Chiara Toselli interviews Ann Melinger on how to set core values and competencies!

1) What are company values and what are core competencies? Why are they important?
2) How can companies determine their company values and competencies? What are some of the biggest challenges when setting core values and competencies?
3) How do company values shape company culture? How can organizations communicate and integrate their company values and competencies into the day-to-day of their employees?
4) Can values and competencies change over the lifetime of an organization? Why or why not?

Find Ann on LinkedIn and check out Brilliant Ink!

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Harrison Kim Interviews Ashley McKarney on How to Run a Successful Engagement Survey! 

1. What is an engagement survey?
2. Why are they important for organizations to implement? 
3. What type of questions should be included? How often should you host engagement surveys?
4. What can organizations do with the data they collect from engagement surveys? 
5. How can you get C-suite on board? How can you get employees on board?

Find Ashley on LinkedIn and check out Involvi's website and LinkedIn!


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To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded November 2022

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Harrison Kim interviews Darrin Jahnel on how to seek out the best talent and steps to retain A-list employees.

1. What does the recruiting process look like for top talent? Where can organizations find these A-players?
2. How does the recruiting process change as an organization scales their company?
3. What challenges should organizations expect when trying to recruit top talent?
4. What are some strategies that have worked for you in the past to retain A-list employees?

Find Darrin on his website and LinkedIn and check out his company website!

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To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded September 2022

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Harrison Kim interviews Stephan Wiedner on psychological safety in the workplace. 

1. Can you define psychological safety?
2. Can you describe the link between psychological safety and interpersonal skills?
3. How can organizations assess interpersonal skills? 
4. Can you discuss some examples where organizations can help their employees improve interpersonal skills?

Find Stephan on LinkedIn and check out Zarango!

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To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded July 2022

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Harrison Kim interviews Traci Scherck on how people data impacts employee retention.

1. Can you define people data/people analytics?

2. Why are people analytics/people data important? How does it impact employee development and retention?

3. What type of data should an organization be collecting? How should they be collecting it?

4. How can organizations use the predictive index for employee retention?

Find Traci on LinkedIn and Elevated Talent Consulting!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected].

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded July 2022

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Harrison Kim Interviews Teddy Chestnut on why interview training is the secret to making better hiring decisions.

1. What is interview training? 

2. Can you provide some insight on what makes an interview successful? 

3. Can you speak on the importance of interview training? Why is interview training critical to making better hiring decisions?

 4. What challenges arise during interviews that interview training can overcome? 

5. How can manager/ leaders of an organizations become better at interview training?

Connect with Teddy on LinkedIn! Check out BrigthHire's website and LinkedIn!

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To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded June 2022

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Harrison Kim interviews Gina Lin on the importance of normalizing career coaching and career transitions. 

1. Can you define career coaching?
2. What is the importance of normalizing career coaching and career transitions?
3. In the past, career transitions were often looked down upon. Why is that? How and why is the outlook changing?
4. What are some reasons someone may choose to have a career transition?
5. What are the most challenging parts of a career transition that you have seen?

Find Gina Lin on LinkedIn and check out AlphaSights

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected].

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded May 2022

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Harrison Kim interviews Tim Brehmer on how onboarding bridges the gap between the candidate and employee experience.

1. What does a successful onboarding program look like?
2. How does onboarding bridge the gap between the candidate and employee experience?
3. What are some common challenges that arise when onboarding new employees?
4. How can organizations calculate the ROI of a successful onboarding program? 

 Find Tim on LinkedIn and check out Enboarder!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected].

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded May 2022

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Harrison Kim interviews Katie McLaughlin on how to engage your workplace with theatre based exercises. 

1. Can you speak to the importance of engaging your workforce?
2. Why is it so challenging to engage today's workforce?
3. What techniques/exercises would you recommend to engage the workforce?
4. How can organizations measure if these techniques/ exercises are successful?

Find Katie on LinkedIn and check out her website Mclaughlinmethod!

Check out her how to guide to using culture survey data to uncover & take action on your team's needs discussed in the episode. 

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected].

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded May 2022

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Harrison Kim Interview Robert Rawson on managing multicultural teams remotely

1. Can you define what a multicultural team is? Why are they so important?
2. What are some best practices to manage multicultural teams remotely? 
3. What are some challenges in managing multicultural teams remotely? 
4. How is managing multicultural teams in a remote setting different than in-office?

Find Robert on LinkedIn. check out the Running Remote conference and be sure to read his book "Running Remote" launching in August 2022!


Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected].

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at [email protected]. 

Recorded April 2022

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