Talent Talk

We've listened to your feedback and we know you want all that culture know-how. So we're back at is this week with TalentTalk host and PeopleG2 CEO, Chris Dyer, and special guests, Joel Patterson, Founder of The Vested Group and ForbesBooks author of The Big Commitment: Solving The Mysteries Of Your ERP Implementation; and Jason Barger, Author, Keynote Speaker, and Founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting. 

We start with a conversation with Joel Patterson on core values, and then get into how to properly display company culture on a website and social media. He shares why you should ask culture-focused questions during an interview and explore what it's like to let candidates interact with staff. We'll close up the conversation with shared stories about why its important to research your process.

Stay tuned for the 2nd half of the show where fellow "peopleHum's Top Thought Leaders to Follow in 2021" and Founder at Step Back Leadership Consulting, Jason Barger, gets into leadership being "hijacked." We review principles of creating culture and meaningful work environments and review stories of experienced disconnection with engagement in the remote work environment and solutions for engagement. We tackle the dirty stuff... what teams can do when they have established bad habits in their culture. Real stores for real solutions. 

We’re celebrating on this episode of TalentTalk LIVE with host, Chris Dyer, and guests, Jamie Jacobs and Hema Crockett, Co-Founders of Gig Talent & Authors of “Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures.” It was the big day of book launch for this dynamic duo and we celebrated their success and talked our favorite thing… leadership tools and company culture. Tune in to this episode as we discuss what leaders can do to shape organizational culture, including where to start and how strategies are changing.

Jamie & Hema share stories of talent management and touch on how organizations are integrating elastic talent into their talent strategies. We talk about what Covid has taught us about the importance of a strong organizational culture and how remote work is furthering the Gig Economy and why this is beneficial for organizations.

Download this podcast episode of #TalentTalk Radio with two guests who are huge inspirations to host, Chris Dyer. This is a “must hear” episode with 2 guests who have taught us and so many others, so much. Our first guest, David Marquet, Live Online Keynoter, Bestselling Author, and International Top Ranked Conference Keynoter, to discuss the power of language. He shares about his new book, “Leadership is Language” (AKA “A New Playbook For Leaders'') where he shares stories about using transcripts to identify patterns in the language of teams. Some patterns are fragile and make mistakes vs. patterns of teams that are adaptive and resilient. 

Stay tuned for the second half of the show where we welcome back our very first guest, Kim Shepherd, a leader in the business world and community, Retired CEO & Chairwoman, Mentor, and Co-Author of, “Remote Work” with PeopleG2 CEO, Chris Dyer. We talk about the “new normal”... remote work and it’s attraction to top producing Jedis and where these Jedis meet to discuss all things Remote Work culture. Tune in to be inspired.

Join us for another hour long special with this brilliant doctor duo. Download this episode of TalentTalk Radio with host, Chris Dyer, and guests, Dr. Paul Napper and Dr. Anthony Rao, co-authors of The Power of Agency: The 7 Principles to Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions and Create a Life on Your Own Terms.

Dr. Napper leads a management psychology and executive coaching consultancy in Boston. His client list includes Fortune 500 companies, universities, and start-ups. Dr. Rao is a nationally known expert in psychology. He started his career as a psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and for more than twenty years he was an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

We're continuing the Future of Work discussion with this episode of TalentTalk with your host, Chris Dyer and our first guest, Quincy Valencia, Vice President of Product Innovation at AMS where Quincy and her team run Hourly, a conversational hiring experience platform. She shares stories and insight about how hourly workers have been impacted by the pandemic and what companies can do to address this impact. We go over some of the common challenges of high-volume hiring and the role automation will play in the hiring industry in 2021. We consider how companies can re-think the hourly hiring process and the technology crucial for this, and more. 

Fellow tech leaders stay tuned as we welcome to the second half of the show, Ming-Hui Huang, Distinguished Professor of E-Commerce at National Taiwan University of Information Management. We talk through artificial intelligence creating a “Feeling Economy” and how jobs will change because of it, including its unprecedented power and influence for women.  Will STEM be obsolete? Is there evidence in recent political elections that empathy is now key, and rationality is becoming less important? Can AI be creative? We'll chat about whether AI will ever get to the point where it is smarter than people and what is necessary to produce AI that has feeling intelligence. 

