Transform Your Workplace

Juggling workplace stress with the daily pressures of family, friends, hobbies, self, and life in general, is a tough feat for employees to achieve. We're getting busier than ever and it causes heavy damage to both work and personal lives. Today, Anna Mieners from Cascade Centers, a company that provides counseling services and organizational consultations, joins us again to talk about work-life b...

There are people working at different locations and at different times. With the advancement in technology, communication tools also have greatly upgraded. Unlike before, we're constrained to finding talent locally, but now we can look for them all across the globe. With this, more and more organizations are adopting the "remote workplace". This meant working from a place where you're focused and...

  "I've never been happier than I am ever since I embraced change." ⁠— John Johnson Many of us prefer the easy path. We find comfort in things that we already understand. When things change too quickly, we tend to go back to the way things were. Change doesn't always feel good. It makes us uncomfortable, but it's essential because the world around us is ever-changing. Our fear of trying something...

Having the right data results in better health outcomes. - Springbuk What if you could identify how many of your employees are at risk of suffering from a disease like stroke, cancer, diabetes, and other health conditions through a software that provides intelligent health data? Sounds great right? It's not very often that we highlight a product within the podcast but this product is just too amaz...

"A bravespace workplace is one where people can show up as they are, both perfect and flawed, and do great things together. " — Moe Carrick   Most workplaces are unfit for human life. Many are still miserable at work. Despite the efforts of good leaders and managers in taking care of their people - investing and training them as well as creating an enjoyable workplace, they still fail. Why is that...

According to the Department of Labor, 70% of mothers with children under the age of 18 participated in the workforce in 2018. In 1975, that number was just 47%. With more mothers in the workplace today, there are more and more families in which both parents are employed. As a result, many of today's parents struggle to accomplish those household tasks that would have been completed during the day...

⁠"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."— Albert Einstein Do you ever hear people say "Sunday nights are the worst because Monday is coming up"? If you're showing up to work but you're not giving your 100%, that may be a sign that you're not on the right path. If you don't like who you're becoming because you're on the wrong path,...

"Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns or mistakes." ⁠— Amy Edmondson   Have you ever had a question you've been dying to ask in a meeting but couldn't because when you look around, everyone is simply nodding their heads, agreeing to everything the boss says?  No one wants to look incompetent or ignorant, especi...

Etiquette rules in the business world differ largely from standard social settings. And many people end up making fools of themselves because they don't understand how things flow in such situations. Mindy Lockard, a Leadership and Etiquette expert who helps people feel confident in their skin and connect with other people, talks about business and workplace etiquette. She also teaches workshops o...

White-collar jobs are just as stressful as blue-collar jobs. Long work hours and work-life balance, to name a few are toxic to employees and destroys their health physically and emotionally. In this episode, we talk about the book - Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance and What We Can Do About It with Anna Meiners. Learn about the infuriating tr...

Here's a stat for you: 65% of employees would forego a raise to see their leader fired. According to Adam Brantley, executive coach at Building Champions, those employees need leaders that coach their people—rather than just telling them what to do. Listen in as we discuss how coaching leadership can change companies for the better, how to bring coaching culture into your own company and the commu...

The workplace is always evolving and companies should think of ways to keep their employee benefits aligned with what their people really want. Benefits offered by companies are crucial for talent attraction and retention. How can companies keep up with the fast-paced, changing needs, and demands of their employees while staying competitive in today's growing marketplace? In this episode with Paig...

This episode features a crossover show with Jon Thurmond and Wendy Dailey of the HR Social Hour Half Hour Podcast. We discuss how they built such a collaborative HR community on Twitter, which HR conferences they love to attend, and trends they are paying attention to that are impacting workplaces all over. Resources Mentioned in the Show: HR Social Hour Half Hour Podcast Jon & Wendy talk to our i...

Where do you stand on mandatory paternity leave? What about publishing everyone's salary at the office? For this special debate-style episode, Xenium's Angela Perkins and Brandon Laws randomly selected hot button HR topics and then picked a side to debate the issue. Listen in as they argue for and against mandatory paid maternity and paternity leave, whether in-house HR or HR outsourcing is best,...

What do baseball and business have in common? According to Mark Greenburg, author of Elevated Leadership - A Pitch by Pitch Guide to Business, Life and Baseball , the answer is...pretty much everything. Listen in as we discuss the parallels he finds in leadership, coaching, even risk-taking, and how that can translate to business. We'll cover what makes a good leader, real-life examples and lesson...

We go behind the scenes and inside Xenium in this episode. Brandon Laws shares the entire blueprint for starting a book group in your organization. You'll discover why you should start one, the benefits you can expect, and how to launch and run an effective book group. -- What did you think of this episode? Share a review on Apple Podcasts  or take our survey . Email Brandon. Laws@xeniumhr.com  or...

Paige Tamlyn joins the podcast to discuss the report from Glassdoor "50 HR and Recruiting Stats for 2019." Paige and Brandon discuss candidate experience, inclusivity, interviewing, and much more! Get the Glassdoor report:  https://resources.glassdoor.com/50-hr-recruiting-stats-2019.html   How to Support this Show: Subscribe on your favorite podcast app (iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, etc.) Review...

Let's talk feedback. Though it's become part of modern workplace culture, Carol Sanford , author of No More Feedback  - Cultivate Consciousness at Work , is on mission to change that. Listen in as she shares her take on feedback—why it's not objective, why it's not necessarily helpful and how it can obscure what needs to be done. We'll discuss ways that employees can look within, own their self-de...

We've all been there. It's Monday morning, the to-do list is a mile long, the in-box is overflowing, and the last thing you want to do is attend the weekly team meeting that's 90% pointless and 10% productive. What's worse is you could have received the information in an email in a fraction of the time.  Don't get me wrong, connecting with your coworkers is important; however, meaningless meetings...

We're changing the name of our podcast to be called Transform Your Workplace .  This Human Resources for Small Business podcast originally began as a resource for organizations to learn HR best practices. But the content and audience has evolved into much more than that.  We're now reaching thousands of HR professionals, owners, executives, and leaders in varying sizes of organization all across t...

There's a lot of talk about bias nowadays. But recognizing it is only the first step. Eliminating bias in the hiring process is critical—but it's not going to be easy. Listen in as we talk with Melissa Dobbins, founder and CEO of Career. Place, as she discusses ways to take action. We'll cover examples of conscious and unconscious bias, ways that early stages of the hiring process have bias built...

The remote vs. in-office debate continues to rage on and HR isn't exempt from the discussion. The in-office side highlights what face-time brings to communication and relationships, while the remote side focuses on productivity and cost-savings. Xenium's Lacey Partipilo and Brandon Laws weigh in—and come to a conclusion that offers the expertise and support of HR with the flexibility and cost-savi...

For years, industry experts have only talked about how millennials will change the workforce. Well, they're here and are making up a large part of the workforce already. But what about this other generation trickling into the workforce? Generation Z : are they a replica of the millennial generation or are they vastly different? That's what Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace sought out to define in t...

As humans, we've never been more connected—or more polarized based on our differences. But there is hope. Howard J. Ross, author of Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart believes the workplace is the answer. He joins us to discuss ways that organizations can encourage communication, create bridges to belonging and bring people with different ideologies together thro...

When it comes to business, change is a given. It's how a company handles it that makes all the difference. Nicole Carey, Senior HR Business Partner at Xenium joins us to discuss change management and how it can get companies from "before" to "after." We'll discuss why and when it's needed, who should champion the change and discuss why it's so important—to your company, your employees, even your c...