Talent Talk

Connect with us on this podcast episode of TalentTalk with PeopleG2 CEO, Chris Dyer, as we discuss team connections and leadership in talent management. First we welcome to the show, Steve Canal, Co-Founder of One Venture Group to discuss the management systems used to stay connected with teams. We go over the "musts" of leadership development, discuss the "fail forward" concept, and learn about Steve's coined phrase, "corporatepreneur."

Stay tuned for the next part of our show as we continue our talent management discussion about team engagement and staffing solutions with Suzanne Justice, Founder & CEO of Blake Rian Consulting and Amazon Best Selling Author. She starts with tips, tricks, and tools to keep your team engaged and further shares advice for for candidates looking to get back to work, for companies trying to hire and grow, how to adjust to the changing market during the pandemic.

We wanted to give PeopleG2 CEO and TalentTalk host, Chris Dyer, a run for his "name game" money with this this episode with executives making big changes in the workplace development movement. We welcomed Emma El-Karout, One Circle, CEO and Founder to chat about the inter relationship between freelance talent marketplace and global talent markets and how freelance talent platforms can co-exist with the development of high-performing teams.  We projected future options to scale talent while leveraging on a HR freelance platform or Marketplace and how traditional career growth is shifting as people are redesigning and taking control over their careers.

Joined next by the brilliant, Mahe Bayireddi, Phenom CEO & Co-Founder we discuss the power of artificial intelligence and his VERY ambitious goal to help one billion people find the right job! Mahe speaks with countless CHROs every year and shares with us what keeps them up at night; including the costs of candidates and companies not finding that right fit and how AI and automation can help recruiters and hiring managers be more efficient. This is the work, hiring, onboarding future. Join us for the conversation.

Get ready to chat THE FUTURE... of sports, medicine, work, and education. Join PeopleG2 CEO & TalentTalk host, Chris Dyer, as he welcomes Vince Thompson, Founder and CEO of MELT, a successful sports marketing agency. They discuss both the importance of utilizing social media in job searching and the disadvantage not to have an established social media presence. We revisit building your personal brand along with some common mistakes people make on social media that can hurt their personal brand in the eyes of a potential employer. If you're a social butterfly (or in any leadership or marketing position) this one's for you.

Be sure to stay tuned as Chris welcomes Chair and CEO, NYDLA.org, Thomas Capone to the show where we continue our “coping with Covid” conversation, and the future of work, education, and medicine. We chat paradigm shifts for remote work, and the movement of evolution in tech and work. Weigh in on what 2021 will look like with these leadership influencers.

Hello 2021! On the first episode of 2021, PeopleG2 CEO & host, Chris Dyer, interviews Jennifer Mackin, Author, Principal and CEO at Oliver Group and Principal, and President Leadership Pipeline Institute US. We chat about her book’s reference that the U.S. has been developing leaders the same way since the 1960s and  why that approach doesn’t work today. We discuss how current company leaders, such as CEOs and heads of HR, can create a better leadership development approach that results in effective leaders for their company’s future; including being directly involved in training the next wave of company leaders, and millennials demands.

It’s time to RECOGNIZE the power of company culture with the second TalentTalk guest, Sarah McVanel, President and Founder & Chief Recognition Officer at Greatness Magnified. We start with why recognition matters and if a culture can really be defined by how much recognition is present.  Are there ways most people want to be recognized, or does it vary? If so, how can leaders know or keep track when they have so many reports, work remotely, are busy, etc.? Get the answers to these questions and more on this episode. 

We love tools for talent management success. And so, we've invited Traitify team members on the show more than once with real tools for real life. On this episode of TalentTalk, host Chris Dyer talks with Dan Sines, CEO and co-founder of Traitify, a machine learning algorithm that combines employee performance data and personality data to prioritize applicants who match top performers. Dan shares with our listeners why visual-based assessment and automation in HR are important and what teams should look out for when hiring fully remote for the holiday season or year round. 

