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Leading with compassion is one thing (and a good thing at that). But what if whole departments ran on a standard of sensitivity and genuine emotional concern for the people in their care, be they customers or employees? Before leaving The Granite Group to start her own consultancy, Tracie Sponenberg held the title of Chief People Officer. She's credited with shifting the company's human resources perspective towards compassion over compliance.  In this revisited episode, Jason speaks with Tracie about the impetus for this mindset change, strategies for CEOs interested in making similar upgrades to their company's HR culture, and what she's doing now to support the meaningful evolution of workforce administration. CONNECT WITH JASON LinkedIn CONNECT WITH TRACIE  LinkedIn Website *** For full show notes and services visit: https://www.distributionteam.com Distribution Talk is produced by The Distribution Team, a consulting services firm dedicated to helping wholesale distribution clients remove barriers to profitability, generate wealth, and achieve personal goals.    This episode was edited & mixed by The Creative Impostor Studios.  Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode: Moblico, helping businesses do more business on mobile devices; and INxSQL Distribution Software, an integrated distribution ERP software designed for the wholesale and distribution industry.  

Join host Matt Konkle on Catalyst and Victoria Arrigoni, MD, Head of Industrials & Manufacturing at G2 as they sit down with Bill Condron, CEO of The Granite Group, to discuss the transition dynamics of multi-generational family businesses. They cover the crucial elements of one generation stepping aside and another stepping in, along with the critical decisions surrounding the sale of a family business to a private equity partner. Bill offers valuable perspectives on leadership succession, legacy preservation, and the strategic and emotional hurdles of these transitions. Don't miss this insightful conversation on managing change while honoring tradition in family enterprises.

By aligning people strategy with business strategy and adopting an employee-centric, tech-savvy approach, HR can transform into a strategic partner that drives organizational success. HR advisor and fractional CHRO Tracie Sponenberg shared her insights with us on shifting from an administrative mindset to a strategic one, focusing on the long-term employee experience and leveraging AI tools. Highlights [4:10] What a fractional CPO/CHRO is [6:41] Transforming HR from administrative to strategic [8:51] How Tracie changed the mindset toward HR for one of her clients [14:38] A cool tool for mapping the employee journey [15:34] The impact of AI on HR [20:55] AI and the employee experience [25:34] HR professional development [34:16] Rethinking best practices [36:52] Trending now: AI assistants, fractional executives, neurodiversity, DEIB [41:19] The state of remote and flexible work Guest Bio Tracie Sponenberg, Founder, Tracie Sponenberg, LLC Tracie Sponenberg is a global speaker on HR, leadership, technology, and business issues. Formerly the Chief People Officer for The Granite Group, she recently founded Tracie Sponenberg LLC, where she serves as a Fractional CPO and advisor for companies in the distribution and manufacturing industries. While Tracie used to describe herself as “working in HR,” she now describes herself as a “business leader specializing in people” following her transformation from paper-first to a people-first leader. She embraces the importance of learning about her clients' business, technology, the critical nature of relationships, the importance of a growth mindset, speaking up, and learning to always put people before profits https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenberg/ https://traciesponenberg.com/ https://www.pynhq.com/ https://www.troophr.com/ https://hackinghrlab.io/ https://www.hrmorning.com/articles/neurodiverse-friendly-workplace/ https://www.hrmorning.com/articles/strategic-human-resource-management/ https://www.hrmorning.com/articles/future-of-ai-in-hr/ Berta Aldrich's best-selling book, Winning the Talent Shift, is available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119768713 We want to hear from you. Leave a review (5-Star would be nice!) on Apple Podcasts and add your question in the comment. We read every review and use them to choose topics, guests, and interview questions for the podcast. You can also reach out at podcast@hrmorning.com.  If you love this show, please share your favorite episodes with colleagues and on social media. We greatly appreciate your support. Thank you for listening. Remember to subscribe and follow us so you never miss an episode!  Voices of HR is brought to you by HRMorning.com.

