The Culture Podcast

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- Why Fletcher feels passionate about talent acquisition and the importance of getting the right people onto the team.

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What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- How Eric, as COO and CFO of RedPeg, also became the company's primary culture evangelist, and why he feels passionate about RedPeg's culture

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What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- How Julie defines her role as Chief Culture Officer for TorchLight Hire, and how Julie's job has developed since she was hired as the company's second employee.

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What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- Why Ron makes a point of involving himself in the onboarding of every employee, despite leading a 500-strong workforce

- Why Service Express's core value is to help their people achieve their personal, professional, and financial goals, and why this core value is so central to their success

- What Ron considers to be the four key pillars of Service Express's extraordinary culture, and why always providing feedback to employees is instrumental to their success

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- Why Dr. Richard Shuster began focusing on corporate-level substance abuse work after recognizing that there was a lack of digital instruments to help employees maintain sobriety

- Why today's workplace can be a cause of increased responsibility and stress on employees, aggravating the problem of substance abuse

- How Dr. Richard Shuster's digital tools can be used by employers to help employees identify risk factors for substance abuse and mental health issues

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- Why integrity is the cornerstone of a successful sales strategy, and why common stereotypes about what "sales" means are harmful.

- Why the way sales methodology has been taught in the past is focused on persuading and manipulating the client, and why getting to the truth as quickly as possible is far more effective.

- Ian offers examples of real-world businesses that were able to adopt his sales philosophy and the dramatic growth that resulted.

Kira is an accomplished entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience, having built 7 businesses of her own, 2 of them reaching multi-million-dollar sales. Her business training includes graduating from AGI as a Jonah (Theory of Constraints) & Entrepreneurial Masters Program, held jointly by MIT/EO, which teaches world-class entrepreneurs how to successfully scale their businesses. Kira has had 3 nominations for RBC Canadian Female Entrepreneur of the Year for New Start-Ups.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- How MKG Marketing's culture came to be developed over the course of the last eight years, and how the virtual company has developed a strong culture

- Why Kerry and her partner decided to take the company virtual and offer staff the freedom and flexibility to work from wherever they want

- How MKG Marketing's hiring process works to find self-starters who prefer to work remotely

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- Why culture plays such a key role in recruiting top talent, and how Todd discovered his passion for culture

- How, in 2006, Todd recognized the need to make changes when his company was reeling after a series of losses, and why he fired his entire company and started over

- How Todd learned to "lead from the front" and to begin hiring the right people to fit the company's culture and goals

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

- How Marissa and Jennifer help companies with organizational development and with the disconnect between how the leadership team and employee base view the culture

- How 360-degree assessments can be a valuable tool for leaders to better understand how their teams view the company culture

- Why culture surveys can help you determine if your values are being lived out, where communication gaps exist, and if there are training and development needs