Special Guest: Lauren Winans

We can't find people.  The labor market is dry.  Job vacancies go unfilled.  Those in the workforce are being thrown higher and higher wages just to get employees to work for them. Since labor costs are higher, companies are passing that cost to the consumer.  This is why everything is so expensive!   What about that car you can't get because there are none available?  It starts with manufacturing.  Lack of raw materials. Global shortage of chips. If plants don't have labor, then production goes down. When production goes down, there is less product.  Ultimately, making it HARDER to get the product and driving prices UP! 

 This season on the offer, we will be talking about how to solve this problem!  How can we address the issue of labor shortage? Starting with today!  We will start by talking about WHY we have a LABOR SHORTAGE dispelling many of the NOT FACTUAL reasons for the cause.  We will also dig into the fact that this is going to be a LONG TERM shortage.  

Lauren Winans, CEO of Next Level Benefits, will join me today to discuss how employers respond to the new reality.   

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Chief Executive Officer
Principal Consultant
Next Level Benefits
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.nlbenefits.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencwinans/

Lauren Winans - Bio
Lauren Winans is the Chief Executive Officer and Principal HR Consultant for Next Level Benefits, an HR consulting practice offering clients access to HR professionals for both short-term and long-term projects. With 20 years of human resources and employee benefits experience, Winans possesses a deep expertise of HR best practices and what resonates with employees. She founded Next Level Benefits in 2019, offering HR teams access to former corporate HR professionals on-demand when they need them most. 

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About Next Level Benefits
Next Level Benefits is a certified women-owned business providing HR consultation, freelancers, and project managers for your team. Each team member has at least 20 years of corporate HR experience from such companies as American Eagle Outfitters, Ariba, Ascena, Citigroup, GNC, Hess, IBM, Levi Strauss, Netflix, TBC Corporation, and U.S. Airways. Led by Lauren Winans, Next Level Benefits temporarily fills in the gaps on your team.

Next Level Benefits can help develop sustainable HR strategies to align your company’s brand, mission, and organizational goals. They can create HR communications plans that educate and engage as well as provide HR consulting. They can fill in gaps and partner with existing teams to accelerate progress, assess current processes, develop roadmaps, and draft HR process manuals to train your existing staff. Next Level Benefits can lead planned or unplanned projects such as new vendor implementations, audits, and M&A activity.

Michael is back! He spent the last several months traveling the US to see what the country had to offer.  During his journey’s he learned about many struggles on finding people for work or getting people back to work.  In this episode, he shares some of his experience, talks about hiring in small-town America, and introduces us to the coming season!  

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Special Guest – Tina Brinkley Potts
    
Tina Brinkley Potts is an award winning author,  strategist, online marketing trainer, and  high performance coach. Coaches, consultants, experts and small business owners from over 70 countries watch and apply Tina’s video trainings and strategy sessions to grow their businesses and careers to expert status. Tina’s expertise includes creating client attraction systems that integrate your desired lifestyle and personality and so they can chart their unique path to the dollar amount they desire. When she serves on boards, she facilitates two distinct areas of improvement: Automation and diversity and inclusion. She is willing to have the hard conversations to create thriving cultures and profits. For more information about Tina, visit tinabrinkleypotts.com
     
 Today's Podcast Perspective

• Revisiting Episode from April 30th which touched on Racism
• Isn't Inclusion supposed to stop separation of minorities
• You can't present absolutes. Getting By-ins
• Talking broad - messages get lost
• Bringing up Slavery when talking about D&I is not fair and should never be used
• There are no absolutes - It is all gray
• Diversity in the Boardroom - Not being a Token
• Working your way up to the Boardroom like everyone else
• People should be promoted based on how they achieve goals not what you see
• White Privilege - Many are born into privilege, BUT it's all races, sexes, backgrounds.  It's not just white people
• White Privilege can also be used to benefit YOU but that doesn't mean you allow it
• Roles can be reversed.  People of Color can also discriminate against white people
• D&I - Perception is King.  We need to be willing to talk about perceptions
• What are we doing wrong as it pertains to D&I programs?
• Stop the Absolutes!
• Boardrooms - Barriers for Minorities
• If you present a solid reason to be put on a board, they should bring you in
• Are the barriers - generational?
• Why do they keep minorities from getting into the boardroom, what's causing the barriers?
• Can we change what society has bred older generations to be / the way they are conditioned 
• -Isms are still real - the responsibilities are on each person to make the right decisions
• How do we help companies realize and realign on what D&I programs are meant to be 

