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Forging Employee Experience
by Blaze Performance
Employee engagement is dead. Employee Experience in a traditional office is dead. If you, like all leaders post COVID-19, need to make split decisions that drive the best digital employee experience (DEX), this podcast delivers on all the latest and greatest strategies that top companies are implementing today. Join our host, David Williams, as he helps you to retain your top talent during these challenging times. www.forgeant.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blazeperformance/support
Episodes
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How COVID-19 Reshaped the Employee Experience with Ben Eubanks
On any given normal workday, we see our employees come into the office and go about their work. Their mere presence at work tells us a lot more than we think. If an employee shows up at work, then they are not too sick to get out of bed, at the hospital, taking care of their children, or caring…
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REFORGE Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Josh and Alexander recap the amazing content Dr. Tomas shared on his recent episode. Come learn from the best and brightest minds of this generation as it relates to the future of work and designing a better employee experience. For more info visit Dr. Tomas' website: https://drtomas.com/
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80% of Employee Experience is Determined by Managers, with Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Managers hold power. They have the ability to control and regulate the daily life of an employee. Their administrative mandate to observe, review, and divvy out work implicitly gives them the ability to determine how and when an employee works. Furthermore, the human condition subconsciously…
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Ending Human Trafficking with Employee Engagement with Gabrielle Thompson
As far as titles go, the above might be slightly melodramatic. Nevertheless, it’s one hundred percent valid. In a recent podcast with Gabrielle Thompson, CEO of Free for Life International, we had the opportunity to discuss how her organization’s mission is the identification, assistance, and...
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Eureka! How to Create an Award-winning Culture with Dr. Laura Wendt
We’re all very familiar with the phrase “the customer is always right.” So familiar, that no one could use it in a legitimate business scenario and be taken seriously. We’ve heard it so many times that it’s lost its value. Which, objectively speaking, is a shame because the statement is a…
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Err on the Side of Kindness With Company Culture With Kristen Harcourt
For being entrenched in a society with so much change, we love the status quo. By default, most people prefer to find a situation that they are comfortable with and stay there. It takes so much incentive to force a behavioral change that entire industries have been built around getting people to…
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REFORGE Andrew Saidy
On a recent podcast, Andrew Saidy, the VP of Talent Digitization at Schneider Electric, shared his experiences of how his company has leaned into this idea of accommodating for an employee’s entire well-being. By realizing that the notions of “personal life” and “work life” are becoming less and...
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Engaged Employees Are Better For Business with Andrew Saidy
Organizations that feel a sensible desire to keep shareholders happy, will continuously be looking for ways to decrease costs. Cutting costs is an extremely important element to running a business. Unfortunately, we sometimes get in to trouble cutting costs in place that end up costing money in…
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REFORGE Howard Ross
In a recent podcast with nationally recognized diversity advocate and consultant Howard Ross, he likened the workplace to a party. When we try and figure out what is going to make a party successful, we have to analyze a person’s entire party experience. It isn’t enough to just throw a great…
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Fixing Employee Engagement with Howard Ross
Congratulations! You, like so many before, have finally admitted that your organization’s culture isn’t fantastic and most of your workforce isn’t engaged. Maybe those survey results finally came in or maybe you were hired because there is a culture problem. Either way, you find yourself leading...
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REFORGE: Christine Comaford
Christine Comaford, Founder of SmartTribes Institute, discusses the idea that while clearly, it’s better if employee engagement strategies are well-received, if people are deriding the company’s efforts – at least they are engaging. When people make fun of something it shows an emotional…
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When Employees Mock Your Employee Engagement Strategies with Christine Comaford
Most employee engagement strategies are uninformed shots in the dark implemented in good faith. Best case scenario, these efforts happen to alleviate the particular frustration that the employee base was experiencing. What a win! Worse case, you’ve made a gesture that proves to everyone that the...
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REFORGE: Mary Faulkner
In a recent podcast, Mary Faulkner, author of Surviving Leadership Blog, brings up the most important question to avoid on employee engagement surveys. She says that companies must absolutely stop asking questions about things they are completely unwilling (or unable) to change. All too often...
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What Not to Ask On Your Employee Engagement Survey with Mary Faulkner
Employee Engagement surveys have become a backbone to understanding and maintaining the mental and emotional health of an organization. They are an excellent way to begin the journey of creating the employee experience that will finally boost those low engagement scores. One of the trickiest…
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REFORGE: Tamra Chandler
In a recent podcast with Tamra Chandler, founder and CEO of PeopleFirm, she spoke about one of the main obstacles with seeing big improvements in employee engagement is the fact that many of today’s corporate leaders are used to how it’s always been. They earned their success in past decades at a...
