The Talent Planner Podcast

Who owns the talent in your organization? Who is the person responsible for making sure you have the right talent in the right seats to execute your strategy and achieve your vision? Is it Human Resources?  Operations?  Company Leader? Leadership Team? The answer to that question is essential for growing companies.  If no one in your organization officially owns talent, how will you solve your peo...

As leaders, we are facing the greatest employee shortage in history.   At the end of June 2021, there were a record 10+ million positions open.   In today’s podcast, I discuss how talent planning can solve any employee shortages you are experiencing in your company.

This podcast will help you optimize each team member's performance and your organization's overall performance moving forward (post-pandemic). The three steps to reboarding your team to optimize post-pandemic performance are: Process launch meeting to give an overview of the process and distribute the questionnaire ( click here to download questionnaire ) Have a one-on-one with each team...

Three words no one wants to hear: You have cancer. I heard those three words on October 15th, 2020. Since then, I've battled cancer and found out two weeks ago that I'm 100% cancer-free. On today's podcast, I share my battle with cancer and relate it to the fact that many people have faced a significant emotional event through the pandemic that has changed them, as cancer did for me...

Today's episode is going to be different.  Instead of me interviewing someone, I'll be getting interviewed by Stop The Vanilla's marketing manager, Jordan Ogren. In this episode, he asks me: What was leadership like for me early on? What does leadership look like now for me? What were the inciting events that made me see leadership in a different light? How can someone implement Tot...

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There's an adage that it can be lonely at the top . But I believe that leaders can be lonely at every stage—whether you're the CEO or a manager of two. And this pandemic has only increased that feeling of loneliness.  Spending eight to nine hours a day in the same room and at the same desk takes a toll on your mental and social health.  So how do you combat the feeling of loneliness as a...

2020 has been quite a year... While our team is looking forward to turning the page on this challenging year, we have something special to celebrate first: Stop The Vanilla celebrated its 20th anniversary this year! 🎉  And in honor of 20 years in business, in this week's podcast, I share the top 20 things I've learned over 20 years in business. Full list below: 1) To lead others, you fi...

Millions of dollars are invested each year into development programs to enhance organizational performance. Some of these programs cover emotional intelligence, public speaking, or soft skills.  But I rarely hear organizations investing in one crucial area that can significantly boost team performance: Career and life planning.  And in today's podcast, I cover why you need to and how to imple...

This week I have Terry Albrecht on the podcast to discuss how high-growth companies win the battle for talent.  Terry has built an employer of choice culture at Packer Fastener that boasts a 98% retention rate with around 95% of new hires coming from team member referrals .  In today's podcast, we share the next steps to proactively resolve your people issues.  Show notes Click here to learn...

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Do you have someone that can help you think through your career and life decisions? A person who's been there and done that? I know that if I had that resource when I was figuring out my career path I would've had a shorter and less bumpy road. That is why in today’s podcast we are going to cover:  Why we are launching Stop The Vanilla in Your Career and Life Community Facebook Group  Ho...

The Stop the Vanilla in Your Career Process began as a family recipe. I used the process to help each of my four children find a career they will love and are fit for. This week it became a public recipe with the release of the book. And we are already receiving stories of how the book and process are changing lives. In this week's podcast, I speak about three of those stories. Show notes/dow...

In 2017, I took an idea to my Board of Advisors. The idea was not well received and consider a distraction to our strategy of targeting business leaders. That idea to write my second book, Stop the Vanilla in Your Career and Life. Which helps individuals create a career and life plan to love what they do and live the life they want. At the time, I was unclear on how this would also help business l...

Like me, Matt was a part of the 87.7% of the working population that does not describe themselves as passionate about what they do for a living. But after going through the Stop the Vanilla in Your Career and Life process, that changed. Matt is now part of that coveted 12.3% of the population that describe themselves as passionate about what they do. And I am confident his story will inspire hundr...

No one is self-made.  Every successful person has an amazing person or team behind them that helped them achieve the great things they've achieved.  And that is what we are going to talk about in this week’s episode: Why having an accountability partner is crucial to achieving the vision for your career and life and the steps to getting one. In this episode we cover: Why you need an accountab...

How do you want to be remembered? Once it’s all said and done, how do you want your kids, grandkids, coworkers, and others closest to you to remember you when you are gone? In other terms, what is the vision for your career and life? Whether you’ve never spent any time thinking about that question or it’s been a question that’s kept you up at night , I want to share how you can answer that questio...

What if you could know exactly what career you’re supposed to be in?  I’m talking about your dream career  Where you’re doing what you love  And excelling at it because it comes naturally to you  Sounds like a fairy tale, doesn’t it?  In this week’s episode, you’re going to find out how combining the two ingredients you already have will lead you to a list of dream career options.  This is where y...

Look around you at those who excel and dominate in their careers.  How are they able to perform at such a high level? They do three things: They understand their behavioral style They own their behavioral style And they leverage their behavioral style In this week’s episode, you’re going to find out how you can perform at a higher level in your career and life by understanding, owning, and leverag...