Category Archives: LEADERSHIP

20th Annual HR Systems Survey with Stacey Harris!

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Stacey Harris, VP of Research and Analytics at Sierra-Cedar Stops by HR Latte

HR Latte, episode 110

Stacey Harris, VP of Research & Analytics at Sierra Cedar shares the news and expectations for the latest HR Systems Survey – closes June 30!

Check out the Sierra-Cedar 2017–2018 HR Systems Survey, 20th Annual Edition.
We’d love to have you support this research effort. All responses are anonymous and kept strictly confidential. They only use your information in the aggregate. Your privacy is strictly maintained.

“Research has to have a story behind it.”- Stacey Harris

Stacey joins Rayanne to discuss these points:

History of the Survey – 20 years strong now!
Most significant finding from last year’s results
Expectations for this year
What to watch for: Personalization!

Take the survey here.

“The secret sauce? I’ve worked in research for along-time now. Most of the time, research is great, but it doesn’t always reach a large audience. I think our secret is longevity, therefore, we are trusted and we don’t sell the research – this is not a line-item for Sierra-Cedar. The focus is to make this a service to the industry.”

To learn more about Sierra-Cedar and their offerings, visit their website and follow their social channels.

You can connect with Stacey Harris here on LinkedIn.

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@StaceyHarrisHR
@Ray_anne
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Dovetail Software delivers web-based solutions & help desk programs that enable organizations to reduce administrative & support costs, diagnose & resolve complex business problems, and increase efficiency, while improving support.

Rayanne loves hosting talk radio and continues to hone this craft in every way possible by creating and hosting several educational and promotional radio shows, hosting & moderating webinars and podcasts, as well as a featured host on intrepid.media.

For more information about how you can use online radio or podcasting to educate your target audience or customer, compliment your marketing efforts, and grow your brand recognition, feel free to message Rayanne on Twitter, LinkedIn, or via email at rayanne@intrepid.media.

BUSINESS, HEALTHCARE, HR, LEADERSHIP

Healthcare HR: The Crisis is not New

BY Rayanne Thorn

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HR Latte guest Dan White, President of Workforce Solutions at AMN Healthcare, part 3

Series: Healthcare HR in Crisis

HR Latte, episode 108

Dan White, President of Workforce Solutions at AMN Healthcare is an Expert in Workforce Management, including Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Vendor Managed Services (VMS) and Managed Service Provider (MSP). Dan is known to drive improved business outcomes through innovative solutions which specifically address the workforce.

Dan joins Rayanne as they continue a three-part series on the challenges facing Healthcare HR today by addressing staffing shortages and the issues around that!

“Healthcare HR has been in crisis mode. This is nothing new to them.” – Dan White, President of Workforce Solutions at AMN Healthcare

To learn more how AMN Healthcare can assist you with the Healthcare HR and Recruiting challenges you might be facing, visit AMN Healthcare Workforce Solutions.

What you will learn:

Evidenced-based decision making should extend beyond the services provided
Advice for working with third-party solutions
Success stories
Traits of a Successful Healthcare HR Professionals
Can these traits be developed? (resources)
The Best Relationship Produce the Best Outcomes
Partnering with your vendor partners the best way possible
The Protected Pool of 3 Million Nurses in the US
“Ownership” of staff – no such thing!
Sourcing, Recruiting, Talent Management
ASHHRA, Podcasts, HR Today Forum, HR.com
Patient Care to Talent Care – white paper for our listeners

Healthcare HR on HR Latte series
Part 1, Healthcare HR in Crisis
Part 2, Addressing the Ongoing Staffing Shortage
Part 3, In Crisis Mode

You can connect with Dan White LinkedIn here and email him at: Dan.White@amnhealthcare.com

On Twitter

@DanWhite_WFM
@Ray_anne
and @HRLatte

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AUTHORS, BUSINESS, HR, LEADERSHIP

Corporate Intelligence, Part 4 with Ron Wiens

BY Rayanne Thorn

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Guest Ron Wiens returns to HR Latte for this final episode to share his expertise in Cultural Change

Series: Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound, Part 4

HR Latte, episode 106

Ron Wiens, Speaker, Author, and Advisor on Cultural Change, introduces several concepts from his book, “Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in Single Bound.”

Ron joins Rayanne again to continue the conversation in Episode 4 of a four-part series to talk about how to get your employees, teams, or organizations to work together for the good of the whole with a focus on Corporate Intelligence.

“How people work together, how they interact, goes to the heart of what organizational culture is all about. Culture, a culture that facilitates the ongoing creation of new knowledge, a culture that gets people building and creating together, has become today’s competitive advantage.” – Ron Wiens

Ron is happy to share everything he knows — you can visit his website to learn more and download his whitepapers, with no commitment or email required.