Leading with compassion is one thing (and a good thing at that). But what if whole departments ran on a standard of sensitivity to and emotional concern for the people in their care, be they customers or employees? Before leaving The Granite Group to start her own consultancy, Tracie Sponenberg held the title of Chief People Officer. She's credited for shifting the company's human resources perspective towards compassion over compliance.  Jason invited Tracie to discuss the impetus for this mindset change, strategies for CEOs interested in making similar upgrades to their company's HR culture, and what she's doing now to support the meaningful evolution of workforce administration. CONNECT WITH JASON LinkedIn CONNECT WITH TRACIE  LinkedIn Website *** For full show notes and services visit: https://www.distributionteam.com Distribution Talk is produced by The Distribution Team, a consulting services firm dedicated to helping wholesale distribution clients remove barriers to profitability, generate wealth and achieve personal goals.    This episode was edited & mixed by The Creative Impostor Studios.  Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode: Moblico, helping businesses do more business on mobile devices.

Most of what's happening in the workplace with AI today happens at the execution level. Content writing and code writing are two prominent examples of execution tasks that AI has greatly impacted already. What's the next frontier for AI, and why does it hold even greater promise for businesses? This episode dives into what the next frontier of AI for businesses will be: moving up a level to the operations layer of a company to drive smarter decision-making and reduce the overhead of cross-functional collaboration. David DeWolf and Courtney Baker dive deeper into the concept introduced on episode 8 of the show around the different altitudes of AI in business, specifically drilling in on the shift from the Execution layer to the Operations layer. Pete Buer speaks with Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer at The Granite Group and co-founder of New Hampshire's DisruptHR conference, about how she sees AI impacting the people side of the equation in the workplace.  Lastly, Courtney and Pete break down some of the week's top AI news and what it means for your business. Take your free AI Readiness Assessment at https://knownwell.com/assessment. AI Knowhow is brought to you by the team at Knownwell. Visit www.knownwell.com to discover how we can help you harness the power of AI to boost profitability.

Have you ever wondered how to best answer some of your favorite interview questions? Today's episode of Greenhouse: Inside Interviewing presents two leading lights in the hiring process landscape. We have a heartwarming conversation with Laurie Ruettimann of The Punk Rock HR Podcast and Tracie Sponenberg of The Granite Group. They kick off with a discussion on handling employment gaps in resumes, mastering the art of interviewing, and dealing with conflict in the workplace. So join us on this journey, as we explore the entrepreneurial spirit, the rewards of risk-taking, and the importance of inclusivity in the workplace. Laurie and Tracie's shared experiences will resonate with job-seekers and hiring managers alike, offering something for everyone.Listen & Subscribe on your favorite platformApple | Spotify | Google | AmazonVisit us at RecruitingDaily for all of your recruiting, sourcing, and HR content.Follow on Twitter @RecruitingDaily Attend one of our #HRTX Events

Burnout and failure are inevitable in HR. So how can we grow and learn from our own mistakes? Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer of the Granite Group, joins Hebba to discuss her storied career in HR and to share her love/hate relationship with the industry as a whole. She reveals why open communication and having conversations with your employees, whether it's good, bad, or anything in between is vital to anyone working in HR.  Then, she and Hebba delve into various topics, including the challenges of maintaining a small company culture while scaling, the changing landscape of HR roles, and the shift towards leading with humanity rather than compliance. And stay tuned because later, Tracie opens up about her own experiences with burnout and offers advice on setting boundaries and protecting yourself from burnout in the HR field. 00:01:36 - HR Hot Take 00:03:43 - From Personnel to HR: Finding My Passion 00:07:40 - Key Inflection Points in Tracy's HR Career 00:11:53 - The Changing Landscape of HR 00:18:08 - The Emotional Burden of HR 00:22:59 - The Evolution of HR and Internal Communication 00:26:35 - Maintaining Company Culture as You Scale 00:28:52 - Preventing and Healing from Burnout 00:37:19 - The Future of HR and People: More Advisory and External Roles 00:43:29 - The Importance of Communication with CEOs And if you love HR Therapy, sign up to I Hate it Here, the newsletter for jaded, overworked, and emotionally burnt-out HR/People Operations professionals needing a little inspiration. https://workweek.com/discover-newsletters/i-hate-it-here-newsletter/ For even more exclusive insider content, don't forget to check out my YouTube page.  Follow Tracie: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenberg/ Follow Hebba:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ihateit-here/videos LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hebba-youssef Twitter: https://twitter.com/hebbamyoussef 15Five is the performance management platform that drives business results and gives HR teams a complete solution to deliver high employee performance, engagement, and retention while improving manager effectiveness.  Find out more about 15Five here. And if you'd like to keep learning, Hootsuite's new 2023 Social Media Career Report is loaded with insights about social marketers' pay, promotions, job satisfaction, challenges, gender pay equity, mental health, and more—to help you attract, hire, and retain the best social marketers. Uncover the state (and state of mind) of the social media marketer in the full report!

