The BestCompanies Experience Podcast

Join Michael S. Seaver, executive coach and leadership consultant, as he shares best practices for facilitating organizational change. As you know, people don’t like change, especially if it’s bestowed upon them without their input. However, people tend to support what they help to create, so attend this webinar if you’d like to learn frameworks that secure leadership buy-in and involve employees at every level of your company. Michael will help you learn how to use evidence to support the need for change and enlist the help of influencers to keep your team motivated and engaged. You’ll learn best practices that help you paint the picture of success for your team and continue to drive wins through story telling and evoking an emotional connection. Michael will give you tools to help garner commitment from a wide variety of stakeholders being careful to identify a person’s readiness and amending your communication appropriately.

Over the past several years one theme seems to remain the same - ineffective communication affects everything from recruitment to engagement and retention and ultimately the bottom line. Join BestCompaniesUSA's VP of Brand Evangelism, Lindsay M. Smith, guest presenter Deborah Peck, President and Founder of Seity Insight, and Michael S. Seaver, executive coach and leadership consultant, as they share key insights on the communication challenges facing organizations today. In this webinar, we'll cover: · How to leverage survey data to identify root communication challenges · Common themes, use cases, best practices and recommendations for combating these challenges · ROI of improving communication throughout your organization · Q&A About the Speakers: Deborah Peck; Lindsay M. Smith; Michael S. Seaver

Learn about the most important elements of great managing and what Arizona’s top companies are doing to deeply engage their diverse workforces. We’ll share five key ways to engender trust with your employees. Most importantly, we’ll review step-by-step tactics for what your organization can do to communicate awards you’ve won to your workforce, how to celebrate with employees individually and how this impacts retention. You’ll also learn about what you can do with your survey data and how it’ll drive your strategic action planning. Join BestCompaniesUSA’s VP of Brand Evangelism, Lindsay M. Smith, and Michael S. Seaver, executive coach and leadership consultant, as they share how celebrating and communicating awards won to your employees will improve retention.

With five different generations in the workplace and near record low unemployment, employee retention and the cost of turnover is a topic dominating most board rooms and executive offices. In last month’s webinar, we reviewed tactics for attracting top talent.This month, we are going to dive into methods for retaining that talent. We’ll review how to benchmark your culture’s current state, set metrics-driven wildly important goals and strategies to facilitate cultural change where all employees feel included. BestCompaniesUSA will cover how to secure buy in from each organizational level, foster an environment where the most innovative ideas come to the surface and ensure the implementation happens ahead of schedule.

Unemployment is nearly at an all-time low. Competition for talent is heating up. The methods by which companies recruit talent is changing. In our third webinar, listen in to learn what other Most Admired Companies are doing to win the war on talent. Join BestCompaniesUSA’s Founder and CEO,

In our second webinar, BestCompaniesUSA’s Founder and CEO, Denise Gredler, has teamed up with Delta Emerson, former CHRO and Shared Services President at Ryan LLC, and current CEO of canyouhearus.com. They will share secrets to becoming a best workplace through seeking credible individual, state, regional and national awards. Join Delta as she shares highlights from her 7-year journey helping Ryan, LLC win the Great Place to Work award.Denise and Delta will share with you best practices and lessons learned from responding to employee feedback to transform a corporate culture. Learn how to create an awards strategy and budget, prepare for the application process, analyze and interpret the survey’s results, communicating with your staff throughout the award cycle and leveraging award wins to enhance your employer’s brand. They will also highlight the importance of leadership authenticity, communication and transparency, integrity and trust, reward and recognition, success measures and human connections.

Are you wondering how to build your employer brand? BestCompanies USA, parent company of BestCompanies AZ and BestCompanies Texas, is hosting a ten part webinar series to help you elevate your brand and become a magnet for top talent. In our first webinar, we'll provide a high level overview of employer branding, what it is and how it can transform your company whether you’re already an award winner or a company looking to improve your employee engagement. Join BestCompanies USA’s Founder and CEO, Denise Gredler, and Vice President of Brand Evangelism, Lindsay M. Smith as they share key insights.

BestCompanies Experience recently spoke with two team members from Direct Energy to learn about their team oriented, award winning culture, how Direct Energy gives back to the local community, their robust training program, and much more! Thanks to Mireya Ortiz, an Inbound Sales Customer Service Representative, and Iris Sugarman, a member of the Saves and Retention Team for taking the time to share their experiences of working at Direct Energy.

BestCompanies Experience recently spoke with Ralph Kimbrough IV, Senior Recruiter with Vanguard. He shares aspects of Vanguard’s culture and how they ensure a diverse and inclusive workplace. Vanguard’s philosophy of a career journey is about providing experiential learning to help their Crew Members rotate within the company to grow their careers. Listen in to learn more about Vanguard’s hiring practices – from university recruiting to mid level professionals. You’ll also learn about the amazing benefits they offer their Crew Members for every stage of life.

BestCompanies Experience recently spoke with two Assistant Vice Presidents from the Phoenix office of USAA, Susan Smeland, Assistant Vice President of Claims Operations, and Craig Budde Assistant Vice President of Business Development, regarding the efforts USAA has made post Hurricane Harvey and Irma. Listen in to learn how this employer demonstrates the human side of business in their support of hurricane victims, USAA members and their employees.