What you will learn in this final episode:

How Corporate Intelligence impacts Company Culture
Corporate Intelligence is about connecting people to their common future
If Culture is about the “bottom line” – do not expect to retain your most talented people
If you want to retain this talent, you have to establish cause – a common cause
The Joy of Leadership in taking your life’s mission around the organization’s mission
Organizational goals and strategies need to be selected wisely.
The Six-Week Rule: the Life of a Vision
Most Organizations are incandescent – with light going everywhere with no true alignment.
The Five Levels of Corporate Intelligence
Creating Common Cause for the Whole

Series: Build Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound
Part 1: Introducing Ron Wiens, Cultural Change Expert
Part 2: Emotional Intelligence
Part 3: Relationship Intelligence
Part 4: Corporate Intelligence

The first 3 people to tweet @HRLatte with your favorite part of this series will receive a free copy of Ron’s book, Building Organizations that Leap tall Buildings in a Single Bound.

You can contact Ron Wiens via email at ron@ronwiens.com

On Twitter

@Ron_Wiens
@Ray_anne
and @HRLatte

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AUTHORS, BUSINESS, LEADERSHIP, PERSONAL GROWTH

Episode Seven – The Leadership Journey Never Ends

BY Todd Schnick

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Welcome to Episode Seven of The Realities of Leadership: The Leadership Journey Never Ends!

Discussion guide from The Realities of Leadership, Episode Seven:

1. Today’s leaders MUST be lifetime learners (open, vulnerable, curious, growth mindset). It’s very exciting to work FOR a lifetime learner.

2. Lifetime leaders always think their best leadership day is…tomorrow!

3. The leadership journey never ends, but it does change and evolve over time.

4. What do you say to the leader who claims not to have time for this continuous learning?

5. Leaders want to be scanning the environment to look for new things to learn, try, and integrate. We expect them to be current on trends, new technologies, new ideas, etc.

6. Risk-taking and affecting change never end of the modern business leader.

7. Throughout this entire series and all five seasons, we’ve talked about having to be a consciously competent leader. You might achieve that, but you can also lose that distinction if you don’t do the work.

8. What happens if you are an overzealous leader?

9. If you acknowledge that the leadership journey never ends, how do you keep it going?
a. Be in a constant state of anticipation.
b. Always be in a state of creation.
c. Keep facilitation moving forward.

10. The constant work of maintaining credibility and trust.

11. Are you mentoring? Are you teaching? Are you volunteering?

12. How do you encourage the whole of your leadership team to become lifetime learners?

Click here to listen to all of Season Five!

About our host, Erica Peitler:

Erica is a Leadership Performance Coach who courageously partners with individuals, teams and organizations who want to realize their visions of success by transforming their leadership potential into visible, on the ground, breakthrough leadership performance!

With an engaging, provocative and straight forward approach, Erica inspires leaders to reach beyond their comfort level as they pursue becoming the performance based leaders they aspire to be in both their professional and personal life.

As a keynote speaker and author, Erica educates, entertains and enlightens audiences on leadership, transformational change and professional/personal growth initiatives.

Find Erica Peitler’s book here:

The essence of Leadership Rigor is creating change-ready leaders who can embrace challenges because they have the tools, models, and language to assess, structure, and facilitate aligned actions. They also have the mindset and emotional skills to lean into the change process despite its uncomfortable nature. By innovating on their preparedness first, these change-ready leaders are equipped to realize the growth in themselves and in their teams or organizations. Are you ready to take on your personal journey of Leadership Rigor?

Series co-host Todd Schnick is the Editor-In-Chief of intrepid.MEDIA and a media and content strategist. A former marketing strategist, lobbyist, and national political operative, Todd now lives and works in the Chicago Loop with his family. He is a writer, foodie, bibliophile, distance runner, and nearly full-time dog mom.

This series recorded LIVE from our Merchandise Mart studios in Chicago, Illinois! (Click on photo below for history of our studios!)

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AUTHORS, BUSINESS, HR, LEADERSHIP

Relationship Intelligence, Part 3 with Ron Wiens

BY Rayanne Thorn

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Guest Ron Wiens returns to HR Latte for 2 more episodes to share his expertise in Cultural Change

Series: Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound, Part 3

HR Latte, episode 104

Ron Wiens, Speaker, Author, and Advisor on Cultural Change, introduces several concepts from his book, “Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in Single Bound.”

