. 

Maya is the CEO & Co-founder at Cally, software that gives voice to employees and helps managers be better leaders to their teams. Maya holds a Bachelors in HR and Labor Relations from Rutgers University and a Masters from Cornell’s ILR school. She has a background working in human resources and team consulting, specifically in large companies where she realized that traditional HR is broken. Maya was born in Brooklyn and was raised both in Tel-Aviv and the NY/NJ area. For fun, Maya likes to ski, read academic papers like a nerd, and drink excessive amounts of coffee (like a New Yawker). Find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.

On today's show, we call BS on job descriptions with Katrin Kibben, CEO and Founder of Three Ears Media. 

Katrina Kibben is the Founder and CEO of Three Ears Media, a firm dedicated to teaching recruiters how to be better writers. For most of Katrina's career, she has been a marketer living in a recruiter's world - listening to both sides of the talent equation to understand the real issues and find solutions. Today, she uses her technical marketing know-how and way with words to teach recruiters to write by helping both established and emerging brands develop and deliver a unique recruiting voice that makes the right people apply. Katrina has spoken at events around the world and written for Fortune, The Chicago Tribune and many other digital publications. She currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.

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Wellness programs have been in existence for decades. The average company spends $1,200 per EE per year on wellness, it's a billion dollar industry. Dig deeper (thanks to good SEO and Ad buys these are buried stories) you find that most employees don't participate, think its a waste of time, and HR leaders are baffled by the lack of impact. Why?

Join New Yawk HR this week with guest Robin Schooling to call BS on corporate wellness. Robin Schooling, Head of People with Strio Consulting, has spent her career in HR and Recruiting with the stories and battle scars to match. She’s a regular speaker to global HR and business audiences, has a long-running HR blog at RobinSchooling.com, and has written for Recruiting Daily, Fast Company, Certified Magazine, HR Examiner, SHRM and other sites.

Since 2018 she’s been co-host of DrivethruHR, one of the longest continuously running HR radio shows/podcasts (since 2010!). You can connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn.