Work and the Future

Have you ever been ghosted? Not on  a dating app or by a friend, but in your work-life? It happens all the time. It may be the old we should have lunch thing- someone says it, you try to follow up and they never answer your call. Or, much worse, you are looking for a job and all seems to be going great with a company  you are interviewing with and then you get radio silence. Why do people do that?

Our guest today is Kristi De Paul, founder and principal at Nuanced, a thought leadership firm focussed on the future of learning and the future of work. She has looked at ghosting in the business sense, why it happens and what you can do to control the situation if you get ghosted.

Guest:

Kristi DePaul

At home in both the Middle East and the Pacific Northwest, Kristi DePaul is a writer, speaker and global citizen who is passionate about enabling others’ economic and social mobility. A regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, she has written over 250 articles and blog posts on personal branding, remote work, negotiation and the job search. Her work has been cited in research reports from international think tanks and universities. She leads Founders Marketing, a fully distributed team providing content strategy and development for professional learning organizations, and also works 1:1 with executives on thought leadership as principal of Nuanced. Follow her on Twitter: @reallykristi.

Links:

www.founders.marketing

www.nuanced.work

Kristi’s Harvard Business Review articles, including the one on ghosting

https://buff.ly/3fRUA8u

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Is data-driven hiring the future, and if it is should we be happy or a little bit scared? With the economy heating upm we are seeing a surge in hiring, or at least a surge in companies trying to hire.  As they look for the best hires, some are turning to ‘data-driven hiring’ basically making the best use of technology to fill roles rather than culling through resumes the old fashioned way and relying heavily on interviews.  As might be expected this is a huge and controversial way to hire and there are pluses and minuses to the approach. Professor Matthew Bidwell of the Wharton School joins us on this episode to look at the pluses and minuses of choosing workers this way and why there is probably no going back.

Guest:

Matthew Bidwell is an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School. His research examines new patterns in work and employment, focusing in particular on the causes and effects of more short-term, market oriented employment relationships. He has conducted detailed research on careers and mobility within and across organizations. He has also published a number of studies on contracting and outsourcing, among both IT professionals and managerial workers.

Matthew earned a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School, an S.M. in Political Science from MIT, and an M.Chem from Oxford. He has won multiple awards for his research and teaching, and is a faculty co-director of the Wharton People Analytics Initiative.

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How do we present and communicate now that we are in hybrid work world? .We have gotten used to presenting virtually to a team that is perhaps far-flung, so what happens now when we have to get back to the office and  communicate to a team that partly in person but partly somewhere else? Do the same rules apply? And what about in-person presentations and interactions – do we even remember how to do them?

Our guest today is Nick Dalley, President of Intentional Communications. He works with all kinds of communicators, including broadcast professionals, to get their messages across and he has some practical tips on how to handle the new challenges of communicating as we get back to the post-pandemic world of work.

Guest

Nick Dalley, President of Intentional Communication, Inc. helps professional communicators get their messages across more effectively whether the recipient of the message is a television audience or an individual. Nick has been in the business of presentation skills development for the past 20 years. Beginning in the ’80s Nick worked for 10 years with a New York presentation development firm. Prior to establishing ICI, he worked for nine years with a large, Dallas- based broadcast coaching concern where his title was senior talent coach and vice president of Executive Development. He has also served as an adjunct professor for the Business Leadership Center at SMU’s Cox School of Business. He currently serves as an executive coach at The University of Texas Executive MBA Program.

Dozens of TV stations, American, European, and Canadian (CBC, CTV, BNN, Global) and US TV networks (ABC, CBS, CNN) have improved the human element of their programming by applying Nick’s recommendations. Having previously been the coach for ABC’s Good Morning America and a nighttime magazine program for the same network, Nick has had personalities in his coaching sessions ranging from the country’s best known political broadcasters to Jim Kelly (former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills). Fortune 500 companies from coast to coast have entrusted their CEOs, middle and upper managers to Nick’s training techniques as well. Heads of state, politicians at the highest levels of Texas state politics, a San Antonio mayoral candidate, and attorneys needing to refine their presentation skills have turned to Nick for help in telling the whole story, not just the part represented by the words.

Nick attended The University of Texas, received a bachelor of arts in communication from The University of Texas, Arlington, and earned a master of fine arts from Trinity University of Texas.

Links:

Nick Dalley’s website

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As we move towards the future of work, it is becoming increasingly clear that that  that might mean re-thinking education models. We tend to think of education as being a few years after high school then maybe the odd course to pick up new skills when you are working, but really we should be thinking in terms of continuous retraining and reskilling. That can be done a lot of ways, but one that is really gaining traction is by doing sel-paced online learning courses which are already a huge force and are becoming a bigger one.  As of 2019 that market was worth about $5.6 billion, a figure that is expected to hit $7.9 bllion by 2025.

To talk about what is driving the demand, we are joined by  Chris Haroun who is the founder and managing partner at Haroun Educational Ventures. Chris designs and sells courses on the website Udemy, and to date he has sold about 1,000, 000 of them on the subjects of business and self improvement, so he knows a lot about this market and why it is growing and has lot to share on the subject.