Ron joins Rayanne again to continue the conversation in Episode 3 of a four-part series to talk about how to get your employees, teams, or organizations to work together for the good of the whole with a focus on Relationship Intelligence.

Ron is happy to share everything he knows — you can visit his website to learn more and download his whitepapers, with no commitment or email required.

What you will learn:

Understanding the value of relationships, how to build & maintain them, and why it’s important
How relationships with others can change the culture at work
Creating “new” business value constantly through relationships
Is building work relationships a waste of time?
What does it look to have an effective relationship at work?
“I care about your success” – “I care about the success of the whole”
The increase of productivity when the Joy of Work is introduced at an organization
Do performance evaluations have an impact on teamwork?
How “frank” talk improves communication that leads to trust and System Awareness
Forward: Creating Common Cause

The first 3 people to tweet @HRLatte with your favorite part of this series will receive a free copy of Ron’s book, Building Organizations that Leap tall Buildings in a Single Bound.

You can contact Ron Wiens via email at ron@ronwiens.com

On Twitter

@Ron_Wiens
@Ray_anne
and @HRLatte

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AUTHORS, BUSINESS, HR, LEADERSHIP

Emotional Intelligence, Part 2 with Ron Wiens

BY Rayanne Thorn

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Guest Ron Wiens returns to HR Latte for 3 more episodes to share his expertise in Cultural Change

Series: Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound, Part 2

HR Latte, episode 103

Ron Wiens, Speaker, Author, and Advisor on Cultural Change, introduces several concepts from his book, “Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in Single Bound.”

Ron joins Rayanne again to continue the conversation in Episode 2 of a four-part series to talk about how to get your employees, teams, or organizations to work together for the good of the whole with a focus on Emotional Intelligence.

Ron is happy to share everything he knows — you can visit his website to learn more and download his whitepapers, with no commitment or email required.

What you will learn:

What are emotions and how do they impact our work?
Learn to be curious and aware of your emotions and their impact on you and others
Organizations tend to ignore emotions when they could be using them to better serve the company
Emotions are there to protect and serve individuals and the organizations where they work
Emotional Intelligence is important to the Knowledge Era and the constant change found in business today
Emotions tell us about something that happened in the past
Emotional Intelligence brings you the Freedom of Awareness
The Importance of Self-Talk

The first person to tweet @HRLatte with your favorite part of this episode about Emotional Intelligence will receive a free copy of Ron’s book, Building Organizations that Leap tall Buildings in a Single Bound.

You can contact Ron Wiens via email at ron@ronwiens.com

On Twitter

@Ron_Wiens
@Ray_anne
and @HRLatte

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AUTHORS, BUSINESS, HR, LEADERSHIP

Cultural Change Expert, Ron Wiens on HR Latte

BY Rayanne Thorn

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Guest Ron Wiens joins Rayanne for 4 episodes to share his expertise in Cultural Change

Series: Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound, Part 1

HR Latte, episode 102

Ron Wiens, Speaker, Author, and Advisor on Cultural Change, introduces several concepts from his book, “Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in Single Bound.”

Ron joins Rayanne in this first episode of a four-part series to talk about how to get your employees, teams, or organizations to work together for the good of the whole.

Ron is happy to share everything he knows — you can visit his website to learn more and download his whitepapers, with no commitment or email required.

What you will learn:

What are Emotional, Relationship, and Corporate Intelligence?
How to get your people working together for the good of the whole
How to build a work environment that maximizes a person’s desire to contribute
How to enrich your employees and your bottom line through the joy of work
What is the Knowledge Economy?

You can contact Ron Wiens via email at ron@ronwiens.com

On Twitter

@Ron_Wiens
@Ray_anne
and @HRLatte

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AUTHORS, BUSINESS, LEADERSHIP, PERSONAL GROWTH

Episode Six – People Will Leave You For Good And Bad Reasons

BY Todd Schnick

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Welcome to Episode Six of The Realities of Leadership: People Will Leave You For Good And Bad Reasons.

Discussion guide from The Realities of Leadership, Episode Six:

1. The modern business leader needs to be VERY focused on talent, and many are not. In fact, the leader needs discipline, philosophy, and practices around their talent approach.

2. HR plays an important role in talent yes, but the leader (CEO, GM) now have to play a much more engaged role with talent management.

3. “Hire for cultural fit, and train for technical skills.”

4. Leaders ALWAYS have to be looking for talent, both formally and informally.

5. It’s more than a matter of putting out a job description. You need to search for personality, skills, and behaviors as well.

6. Today’s reality for all leaders is that they have to take risks with talent, and make bold moves.

7. People will leave your organization for bad reasons:
a. Leaders push them into roles they are not comfortable in.
b. Leaders do not advocate on the behalf of their talent, putting them into positions where they can thrive.
c. Leaders are not developing the talent for success in the future.

