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EPISODE · Mar 29, 2026 · 25 MIN

301: Continuous Employee Listening with Nick Montalbine

from Manage Smarter · host C. Lee Smith and Audrey Strong

Discover how continuous employee listening can transform your organization’s culture and business results with insights from Nick Montalbine, founder of Inner Voice Analytics and former HR strategist at Nike. In this episode, Nick unpacks actionable strategies to turn employee feedback into performance intelligence, prevent turnover contagion, and create engagement that lasts. "The inner voice exists in all these organizations, and we just sometimes we don't acknowledge it, we don't listen to it because it may take our strategy in a different direction and maybe inconvenient at the time but the repercussions are large by not listening." - Nick Montalbine KEY TAKEAWAYS: -Why traditional employee surveys don't work anymore -Implementing continuous listening techniques -Other ways to get transparent employee sentiment -Early warning indicators you have no idea what your teams really think CONNECT WITH NICK MONTALBINE www.innervoiceanalytics.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickmontalbine/ CONNECT WITH MANAGE SMARTER         Website: https://salesfuel.com/manage-smarter/·         LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audreystrong/                                               LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cleesmith/ X: Audrey https://x.com/tallmediamaven Lee  https://x.com/cleesmith Connect with SalesFuel      Website:  https://salesfuel.com/        X: https://x.com/SalesFuel        Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/salesfuel/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover how continuous employee listening can transform your organization’s culture and business results with insights from Nick Montalbine, founder of Inner Voice Analytics and former HR strategist at Nike. In this episode, Nick unpacks actionable strategies to turn employee feedback into performance intelligence, prevent turnover contagion, and create engagement that lasts. "The inner voice exists in all these organizations, and we just sometimes we don't acknowledge it, we don't listen to it because it may take our strategy in a different direction and maybe inconvenient at the time but the repercussions are large by not listening." - Nick Montalbine KEY TAKEAWAYS: -Why traditional employee surveys don't work anymore -Implementing continuous listening techniques -Other ways to get transparent employee sentiment -Early warning indicators you have no idea what your teams really think CONNECT WITH NICK MONTALBINE www.innervoiceanalytics.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickmontalbine/ CONNECT WITH MANAGE SMARTER         Website: https://salesfuel.com/manage-smarter/·         LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audreystrong/                                               LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cleesmith/ X: Audrey https://x.com/tallmediamaven Lee  https://x.com/cleesmith Connect with SalesFuel      Website:  https://salesfuel.com/        X: https://x.com/SalesFuel        Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/salesfuel/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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