The Work Place

This episode, we're talking with Luvvie Ajayi Jones about the power and pitfalls of stirring the pot in a professional setting. She sheds light on how she assumed her current title as “professional troublemaker” and how stifling dissent in the workplace can be the death of innovation. The Work Place is sponsored by O.C. Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures. O.C. Tanner's Culture Cloud™️ provides a single, modular platform for influencing and improving employee experiences through recognition, career anniversaries, leadership, and more. If you want your organization to become a place where people can't wait to come to work in the morning, go to octanner.com.

This episode, we're talking with Meghan Tuohig, Chief People Officer of Overstock, about ways to design an intentional work culture and a work environment that offers support, belonging, and flexibility to a modern workforce.    The Work Place is sponsored by O.C. Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures. O.C. Tanner's Culture Cloud™️ provides a single, modular platform for influencing and improving employee experiences through recognition, career anniversaries, leadership, and more.   If you want your organization to become a place where people can't wait to come to work in the morning, go to octanner.com.

This episode, we're talking with Janet Skolud of TD Bank Group, about creating a culture of care through scalable platforms and innovative thinking when it comes to employee appreciation.  Janet Skolud is the Sr. Manager, Global Recognition Programs at TD Bank Group where she has worked for an impressive 21 years and counting. In her role, she has overseen the adoption of a new enterprise-wide recognition platform to enable easy access and consistent experiences for showing appreciation at their organization. Throughout the pandemic, TD managed to inspire appreciation for 100% of employees who were thanked for their contributions, leading to lower attrition rates strengthening TD's culture of care in truly tangible ways.  The Work Place is sponsored by O.C. Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures. O.C. Tanner's Culture Cloud™ provides a single, modular suite of apps for influencing and improving employee experiences through recognition, career anniversaries, wellbeing, leadership, and more. If you want your organization to become a place where people can't wait to come to work in the morning, go to octanner.com.

This episode, we're talking with Beril McManus, Senior Manager of Recognition, Events and Engagement at American Airlines, about how to recognize the progress you've made without resting on your laurels. She'll discuss her holistic approach to building a culture of empowerment and recognition and share a few inside stories about the success they've had at American Airlines during these less-than-conventional past couple of years.  The Work Place is sponsored by O.C. Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures. O.C. Tanner's Culture Cloud™ provides a single, modular suite of apps for influencing and improving employee experiences through recognition, career anniversaries, wellbeing, leadership, and more. If you want your organization to become a place where people can't wait to come to work in the morning, go to octanner.com.

We talk with Stefano Mastrogiacomo about how to take teams to the next level. From creating cross-functional diversity and psychological safety to surfing the thin line separating collaboration and conflict, Stefano is our fearless guide to the sometimes frustrating, but always rewarding world of working together. His latest book is High Impact Tools for Teams: 5 Tools to Align Team Members, Build Trust, and Get Results Fast.   Want to learn the latest insights and solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing workplace cultures today? Join HR leaders from around the world at Influence Greatness 2021—O.C. Tanner's virtual recognition and culture conference. Register now for FREE.    

We jump on a call with Nick Rosenthal from Capital One to talk about how they're adapting to new challenges and using recognition to keep their people connected.

Erica Keswin returns to The Work Place to talk about the power rituals have to connect us to purpose and take teams to new levels of performance.    

We talk to Mayerland Harris from H-E-B about keeping your culture compassionate in the middle of a crisis, preventing hiring bias, and how the grocery chain has embraced its place as a first responder in their home state of Texas during the pandemic.

Pete DeBellis from Deloitte is on to talk about the new mandates for HR leaders today and why we need to rethink the role of HR if we're going to successfully adapt to an unknown future.

This episode, we're experimenting. Because the 2021 Global Culture Report is a must-read for everyone interested in how work is changing. But who has time to read anymore? So we're turning the report into an audiobook, so you can listen and learn while you do the dishes, drive to the store, or tend to your pandemic garden project. First up, the foreword and introduction—to set the stage and give a tantalizing peek at the insights to come. Have a listen and let us know what you think (theworkplace@octanner.com). Should we keep going and turn the whole report into an audiobook?

This episode, we're talking with Nicolette Barnard from Siemens Pacific about managing change, building more agile cultures, and why apprenticeships are poised to be the future of lifelong learning.    

This episode, we're talking with Dr. Alex Lovell about the 2021 Global Culture Report. Remote work, hybrid schedules, burnout, anxiety, self-care, mental health days, and what employees ACTUALLY think about their workplace culture in this new normal.

