Paul Marciano- Author: Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principle of Respect
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Dr. Paul Marciano is a clinical psychologist who has consulted to organizations on workforce productivity and conducted extensive research into human motivation. Pauldiscusses his new book “Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT”. He explains the difference between motivating and engaging employees. He also discusses the limitations of traditional pay for performance approaches that ignore the deeper factors that inspire many people far more than money.
Find out what RESPECT means to employees – this week on Business Execution radio.
Richard Donkin- Author: The Future of Work
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Richard Donkin has studied the nature of work for over 20 years as a columnist for the Financial Times focusing on work and employment, and as a regular contributorto Human Resources Magazine. Richard talks about his new book, The Future of Work. He discusses how trends in workforce demographics, social networking, and performance measurement are turning employees into suppliers: people who view work as something they do for themselves as much as they do it for others. How is work changing and what does it mean for you – find out this week on Business Execution Radio.
Todd Raphael- ERE Media: Four changes transforming how companies recruit talent
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Todd Raphael is chief Editor in Chief at ERE Media, a leading provider of information on talent acquisition and recruiting. Todd discusses what companies are doingto build the workforces required to support their business strategies, and explains four issues that are driving major changes in the world of recruiting:
· The rise of social media. Social media allows companies to fulfill the vision of maintaining external candidate pools. But it poses challenges on how to differentiate your company’s message from the large amount of job information bombarding candidates.
· Growing use of contingent workers. Contingent and temporary workers have become a significant portion of many company’s workforce. This poses challenges around how to effectively select and retain employees “who aren’t actually employees”.
· The aging workforce. We still aren’t getting any younger. Companies have known about the aging workforce for more than a decade, but now that they are starting to retire companies are grappling with what it means to lose large numbers of your most skilled employees.
· Greater need for skills translation. As the economy shifts we are seeing surpluses of workers in certain sectors (e.g., construction) and shortages in others (e.g., healthcare). Leading companies are finding ways to transition candidates from one sector of the economy to another.
Want insight into the next generation of recruiting techniques? Listen to Todd Raphael, this week on BizX Radio!
Steven T. Hunt, Ph.D.- SuccessFactors: What you should go back and listen to again from 2010
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Dr. Steve Hunt, the host of Business Execution Radio provides a short recap of shows recorded in 2010. He summarizes some of the topics addressed this year and specific shows worth revisiting. This includes:
Using social media to drive business results: Suzy Tonini (episode 76) and Ross Fubini (86)
High performance work environments: Paul Limbrey (83)
Leveraging HRIS technology for Business Execution: Nick MacIlvane (81)
Decreasing biases in hiring, pay, and promotion decisions: Tony Greenwald (89)
Employee confidence and company performance: Jeffrey Saltzman (87) & Scott Brooks (84)
Getting from strategy to execution: Nilofer Merchant (88)
Workspaces, telecommuting and business performance: Glenn Dirks (78) & Georgia Perkey (80)
Influence of performance measurement on business execution: Dean Spitzer (77) & Jahn Ballard (79)
This is a just a small portion the valuable content in our archives. We look forward to continuing this dialogue as we move into 2011. Let us know if there are topics or guests or you would like hear on Business Execution Radio as we move into our 3rd year on the air.
Ken DeMeuse, Ph.D. – Korn/Ferry: The influence of learning agility on business results
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Dr. Ken DeMeuse is Associate Vice President of Research for Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting, the division of Korn/Ferry that includes Lominger products and services. Ken explains the concept of learning agility and how it impact leadership and business execution. Drawing on extensive qualitative andquantitative research, he discusses the 5 major aspects of learning agility and their influence on performance. Of particular interest is Ken’s description of the limitations of learning agility and examples showing how high learning agility can actually hurt performance in some situations.
Learning agility is increasingly considered to be one of the major predictors of leadership potential. Find out what it is, how to measure it, and its advantages and disadvantages this week on Business Execution Radio.
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Enrique Washington- Generator Group: Getting the talent you need to execute.
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Enrique Washington, co-founder of Generator Group discusses methods for ensuring your company has the talent needed to support its business strategies. Drawing on his extensive experience in recruiting, Enrique discusses what line managers need to do to ensure they have access to the right talent at the right time. He also provides insight into what it takes to find and hire the best candidates.
Find out how to get the “right people on the bus” – this week on Business Execution Radio.
Brian Fieser- 3D Results: Utilizing talent technology to align company culture and business strategy
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Brian Fieser, Partner at 3D Results discusses how companies are leveraging technology enabled talent
management process to drive meaningful culture change. 3D Results is a consulting company that focuses on helping organizations define and create cultures that support their business strategies. Their approach emphasizes the use of systematic, scalable processes as tools for change. They have a particularly strong area of expertise around the use of SuccessFactors business execution technology.
If you have ever wondered how to align company culture or “how we do things around here” with business strategies or “what we need to get done”, then you will enjoy listening to Brian Fieser, this week on Business Execution Radio.
Peter Howes- SuccessFactors: Why workforce planning and analytics matters for business execution
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Peter Howes, Vice President at SuccessFactors shares insights about workforce planning and analytics and why it matters for business performance. As founder of Infohrm,
the leading workforce analytics company in the world, Peter has extensive experience helping companies leverage data as a tool for increasing productivity and decreasing workforce costs. He provides several stories that illustrate the financial value of using data to better understand who is working for you, their level of performance, and what motivates them.
Here is an opportunity to learn about workforce planning and analytics from a person who in many ways created the field itself. Find out what it takes to transform static workforce data into insightful, business relevant results: this week on Business Execution Radio.
Tony Greenwald- University of Washington: Reducing business risks created by biased talent management processes
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Tony Greenwald, Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington discusses the impact unintentional biases have on talent management practices. Tony invented the Implicit Association Test (IAT). The IAT shows how unconscious biases create hiring, promotion and pay decisions that adversely impact certain demographic groups. Tony’s research on decision making biases is perhaps best known among the general public because it is discussed at length in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book “Blink”. Tony explains why companies continuously struggle with issues of adverse impact and the legal and operational risks this has on business execution. He provides suggestions on how to reduce bias in performance management processes, but notes that there is no simple single solution.
Fair and consistent treatment of people regardless of ethnicity, age, and gender is critical to any company wishing to fully leverage the capabilities of its workforce. This topic extends well beyond the business world, and has significant legal and social implications as well. Learn why biases persist, their impact and how to minimize the risks they create from the world’s leading expert in this area – this week on Business Execution radio.
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Nilofer Merchant- Rubicon: Building strategies with business execution in mind
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Nilofer Merchant is CEO of Rubicon Consulting and author of the book “The New How: creating business solutions through collaborative strategy”. Nilofer discusses fundamental flaws in the methodsfrequently used to develop business strategies. These flaws make it extremely difficult to move from planning to implementation. Sharing wisdom based on extensive experience in strategic planning, Nilofer explains several key concepts and techniques for creating strategies with execution in mind.
Which of the following is good approach for creating business strategies: a. murder boarding, b. building air sandwiches, c. creating a chief of answers, or d. none of the above? Hear the answer this week on Business Execution Radio.
