Bench strength is one of your keys to success in business.  When it comes to replacing your superstars, you'd better have some capable folks in your pipeline.  Sylke Chesterfield is a business consultant and coach who gives us some great tips on building a succession plan that will give you a seamless transition when opportunities arise.  Why look outside for help when you can grow your own talent internally?  Sylke will show you how.

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#115: How to Build and Implement a Succession Plan - with Sylke Chesterfield

Employee engagement is a key metric of organizational success.  It's hard to define and even harder to achieve.  Fortunately, we have an expert on this episode that will help us with this issue.  Pamela Hackett is a consultant and author that specializes in engagement.  She just published the book Manage to Engage:  How Great Managers Create Remarkable Results. In this episode, we define engagement, talk about how to achieve it, and discuss how to measure it.  Lots of great info and worth circulating to your management teams as well.

#114: How to Improve Employee Engagement - with Pamela Hackett

Work and fun have typically been considered polar opposites, but according to Dr. Bob Nelson and Mario Tamayo, they can be combined in ways that produce happier, more motivated workers, that produce exceptional results.  Bob and Mario are the authors of Work Made Fun Gets Done:  Easy Ways to Boost Energy, Morale, and Results.  This was a great interview with lots of great data and examples of how companies and organizations have successfully integrated fun into the workplace.

#113: Work Made Fun Gets Done - with Dr. Bob Nelson and Mario Tamayo

As of this date, COVID-19 is still impacting our professional and personal lives. Return-to-work initiatives are back on hold and we're all still trying to figure out the best way to find normal.  Our guest today, speaker, consultant and coach Liz Kislik offers up her insights on the most important considerations as we navigate this challenge and even suggests a better way to deal with silos.  This was a fun and very enlightening conversation which I know you'll enjoy!

#112: Navigating the Return to the Office - with Liz Kislik

Leadership has for too long been treated as a function and not as a relationship. Our guest today, Dr. Patrick Malone, co-author of Leading with Love and Laughter (co-authored with Zina Sutch) argues that successful leadership must be based on love (altruism and empathy) and laughter (positive emotions and joy).  This was a great talk and is full of practical tips for transforming the workplace into one that has higher engagement and employee retention.

#111: Leading with Love and Laughter - with Dr. Patrick Malone

Workplace wellness has probably been one of those "Back-Burner" projects up until now, but organizations today need to focus on it.  Our guest today, workplace well-being consultant and HR expert Jill Kane makes the case that NOW is the best time to address your workplace wellness needs.  We talk about how to be intentional about workplace wellness as well as identify ways HR leaders can prevent employee burnout.  Jill has an incredible offer for you if you want to get started in addressing workplace wellness that can be found HERE!

#110: How to Bring Your Best Self to Work - with Jill Kane

Do you ever wish you could leave your office or cubicle and do your job in some exciting locations?  If so, then meet Michelle Griffin.  Michelle is an HR executive whose company provides HR support to companies everywhere.  She does all of this while working from exotic locations around the world.  This is a great episode for those of you who dream of that lifestyle. Michelle has done it and explains how.

#109: Breaking the Chains HR - with Michelle Griffin

Corporate training is often referred to as "death by PowerPoint," the experience of having a trainer walking around with a clicker, reading slides to a sleeping audience.  We've all suffered through this and yet, very few learning and development professionals, speakers, teachers, and trainers still do it.  How to stop the madness?  Our guest today, Tina Clements offers us suggestions, based on research, for creating a great learning experience.

#108: How to Avoid Creating "Death by PowerPoint" - with Tina Clements

We've all hear about military bootcamp, where, in a rigorous indoctrination, young men and women and transformed from civilians to warriors.  But what about the transition back to civilian life?  Our guest today, veteran and mental health professional Duane France talks to us about the challenges veterans face in the transition back to life outside of the military.  We also explore how HR professionals can partner with veterans and help them feel like welcome contributors to a new mission with a new organization.

#107: How to Support Veterans in the Workplace - with Duane France

What can a snow globe teach you about life, leadership, and change?  According to our guest today, quite a bit.  Jeff Nischwitz is the Founder and Chief Story Debunker of The Nischwitz Group, a speaking, consulting and coaching company that transforms people and organizations… one story at a time! Jeff gives us practical tips on handling change while using it to develop personally and professionally.

#106: Shaking Up Your Leadership - with Jeff Nischwitz

More and more, employees are looking to build their professional skills.  If you aren't meeting this demand, those employees might find another organization that will.  To help you get a better handle on this problem and develop a great upskilling and re-skilling program, we have Ashlee Dutton on this episode.  She shares her process for identifying and meeting staff training and development needs.  Some great tips on this one so be sure to take good notes.

#105: A 3-Dimensional Approach to Employee Upskilling - with Ashlee Dutton

With all the uncertainty of post-COVID work life, there is more than enough stress to go around.  If you're an HR professional, you'll feel it more than most.  Our guest today, Caren Kenney says that by learning to identify and live our BEST self, we will be more capable of succeeding in tough times.  Caren is a coach and co-author or the book Leading with Character.  Caren gives us tips on how to identify our purpose and live our best life even in chaotic times.

#104: How to Live Your Best Life in Times of Stress and Uncertainty - with Caren Kenney

When COVID hit, the band-aid was ripped off.  In going back to normal, the band-aid is being removed slowly and painfully.  Navigating the return to work is a challenge.  Our guest today, Alexa Beavers addresses the challenges and solutions to helping people through the changes and stress of office re-entry.  Lots of practical advice and tips for your team in this episode.

#103: Navigating the New Complexities of Work and Re-Opening After COVID - with Alexa Beavers

We believe everyone needs recognition when they do a great job.  When we saw that there was actually an Employee Recognition Day, we decided to allow our listeners to nominate employees for the honor.  The winner is on our show today.  John Gibson is an employee at Mountaineer Gas Company in Charleston, WV.  John's boss, Sarah McClanahan is also on the show so we can hear why she thought John was worthy of the honor.  Congratulations John!

#102: Interview with the Boss Builders Employee of the Year John Gibson

There are plenty of things to be addicted to, but thinking?  The act of obsessive rumination is harmful to ourselves, our careers, and our relationships.  Our guest today, Nancy Colier is the author of Can't Stop Thinking:  How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination.  Nancy gives us practical tips to manage this issue and learn how to create space from this unhealthy practice.

#101: How to Handle Your Addiction to Thinking

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