What's wrong with HR?  Why do we need a mindset shift in human resources?  This week, Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer, The Granite Group, Founder of DisruptHR New Hampshire, HR Rebooted, HR Rebels, HR on the House and People Rising, joins Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky from Elite High Performance.  We talk about what Human Resources needs to be, how mindset is key in creating impact and why leaders need to work with HR to maximize results. In this episode, you will learn:  ⊛  Why Leaders Need to Reimagine HR ⊛  How Mindset Increases Impact ⊛  What Leaders Need to do to get Better HR Results We at Elite High Performance specialize in building high impact leaders that turn their teams into happy high-performers who crush their goals. A prime example is our client, MiQ who has increased their revenue by 35% YOY, has 83% employee engagement when the global average is 21% and reduced turnover by 52% YOY. Can you afford to leave revenue, productivity on the table and afford to lose your employees?  If you can't, visit elitehighperformance.com for the best, research-backed, high-performance leadership strategies that will build you into a high-impact leader who turns their teams into happy high performers that achieve their goals. Rather than traditional leadership coaching,  Elite High Performance blends neuroscience, mindset coaching, high-performance leadership strategies with cutting-edge technology & data to provide a clear path to building a high-performing team - or to turn around an under-performing team. It's the same way professional sports teams combine high-performance coaching, technology and analytics to build a winning sports team. Find Tracie Sponenberg at the Following Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenberg/  https://www.thegranitegroup.com/  Connect with Susan Hobson on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/  Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/Check out Elite's Leadership Programs & Services  - https://www.elitehighperformance.com/leadership-consulting/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leadershiplaunchpad/message

People, not policies.  This is the major shift that our guest, Tracie Sponenberg, is looking to enact in HR departments around the world. Modern HR is more than just compliance, it's about connecting with community and designing employee experiences so workers can do the best work of their lives and feel true satisfaction in their roles.  Tracie is Chief People Officer at The Granite Group and a highly sought after keynote speaker who specializes in helping HR departments move from a “paper-first” to “people-first” model. As a long time practitioner Tracie has over 25 years of experience helping organizations focus on culture, authenticity, and transparency. She is the recipient of the 2022 Boston HR Council Speaker of the Year Award, the global 2022 and 2021 OnCON Global Icon Top 50 Human Resources Professional Awards and the 2019 RY Perry HR Hero Award. “HR needs to be passionate about the people experience. We can design journeys and implement employee feedback models to design experiences that they truly love.” In this episode we get a glimpse into how Tracie found her place in HR and how she was able to move from “Karen in HR,” to “Caring HR” through empathizing with her workforce and building experiences that brought the best out in them.  I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. Thanks, as always, for tuning in to our show.  Connect with Tracie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenberg/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialresponsibilityatwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialresponsibilityatwork/support

Bill Condron, CEO of The Granite Group is the third generation of his family to run The Granite Group a plumbing supply wholesaler with locations throughout New England. He's continued to build on the success of past generations through growth strategy, innovation and a focus on his employees - making them one of the best companies to work for in NH.  Learn more about The Granite Group  This episode of BizCastNH is sponsored by: McLane Middleton

Tracie Sponenberg (Chief People Officer, The Granite Group) joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about what it's like working in HR for a traditional company, The Granite Group's journey to modernizing their people function, and why the HR community is so important to her. Timestamps:   (1:40) Good news stories (6:11) Why Tracie wanted to be in HR ever since high school (8:35) What The Granite Group does (10:03) Why we should be jealous that she gets to work at The Granite Group (14:50) Working in a traditional industry versus tech (15:10) The biggest difference between the HR team she inherited versus the team she has now (16:20) Shifting their mindset to become a modern people team (19:20) The critical success factors to transforming the people function at The Granite Group (22:57) They've built a dozen learning paths (34:40) The steps you can take to build your employer brand as a traditional company (37:00) Why the HR community is so important to her (39:55) The unexpected benefits of being a part of different HR communities (43:00) Finding ways to help people with mental health issues (48:14) Rapid fire questions Subscribe to the MPL Weekly Digest: https://forms.gle/qdt6YaWULfoEHb6n8 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-modern-people-leader

Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer of The Granite Group, joins the Rebels Leader Series to share the art and science behind modernizing and changing HR for the better.In conversation with: Derek Lundsten, President and Chief Culture Officer, LifeGuides.Episode Highlights:How shifting to a Growth Mindset can change your life, personally and professionally, for the betterThrough Tracie's personal experience, she shares the the importance of providing feedbackBIO: Tracie Sponenberg is Chief People Officer of The Granite Group, based in Concord, NH. An award-winning, third-generation family-owned business, The Granite Group has a proud tradition in the plumbing and heating wholesale supply business dating back to the turn of the last century.  Tracie is responsible for leading all People functions throughout the company, which has 45 locations, and nearly 600 employees throughout New England.With expertise in strategic business planning, technology selection and deployment, employee engagement and wellness, employment branding, culture development and turnaround, leadership and team development, organizational and strategy development, she has gained broad experience across a wide range of industries in her more than 20 years in human resources, with much of her career focused on working with CEOs to develop people strategies to help the organizations grow.  She began her career in HR while in college, interning with a global public transportation company, and advanced through the organization over the next five years.  Tracie found her HR home in small to medium sized private companies, where she could have the most impact on the business.  She's led the HR function at an award-winning multi-state professional services firm; a Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper and publishing company, and a national wellness distribution and technology company.Follow Tracie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenberg/Links:https://traciesponenberg.com/

Jobs growth in the US has slowed down for the second month in a row. US employers added 263,000 new jobs in September, the fewest since April 2021, while unemployment fell to 3.5%. But what's it like if you're trying to recruit a worker or find a job? We hear from Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer for The Granite Group in Concord, New Hampshire. Yulia Yan is among those looking for work, she tells us about the challenges she's facing. The United States has announced new export controls on computer chips to China to prevent Beijing from using the technology for its military. American firms will be banned from selling certain chips used for supercomputing and artificial intelligence to Chinese companies. Bill Reinsch from Center for Strategic and International Studies explains the likely effect of the ban. Sam Fenwick is joined by Marketplace reporter Andy Uhler in Austin, Texas and ABC senior business correspondent Peter Ryan in Brisbane, Australia. (Image:Two multi-ethnic workers in their 30s talking in a metal fabrication plant wearing hardhats and protective eyewear. Credit: Getty Images)

Episode 18 - 8/30/2022  What Tracie is Listening To:    HR Social Hour Half Hour Podcast  Noted in Podcast:  HR HOTSAUCE “Favorite song to bring you out of a funk playlist” – Tracie has added: Doja Cat, Boss Bi&ch  Our Guest, Tracie Sponenberg  Tracie is an executive leader focused on aligning people strategy with business strategy at privately held and/or private equity-backed businesses experiencing growth. HR Rebel, DisruptHR NH & HR Rebooted Co-founder. Speaker on technology, leadership, branding and all things HR. Recipient of the 2019 Ry Perry HR Hero Award, and the global 2021 OnCON Top 50 Human Resources Professional Award.    Passionate about the people experience; HR technology selection and deployment; wellness program development; engagement; culture building and turn-around; organizational development; coaching; leadership and team development.  LinkedIn: Tracie Sponenberg  Twitter: @traciespon  The Granite Group  The HR Feed:  Do As I Say, not as I do” Won't Help Workers Wellbeing”  Location-based Pay Considerations Are All Over The Place  The Daily (New York Times Podcast) The rise of Workplace Surveillance  Our Sponsor: People Element    Understand, engage, inspire, and retain your people like never before.  People Element's employee experience and engagement solution delivers powerful intelligence, giving you the confidence to act.   www.peopleelement.com   LinkedIn: People Element   Twitter: @People_Element   Find Us:   On Twitter: @AllAboutHRPod, @EngagementHR   Spotify: Spotify: All About HR Podcast  Apple Podcast: All About HR on Apple Podcasts 