We talk with Pete Shepherd of Human Periscope about how to develop better leaders, and what it really means to be a great leader in times of crisis. We also discuss imposter syndrome, empathy, and what sonder means.   Check out Pete's own podcast The Long and the Short of It, which he co-hosts with Jen Waldman.   What's going on in YOUR workplace culture? Tell us about it. Send your stories, questions, or topic suggestions to theworkplace@octanner.com.  

We talk with Natalie Snyder from GE Appliances about using times of crisis and change as opportunities to grow—as a company, a culture, and as individuals. And how recognition plays a key role in connecting all three together into something bigger. We also discuss the fast approaching Employee Appreciation Day (March 5), and why it might be the most important day of 2021 for HR leaders.

This episode, we're rebroadcasting a conversation with Tim Kuppler about that practicalities of evolving a workplace culture that's more relevant than ever. We also introduce a new segment, Workplace of the Week, where we share stories from our listeners about how they're working to shape their workplace cultures.

This episode, we're talking with Laurie Ruettimann—host of Punk Rock HR—about, well, a lot of things. The balance of productivity and self-care. Why meetings might be our mortal enemies. What the great remote-work experiment has done to our collective cultures. And what it could look like as we start to maybe think about possibly going back into the office at some point. Let's not rush things.

This episode, we're talking with Jina Krause-Vilmar from Upwardly Global about why immigrants and refugees are a motherlode of untapped talent, and how helping them integrate into the American workforce benefits literally everyone. What was YOUR first job? Send us an email with stories about your first job to theworkplace@octanner.com and we'll feature the best ones in an episode later this season.

For the first episode of season 3, we've got CEO of Great Place to Work Michael C. Bush with us to talk about equity, representation, trust, fear, and why creating a great place to work FOR ALL is so essential for leaders and employees doing their best to survive (and maybe, thrive) in this chaotic global climate. What was YOUR first job? Send us an email with stories about your first job to theworkplace@octanner.com and we'll feature the best ones in an episode later this season.

Season 3 is coming to town January 11th, 2021. So put another marshmallow in your hot chocolate and settle in for a sneak peek at what we have in store for the next season of The Work Place. Merry Listen-mas!

This episode, we're putting a bow on season 2 with a candid conversation between two employees (spoiler: it's Executive Producer Katie Clifford and host Andrew Scarcella) about their own personal perspectives of workplace culture. How has it changed over the last year, and how should it change as we claw our way out of this global crisis?

This episode, we're talking with legendary poker player, Annie Duke, about decision making under pressure and why embracing uncertainty is the key to better leadership. Her latest book, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, is on sale now. Influence Greatness 2020, O.C. Tanner's annual recognition and culture conference is streaming now—for free—with a rich library of on-demand content featuring experts, authors, researchers, and HR leaders from all across the globe. Watch now at octanner.com/influencegreatness. 

This episode, we're talking with Kelley Lynch of Capital One about running a thriving recognition program for a diverse, global workforce—and why community service plays a larger role in shaping workplace culture than you might think.

This episode, we're talking with author and designer Ingrid Fetell Lee about joy—why it's not the same as happiness, and what we can change about the places we work to make our jobs, and ourselves, more joyful. 

This episode, we're talking with Andrea Procaccino about the work she's done to transform and strengthen the culture of recognition at one of the nation's top hospitals—New York-Presbyterian.

This episode, we're talking with Namrata Yadav from Bank of America about inclusion, diversity, and why those terms are so much more than buzzwords.

This episode, we talk with Tim Kuppler from Human Synergistics about how workplace culture evolves and what we can do to guide it in the right direction like the tiny cultural tugboats we are.

This mini-ep, we're back at it, digging into the O.C. Tanner Institute's ongoing research on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting people, organizations, and the workplace cultures that tie them together with friend of the program, Alex Lovell.

This episode, we're featuring another podcast that's fighting the good fight for better workplace cultures—HCMx Radio. Created by the Brandon Hall Group and hosted by their COO, Rachel Cooke, HCMx Radio has some of the best in-depth analysis of organizational culture in the podcast-a-verse. Their latest episode just to happens to have our very own David Sturt as a guest—and since David will be back on The Work Place in an upcoming episode, it seemed appropriate to showcase him on the receiving end of an interview for a change.  

This episode, we talk with Melissa Arnot, the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen, about team-based leadership and decision-making in high-risk environments.  

This mini-ep, we have tangible takeaways from O.C. Tanner's weekly pandemic pulse surveys—how it's changing workplace cultures, companies, and the people who work in them. 

This episode, we're talking with founder of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani, about bravery, inclusion, and how to raise the next generation of female business leaders.

On this mini-ep, we dig into why traditional leadership is dying off, and what the modern replacement can do for your culture, your people, and your organization. For more findings, insights, and case studies on modern leadership and more, check out the 2020 Global Culture Report.

