People Problems

Joined by Sheila Repeta - Head of People at TeamSnap, we put on our consultant hats and discuss the most common mistakes made when scaling HR teams fast. Don’t make the same mistakes as other fast-growing companies and prioritize recruitment and employer brand (duh?). We also discuss how to ensure that HR is not seen as an overhead function and how to get the resources needed to design the best People Operations team, yo.  

Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you for free by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits... Yes you'll learn things, and yes you'll earn professional credentials... but it won't be boring. We promise. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership!  Your team needs to know about their benefits year-round—not just during open enrollment. Kill your FAQs and keep their questions answered in one place with Showcase™ - Book a demo today for 20% off your annual subscription!

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The Zoom CEO has Zoom fatigue and ‘tis the season for holiday taboos and missed opportunities to explore the cool and awesome things people around the world celebrate. We talk about ‘Understanding Through Inclusion’, learn about some holidays, and discuss how organizations can be more inclusive with less perceived risk. Also, Alexa’s audio kinda sucks on this one and we’re kinda sorry. (PS - We're off next week, back in December!)  

Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you for free by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits... Yes you'll learn things, and yes you'll earn professional credentials... but it won't be boring. We promise. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership!  Your team needs to know about their benefits year-round—not just during open enrollment. Kill your FAQs and keep their questions answered in one place with Showcase™ - Book a demo today for 20% off your annual subscription!

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Spoiler alert!: Tyson is tall, and like all good superheroes… we learn her origin story in this episode for realz. How she got into HR, her career decisions, and how she got to be the famed @hr.shook.  

Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you for free by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits... Yes you'll learn things, and yes you'll earn professional credentials... but it won't be boring. We promise. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership!  Your team needs to know about their benefits year-round—not just during open enrollment. Kill your FAQs and keep their questions answered in one place with Showcase™ - Book a demo today for 20% off your annual subscription!

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Tyson takes the reins and interviews Alexa on the origins of The People Ops Society or POPS (and WTF that is), the group that brought their girl crush together and you get a little more insight on who these two potty mouths really are... Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you for free by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits... Yes you'll learn things, and yes you'll earn professional credentials... but it won't be boring. We promise. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership!  Your team needs to know about their benefits year-round—not just during open enrollment. Kill your FAQs and keep their questions answered in one place with Showcase™ - Book a demo today for 20% off your annual subscription!

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Tyson is back on the airwaves with new mom wisdom, and we sit down with Miriam Scholes – VP of People at Madison Reed – to talk about great hair and what love has to do with it. We discuss how on earth a “policy” could possibly, somehow, be applied to an individual… individually, and what keeps her up at night when she thinks about scaling in 2022. Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you for free by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits... Yes you'll learn things, and yes you'll earn professional credentials... but it won't be boring. We promise. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership!  Your team needs to know about their benefits year-round—not just during open enrollment. Kill your FAQs and keep their questions answered in one place with Showcase™ - Book a demo today for 20% off your annual subscription!

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*LIVE* from PERKSCon Boston, we speak to Gabriela McManus, SVP of People Operations at Drizly, about the distinction between People Ops and HR and how to view humans as assets vs liabilities. Having grown Drizly from its early days to its recent billion-dollar acquisition by Uber, Gabriela shares her non-linear trajectory into People Ops, her view on the employee lifecycle, and her beliefs around how to advocate for the profession, and what’s so exciting about the People Ops road ahead.    Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you for free by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits... Yes you'll learn things, and yes you'll earn professional credentials... but it won't be boring. We promise. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership!  Your team needs to know about their benefits year-round—not just during open enrollment. Kill your FAQs and keep their questions answered in one place with Showcase™ - Book a demo today for 20% off your annual subscription!

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Tyson built her ‘kid a cage’ during early mat leave and we sit down with her friend Ana Araujo, Director for Talent Acquisition & Learning and Development for The Hudson’s Bay Company, a 66,000 person global retailer. We all get fired up about a stupid HR tweet and HR’s moral high ground, we discuss the wonderful journey of how Ana left the People profession for operations and returned to it all the wiser, and have a good hard chat about when the right time to leave HR and become an artisan barista might be (2026).     

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Just Tyson and Alexa on this one answering listeners' top questions for your entertainment. We cover: How do you deal with a rude manager?

What do you do when people respond negatively to your job in HR?

Our thoughts on HR certifications/designations

How do you handle unethical behavior coming from the HR?

Executive leaders who cowtow to the CEO… go.

Can we force things on employees?

Yikes! Send your questions for the next Q&A to [email protected] plz. Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you for free by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits, join POPS today for a library of resources/templates and playbooks, free courses and educational skill workshops, peer brainstorms and most importantly… the change to learn from POPS people like you. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership!  Showcase™ - The first and only Employer Experience Platform - stop wasting money on unused benefits, host employee events, and send personalized communications to different groups of employees for an improved lift on your existing programs. All backed by incredible data and ongoing insights about employee behaviors and engagement. Book a demo today for 20% off your annual subscription!

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Tyson starts her mat leave (yay!) and we sit down with Jill Christensen, world-renowned corporate communications expert and employee engagement specialist. We discuss the biggest buzzword, engagement, from all angles (and some of its sister buzzwords) to test Jill’s methods for leading companies to cultural Shangri-La. Also, Alexa was traveling and her audio kinda sucks, we apologize. Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you for free by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits, join POPS today for a library of resources/templates and playbooks, free courses and educational skill workshops, peer brainstorms and most importantly… the change to learn from POPS people like you. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership!  Showcase™ - The first and only Employer Experience Platform - stop wasting money on unused benefits, host employee events, and send personalized communications to different groups of employees for an improved lift on your existing programs. All backed by incredible data and ongoing insights about employee behaviors and engagement. Book a demo today for 20% off your annual subscription!

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Alexa is riding solo on this one joined **LIVE** at PERKSCon San Francisco by Craig Forman, Lead People Scientist at CultureAmp. We hear Craig's journey from the military to people science as they discuss fear, shapes, equity, data, and how to re-think the way that an organization can decentralize without losing ‘control’. Don’t fight the inertia, yo… go with it.  

Support our sponsors! People Problems is brought to you by: The People Ops Society - Your tribe of People peers awaits, join POPS today for a library of resources/templates and playbooks, free courses and educational skill workshops, peer brainstorms and most importantly… the change to learn from POPS people like you. Listeners receive 20% off with code 'PPLProblems20' for your first 2 years of membership! https://www.peopleopssociety.com/join-pops Showcase™ - The first and only Employer Experience Platform - increase your benefits consumption, host employee events, and send personalized communications to different groups of employees. All backed by incredible data and ongoing insights about employee behaviors and engagement. Book a demo today for 20% your subscription or a free mobile-app upgrade: https://perksshowcase.com/

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