Building a Culture Around Training & Technology with Will Hayes

In this week's episode of the podcast, Rob and Lauren sit down with Will Hayes, COO of IDR. Will and the dynamic duo sit down to discuss training, tech adoption, and management's role in this process.    Lauren and Rob are highly impressed with IDR's training setup and are excited & grateful for Will's willingness to share IDR's process. The trio also spoke about: advice on how to shift your companies culture to 1 of learning the importance of incentives and evaluating what behaviors those incentives are driving why your best producers are possibly not your best new employee mentors the importance of laying out potential career journeys the transparency & trust gained by ingraining metrics into the culture of your business Will's book "Take the Stairs" by Rory Vaden. And a gigantic congratulations to Will for being named to SIA's 40 under 40 for 2022! This episode is brought to you by Leap Consulting Solutions & Kyloe Partners. Please remember to rate, review and share the episode. Will graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with a major in International Business. His career at IDR cultivated in January 2008 in the Nashville branch as an IT Recruiter. His next two years were spent as an Account Manager growing IDR’s local portfolio and in June of 2010, he gathered his belongings, moved to Texas and rose to the rank of Vice President of our Dallas office. He is passionate in helping young leaders learn the IT staffing business and believes in his mission to always encourage others to get better. Will has a commitment to creating a positive and successful culture for all those who are around him. IDR is an employee-owned staffing firm that puts people first. We go above and beyond by empowering talent and developing leaders to deliver best-in-class solutions. Founded and headquartered in Atlanta, we’ve grown organically since 1998 to serve businesses and professionals throughout the Nashville, Dallas, Fort Worth, Denver, and Birmingham markets.