Nine To Thrive HR

Our conversation highlights the important organizational values of listening, honesty and transparency and how these characteristics are foundational to an overall employee wellness benefits strategy and offerings. Steven Cardwell, VP of Benefits, Well-Being and Retirement at Premise Health, discusses the critical role of work-life balance in the current labor market and how offering comprehensive benefits is favorable for maintaining that balance while also critical for the recruitment and retention of employees. Overall, this episode provides an organization’s must-haves for a successful benefits strategy.

Jewel von Kempf, Head of People at Coinme, illuminates a path forward of popular focus areas for HR leaders as they continue to tackle people strategies in a time when organizations are doing more with less. She highlights bright spots such as empowering employee skill expansion, creating inclusive expectations for increased productivity (regardless of setting), thriving with remote teams and committing to a workplace culture of belonging. As Jewel concludes, she shares how in awe she is waiting for “what’s next” in the path forward. We couldn’t agree more!

Dr. Richard Safeer found his way to well-being while treating patients as a practicing physician. He quickly realized his desire to have greater influence and support over healthy habits and positive emotions meant serving in a place where we spend most of our time: The Workplace! Fast forward to 2023, his knowledge, vast experience and, of course, science form his inaugural book, A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Happier, Healthier, and More Resilient Workforce. In this easy listening conversation, Richard shares his Building Blocks for creating a thriving well-being culture, some tips on battling “Culture Killers,” and strategies for keeping health a priority in the workplace.

Join us for an exciting conversation with Jeffrey Spector, co-founder of Karat, as he takes us on a journey from the foundational cross-country research to the launch of Brilliant Black Minds, a program backed by Serena Williams. Discover how Karat is at the forefront of the paradigm shift in Talent Acquisition, and gain insights into the realities of interviewing and how to build bridges, not barriers, to opportunities. With Jeffrey's expert knowledge and experience, this conversation promises to be a valuable and engaging exploration of talent acquisition and career development.

Explore the findings of a survey of nearly 1,000 full-time employees as isolved Chief Strategy Officer James Norwood shares the surprising and not-so-surprising trends of 2023 – as told by employees. HR leaders will want to listen in to hear more about the important topic of burnout, the future of the Great Resignation, what employees are most upset about and how they are best engaged.

We are beyond a time when employer branding is only meaningful to recruitment and retention. Tiffany Myers, Director of Brand and Creative at Built In, shares with us the awesome impact a holistic brand has on our organizations. She says, “It is the sum total of every interaction we have with our candidates, our employees and our public.” The landscape warrants organizations to ensure ownership/control of the brand narrative and consider a shift to recruiting marketing as a tool.

Together with Gild Collective co-founders, Rachel Bauer and Kelsey Pytlik, join us for a new year extended podcast with a deep dive into ways to address both the stress and the stressors in your personal and professional lives in order to hit reset on the far-reaching effects of burnout. We talk data, workplace boundaries and get a little personal about this time of year when everyone is either making resolutions, already breaking resolutions, or feeling resentful toward the idea that they have time for resolutions. If you’re in that third category, you’ve probably started the new year in a state of burnout—and maybe it isn’t new.

Referenced book: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

After a serendipitous meeting with his now publisher, Jen , Dr. Steve Yacovelli defined his brand. “The three things everyone will know,” he said, “I’m gay. I am self-described as a dude. And I really like to talk about leadership.” Voila, “The Gay Leadership Dude®” was born. With decades of work in this space, “The Gay Leadership Dude®” shares some simple phraseology for building inclusivity influence as a leader.

"The Gay Leadership Dude®” also invites you to check out his FREE learning on silent collusion: https://topdoglearning.learnworlds.com/course/mopsam and his latest book "Pride Leadership-Strategies for the LGBTQ + leader to be the King or Queen of their Jungle."

In today’s episode we meet with Ryan Jenkins, a good friend to HCI. Ryan shares with us a deep dive into loneliness and how it impacts our humanness. We talk about some data points, steps and tools related to connection (or lack of connection), and why it's so important for organizations/leader to invest in workforce well-being and make connection a known topic. Ryan shares from his book "Connectable" as well as steps he works through with organizations to aid in intentionally encouraging workforce (or other) connections a reality. Ryan shares some great stories to aid us in visualizing how this all works!

You can also hear Ryan in HCI’s webcast "Inspire Your Audience With Wow & Know-How" - https://www.hci.org/webcast/inspire-your-audience-wow-know-how

In this podcast we talk all things adult learning. We all have moments in our lives that learning has shaped; whether it be to further our career, guide us to change course, add onto our existing skill set or beliefs or a number of other enhancements. Significant theory surrounding the idea of adult learning was catapulted by Malcolm Knowles in 1968, giving the field an identity. Dr. Graham uses those adult learning theories to inform best practices in the work she does alongside her clients. And in a time when upskilling and reskilling is rampant, Dr. Graham talks about how we don't have to go back to the beginning. Most organizations (and individuals) can add to what they have whether it be in course design or a personal skill set. Lastly, we touch on the importance of building out a learning strategy, aligned with organizational values, serving as somewhat of a flexible roadmap but prioritizing the many needs of the adult learner.