Want to know the secret to promoting a vibrant, growth-oriented company culture? Forget about the pingpong table in the breakroom. Bill Condron, CEO of Boston-based The Granite Group, says it starts with doing right by your associates and customers––even when no one's watching.  Jason chats with Bill about his approach to bottom-up employee engagement, his company's aggressive expansion strategy, and striking the balance between healthy growth and sound culture. Bill's broader belief is that Granite's enviable reputation as a service- and innovation-oriented supplier is shaped by the staffers who typically get relegated to the middle or bottom of org charts at other companies: pickers, branch managers, and truck drivers.  Maintaining Granite's culture isn't a hands-off endeavor. The company's yearly calendar boasts quarterly meetings, branch dinners, and town halls.  The company has done an excellent job amplifying its culture to attract top talent, back-fill positions vacated by promotion and appeal to a demographic that this industry has traditionally ignored: women.  “It's not perceived [as] welcoming or open or a place where women can be successful. That's absolutely false,” says Bill.  Granite boasts a finance team led by women and women-led branches as well. “If you're able to do that, you're going to up your success by a factor of many.” CONNECT WITH JASON LinkedIn CONNECT WITH BILL LinkedIn Distribution Talk is produced by The Distribution Team, a consulting services firm dedicated to helping wholesale distribution clients remove barriers to profitability, generate wealth and achieve personal goals.    *** For full show notes and services visit: http://www.distributionteam.com Distribution Talk is produced by The Distribution Team, a consulting services firm dedicated to helping wholesale distribution clients remove barriers to profitability, generate wealth and achieve personal goals.    This episode was edited & mixed by The Creative Impostor Studios.  This episode was edited & mixed by The Creative Impostor Studios.  http://www.distributionteam.com Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode: Moblico, helping businesses do more business on mobile devices.

Interview with Tracie Sponenberg – Tracie is the Chief People Officer at The Granite Group. She is an executive leader focused on aligning people strategy with business strategy at privately held and/or private equity backed businesses experiencing growth.

Every Season of Oven-Ready I like to talk to an HR leader that's actually doing the job.  Yes it's great to learn about the high level developments and challenges in the profession and in the wider business but for Oven-Ready to remain grounded it's great to talk to individuals on the front line.In this episode of the Oven-Ready HR with Chris Taylor, our guest is Tracie Sponenberg. Tracie is an Executive leader focused on aligning people strategy with business strategy at privately held or private equity backed businesses experiencing growth. She is the Chief People Officer of the Granite Group, an award-winning, third-generation family-owned business, and is a Keynote Speaker on HR, Technology, Leadership, and Branding. Today, Tracie talks with us about the true meaning of being a Business Leader Specializing in People.“A Business Leader Specializing in People”[01:25]Working in HR did not represent Tracie anymore. It diminished the power of HR and her work. Throughout her career, she became a people-specializing business leader. Her work prioritizes advocating for people.Building Confidence[03:31]Confidence just came to Tracie. She was just looking at things around her that she could not be a part of. Seeing those things gave her a conscious shift in her mindset that developed into a growth mindset. She then realized that her world and network were small, and she decided to get intentional about expanding that. Eventually, she became comfortable with reaching out and talking to other people.Is HR a lonely Profession?[06:22]HR doesn't need to be a lonely profession. But by nature, it is. Many HR practitioners are the only HR practitioner in their company. That can be a lonely place, and you're holding a lot of confidential information.Although, with larger organizations, HR can cave better support networks.The 21st Century HR Practitioner[10:04]The modern HR Practitioner combines a deep understanding of business, technology, having that foundational HR knowledge, and making sure you're embracing vulnerability and empathy and a growth mindset. Run everything through a lens of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and making sure that that's woven into the fabric of your company. Then be bold, courageous, and stand up for yourself and your people.Can you get into HR Positions without prior HR Background?[13:17]Companies filling the Senior HR Positions with people who don't have an HR Background can be seen as a bad thing. You don't need to have a foundational background to lead HR or be a strategic HR leader. If you are leading with empathy, you're leading with vulnerability, and you are a strong people leader. You have some foundational knowledge. It's a wake-up call for those practicing HR in a tactical way and not a strategic way.The Gen Z Expectations[20:06]Everybody wants the same things. People want to feel valued, and they want feedback. The generations coming in now are willing to voice that, and they're not willing to stand for companies. They're demanding and prioritizing change and improvement. That forces companies to design their culture and design their jobs for people instead of expecting people to fit into a box.Tracey's Agenda as an HR Leader[26:24]In addition to balancing everything in the company, Tracie and her company hired new talents in their way. They brought in a manager that took charge of building a learning path for every single position. They also did foundational work that became beneficial for the company.  Learn more about Tracie Sponenberg:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenbergWebsite: https://traciesponenberg.com/