On this enthusiastic episode of #TalentTalk with host, Chris Dyer, we "get aligned" with our first guest, Hortense le Gentil, Executive Leadership Coach and Author of the best selling and highly acclaimed book, "Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You're Meant to Be."  What does a year of being locked down perhaps more than ever before help us to unlock in ourselves? Hortense shares why alignment is so important nowadays and shares how to find and generate a sense of alignment. We dive into the the biggest disruptions to achieving alignment and how companies can achieve alignment when many employees are working remotely and how leaders can rely on intuition to make better, more aligned decisions when facing complicated challenges.

In this safe space edition of Talent Talk, PeopleG2 CEO and host, welcomes Karen Weeks, SVP of People at Ordergroove to the show. We discuss how leaders can create a safe space for employees to talk about mental health, race, career goals outside of the company, and other uncomfortable topics. We dive into how managers should adjust how they give feedback when they have to do it remotely, and how HR and managers can build relationships & a sense of team/community with people dispersed across the company. Naturally, the conversation evolves into authentic culture.

In the next half of the show. Chris welcomes Dr. Ellen Reed, Mental Toughness Expert & Co-Author of Relentless Solution Focus to chat about mental toughness and the science behind RSF. Dr. Ellen taps directly into how to use Relentless Solution Focus in your work to succeed and stresses that people must retrain their brains to focus on solutions, rather than problems. It’s easy for us to say we’ll have a more positive approach – but hard to do in practice. Follow along and grow with fellow leaders as we explore company culture and mental toughness. 

This episode of TalentTalk Radio is packed with inspiration. Join PeopleG2 CEO, Chris Dyer, as he interviews Michelle Silverthorn, Diversity Expert, CEO of Inclusion Nation, Author of Authentic Diversity: How to Change the Workplace for Good. They discuss why organizations keep failing at diversity, what the “Authentic” part of Authentic Diversity means, how protests changed how organizations are thinking about diversity, and actions organizations can take that can improve the retention of BIPOC professionals.

Stay tuned as we welcome to the talent management inspiration team, Cynthia Spraggs, author and CEO of Virtira, a completely virtual company that focuses on remote team performance. We discuss issues with work from home that are most concerning for companies now, if businesses are losing an important personal connection with their employees, and part of their culture, because they’ve gone all-remote, and how do they get that connection back. We'll chat a bit about why Zoom meetings sometimes don't work but how companies can maximize the benefits of video conferencing when holding meetings, both with employees and clients. Be sure to stay to listen to her main tips to help someone working from home stay focused and productive, even during the holidays.

Thanksgiving was still in effect over here as we give thanks for another opportunity to interview this dynamic duo of people-first executives changing the talent management game. PeopleG2 CEO, Chris Dyer, welcomes Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer of The Granite Group, to discuss her transition from paper-first to people-first, and leading as an introvert. Listen to insights about what leadership looks like today and how engagement & culture have shifted [and it's impact on front-line workers].

Speaking of "what leadership looks like today"... stay turned as we interview The World's First Chief Heart Officer, Claude Silver, of Vayner Media. We talk emotional optimism and making change in leadership happen. She'll answer the questions, "What does a Chief Heart Officer do differently than a Chief Human Resources Officer or other Chief executive position?" What is an emotional optimist and how does it make for effective leadership?" "What are you focused on now in company culture? Be sure to download this podcast to be a part of the discussion about how we make change happen now.

In this episode of TalentTalk Radio LIVE with PeopleG2 CEO & host, Chris Dyer, we think smart and deescalate. We first welcome to the show, Jerome Ternynck, Founder & CEO of SmartRecruiters, the Hiring Success Company. We discuss what talent leaders should be doing now to be change agents & revolutionize their function, and adjustments that must be made to the talent function (or to the talent tech stack) in order for remote hiring to 'work' long-term.

The second half of the show focuses on de-escalation and emotional intelligence as we welcome Mark McMillion, Principal, McMillion Leadership Associates. Mark shares what led him to de-escalation as a topic focus and the form that the de-escalation training takes. From the anticipate vs fixate approach to EQ team development, we get right down to company culture once again.