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 Tina Brinkley Potts
 Keynote Speaker | Online Marketing Trainer | Online Course Development | Coaching Business Development 
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SPECIAL GUEST
John Verrico
 Keynote Speaker, Humorist, Torchbearer, Communications & Leadership Consultant

What is T.O.R.C.H.?
John talks to us today about (Trust, Opportunity, Respect, Communication, Humanity) and how we can leverage this in building better leadership and more positive work environments.  John will talk about how the concept of T.O.R.C.H. can create a stronger, more productive business and create better avenues of retention.

Who is John?
John Verrico is a communication professional with more than 40 years of journalism, public relations, and speaking experience. As an under-sized youth and the victim of bullies, John found hope in classic monster movies & "B" flicks, where he learned that the little guy could win. Drawing from these lessons, John combined what he learned through professional observation, formal education, and first-hand experience about how communication, leadership, motivation, and resilience are deeply entwined. Today, John is an edutainer who helps empower villagers to keep their torches lit and face their monsters.

John's humorous and interactive keynotes and workshops engage audiences as they discover helpful insights into office climate, culture, relationships & communications. John is committed to helping businesses and individuals succeed by exploring effective communication & leadership. What makes his approach different is that he doesn't use canned materials. John works with clients to tailor the key points to his audience. While John can pull from a bank of applicable stories, his natural affinity for storytelling makes every presentation unique.

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John Verrico, LLC - Speaker/Humorist/Torchbearer
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Special Guest Alex Sanfilippo
 
Alex combines years of Operations Management and Branding background to bring a unique perspective on how people are viewed and what they can do to bring a new dimension to how they can be a successful part of a winning business. After speaking at conferences and launching his own podcast helping businesses and people transform their brand, he decided to start his own community - creatingabrand.com.  His goal is to help people succeed in life and business!  Join him to share your journey and grow beyond where you are today. 
 
Breakdown of today’s podcast:

• Changes in the employment market
• Young people continue to struggle recovering from the last recession
• High School / College student graduation - what is next?
• What industries and companies are doing well?  Where are all the jobs?
• Candidates need to understand and look at the future of jobs and the economy
• Re-branding who you are so hiring managers and leaders of today decide to hire you.
• How does someone that worked in one industry for 20 years change who they are
• Homemakers or stay at home moms and how they can change perceptions
• Alex's emphasis on Hard Skills vs Soft Skills 
• Job changes are not attractive
• What do hiring manager's look for?
• Soft Skills - How people can cross over to different industries or jobs
• Should companies automatically disqualify candidates
• Explaining gaps on resumes
• Stop writing a resume as a job description, rather a skills description.

Resume Magic – Is your resume preventing you from getting a job?  Are companies not responding because you don’t know how to articulate your experience. If you want a free initial consultation and someone to hire for resume help, contact Michael Glinter at [email protected]
 
 Guest Info
 Alex is an operations leader in Jacksonville for an Aerospace company and an expert in creating a brand!
 
 Alex Sanfilippo
Community Advocate | Creating a Brand
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www.CreatingaBrand.com

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Special Guest: Gurjot Kaur

Break the Stereotypes - She speaks Great English, She is NOT in IT, She has great self-esteem, and she Works.  She is a STRONG woman. 

Gurjot Kaur is a woman of color, born in India, and raised in the Bay Area.  She comes from humble beginnings, left the home in 12th grade with $45 in hopes of going to school and living the most safe and informed life. Her life was plagued with violence and ignorance which has provided her the growth personally to enhance her journey of life and educate others on social problems and awareness. 

