Episodes tagged: HR

Elmo Inspired Survey Shows Many Americans Struggling with Mental Health

In this episode Steve discusses how a simple social media post from the beloved Sesame Street character Elmo kicked off a national conversation about mental health.

Listen now

Managing and Engaging a Multi-Generational and Multi-Skilled Workforce

During the conversation they talk about Catherine’s experiences of bringing a culture shift to an organisation with diverse people, needs and locations, helping to create a more engaged and purposeful workforce.

Listen now

The Most Important Factors that Drive Employee Performance

In this episode Steve discusses key findings from new research on employee performance management and what employees value the most in performance management and goal setting processes.

Listen now

New Survey Shows AI Will be Slow to Improve Worker Productivity

In this episode Steve shares findings from a new survey of C-suite executives and employees which shows that while execs expect AI to drive increased productivity, many employees feel unprepared to leverage these new AI tools.

Listen now

Employer Sponsored Healthcare Costs Expected to Surge in 2025

In this episode Steve shares new research from Aon which estimates a 9% rise in employee healthcare costs in 2025 – driven at least in part by the surge in popularity and high cost of GLP-1 weight loss medications.

Listen now

Innovating Mental Health Care through Human Connection

Today, Steve and Trish met with Rett and Austin to talk about modern mental health care for today’s workplace.

Listen now

CEO Compensation Continues to Rise at Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations

In this episode Steve discusses how in many nonprofit healthcare organizations, climbing CEO compensation continues to raise questions about these organization’s commitment to their mission of providing an important community service – accessible, affordable, and quaility healthcare.

Listen now

Retired Billionaire Thinks You Should Not be Working from Home

In this episode Steve discusses recent comments from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt where he attributed Google’s current challenges with their embrace of remote work and attention to employee work/life balance.

Listen now

One Year after “Barbie”, Hollywood is Still Dominated by Male Characters

In this episode Steve shares recent data from the University of Southern California indicating that even after the summer of “Barbie”, Hollywood films are still overwhelmingly dominated by make characters and in leading roles.

Listen now

Workers Being Managed by Algorithms is Nothing New

In this episode Steve discusses technology and algorithms being used to manage and monitor worker performance is not a new phenomenon – and shares an example from his warehouse summer job back in the 1980s.

Listen now