The Workplace Communication Podcast

After listening to a recent podcast episode, my mentor commented that there wasn't a single sign of the mountains of struggles I've been dealing with this past year. She said I sounded competent, together and professional. I should hope so. Ha! But it also led me to reflect on why. Why was the podcast episode the polished version of me? Was I trying to portray success and perfection and hiding wha...

After working 60-hour weeks for multiple years and laying off 100s of people, Jerome Myers realized that despite his long list of accomplishments, his work lacked a sense of significance. By creating a business and career that brought purpose to his work, Jerome discovered that when you are passionate about what you do and are using your talents, the need to seek balance naturally disappears. On t...

Mark C. Crowley had a tumultuous childhood. His mother died when he was very young, spiraling his father into years of abusive behaviour towards Mark. A few days after Mark graduated from high school, his dad kicked him out onto the streets. As a top finance and banking exec, Mark's journey towards heart-led leadership began years and years before he had ever realized that his focus on leading fro...

Workplace communication can often give rise to conflict as people intensely share and defend different opinions on topics they are passionate about. When not addressed effectively, these differences of opinion can start to affect how we treat one another. How do we find common ground so we can start moving towards one another instead of dividing further? On this episode of The Workplace Communicat...

The golden rule that you should treat others the way you want to be treated yourself never quite made sense to Julie Pham. What if the way you like to be treated doesn't quite hit the mark with others? As CEO and Founder of CuriosityBased and author of 7 Forms of Respect, Julie's research has redefined the meaning of respect, as a dynamic, subjective concept that means different things to differen...

When a decade of building a reputation as a networking expert became irrelevant overnight, as in-person events disappeared, Robbie Samuels swiftly shifted his focus to virtual events building a thriving six-figure business based on all-new revenue streams. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, Robbie and I discuss concrete steps that you can implement today to build a successful...

As a teenager who found his way into some pretty dark places over the years, Michael King felt like a misfit. When he began dating the youth pastor's daughter (yikes!), he somehow found his way to church. He found a place where he belonged. Following the footsteps of his youth pastor, he eventually became a pastor himself, ultimately working with leadership pipelines and successfully leading a lar...

According to Marlene Chism, conflict isn't the problem - mismanagement of conflict is. If you think of almost any conflict you've ever had, it can be traced back to a conversation that should have happened but didn't. As the author of From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading, Marlene joins us on this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, Marlene joins us to talk a...

Do you have clarity on your priorities to an extent that it is easy to make daily decisions on when to accept requests for your time? While many experts talk about the importance of saying no and others teach how to say no, Don Khouri, Executive Coach at Khouri Coaching, noticed that the real problem is that we don't like to say no. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, as author...

Having spent many years as the only woman executive on a team, Teresa Vozza spent much of her time looking to men as her role models. It was only after hitting the ER for a severe burnout that she could see the gender inequity and patriarchal systems that keep women from finding full command of their voice and their message. This was an episode that spoke straight to my heart. Join Teresa and I fo...

  Marc Reifenrath started Spinutech as a Junior in College. By tapping into common sense, he built a company that experienced zero turnover in its first 10 years. ZERO!!!! As Spinutech reached a phase of rapid growth, he realized that the speed and rate of recruitment were negatively impacting the culture of his organization. Marc has spent 17 years perfecting Spinutech's now formalized onboarding...

After getting passed over time and time again for promotions, feeling disrespected and even invisible at times, Ivna Currie, knew that something needed to change. She realized that she'd been taught to be a people pleaser – and that it wasn't getting her what she wanted in life. Ivna devoted herself to learning how to be more assertive. She ultimately got so good at it that she now helps misunders...

Odell Bizzell's career journey has spanned everything from high school candy store mogul to prison guard to Communication Expert. The common thread across all of his professional and personal experiences has been finding how we can all have a true impact through the decisions we make in our lives – impact on our culture, our communities, and our companies. It's our day-to-day conversations that sp...

As an educator, Barry found himself faced with a student who had just admitted that he'd missed course deadlines because he had a gambling problem and had stolen $300 from his sports team. In that moment, Barry had two choices. He could use his authority to scold the student for making bad choices. Or he could choose to try to see beyond his bad decision and truly connect with the student's common...

"What does good connection look like to you?". Rather than assuming what is needed for teams to work well together remotely, it's a question that McKenna Sweazey suggests be asked to all team members. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, McKenna shares tips on rewriting virtual communication, feedback and connection from her soon-to-be-published book: How to Win Friends and Mana...

Do you find yourself facing a case of the Sunday scaries as each weekend winds down, dreading going back to work the next day? How can we all find a space where we're excited about the contributions we make to the world each day through our work? According to Amy Lynn Durham, Founder/Spiritual Business Coach at Create Magic at Work it comes from combining the serious inner work we all need for max...

No matter how hard we may try to control business outcomes, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan. In fact, sometimes, things go so far off the tracks that we may be drawn to protect ourselves – to hide all possible traces of our missteps. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, we're talking with Alyssa Cox, Founder at Blue Swift Consulting about how taking an intentional...

Succeeding in a global business environment isn't as easy as one might think. It's not as straightforward as knowing that there's a market for your product or service. Global expansion requires building strategic partnerships, having negotiation skills that respect cultural boundaries and knowing how to build and maintain trust with employees and customers from multicultural backgrounds. On this e...

Is being data-driven something that you use to describe yourself? Have you ever stopped to reflect on where data may be driving your decisions in the wrong direction? On how it can so commonly be influenced by how it's gathered and the assumptions and bias that we unknowingly build into our data. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, Tim Cakir, Growth Consultant shares how a data...

The COVID-19 pandemic has completely reshaped the role of HR in the workplace. From navigating employee relations to health and safety to staying on top of ongoing compliance changes, the vital role of HR professionals has been more evident than ever before. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, we're talking with Neil Cosby, Senior Executive HR Consultant at HR Covered, who shar...

"Are you in it for the money and the position, or are you in it because you want to be of service to your team and help them to be the best that they can be?" On this episode of the Workplace Communication Podcast, Michelle Ray, Founder and Leadership Expert at Lead Yourself First Enterprises talks about how it's time to take a real hard look at how the values that drive organizations and leaders...

If there was one thing that Patrick Cootes could change in the world, it would be changing human psychology so that having your beliefs challenged would be an enjoyable experience. Imagine a world in which everyone simply loved learning. Where conversations about difference of opinion drew people together rather than pushed them apart. Where everyone took time to reflect on new perspectives and wa...

Whether you love it, hate it, or are somewhere in between, video calls and virtual meetings are undoubtedly here to stay. Heck, my kids don't even know how to hold a phone up to their ear so they can hear the person talking. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, we're talking with Lauren Sergy, Communication and Public Speaking Expert at Up Front Communication about all things vi...

You're in a management position and yet, you've never been trained on how to manage people. Yikes, right? How do you inspire people to follow your leadership? More importantly, how do you do this when you're not even confident that you should have been promoted in the first place? On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast , Michael Teape, Co-Founder and Lead Trainer at Teape Training...

Work from home.  Return to the office.  Work from home.  Return to the office.  Work from home.  Return to the office.  Regardless of your preference between the two, it's a dance that most everyone has long become fed up with. Join us on this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast as we talk with Simon Trevarthen, Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer at Elevate Your Greatness, as we expl...