Breakdown of today’s podcast:

• Gurjot tells us a little about her story
• Breaking away from Stereotypes - Assumptions made when we see someone
• There are different types of people in one type of group
• Companies are puting people into boxes based on their cultural background
• People in a building segment themselves to certain groups - they would not voluntarily intermingle groups
• Generational gaps - parents and grand parents pushing exlusion based on their experiences
• Look past the name - People should not change their name because it is who they are
• We need to force people into groups of diversities
• Social inclusion will make us all feel safer
• Why do we segment people in groups at weddings? Why not mix everyone up?
• What challenges there are still in the workplace - we cannot just depend on the companies
• Diversity is everyone - it is no longer defined by black / white and male / female
• Why is white males the base line to gauge diversity?
• Everyone should be welcome in groups - it goes beyond diversity
• There has not been enough done to welcome everyone in groups or roles which are stereotypically a certain culture, race, or diversity segment
• Show's like the Bachelor which had 24 seasons of White Male Bachelors do not help further the cause of inclusion
• The power of normalization, if not be used for good, it can be very harmful

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Special Guest: Mike Wittenstein

Every day I tell people that if you aren't telling a clear story, you are missing half your audience. Whether it be on a resume, selling a product, pitching an idea, or leading a department.  The real success of an organization rides on how you tell the story.  I decided to bring in the expert on storytelling.  Mike Wittenstein. Mike brings a unique perspective as a Storyminer, seeing the world through stories, which lets me help others connect on a profoundly human level.  He will help you realize how you can be your best by telling the best story.

Mike Wittenstein is an expert at strategy, change, experience design, and story. IBM's former eVisionary, he advises leaders on how to make the next right move, fine-tune their business models, and make best of change. Since 2002, Mike's company, Storyminers, has served over 800 organizations, from Fortune 100-size companies to start-ups, with game-changing-yet-practical ideas. He has earned these designations: CSP, DTM, MBA, CCXP, CMC and draws from his experience on-stage and on-line. Mike's style is authentic, articulate, sometimes funny, and always inspiring. Why? Because he knows how to put himself in a listener's chair, so he can speak directly to them and address their unspoken questions.

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Special Guest: Chris Merida, Global Search Network (Staffing Company)

Every day I have people contacting me on why they are not getting calls or replies to their resume.  I try to explain why and often times it is met with anger or defensiveness.  I decided to bring in another staffing professional to help solidify some of the issues with candidate's resumes and why they hear nothing back.
 
 SYNOPSIS

• Top 10 Resumes Mistakes
• Chris Merida - Who he is and what he does
• Bad Resumes - what do recruiters do?
• Why don't recruiters tell people why?
• Generic Posting - reason why candidates don't get a response
• Resume Mistakes! What is missing
• What recruiters and companies look for
• Job changes / trying to deceive the companies
• Ageism - why it doesn't matter and why you may make it obvious
• Certifications - They should be on your resume

Chris Merida
Global Search Network
Talent Acquisition Leader
Office: 813.832.8300 x 204
[email protected]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophermerida
 
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This is a story of how a person who started out bagging fries for McDonalds continued to drive himself to find his passion and become a self-made millionaire.  While success is not soley defined by money, money can motivate someone to find their passion and developing a purpose in life. Today we will explore what it takes for a person to figure out his why in life and what methods and processes he took to achieve success.  

Top things that made me successful
1.Set long term goals 
2.Work Hard – put in the hours, the time, and the hustle – however work smarter not necessarily longer
3.Time Management
4.No matter what I had to do, I always wanted to find a way to do it better than anyone else
5.Records were made to be broken
6.Life is a step ladder not a ladder
7.Learn how everyone else has done it and what didn’t work, and then find a way to do it better than everyone else
8.Be the first 
9.Never accept No.  
10.You don’t get if you don’t ask – Take Risks
11.Constantly raise the bar
12.Ask for forgiveness, not for permission
13.Set backs only delay your success, they don’t prevent success
14.Have passion for what you do
15.Don’t just define life on just money but also experiences
16.Servicing – discover what you are good at and meant to do and strive to be the best at it
17.Don’t follow other people, define your own path and be true to yourself.

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Special Guest - Caterina Gooch 

Every work environment has toxic and difficult employees.  Unfortunately often times we cannot screen this out during the interview process.  While we can make attempts to keep them out of the workplace, once they are in the workplace we have to manage through the challenges.  In this episode we will talk to those challenges and how to overcome them. 

• Toxic Employees and how they impact our organization
• Catching toxic and difficult employees during the hiring process
• Special Guest - Caterina Gooch - Staffing Leader discussing managing workplace challenges with toxic and difficult employees.
• How does toxic and difficult employees ultimately affect the work place. 
• Steps you can take to manage through these types of challenging employees

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