We're joined next by authorship pair, Brett Cooper and Evans Kerrigan, Co-Founders of Integris Performance Advisors and Co-Authors of, "Solving the People Problem." Naturally, they share just what the "people problem" is and how DISC-EQ is a part of the solution in the real world. Together we discuss how they find ways to work together as teams, be better leaders, and more efficient in organizations. Recognize and honor differences by how we work together. Download this engaging podcast for more on managing EQ framework to solve the people problem.

People are unique, employees are unique, and executive management styles are no different. On this episode of Talent Talk, host Chris Dyer interviews company founders using their own techniques for talent management. We are first joined by John Bernatovicz, Founder of Willory, a Staffing and Consulting Company for HR & Payroll. John shares about his journey writing his book, "HR Like a Boss" and his prestigious award that recognizes the best companies for attracting and retaining top performers. He also shares his story of going remote and his primary focus to ensure organizational success as a leader in a 100% virtual company. 

Our next guest on the show is DJ Eidson, Co-Founder and COO of Limitless Minds, who shares about his #1 rule for leadership, why belief is important as a leader, and his focus on Neutral Thinking. He shares everything from identifying talent to his biggest hiring failure, all with a focus on how to build a strong company culture. DJ's engaging attitude is sure to get you fired up for your own talent management needs and inspired to make change.

Get the 411 on executive management resources with today's leaders on TalentTalk. Host, Chris Dyer, is joined first by Summer Crenshaw, serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author, and CEO of TalentNow, a contingent workforce management software. Summer shares with us stories of lessons learned about talent management during COVID, how companies can create culture in a remote world, and how companies can better work with contingent labor. We discuss what the future might look like and how companies are keeping their gig workers loyal. 

Our next guest to share about management today is Colin J. Browne, The Culture Guy. This keynote speaker, Founder of Happy Sandpit, and author of "How To Build a Happy Sandpit" joined us to the second half of the show to talk about the biggest challenges and best parts of remote work. He shares about his suggested main focus to drive employee engagement and we chat core values and lessons in culture.  

It’s fall in OC and we’re falling in love with shared stories of talent management on Talent Talk. Download this episode with Keith Jackson, Managing Partner at ETEC Consulting Group, to hear about stories of international talent management across the world. He shares about challenges in foreign countries, team selection, facilitating team meetings, and other nuances to leading in multicultural and multilingual groups while maintaining company values.

Keeping the sprit of talented duos alive, we welcome Karin Hurt & David Dye, Founders at Lets Grow Leaders, to Talent Talk to discuss Courageous Cultures with practical tips and leadership tactics for this new era of business. They share practical tools and techniques that leaders can use immediately to make a difference. Karin & David remind leaders to do anything they can do to foster genuine human connection. They confidently share that it is worth the time investment to help your team know a good idea when they see one and to learn how to vet it for viability using the IDEA Model: Why is this idea INTERESTING? Is it DOABLE? Is it ENGAGING? What are some key ACTIONS?

Download the podcast to hear more about where Karin & David think about company culture and where the future lies… in creativity and empathy for customers. Using clarity and curiosity, you may begin where you aren’t. Courageous Cultures is about lessons in How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. Don’t miss these tools for leadership success.

On this Talent Talk, we welcome Paul Estes, editor-In-chief, podcast host, & best selling author, sharing the solutions of Gig Mindset. After spending 20 years in Big Tech, in many ways, Paul considers himself a corporate refugee. Listen in as he shares about a world where there is more opportunity to gain balance and be more productive. He shares how embracing a gig mindset help you to become a future-proof employee. And how to use the T.I.D.E. Model for leveraging freelancers and VAs: Taskify. Identify. Delegate. Evolve.

Stay tuned for the second half of the show with the hilarious and inspiring, Tara Furiani, Not the HR Lady, to discuss why leadership needs to change NOW. We have to be humans first. She reminds us that often leadership looks a lot like confusion. It is now disruption adjacent. She encourages us to stop being fearful of saying something wrong or calling out bad behavior. She warns, “We have so much to do as employees & leaders but, in both courts, we have to start shifting our mindset & natural behaviors to be more inclusive, more aware, and intolerant of things awry. Normalize talking about things that are hard.”