Shaping Culture

As a leader, it’s part of your job to inspire hope in those who work with you. And one way to inspire hope is to reveal your own vulnerability. In this episode, Dov Baron, a leadership expert who helps transcend companies, shares the powerful outcome when company leaders get off their pedestal and show their human side.

One reason we’re seeing "The Great Resignation" is the stress that workers feel trying to navigate the new realities of the pandemic. In this episode of Shaping Culture, Sheila Hamilton, CEO of Beyond Well Solutions, talks about how workers have hit a wall during the pandemic and what companies must do to respond.

Caring took on a whole new meaning for airlines during the pandemic. Each day, thousands of pilots, flight attendants and mechanics walked into airplanes to face not only passengers but the potentially deadly virus. In this episode of Shaping Culture, Thomas Rajan, Vice President of Global Talent and Total Rewards at American Airlines explains how the airline prioritized caring to build culture.

Good onboarding improves employee retention, commitment, and turnover. In this episode of Shaping Culture, Mark Stelzner, Founder and Managing Principal of IA, a company that supports HR transformation for the global 1000, explains why onboarding falls through the cracks and why it’s more important than ever to get it right.

Connecting with your workers isn’t only about productivity and profits. It’s about creating a sense of belonging. In this episode of Shaping Culture, Kristi Yowell, Associate Vice President for Human Resources at Goucher College, shares how she’s innovating human resources and what you too can learn whether you work in education or at a corporation.

Podcasting not only improves company culture but it provides a steady drumbeat to help transform sales. In this episode of Shaping Culture, Yana Krasnitskaya, Communications & Enablement Lead for Project Afterburner in IBM Marketing, shares how IBM marketers are helping their sales counterparts turn prospects into customers.

It’s never been more important to engage your workforce- whether to boost productivity or improve company culture. In this special episode, you’ll meet FieldCast President Dana Elmquist who talked about the benefits of launching a company podcast during an appearance on WGN Radio’s Wintrust Business Lunch with John Williams.

The pandemic has forced workers to learn new skills quickly. In this episode of Shaping Culture, Dr. Iris Ware, Chief Learning Officer for the City of Detroit, shares innovative ways to train her 9,000 member workforce, working in different departments, different shifts and vastly different locations.

When the pandemic hit, workers scattered and companies were challenged to keep their culture alive. In this episode of Shaping Culture, Diane Domeyer, Executive Director for The Creative Group, a Robert Half company, says companies have to embrace “windowed working” where remote employees fit their personal lives into their workdays.

Workers are rethinking how they spend their time and workplaces will have to adapt. In this episode of Shaping Culture podcast, Stuart McLeod, CEO & Co-Founder of Karbon, a worldwide company providing management software for accounting firms, says it’s important to ask, what are we doing, who are we doing it for and why are we doing it?

“The purpose and journey of work has a heightened sense of importance on the cultural design of an organization,” adds McLeod. He points to these keys to be more efficient and productive:

• Reach the deep work state 1-2x/week

• Keep work hours short

• Keep life journey improving

• Focused interaction with colleagues and customers