The Welsh Wire

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this weekly podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, we’re presenting the Best of 2019 -- insights and tips from some Sheri’s most interesting interviews of the year. Topics are rebooting company identity, risk management, setting your company’s vision and the importance of layering your cybersecurity.

The quality of your company culture can be a crucial part of your employee retention and attraction strategy. This week on the Welsh Wire, Sheri Welsh presents excerpts of conversations with four of her recent guests to get their insights on company culture and how they communicate organizational values to current and prospective employees. Hear from Tom Emigh, Leadership Coach & Principal for Acorn Leadership; Stacey Hamlin, CTS Telecom president and CEO; Wade Wyant, Executive Advisor / Scaling Up Coach at Red Wagon Advisors and Jennifer Swan, Senior Architectural Project Coordinator for TowerPinkster.

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, Sheri talks about recent federal regulations that give business owners new options for providing health insurance benefits to their workers. Her guest is nationally-known employee benefits expert Gary Kushner, President and CEO of Kushner & Company in Portage.

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, Sheri talks with Mark Smith, attorney with Rhoades McKee in Grand Rapids, about a new U.S. Department of Labor rule updating the minimum salary level required to be paid to employees classified as executive, administrative or professional employees. Sponsored by the Family Business Alliance.

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, Sheri talks with leaders of Kalamazoo-headquartered Kalsec to learn more about the company’s unique onsite Farmhouse Early Learning Center that provides quality child care and pre-school programming for employees raising families.

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, Sheri learns how TowerPinkster, a local architecture, engineering, and interior design firm, developed the Swan Snack Emporium to support the Kid’s Closet program. The Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo Kid’s Closet provides needy Kalamazoo children with items like socks, underwear, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant and soap.

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, Sheri talks with Sponsored by the Family Business Alliance.

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, Sheri presents excerpts from interviews with four west Michigan business leaders to get their best advice on attracting and retaining great employees.

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, Sheri talks with Matthew Allard, a partner with Brightstar Capital Partners, to learn more about a Family Business Alliance seminar, “Anatomy of a Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions for the Family Business,” coming up Sept. 11, 3-5:30 p.m. at the Family Business Alliance and Grand Rapids Chamber.

The Welsh Wire features moderator Mike Rogers and professional recruiting expert Sheri Welsh in this podcast. Listen in as leaders from a wide array of small to mid-size west Michigan companies weigh in and share their experiences and insights on a variety of business topics, including employee retention challenges and recruitment success stories. In this week's show, Sheri talks with Mike Ritsema, President of i3 Business Solutions in Grand Rapids, to get his advice on how you can best protect your important business assets from cybersecurity mishaps and disasters.