Work Matters!

Karie Willyerd Chief Learning Office and author of the book Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace discusses strategies to survive and even thrive during times of workforce disruption.

Mental Resilience. Andrew Shatte' Chief Science Officer at MeQuilibrium and global authority on resilience discusses methods to proactively manage and constructively respond to the stress and anxiety brough on by career insecurity and job loss

Ilyce Glink CEO of Best Money Moves and financial wellness expert discusses how to prepare for and manage through challenging economic times and temporary loss of income.

What should you do when you learn your company has been bought by another organization? In this episode we talk with Steve Goldberg about how to respond if your company is acquired or merged with another organization. Drawing on his extensive experience with acquisitions, Steve provides practical tips for minimizing risks and maximizing the career opportunities associated with mergers and acquisitions.

We talk with Chris Motley of Mentor Spaces about the value of mentors and how to create effective mentorship relationships. Chris addresses common misconceptions about mentorships and provides practical tips on creating conversations that allow you to gain insight from other people's life experiences. Robert Richardson LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrichardson/ Steve Hunt's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steventhunt/ Chris Motley's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbmotley/

Do you have a job without a desk? Dr. Muriel Clauson of Anthill explains how to manage the unique challenges faced by people who work on the floor or in the field outside of corporate offices. She shares tips on finding the best deskless jobs and what you can do to improve the quality of deskless work. Muriel Clauson's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mclauson/ Steve Hunt's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steventhunt/ Robert Richardson's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrichardson/

We talk with Christian Schmeichel, the Chief Future of Work Office at SAP about how to manage our careers in the face of a rapidly changing world of work. Christian shares specific strategies to take at different career phases ranging from “knowing yourself” and “learning a foreign language (the reason may surprise you),” to “always be learning new skills.”  And Robert gives career advice to his own children!  Robert Richardson LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrichardson/ Steve Hunt's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steventhunt/ Dr. Christian Schmeichel's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-christian-schmeichel-34712b7/

What is the best way to answer the question “do you have any references?” Arnim Wahls, CEO of Firstbird, explains the right and wrong way to use references to advance your career. Firstbird is the leading global employee referral platform for enterprise that helps you hire better talent, faster.

This episode covers the interviews, questionairres, personality tests, and exercises that are conducted in the hiring process. Learn about the measurements, purpose, and best practices for pre-hire examinations from Chief IO Psychologist Nathan Mondragon. Learn more about Hirevue: http://www.hirevue.com/ Connect with Nathan Mondragon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-mondragon-3b721b

“Interviews Matter” shares insights to help people present their best authentic selves during a job interview. These interview principles and tips outline the science behind how to have a successful interview, whether you are the interviewee or interviewer. Prem Kumar, CEO and co-founder of Humanly, shares his research behind interview conversations and the technology evaluating interviews.

This episode explores the concept of authentic work relationships where we feel comfortable having honest, candid, and productive conversations with colleagues about the good, bad and difficult parts of our jobs. Jill Popelka, President at SAP SuccessFactors explains why authenticity is critical to creating high performing teams. Jill shares insights from her personal experience leading multi-cultural teams to provide practical tips on what we can do to create more authentic and supportive work environments.

​Getting discovered can unlock your career success. This episode discusses how to sell your potential and be discovered with Dan Swift, an innovator who successfully launched LinkedIn Sales Navigator and catapulted social media management technology Sprinklr to a $2bn valuation. Dan now focuses on ‘bringing the human back' via digital selling and believes that sales leaders and customer-facing professionals can be successful without sacrificing empathy. For more information on how to empower your sales team to leverage digital tools and social channels to build pipeline, shorten sales cycles, and maximize deal sizes, follow Empire Selling on LinkedIn and check out their website at empireselling.com

Dr. Pam Cohen is a behavioral research scientist with expertise in predictive analytics. She combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies to create measurement systems and analyze data on workplace sentiment and engagement, family-friendly policies, corporate reputation, and social responsibility, linking those and other relevant intangibles to key performance outcomes. Her teaching and research is focused on applications of behavioral economics and social psychology. In this episode, Dr. Cohen discusses balancing fatherhood and work, and what employers can do to support parents. Tune in for episode 1 for a podcast focused on mothers.

