Working with People Podcast

Harrison interviews Garima from The Fund for Global Human Rights about how to ask the right questions to underperforming employees.

1. When should a manager approach an employee that is underperforming?
2. How can a manager talk about underperformance with an employee - what does the process look like?
3. What other tactical ways can a manager motivate underperforming employees?

Find Garima Gupta at The Fund for Global Human Rights (globalhumanrights.org).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

Recorded June 2020.

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Harrison interviews James from EnterpriseAlumni about how to manage, engage and nurture your Alumni community.

1. What is the importance of having an alumni program from the organization's perspective?
2. How can companies effectively establish alumni programs?
3. How can companies determine if their alumni programs are successful?

Find James Sinclair at EnterpriseAlumni (entreprisealumni.com).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

Recorded June 2020.

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Harrison interviews Kay from Shift to talk about developing mid-level managers.

1. How can organizations approach the development and training of their mid-level managers?
2. What are some skill areas that organizations need to consider when designing leadership/management programs?
3. How can organizations quantify the value of their leadership development programs?

Find Kay To at Shift (shiftus.co).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

You can find a summary of the podcast episode here. You may like our article on the benefits of upward feedback. You can find more helpful articles on our blog (pavestep.com/blog). 

Recorded June 2020.

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Harrison interviews John Vasellina, a HR professional, about how to create a great employee experience.

1. What are the biggest gaps in employee experience?
2. What initiatives would you suggest to fill these gaps?
3. How can we measure employee experience and our initiatives to improve employee experience?

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy Episode #6: Why are strong employee relations so important in the workplace.

Recorded June 2020.

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Harrison interviews Garrison from Knotch about how to build social connections on a remote team.

1. What are some unique initiatives that leaders can do to make remote employees feel more connected and develop a good remote company culture?
2. How do you assess when these initiatives are working vs. not?
3. How can managers facilitate challenging or emotionally charged conversations when people aren’t face to face?

Find Garrison Gibbons at Knotch (knotch.com).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy Episode #20: How to actively engage your people remotely.

Recorded May 2020.

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Harrison interviews Adam from Office Resources about how companies can increase safety and be prepared once current restrictions are lifted.

1. How should businesses approach opening up their offices again?
2. What are some tactical things that companies can do with the physical environment of the office?
3. What type of safety policies should be in place?

Find Adam Bacall at Office Resources (ori.com).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

Recorded April 2020. 

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Harrison interviews Cindy from Policygenius about how to have tough conversations in the workplace.

1. What is the best way to approach having those tough conversations?
2. Should employers give the employee some context to prepare?
3. How should managers deal with handling difficult emotions during these conversations?

Find Cindy Gordon at Policygenius (policygenius.com).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy  Episode #58: Managing conflict in the workplace.

Recorded April 2020.

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Harrison interviews Sean from The Bowdoin Group about executive talent in today’s new job market.

1. What is the impact of executive talent on business performance?
2. What skills do ‘rockstar’ leaders possess (i.e. what makes a great leader)?
3. Where can organizations find the ‘rockstar’ leaders? How should they think about the strategy and process?

Find Sean Walker at The Bowdoin Group (bowdoingroup.com).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

Recorded April 2020.

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Harrison interviews Tony and Brian from Do-Be Associates about the 4-Day Work Week.

1. What are the most common ways that organizations or employees are unproductive? 
2. How does the 4-Day Work Week address the common unproductive problems?
3. Do you think that the 4-Day Work Week is attainable for most organizations? Why or why not?

Find Tony Carnesi and Brian Gorman at Do-Be Associates (do-beassociates.com).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

Recorded March 2020. 

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Harrison interviews Karen from Ordergroove about how managers should prepare to give feedback.

1. Why is feedback so important?
2. How should we prepare in advance of giving feedback?
3. What is the impact when managers prepare for these feedback conversations?

Find Karen Weeks at Ordergroove (ordergroove.com).

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at [email protected]. To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Chiara Toselli at [email protected].

If you are looking for a performance review software or continuous feedback software to help document your feedback conversations, check out Pavestep. If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy Episode #73: How to help people give 2x better feedback and Episode #68: How to implement continuous feedback

Recorded March 2020. 

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