This episode, we talk with Kristin McDonald & Gareth Whalley about their role in guiding Coca-Cola's corporate workplace culture into the future.

This episode, we're working from home and talking about what we can do to keep our cultures—and ourselves—thriving as we weather this crisis together.

This episode, we talk about the genesis of the employee lifecycle model and why it's an antiquated way to think about employee experience. 

This episode, we talk with Davis Smith, founder and CEO of Cotopaxi, about capitalism, kayaking, and why giving back is just good business—and Andrew leans on his shovel while talking trail-maintenance.

This episode, we talk with Alex Lovell about the 2020 Global Culture Report, the O.C. Tanner Institute's second annual deep-dive into the state of workplace culture, and Andrew tests cutting-edge holo-casting technology.

This episode, we examine why employee burnout is more common than ever and what, if anything, we can do to prevent it.

This episode, we talk with Kat Cole about failure, bravery, leadership, and what the workplace of the future might look like, and Andrew tries his hand at hot takes.

For the first episode of season 2, we talk with Malcolm Gladwell about why the human tendency towards trust might just be the lynchpin of modern society, and Andrew wonders what it must be like to meet himself as a stranger.

The Work Place is back and bigger than ever, with new episodes dropping January 6. Get a sneak peek at all the experts, authors, and HR leaders we'll be talking with season 2, plus some exciting news about a new episode format that will help us break down the big ideas behind workplace culture and learn how to wield them.

This episode, we're doing things a little differently. We're between seasons, so today there's no expert, no interview, just you, me, and workplace culture. Which is good, because there's something I've been meaning to talk to you about. We've spent the better part of a year discussing workplace culture from all kinds of angles: leadership with a Navy fighter pilot, purpose with an HR guru, mentorship with, well, with Tim Gunn. But we've never taken a step back and asked the obvious question: what IS workplace culture?

This episode, we'll be talking with professional snowboarder and two-time Olympic champion Jamie Anderson about how to manage stress and keep your mental wellbeing strong when you're competing for Olympic gold. Jamie gets real about finding peace in the eye of the success hurricane, and Andrew reveals the hidden treasure stashed away at O.C. Tanner's headquarters.

This episode, we talk with Rajiv Kumar about how to turn employee wellbeing from just another company benefit into a way of life. Rajiv shares the secrets of creating a thriving culture of wellbeing, and Andrew discovers his environmentalist side. Guest: Rajiv Kumar Host: Andrew Scarcella

This episode, we talk with Charles Duhigg about how our everyday habits shape us, and how we can use them to improve and excel in and out of the workplace. Charles shares the somewhat surprising science behind habits, and Andrew contemplates government conspiracy theories. Guest: Charles Duhigg  Host: Andrew Scarcella   

This episode, we talk with Tim Gunn about mentorship, leading with authenticity, fashion, and fencing. Fencing? Okay. Tim shares the secrets of cultivating winning teams (Hint: it's not coddling them), and Andrew dreams a dream of a Tim Gunn / Tarantino mashup. Host: Andrew Scarcella  Guest: Tim Gunn 

This episode, we talk with Prabir Jha about the impact a well-defined purpose has on alignment, employee pride, and teamwork. Prabir shares wisdom from his decades spent as a Fortune 500 CHRO, and Andrew goes on a spiritual journey to the land of HR. Host: Andrew Scarcella  Guest: Prabir Jha 

This episode, we talk with Carey Lohrenze about the lessons she's learned as a leader in one of the highest pressure work environments imaginable—inside the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet. Carey shares how lead as the only woman in the room, and Andrew overshares his ideas for the next big Hollywood blockbuster. Guest: Carey Lorhenze  Host: Andrew Scarcella 

This episode, we talk with Erica Keswin, author of Bring Your Human to Work, about how to shape a company culture that's as human as the people working in it. Erica shares how to honor relationships at work and why too many meetings can kill your culture, and Andrew finally gets to sit behind the mic for an interview. Guest: Erica Keswin  Host: Andrew Scarcella   

This episode, we talk with Josh Bersin about how the HR technology landscape is being reinvented to adapt to new demands and expectations from employees and employers alike. Josh shares what he's learned from a lifetime studying the way we work, and Andrew admits he's addicted to Oxytocin. Host: Andrew Scarcella  Guest: Josh Bersin 

This episode, we talk with Tiffany Mattick about how to bring out the best in people by creating a thriving, high-performing culture. Tiffany shares her front-line experience encouraging effective behaviors and shaping a positive work environment, and Andrew reveals a hidden ability. Host: Andrew Scarcella Guest: Tiffany Mattick