Teamwork Sandbox ™

Welcome to Teamwork Sandbox! I’m Yolanda Fraction, and I’m excited to bring you my rebranded show focused on one of my passions—teamwork. Drawing on over 20 years of experience across industries like education, nonprofit, and corporate environments, I’ll be sharing insights on what it takes to build high-performing teams that thrive in today's hybrid and virtual workplaces.

You’ll hear real stories and interviews with professionals, including managers and individual contributors, about how they navigate teamwork and find balance. Whether you're leading a team or contributing to one, this podcast is for you if you’re looking to improve efficiency, foster collaboration, and create meaningful work-life integration.

Join me as we dive into what makes teams truly excel! Be sure to "follow" me on LinkedIn for more insights.

The holiday season is upon us, and it offers many an opportunity to reflect and enjoy time with loved ones, before starting the New Year. Are you unemployed? Are you underemployed? Are you simply seeking continuous improvement? This episode is for you! Our careers are constantly in need of reflection and retrospection. This episode encourages those who are unemployed while offering useful tips to those who are employed to seek out mentors, sponsors, and coaches so they may thrive in their professional environments.

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They say, "the only thing constant is change." But, how do we operate a world filled with consistent change that never seems to end? How do we lead ourselves and sometimes, a team of people or organization through change? We must foster change champions, become change leaders ourselves and continue to find resilience while acknowledging, change is often immensely uncomfortable. In my new podcast episode, I focus on "Change Management and Digital Transformation with Change Consultant, Bukky Sodunke, MHA, PSM.

About Bukky Sodunke:

About This Episode

This is the "most" vulnerable episode of all of the episodes that I've ever published through this platform. In this uncut, unedited session, my fertility life coach, Poonam Gole and I discuss women in the workplace, leadership and what she has eloquently titled, "Being the Hero of Your Story". This episode focuses on women in the workplace who are facing issues related to infertility, grief, loss and childlessness. Research shows that 1 in 6 women face infertility issues. In this episode, I seek to boldly and confidently discuss these issues that are often kept very quiet. We also discuss what it means to be a leader, and be a women, and wear multiple "hats" or have varying roles.

About Poonam Gole (ICF Certified, Life Coach)

Poonam Gole is an ICF Certified Professional Coach who uses evidenced based coaching to help women going through fertility challenges and treatments like IVF. She provides mental health support to reduce stress and overwhelm, manage burnout, build resilience, and improve confidence on their journey to motherhood.

Fertility Mindset Coaching Services include 1:1 Personalized coaching, Group Coaching, online workshops, and more.

Website: www.Coachpoonam.com

IG: @fertilitymindsetcoach

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It seems like everywhere you look, people are talking about artificial intelligence or AI. Kirk Perry has been teaching people how to implement innovation and technology in infrastructures for the last 20 years. Kirk has worked in advertising, marketing, and product development.

How might we learn to leverage AI as a tool or resource? If you use Siri or Alexa, you've already been using generative AI. In this episode, I talk with Kirk Perry about generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the role that it is currently having in the world of work, and how it's especially impacted those in the creative industry. In this episode, I talk with Kirk Perry about his recent work that has led him to embark upon his new venture, Make Believe LLC. Want to learn how to use AI as a resource or tool? Kirk is creating an online course that helps others learn to leverage AI. His favorite AI is Midjourney.

About Kirk Perry:

Kirk Perry is not just a strategist and entrepreneur; he's a creative force dedicated to reimagining the intersection of AI, storytelling, and entertainment. His journey began in a family brimming with artists, where he absorbed a fervor for creativity and a vision for innovation that would define his career.

This Fall, Kevin has been a keynote speaker at the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Symposium and LTEN Learning Executive Series, a DevLearn panelist and more, and now, he's gracing us with his presence in this episode! He's a "Learning Detective" and he solves measurement mysteries. But, he's not only measuring impact, he's making an impact (in our global community)!

Do you need to measure the impact of learning? He has 25+ years of experience doing this work! Check out this episode that talks about measuring the impact of learning, and making an impact in the community.

About Kevin M. Yates:

Kevin M. Yates is known in the global learning and development community as the “L&D Detective”. He solves measurement mysteries and investigates the impact of training and learning. Having worked with world renown brands like Grant Thornton, Kantar, McDonald’s, and most recently, Meta (Facebook), Kevin leverages his experience and expertise for revealing effectiveness and impact for training and learning. The core of his L&D Detective work is using facts, clues, evidence, and data to show the extent to which training and learning measurably contributes to human and business performance. He is also president and founder of Meals in the Meantime, a nonprofit helping people who need food with pop-up food pantries.

Are you in the midst of a career transition or career disruption? Career disruptions include everything from an organizational reorganization to a job layoff. How are you managing this time?

In this episode, Amy Petrecick will encourage you to trust yourself and the professional expertise that you bring to the spaces where you show up. We also chat about developing and leveraging your consultative skills as a professional and getting stakeholder buy-in.

Want to learn more about Amy? Amy is a seasoned learning leader who lives in Seattle, WA. She's passionate about making the world of work better for humans through enablement. She is also the host of the Share Whatcha Learned podcast - a podcast for learning professionals to share what they've learned in the field. If you're interested in receiving career coaching services check out: apcareerstrategist.com.

Right now, do you feel like your best self, personally and professionally? What's holding you back from becoming your best self yet? What are the barriers to being well? In this episode, we celebrate World Mental Health Day by bringing on a corporate wellness expert and therapist who will discuss some of her personal and professional tips for achieving success. Whether you are a senior leader, individual contributor or people manager, your role requires that you be "well". Let's not just survive, but thrive! We chat about becoming more aware of your needs, redefining your identity and how you view success as well as your expectations of yourself, and others.

*This episode is sponsored by Neon One, check out Neon One's upcoming event for non profit and impact professionals, Generosity Xchange. Generosity Xchange will take place on October 11th and 12th, 2023.

Guest Speaker Bio:

In this episode with Life Coach, Tanya Jaklis, ACC, CPC, ELI-MP, we discuss:
- Women in transition, and aligning our core values to each season
- Redefining what success means to us in each season of our lives
- Going after dream opportunities WITHOUT experiencing burnout (overworking, saying yes when we want to say no, incorporating rest and play into our lives)
- The mind and body connection
- Work/life integration VS work/life balance

In this episode, we sit down with Kate Udalova, co-founder of 7Taps. 7 Taps is a microlearning tool that may be used to design and develop microlearning. We also peek into Kate's journey as an entrepreneur and ed-tech startup co-founder.