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Why Employee Engagement Has Continued to Stagnate with Tamra Chandler
For the past several decades, we have been surveying employees. On a typically annual basis, most organizations send out a survey to ascertain the sentiment of the workforce. These surveys often serve the primary purpose of helping to identify large trends or themes in an organization that should...
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REFORGE: Kate Bischoff
In a recent podcast, Kate Bischoff spoke to this idea that feedback is a healthy part of any organization. She commented that part of maintaining a culture of respect is that idea that feedback can (and should) be provided when individuals disagree. Furthermore, organizations must absolutely…
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When Diversity Hurts Employee Engagement with Kate Bischoff
The need for a diverse and inclusive workplace has become a research-based fact. A workforce that have a generally the same background and experiences isn’t going to be as competitive as organizations that bring true thought diversity. But is there such a thing as too diverse? Well not really…
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REFORGE: Amy Cappellanti-Wolf
In a recent podcast with Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, CHRO of Symantec, she details some of the problems companies face as they strive to be more transparent. Equipped with direct-to-employee communication technology like email and intranets, executives are opening the firehose and pouring out…
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Why Information Control and Engagement Are So Critical with Amy Cappellanti-Wolf
The hierarchical structure of the workplace has been the norm for far too long. Born of necessity, this method of organizing management allows those in any leadership role to act as information gatekeepers. The only way to get information up the organization is to hope that these gatekeepers…
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Extreme Employee Engagement with John Baldino
All too often when we think of organizations that have incredible employee experiences, we might think that these companies just give the employees whatever they want. In some cases, that’s true, there are some organizations where the sky’s the limit as far benefits and perks are concerned....
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REFORGE: Tayo Rockson
In a recent podcast with Tayo Rockson, diversity and inclusion consultant and author of Use Your Difference to Make a Difference, spoke to the idea of intentionality as a huge barrier to progress in creating a more diverse and inclusive workplaces. He detailed that organizations can’t simply…
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Improve Employee Experience with Diversity AND Inclusion with Tayo Rockson
No one would ever say that Diversity and Inclusion isn’t important. No one would ever say that they aren’t trying to have a more diverse and inclusive workplace. And yet, we still have issues with both diversity and inclusion. Organizations that are not diverse will not perform as well as those...
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REFORGE: Joe Hirsch
In recent podcast with Joe Hirsch Managing Director of Semaca Partners, we had the opportunity to discuss the ever popular, Feedback Sandwich. One of the most common ways to provide negative feedback is to “soften the blow” by sandwiching the negative feedback between two compliments. While a...
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Most Feedback Hurts Employee Engagement with Joe Hirsch
In an effort to further the development of direct reports, management often attempts to provide effective feedback. While these efforts are usually accompanied with the best of intentions, by and large, they act as a detriment to the overall employee experience. Feedback is one of those tools…
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REFORGE: Kasper Hulthin
Kasper is the CoFounder of the leading employee engagement platform, Peakon. Learn more at www.peakon.com
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Survey Data and the Employee Experience with Kasper Hulthin
Despite the overwhelming advances in technology, we still haven’t made much progress in really knowing what people are thinking. While machine powered analytics can parse through an ocean of data to give insights on behaviors and tendencies, if we really want to know what someone is thinking –...
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REFORGE: Tom Krieglstein
Listen to a fun and engaging recap of our amazing conversation with Tom Krieglstein.
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Employee Experience Matters with Tom Krieglstein
The easiest solution to the handling employee engagement is to ignore it. The details and intricacy of understanding how people feel and adjusting to those feelings requires a great deal of effort and time. It requires a shift in mindset and a not small amount of awareness. So by and large,...
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REFORGE: Lindsay McGregor
Alexander and Josh review the wonderful work of Lindsay McGregor. They discuss TOMO, or total motivation, from the frame of the 3 Ps Join us on another reforging episode!
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TOMO! with Lindsay McGregor
Motivation. If you can understand what motivates your employees, you’ll have summarily solved your organizations engagement problem. Unfortunately, the journey of understanding each employee’s individual source of motivation is long and difficult. While everyone is motivated by something, sources...
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REFORGE: Bek Chee
Despite our audio problems to get this episode started, we talk through the amazing chat we had with Bek Chee.
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Crafting the Employee Experience with Bek Chee, Head of Talent, Atlassian
Often the story of poor employee engagement seems connected with companies that have been around for a long time. Typically, these organizations hold on to how things have always been done. With such a long history, it’s no surprise that there is a resistance to new processes and crafting a new...
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REFORGE: Michael Beck
Listen to this great recap that Josh and Alexander put on the episode with Michael Beck. For more information visit www.forgeant.com. We'll see you there!
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Employee Engagement Is Not a Generational Problem with Michael Beck
My knee-jerk reaction is to blame the Employee Engagement epidemic on the increase of Millennials in the workforce. Though they may complain the loudest, they can’t be fairly pegged as the culprits behind the low engagement in the workspace. Looking at the Gallup numbers around 80% of employees...