Dr. Pam Cohen is a behavioral research scientist with expertise in predictive analytics. She combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies to create measurement systems and analyze data on workplace sentiment and engagement, family-friendly policies, corporate reputation, and social responsibility, linking those and other relevant intangibles to key performance outcomes. Her teaching and research is focused on applications of behavioral economics and social psychology. In this episode, Dr. Cohen discusses balancing motherhood and work, and what employers can do to support parents. Tune in for episode 2 for a podcast focused on other caregivers including fathers.

Remote, hybrid, and distributed work is the future of many teams around the world. In this episode, Dr. Laura Hambley shares tactics to improve various work formats.

Feeling like you belong and are included at work has a huge impact on your work satisfaction, mental health, and personal happiness. In this episode, Arthur Woods uncovers why belonging matters, how to cope if you don't feel like you belong, and when it is time to leave an exclusive work environment.

​Self-Leadership is a method to improve the enjoyment we get from work. In this episode, we talk with Laurie Ruettimann, author of the book “Betting on you: how to put yourself first and take control of your career”, covering four elements of self-leadership that impact happiness at work: well-being, continuous learning, professional detachment, and an interesting technique called a “pre-mortem.”

Addressing mental health concerns in the workplace is a sensitive and difficult area for many people. In this episode we talk with Regina Athie founder of Cuentame a company focused on mental wellbeing, about ways to take care of your mental health at work. Regina also provides guidance on what to do when you or someone you know may be struggling with mental wellbeing.

In this episode, we recap Season 1 episodes 1-7. We cover appreciation & gratitude, reinvention & career change, finding a job, micro-learning, financial health, and more.

Receiving a simple thank you from someone at work improves our attitude, increases our motivation, and decreases our stress levels. Showing appreciation makes people feel good. And it is relatively easy to do. So why do people frequently feel unappreciated? Goran Rice works for Semos Cloud Solutions, a company that makes solutions that help companies create more appreciative cultures. He explains the power of appreciation and discusses reasons why people struggle to show appreciation as often as we should.

People often reach places in their careers where they realize what they were doing in the past is not what they want to do or can do in the future. Sometimes this change is voluntary based on a desire to do something new. Other times it is driven by necessity as a result of job loss and changing business markets. Mihir Gandhi, VP of Strategy at Eightfold.AI has reinvented himself several times and helped create technology that supports people with reinventing their careers. Mihir provides tips and tactics about reinvention that will help you get from where you are to where you want to be.

Finding the right job is one of the most critical and often one of the most challenging parts of building a successful career. Doug Berg, founder of ZAPInfo and an expert in recruiting technology has spent his career connecting people to job opportunities. Doug provides guidance on getting your next job based on work with hundreds of companies and thousands of candidates. He shares insight into the role technology plays in the hiring process and how to utilize the internet to get found and get hired. Including how many positions you should expect to apply for before you land your next job.

Constant learning is critical to building a successful career in a fast-changing world. But many employees do not have time to attend courses that take them away from day-to-day job and family responsibilities. Christine Tutssell, SVP at Axonify tells us how we can use micro-learning methods to integrate learning into our day-to-day jobs and lives. She explains the value of structuring learning based on what we want to learn vs how much time we have. And discusses the power of “asking why” and the critical role that our coworkers play in on-the-job learning.

Stress levels among people who work are steadily increasing due to the accelerating pace of change and “always on” nature of the world. We may not be able to get rid of the things that cause stress, be we can learn how to more effectively manage them. We talk about learning to be resilient with Dr. Andrew Shatte’, Chief Science Officer at meQuilibrium a company dedicated to employee wellbeing and resilience. Andrew explains why we become stressed, teaches us about the triggers that cause stress and explain how we can learn to be more resilient under pressure.

Regardless of our feelings about e-mail, chat and instant messaging, how we use these tools impacts how we are perceived by others particularly in remote work situations. This episode of Work Matters features Joe Freed the founder of Cultivate, a company focused on improving the quality of electronic communication. Joe shares insights from research using advanced analytics to understand how timing, frequency and content of e-mail and other electronic communication affects our work relationships. Joe also tells us on whether using emojis at work is good or bad!

In the first episode of Work Matters we discuss money, work and happiness with Ilyce Glink the founder of Best Money Moves, a company dedicated to improving employees’ financial well-being. Research suggests the old saying “money doesn’t buy happiness” is only half-true. Money does not necessarily make people happy, but not having enough money definitely causes problems. Financial well-being is one of the most common causes of stress for employees and their families. There is often little we can do to increase how much we are paid, but there are many things we can do to make the most of the pay we receive. As Ilyce shares, it all starts with changing how we think and talk about money.