In this week's episode, Tracy and Mike interview Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer of the Granite Group. A great conversation on how leaders can build communications, support their teams and ultimately put people first.  Show Highlights: Tracie S shares more about the Granite Group and her role as the Chief People Officer, including the most pressing challenges coming out of COVID, and her role in creating a psychologically safe environment for the team at the Granite Group. (00:53) Tracie S addresses how she and the team balanced business goals, while also working to create a physically and psychologically safe environment for the team (4:57) The group discusses the process of developing culture, and how the approach to growth can also help build a great culture (8:20) Tracy, Tracie, and Mike discuss the importance of creating a truly diverse and inclusive culture, and being intentional about challenging our own biases (17:56) The group discusses strategic planning and and how companies like hte Granite Group manage this process (24:50)  Tracie and Tracy talk about the challenge of driving great employee engagement among different employee groups, for instance: hourly vs. salaried, working from the office vs. remote workers. (36:20) The group closes the discussion with a conversion on what it means to be “people-first” in all things (41:58) Related Links: A great part of this discussion was focused on challenging our biases, and on the process of becoming more diverse and inclusive as organizations, and as people. Following are several links to resources discussed in this podcast:  https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283 (How to Be an Antiracist), https://www.amazon.com/Biased-Uncovering-Hidden-Prejudice-Shapes/dp/0735224951/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwruSHBhAtEiwA_qCppv5xZVrjh_lnaNMIA-tjFAadkZATc7MJHeM-MQPkvMcwNFJXCk4aVRoC8PAQAvD_BwE&hvadid=337681647721&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9009741&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1198212590203736304&hvtargid=kwd-605928165513&hydadcr=22530_10353689&keywords=biased+book&qid=1626967236&sr=8-1 (Biased), https://www.christianbook.com/white-awake-honest-look-what-means/daniel-hill/9780830843930/pd/843930?kw=21440761692&mt=b&dv=c&event=PPCSRC&p=1186432&gclid=CjwKCAjwruSHBhAtEiwA_qCpptXb9SNJA9eIskWHdfJDroLqKMpcWFGjsL52K6glohy2dBPwTM4IwxoCvooQAvD_BwE (White Awake), https://brenebrown.com/ (Brene Brown), https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ref=pd_lpo_14_img_0/136-6140346-4770244?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0807047414&pd_rd_r=9db09a61-acd6-48f6-8f77-efc890f88c04&pd_rd_w=TiBOR&pd_rd_wg=zVcZQ&pf_rd_p=fb1e266d-b690-4b4f-b71c-bd35e5395976&pf_rd_r=F31HWSRWM6R0F416V00X&psc=1&refRID=F31HWSRWM6R0F416V00X (White Fragility) Do you want to learn more about The Granite Group? Visit: https://www.thegranitegroup.com/ (https://www.thegranitegroup.com/) Learn more about how TEAMES & CO buildshttps://www.teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design ( effective and empowered teams) that deliver results Follow TEAMES & CO onhttp://www.facebook.com/teamesandco ( Facebook) https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamesandco ( LinkedIn), Twitter (@teamesandco) and Instagram (https://instagram.com/teamesandco (@teamesandco)) Want to watch the podcasts on video visit TEAMES & CO onhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA2UUugYGYBvfCcEYOwjLwQ/videos ( YouTube).  TEAMES Global is live!!! We will be launching new courses throughout the summer to support leaders and organizations as they empower their teams, connect with customers and reach their goals!!! Follow TEAMES Global on https://www.facebook.com/teamesglobal (Facebook) and https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamesglobal (LinkedIn), and https://teamesglobal.teachable.com (sign up for a course today! ) Related Podcasts: If you liked this episode, here's a throwback...