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REFORGE: Andria Ink
In this episode we discuss the great learning outcomes from Andria's podcast. Andria is an expert at practically applying the principles of Employee Engagement, we'd hate for you to miss out on her perspective. For more information, listen to the full interview....
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No Excuse for Slow Moving Employee Engagement with Andria Ink
The Employee Engagement industry is filling up with software solutions that enable organizations to more quickly implement effective Employee Engagement initiatives. However, even in organizations where this software is being used, companies tend to move slowly when trying to affect change that...
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REFORGE: Kevin Kruse
Join us as we delve in to the learning outcomes of Kevin Kruse's podcast. He shared some wonderful insights and we tease out the most applicable and relevant here so you can take what you need and get back to work. These REFORGE episodes will be posted after every guest so feel free to listen up…
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Employee Engagement Comes From a Company's Vision with Kevin Kruse
Boosting Employee Engagement scores don’t happen with the thoughtless purchase of more employee perks. This comes as both good and bad news for organizations looking to increase the engagement levels of their employees. On the one hand, the research shows that simply buying stuff for employees...
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The Neuroscience Behind Employee Experience with Scott Halford
We begin to get a feel for a room from the first step we take inside. We feel temperature, light, air quality, and aesthetics. After spending time co-occupying that space with other people, we begin to feel and sense a group vibe. We’ve all been to parties that should be awesome but aren’t or...
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People Analytics Can Distract From the Employee Experience with Lewis Garrad
Over the last couple of decades, Employee Engagement has started to become more and more important to companies. Early data showed how much time and energy companies lost to a disengaged workforce. In recent years, organizations have started making huge efforts to fix the Employee Engagement...
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The Most Important Word of Employee Engagement with Henry Albrecht
Henry Albrecht is the founder of Limeade, an employee engagement platform that builds great places to work by improving well-being and strengthening workplace culture. He has led the company from an idea in his basement to a high-growth, industry-leading employee engagement technology company…
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3 Crucial Elements for the Ultimate Employee Experience, with Jacob Morgan
Jacob Morgan is a 3x Best-Selling Author, Futurist, and Leading Keynote Speaker on the Future of Work, Leadership, and most importantly, Employee Experience. He works with global organizations around the world ranging from Samsung, Prudential, Microsoft, Salesforce, Disney, MasterCard, and many...
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Moving People Analytics Into Action with Jeff Jolton, PwC
To engage their employees, organizations must give them a voice. In our most recent podcast with Jeffrey Jolton, we talked about the importance of reaching out to employees through surveys and what it means to actually listen to the responses. Jeffrey is the managing director of...
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Employee Engagement 2.0 with Casey Wahl
Casey Wahl is the CEO of Attuned, a company that he started while living in Tokyo, Japan, and he has been there ever since. He is extremely passionate about the employee experience and making sure that employers understand very clearly the intrinsic motivations of their employees. Attuned helps…
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2 Formulas For Employee Engagement Success with Eric Rowlee
Eric is the Director of Change, Training and Communication at Walmart. Let's all just keep in mind that Walmart employees are over 2.1 million people world wide. That's about 1.4 million in the United States alone. He's got his work cut out for him. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology…
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7 Cultural Pillars of Employee Engagement with Eric Chester
Engaging employees is synonymous with retaining employees, and engaging employees is on the forefront of moving companies forward. In our most recent podcast with Eric Chester, we talked about how to both manage and retain employees. Eric is the author of On Fire at Work: Great Companies Ignite...
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Unlocking Self-Determination Theory with Dr. Scott Rigby
As it turns out, employees are humans. Like all humans, they have needs, and these needs need to be fulfilled. In our most recent podcast with Dr. Scott Rigby we talk about the fulfillment needs of employees and how they become assets to the company. Dr. Scott Rigby is a behavioral scientist,...
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Building Employee Experience with Trystin Bailey
Trystin is the Director of Employee Experience at Huge INC and shared some amazing insights with us on how to build an employee experience that will make your employees feel like you care about them. Included in this episode are themes around Employee empowerment, building a level of community…
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Making Employee Engagement Personal with Mary Miller
An engaged workforce keeps the company moving forward, and keeping employees engaged in their job is a challenge companies have faced for decades. Our most recent podcast with Mary Miller, CEO of Jancoa Janitorial Services, discussed the concept of the issue of focusing on happiness that leads to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Employee engagement is dead. Employee Experience in a traditional office is dead. If you, like all leaders post COVID-19, need to make split decisions that drive the best digital employee experience (DEX), this podcast delivers on all the latest and greatest strategies that top companies are implementing today. Join our host, David Williams, as he helps you to retain your top talent during these challenging times. www.forgeant.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blazeperformance/support
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