The Gartner Talent Angle

Culture change efforts often yield little more than a survey assessing current culture followed by ineffective action steps to achieve change. On this episode of the Gartner Talent Angle, Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft's Chief People Officer, shares how Microsoft not only incites culture change, but also how they foster a growth mindset to ensure employees are comfortable learning and failing in order to grow.

Growing your business is harder to accomplish than ever before. Tune in to this podcast to hear Tiffani Bova – a Salesforce growth expert and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business – confront this business imperative with ten straightforward paths to successful growth and develop your game plan with this simple equation: context + combination + sequence.

Tiffani Bova is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choicesthat Will Make or Break Your Business. She is a top influencer in Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, the Future of Work, and Sales. Tiffani has appeared on MSNBC and Yahoo Finance and is a regular contributor to Forbes and Harvard Business Review. She was recently recognized as one of Inc. Magazine's 37 Sales Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter and one of the most Powerful and Influential Women in California according to the National Diversity Council.

Shawn T. Smith is a clinical psychologist in Denver, Colorado, and the author of five books, including Surviving Aggressive People and The User's Guide to the Human Mind.

Aggressive people can lay a dark cloud of negative energy over any workplace, from the manufacturing line to the boardroom. Listen to this podcast to hear Shawn Smith--a clinical psychologist and the author of Surviving Aggressive People--share time-tested methods for conflict management historically reserved for law enforcement, psychologists, and other professionals working the frontlines of emotionally charged situations.

*This interview is excerpted from our 2018 interview. Inclusion can be far more than a feel-good sideline. Google's Kat Holmes joins the Talent Angle to show how inclusion can spur innovation, catalyze creativity, and boost the bottom line.

In his book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments, Stefan Thomke shares that bright ideas and decisive actions alone do not create innovation. Instead, innovation depends on a culture of experimentation which values the science of testing. By stripping big ideas into hypotheses to test what does and doesn't work, organizations are better positioned to establish a competitive edge and generate strong financial returns.

Being a good leader requires understanding how your actions affect others' motivation and mental state. Christine Comaford, entrepreneur and bestselling author of Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times, breaks down the neuroscience of effective leadership to a level that you don't need a Ph.D. to understand.

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, both employers and employees are coming to terms with the economic and societal impacts. Given the widespread disruption, many are concerned with prospects for growth and recovery, as well as the potential for lasting structural impact. Brian Kropp, Gartner's Chief of HR Research, joins the Talent Angle podcast to discuss how HR leaders can effectively plan a response, manage employees remotely and communicate for impact.

The power of preventative thinking is one that is underutilized by organizations and individuals alike; a shortcoming which perpetuates reactive, rather than proactive, solutions. This according to Dan Heath, author of Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen. In his book, Heath makes the case for an upstream mindset — arguing that this approach can effectively surface solutions to seemingly intractable problems by highlighting early warning indicators.

*This excerpt was taken from out 2018 interview. Are there professional ways to deal with complainers in the workplace? In this episode of the Talent Angle, Will Bowen, author of A Complaint Free World, shares five ways to identify chronic complaining in your work environment and how to silence them with easy-to-remember solutions.

In this episode of The Talent Angle podcast, Alden Mills, author of Unstoppable Teams: The 4 Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership, discusses his C.A.R.E.-based leadership framework. Mills shares how HR and business leaders can overcome personal barriers and build teams that are motivated by factors greater than themselves.