In this week's episode, Tracy and Mike interview Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer of the Granite Group. A great conversation on how leaders can build communications, support their teams and ultimately put people first.  Show Highlights: Tracie S shares more about the Granite Group and her role as the Chief People Officer, including the most pressing challenges coming out of COVID, and her role in creating a psychologically safe environment for the team at the Granite Group. (00:53) Tracie S addresses how she and the team balanced business goals, while also working to create a physically and psychologically safe environment for the team (4:57) The group discusses the process of developing culture, and how the approach to growth can also help build a great culture (8:20) Tracy, Tracie, and Mike discuss the importance of creating a truly diverse and inclusive culture, and being intentional about challenging our own biases (17:56) The group discusses strategic planning and and how companies like hte Granite Group manage this process (24:50)  Tracie and Tracy talk about the challenge of driving great employee engagement among different employee groups, for instance: hourly vs. salaried, working from the office vs. remote workers. (36:20) The group closes the discussion with a conversion on what it means to be “people-first” in all things (41:58) Related Links: A great part of this discussion was focused on challenging our biases, and on the process of becoming more diverse and inclusive as organizations, and as people. Following are several links to resources discussed in this podcast:  https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283 (How to Be an Antiracist), https://www.amazon.com/Biased-Uncovering-Hidden-Prejudice-Shapes/dp/0735224951/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwruSHBhAtEiwA_qCppv5xZVrjh_lnaNMIA-tjFAadkZATc7MJHeM-MQPkvMcwNFJXCk4aVRoC8PAQAvD_BwE&hvadid=337681647721&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9009741&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1198212590203736304&hvtargid=kwd-605928165513&hydadcr=22530_10353689&keywords=biased+book&qid=1626967236&sr=8-1 (Biased), https://www.christianbook.com/white-awake-honest-look-what-means/daniel-hill/9780830843930/pd/843930?kw=21440761692&mt=b&dv=c&event=PPCSRC&p=1186432&gclid=CjwKCAjwruSHBhAtEiwA_qCpptXb9SNJA9eIskWHdfJDroLqKMpcWFGjsL52K6glohy2dBPwTM4IwxoCvooQAvD_BwE (White Awake), https://brenebrown.com/ (Brene Brown), https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ref=pd_lpo_14_img_0/136-6140346-4770244?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0807047414&pd_rd_r=9db09a61-acd6-48f6-8f77-efc890f88c04&pd_rd_w=TiBOR&pd_rd_wg=zVcZQ&pf_rd_p=fb1e266d-b690-4b4f-b71c-bd35e5395976&pf_rd_r=F31HWSRWM6R0F416V00X&psc=1&refRID=F31HWSRWM6R0F416V00X (White Fragility) Do you want to learn more about The Granite Group? Visit: https://www.thegranitegroup.com/ (https://www.thegranitegroup.com/) Learn more about how TEAMES & CO builds effective and empowered teams that deliver results athttps://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design ( https://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design) Follow TEAMES & CO onhttp://www.facebook.com/teamesandco ( Facebook) https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamesandco ( LinkedIn), Twitter (@teamesandco) and Instagram (https://instagram.com/teamesandco (@teamesandco)) Want to watch the podcasts on video visit TEAMES & CO onhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA2UUugYGYBvfCcEYOwjLwQ/videos ( YouTube).  TEAMES Global is live!!! We will be launching new courses throughout the summer to support leaders and organizations as they empower their teams, connect with customers and reach their goals!!! Follow TEAMES Global on https://www.facebook.com/teamesglobal (Facebook) and https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamesglobal (LinkedIn), and https://teamesglobal.teachable.com (sign up for a course today! ) Related...