Guest:

You can access coupons for his best selling courses and learn about his new Haroun Education Ventures MBA Degree Program® at this address: HarounEducation.com

He’s the author of the book “101 Crucial Lessons They Don’t Teach You in Business School®,”​ which Business Insider wrote is “the most popular book of 2016.”​ Forbes called this book “1 of 6 books that all entrepreneurs must read right now.”​

He is the founder & CEO of Haroun Education Ventures, an award winning business school professor, MBA graduate from Columbia University & former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1bn in his career.

He also has work experience at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture & several firms that he has started, including an investment firm that had a venture capital investment in Facebook several years before the Facebook IPO.

He is a frequent guest lecturer at several Bay Area MBA schools including Berkeley & Stanford. He also has an undergraduate degree with a major in Management Information Systems & International Business from McGill University where he is a McGill University Dobson Fellow (awarded for his work mentoring students with start up business models).

He has founded several companies & serves on the boards of several Bay Area companies & charities, including LEMOfoundation.org & Providing Opportunities for Women. He lives in Hillsborough, California.

According to Business Insider “Haroun is one of the highest rated professors on Udemy, so you can expect to be in good hands through the course of your education.”​

He is passionate about education as he believes that all problems can be solved via education.

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Australia is held up as an example to those of us in North America and elsewhere in the world. They did not completely escape the pandemic, but they came pretty close and for the most part, they are back at work in offices, if they want to be. Still, things are not exactly the same as they were before the world had heard of Covid-19.  What lessons  does Australia have for us about post-pandemic office life? Our guest today is Robbie Robertson, Managing Partner, Virtual Office for Deloitte Australia. He joins us  from Sydney to talk about what we should be thinking about in terms of our work and work spaces as we come closer to going back to the new normal

Guest:

Robbie Robertson
Managing Partner, Virtual Office

Robbie is a global, award-winning design & customer experience strategist specialising in the fusion of  people, spatial & digital experiences.

With 23 years experience in London, New York, Singapore and throughout SE Asia as well as Australia, he is also an Associate Professor of Design at Swinburn University.

As the Managing partner of the Virtual Office in Australia  he leads a team of specialists who help clients with their virtual enablement journey, developing hybrid workplace strategies that bring together tech, space, people & place to deliver exceptional customer & employee experiences.

Design thinking is at the heart of every conversation and projects that Robbie likes to be involved in, with  extensive experience with  clients such as  J&J , Nab, Aristocrat, ANZ, Siam Bank, Novartis, CBA and Link Group.

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We are getting good news on the economy and the labor market but are the statistics telling us the whole story? Even with a surge in hiring and a fall in the unemployment, there is a core of people who have been out of the labor market for a while and who are not being absorbed back in with the upswing in the economy. It is a problem that existed before the pandemic and which cannot be vaccinated away. To talk about what is going on and whether there are any policy fixes that might work, we are  joined today by Ofer Sharone, who is  Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst and an expert on the phenomenon of long term unemployment.

Guest: 

Ofer Sharone

Associate Professor, University of Massachussetts, Amherst

Professor Sharone is a nationally recognized expert on long-term unemployment and the author of Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences (University of Chicago Press), which won multiple awards from the American Sociological Association.  His work has received wide attention from national media including the New York Times and the PBS Newshour, and he has been invited to participate in policy discussions at the White House and the Department of Labor.  Sharone is also the founder of the Institute for Career Transitions, an organization focused on supporting long-term unemployed workers.  Sharone received his PhD in sociology from the University of California Berkeley, his JD from Harvard Law School, and is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Whatever else is going on in the economy or the world, one thing that never seems to change is our battle to have enough time to do everything we feel we need to get done in our work (and in our personal) life.   We all have these lofty goals of what we are going to accomplish, but at the end of the day we often find that we are disappointed in what we had intended to do? So how do you get control of your time and how do we set realistic goals as to what we are going to do and how we can accomplish them? Our guest  today is Sabina Nawaz and she is a global CEO coach as well as and a keynote speaker and a writer.  She counsels those in the C-Suite on how to let go of ‘magical thinking’ and figure out how to get control of their time and she shares her insights and tips with us.

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Is getting an MBA super important and the key to success, or is it an expensive waste of time that will not necessarily get you where you want to be? The market seems to go back and forth on it:some years it seems that there is a ton of demand for MBAs and other years they are not nearly as coveted. It is particularly compelling question right now, since coming out of the pandemic many people are thinking about what they want to do next,  To discuss the issues around getting an MBA we are joined today by Megan Hendricks who is  the Executive Director of MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance, which is an organization that  works with both employers and schools.  She talks to us about what she is seeing in terms of demand for graduates in terms of sectors, as well as the bigger trends that were in place pre-pandemic.

