Bias Check-In

September is SIOP’s Smarter Workplace Awareness Month! Join us this week as we take a look at the workplace trends of this year and some blasts from the past - all to start preparing to look ahead to SIOP 2023 - Boston, Let’s Check-In!

Should you listen to pre-recorded lectures if you want to learn the best? Color code your notes? Create practical examples? What does it mean to learn things well? Some could say it depends on your learning style; some could say it’s all hodge-podge. Let’s Check-In!

Is DEI dead? Are we over it? Join us this week as we look at the state of DEI in organizations, what DEI is v. what it ought to be, Rooney Rules, hiring quotas, and the ever-present chance to make mistakes. Let's Check-In! 

PSLs are brewing and school is back in session! Join us for this week’s #WorkAITA compilation on some of the most challenging jobs in the world - teaching and parenting. We talk through child performance reviews, PTA nightmares, double standards, and minimal boundaries to be found. Let’s Check-In!

Is it burnout? Is it the manager’s fault? Employee disengagement? Or is it the latest buzz, quiet quitting? Let’s Check-In!

Join the huddle and anchor down - this episode circles back to the MBA debate, ballparks some strategies, and evaluate if, after all the synergies, the returns are worth the risk when it comes to B-school. No clue what you just read? Let's Check-In! 

Careers are supposed to be...a lot of things, but linear is seldom one. Join us as we look at steps, jumps and moves from the first internship to retirement - and of course, the assumptions that go along with each stage. Let's Check-In!

What happens when others at work decide not only to have opinions about others' bodies but to voice them too? Well, you get this episode of workplaces AITA - Let's Check In!

Whether you are a student, professor, or happily out of academia - tune in this week as we dissect part-time and adjunct professorships, and give our two cents on how colleges ought to change next. Let's Check-In!

Workplace integrity - Is there a middle ground between sticks in the mud and... well, problematic? Do I really need to be sick to use sick days? Ethical dilemmas are fun, we promise. Don't believe us? Let's Check-In!

A week after 7/11 day, join us as we talk about all things service, retail, and blue-collar work - surface and deep acting, Disney cast members,  the increasing violence employees are exposed to, and some more. Let's Check-In! 

What to do when your coworker takes their opinions on your life too far? And what if a date is so proud of their career, they don't consider yours? Finally, what will we do with all the pandemic kittens and puppies who are now full pets, without being the a*ole? Let's Check-In!

Let's Check-In with our thoughts regarding the overturning of Roe v. Wade, access to services, bodily autonomy, and financial independence. Thank you for listening.

How many jobs have we changed in the past 2 years? How many new coworkers? As the Great Resignation consolidates and the economy slows down, we explore more nuances of the current job market. Let's Check-In!

"Bring your whole self to work": what is your reaction when you hear this? Of course? No thank you? Either is valid - but the workplace results will be very different, and it all depends on your psychological safety at work. Let's Check-In!

Office crushes, coworkers flirting... More often than not, love is in the air, from the board room to the break room. Join us this week as we talk through office romances and the pros and cons of mixing work and play. Let's Check-In!

Happy Monday and welcome to June's AITA episode where, much like The Clash, anonymous redditors wonder: should I withstand the coworkers one more day? Should I quit already? Am I the office a***ole? Ok, maybe the lyrics were not quite as we remember them...Let's Check-In! 

Happy MDW! Join us on this short week as we debate age-old questions like... Should this have been an email? Should we have an agenda? How many meetings are too many meetings? Can they tell I stopped listening? Let's Check-In!

Can you recognize all the red flags when it comes to the workplace? Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWBs) can be very apparent as well as subtle! Join us for this week's Back to Basics as we talk through the most infamous and the lesser-known. Let's Check-In!

Join us as we consider the implications of the recently leaked Supreme Court decision repealing #RoeVWade, and what that means for the #workplace - from the water cooler to the board room. Let's Check-In!

This week we take a deeper look into pay transparency, recording conversations, and how payback can look a little like retaliation. So, who is the Office A**hole? Let's Check-In!

Live from the Seattle studio/hotel room, join us as we reflect on this year's SIOP conference, with all of its "firsts": first in-person attendance, first presentation, first impressions... and most importantly, where do we go from here? Let's Check-In! 

Happy SIOP conference week! Whether you are listening from Seattle, tuning in from your living room, or not attending for this year - we need to know where we are coming from to plan where we want to go. Join us as we explore the desire for recognition at the roots of SIOP's origin story, and Let's Check-In!

How does one go from learner to teacher? Join us this week as we talk learning and development, trainings, lesson goals and objectives, and more. Let’s Check-In!

Are we the drama? Is off boarding ever a pleasant, or even an OK-ish experience? Join us for a slightly different AITA episode where the workplace tension hits close to home as Claudia walks us through resignation 101 - best practices v reality. Let’s Check-In!