Andy welcomes Tracie Sponenberg, the Chief People Officer at The Granite Group, which is a plumbing wholesale company based in New Hampshire. Formerly a paper-pushing, compliance-driven HR person, Tracie Sponenberg became a people-first business leader several years ago and has made it a mission to help others do the same through speaking around the globe and writing daily on LinkedIn. An introvert and bookworm at heart, she started becoming uncomfortable, and it changed her life for the better. In this episode, you’ll hear: How Tracie Sponenberg started in HR and how it led her to where she is today. The pros and cons of working for a small business versus where she started at UPS. Her methodology for building her personal brand on social media and how she began creating that brand. How she’s using Clubhouse and what she’s learning there. What Tracie Sponenberg means when she says she transitioned from a paper-pusher to a people-first business leader. Why companies lose sight of the importance of their people and how it began to shift. What you can do to develop better self-awareness to become a better person and build a better career. How being an introvert did not keep her from becoming a good public speaker who enjoys it--but then needs a break after it’s over. Why so many HR professionals are focused on paper first and how they can change that mindset. What HR leaders can do to make the shift to people first and adopt a growth mindset. HR’s role in talent development and why traditional structures may be inhibiting that role. The culture of learning and what your organization needs to adopt in order to create this type of culture. Tracie Sponenberg’s work in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the steps she’s taking hand-in-hand with her CEO to create a better company. Her greatest accomplishments personally and professionally. Her biggest career mistake and why it taught her an important lesson. The biggest shift she sees companies making and why it’s an important one. The book Tracie Sponenberg wants you to read now. Why networking is the fastest way to accelerate your career. Connect with Andy Storch here: https://andystorch.com/ (https://andystorch.com/) https://www.linkedin.com/in/andystorch/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andystorch/) https://tdtt.us/ (https://tdtt.us/) Connect with Tracie Sponenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenberg/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenberg/) https://twitter.com/traciespon (https://twitter.com/traciespon) https://www.instagram.com/traciespon/ (https://www.instagram.com/traciespon/)

This week, Ricklyn chats to Tracie Sponenberg, the Chief People Officer of The Granite Group, a wholesale distributor with nearly fifty locations across New England. She has spent her career working with CEOs to align people & business strategies, working in industries like publishing, health and wellness, and professional services. Formerly a paper-pushing, compliance-driven HR person, she became a people-first business leader several years ago and has since made it a mission to help others do the same, through speaking around the globe, co-founding DisruptHRNH and HRRebooted, and writing daily short LinkedIn blogs. A bookworm & introvert, several years ago started getting comfortable with being uncomfortable and it changed her life for the better. In this episode, you will learn:  How a psychology degree can inform your work as an HR professional  How to leverage social media to speak out and use your voice  The top three books as recommended by Tracie to help you on your HR journey Connect with our host:  LinkedIn  Website Connect with our guest:  LinkedIn Website

In the latest episode of McLane Middleton Minutes, Charla Stevens, chair of the firm's Employment Law Practice Group, interviews  Tracie Sponenberg, the Chief People Officer at The Granite Group, on dealing with issues facing employee well-being in the workplace.

Interview with Tracie Sponenberg – Tracie is the Chief People Officer at The Granite Group, with 45 locations and nearly 600 employees. Tracie spent her career working with CEOs to align people and business strategies. Tracie is also the Co-Founder of the Disrupt HR New Hampshire HR rebooted and she's also speaker and a writer of “All Things HR”. She is a book worm and an introvert; she started getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Tracie may be a heavy HR hitter these days — 2019 HR Hero Award winner, co-founder of DisruptHR - Manchester, NH, and generally revered speaker — but it wasn't always this way. Her origin story is a relatable one, working behind the scenes with no interest in rocking the boat until she had to choose to overcome a fear of public speaking in order to ensure an employee's story was accurately represented. Tracie found kinship with fellow HR leaders from around the world through Twitter and LinkedIn communities. There she began sharing resources and insights and growing her confidence with each speaking engagement she participated in. They do say practice makes perfect! Tracie's passion for the function and drive to build everyone around her up shines through in this podcast!

We're joined by Tracie Sponenberg, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for The Granite Group in Concord, NH and the founder of HR Rebooted.  We talk about her interest in HR from an early age, why she started HR Rebooted, and she gives us a teaser for her presentation at SHRM19! Jon and Wendy also share their 4 words for the year. Tracie's recommendation: https://twitter.com/KatrinaKibben How to reach Tracie: https://twitter.com/traciespon https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciesponenberg/ https://hrrebooted.com/ Be sure to join us the 4th Sunday of each month at 7 PM Eastern for the #HRSocialHour chat on Twitter!