Bio:

Megan Hendricks is the Executive Director of the MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance, an 800+ member global network of MBA/Masters career services professionals and employers. In this capacity, she leads the organization’s global activities, programs and operations, which includes overseeing over 150 volunteers and staff and 15 committees and advisory groups. Her role involves aligning strategic objectives with day-to-day activities and creating and managing external partnerships. Megan’s knowledge and expertise includes a solid understanding of the needs and best practices of member schools and companies across the globe.

MBA CSEA’s ongoing research and benchmarking includes information about job market trends, industry activity, and employment outcomes for graduate business students. The organization also manages the Standards for Reporting Employment Data, a set of guiding principals that allow business schools to report employment data that is comparable, reliable and consistent.

In her previous role, Megan served as Director of Employer Relations for the University of South Florida College of Business, where she provided student career coaching and assisted employers with developing campus branding and hiring strategies. In this role, she increased student employment outcomes, developed new corporate relationships to benefit the school, and implemented new and innovative events to enhance student  knowledge and networking.

Megan holds an MBA from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Florida.

Links:

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/mba-career-services-employer-alliance/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghendricks/

Twitter:

www.twitter.com/mbacsea

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The pandemic may be ending, but that does mean that workers are headed back to where they were in the spring of 2020. In some cases, their positions have been eliminated and they are going to be forced to reinvent themselves. In others, their jobs may be the same but they themselves have changed in some way and now want to reinvent their career. Reinvention may be the labor market topic of the post-pandemic period, but how do you make that happen? Our guest today is Dorie Clark and she is an expert at art of  reinvention. Dorie is the author fo the book Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Reimagine your Future, a book written before the pandemic but which is more applicable than ever as we come out of it.

Guest:

Dorie Clark is an adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the author of Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, the New York Times described her as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. You can download her free Entrepreneurial You self-assessment workbook and learn more at dorieclark.com/entrepreneur.

Links:

Entrepreneurial You self assessment workbook: dorieclark.com/entrepreneur

Stand Out self assessment workbook: dorieclark.com/join

Recognized Expert Evaluation Toolkit: dorieclark.com/toolkit

Website: www.dorieclark.com

Entrepreneurial You AMZ: http://amzn.to/2oYVQ0g

Stand Out AMZ: http://amzn.to/2tCen5r

Reinventing You AMZ: http://amzn.to/2gV4oBZ

Entrepreneurial You: http://dorieclark.com/entrepreneurialyou

Reinventing You: http://dorieclark.com/reinventingyou/

Stand Out: http://dorieclark.com/stand-out

TEDx talk – Finding Your Breakthrough Idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjpXs8Ymr14&feature=youtube_gdata

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dorieclark

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doriec/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dorieclarkauthor/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dorieclark/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DorieClark

Entrepreneurial You self-assessment: http://dorieclark.com/entrepreneur

Clubhouse: @dorieclark

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How important will reskilling be to our economic future and what role should business play in making it happen? And what about continuous training? Business has always been reticent about training because there is always the risk that you could lose those trained at your expense to the competition In the tech sector though, there has been a mindset shift and the focus now seems to be on training a workforce, one that is available to help the industry as a whole. To talk about the issues around training, we are joined today by Sabrina Geremia who is the VP and Country Manager for Google Canada. She talks about why Google has been front and centre in continuously training  their workers,  and what we need to think about in terms of getting the wider labor force ready for the future.

Guest:

Sabrina Geremia VP & Country Manager, Google Canada As VP & Country Manager for Google in Canada, Sabrina leads the strategic direction of Google’s cross functional business strategy in Canada and Google’s Advertising business. As the world moves increasingly online, Sabrina believes that the intersection of technology and digital skills is an economic and growth engine for Canada. Her team’s focus is to help Canadian businesses thrive in the digital economy where Google’s ad business drives $23B in economic value for Canada and 200,000 jobs. Sabrina leads the relationship with the local innovation community & the C-suite of Canada’s largest companies. Her insights are based on over 25 years of international marketing, technology sales and include general management experience at Procter & Gamble where she managed the cosmetics P&L for Italy, Reckitt Benckiser where she drove the first global internet strategy based out of the UK and start up experience at both Ask Jeeves and a mobile startup called Incirco in the UK. Sabrina is a member of the Business Council of Canada and a board member of the Future Skills Centre, an organization dedicated to helping Canadians gain the skills needed to thrive in the evolving workforce. She also served on the boards of Ryerson DMZ, North America’s top University Start-Up Incubator and the Canadian Marketing Association. Sabrina is the 2020 recipient of Women in Communications and Technology’s (WCT) Woman of the Year award & was recognized by the Women’s Executive Council (WXN) as one of Canada’s top 100 most powerful women in 2015. A career long diversity champion, she was the recipient of the 2014 Women in Communication Technology Diversity award, is an advisor to Move the Dial, an initiative to encourage more women in tech and was featured in the book ‘Darling You Can’t Do Both’

Links:

Connect with Sabrina at  @sabrinageremia and  @googlecanada

The google platform Sabrina mentioned is at

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