8. How will talent leave you? Emotionally (become disengaged in the office)? Or physically?

9. Steps to become a better advocate for your talent:
a. Get to know them.
b. Learn their career aspirations.
c. Learn where their gaps are.
d. Stretch them.
e. Give them visibility to showcase emerging skills.

10. But, a very powerful way to advocate for talent is sometimes to encourage them to pursue an opportunity/challenge outside of the organization…one that you just cannot provide.

11. Think of the benefits this brings to the organization: trust, safe environment, loyalty, talent knows you have their best interests at heart, and very likely, the talent will be in a position to return to the organization down the road.

12. “You want to encourage ambition, and let people develop as fully as they can.”

13. If an employee leaves you emotionally, meaning they have mentally checked out and no longer really care about their work or the organization, how do you turn that around?

14. Talent will leave an organization if they sense leadership isn’t doing their job. And if talent suggests they are leaving simply for a larger paycheck, that is generally a sign that something else is wrong.

15. The final reality to understand here is that in the modern business world, talent moves around. People will leave your organization. Just be certain they leave for good reasons. And recognize that if they are leaving for bad reasons, those are opportunities you can fix.

Click here to listen to all of Season Five!

About our host, Erica Peitler:

Erica is a Leadership Performance Coach who courageously partners with individuals, teams and organizations who want to realize their visions of success by transforming their leadership potential into visible, on the ground, breakthrough leadership performance!

With an engaging, provocative and straight forward approach, Erica inspires leaders to reach beyond their comfort level as they pursue becoming the performance based leaders they aspire to be in both their professional and personal life.

As a keynote speaker and author, Erica educates, entertains and enlightens audiences on leadership, transformational change and professional/personal growth initiatives.

Find Erica Peitler’s book here:

This series recorded LIVE from our Merchandise Mart studios in Chicago, Illinois! (Click on photo below for history of our studios!)

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AUTHORS, BUSINESS, LEADERSHIP, PERSONAL GROWTH

Episode Five – Some Work Can Only Be Done By YOU (And Your Leadership Team)

BY Todd Schnick

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Welcome to Episode Five of The Realities of Leadership: Some Work Can Only Be Done By YOU (And Your Leadership Team)!

Discussion guide from The Realities of Leadership, Episode Five:

1. “The strategy of hope.” A common problem, pushing off challenges and struggles to others, hoping the problems go away. The avoidance of conflict…

2. Leaders HAVE to make tough choices.

3. The most important choice a leader makes is putting in the right (or wrong) leaders around them.

4. If you are not prepared to make the tough calls, you are not ready to be a leader.

5. If you believe everything is important, then nothing is important, and you aren’t leading. Prioritization is a key responsibility of leaders.

6. Key to set the expectations of your people, and to determine role clarity.

7. As a leader, there are times you will be unpopular. This is a reality of leadership.

8. “You have to explain your choices.”

9. Some of the work only a leader can do:
a. Putting the right talent around you.
b. Managing your resources.
c. Establishing expectations for behavior.
d. Coach for performance.
e. Communication (communicate beyond what you think is logical).

10. A leader has to have the patience to communicate a message again and again and again, until it sticks. Most do not have that patience.

11. The leader must communicate the following: Where were we, where are we now, and where are we going? This is how the leader controls the narrative.

12. VOID: What happens when you do NOT do the work that only you as a leader should do. You create voids that cannot be filled by others.

Click here to listen to all of Season Five!

About our host, Erica Peitler:

Erica is a Leadership Performance Coach who courageously partners with individuals, teams and organizations who want to realize their visions of success by transforming their leadership potential into visible, on the ground, breakthrough leadership performance!

With an engaging, provocative and straight forward approach, Erica inspires leaders to reach beyond their comfort level as they pursue becoming the performance based leaders they aspire to be in both their professional and personal life.

As a keynote speaker and author, Erica educates, entertains and enlightens audiences on leadership, transformational change and professional/personal growth initiatives.

Find Erica Peitler’s book here:

This series recorded LIVE from our Merchandise Mart studios in Chicago, Illinois! (Click on photo below for history of our studios!)

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AUTHORS, BUSINESS, LEADERSHIP

Felena Hanson: Leaning out, taking the leap, and going from fear to future

BY Todd Schnick

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Joined in studio today by Felena Hanson, founder of Hera Hub, and author of Flight Club – Rebel, Reinvent, and Thive: How To Launch Your Dream Business.

Discussion guide from today’s conversation with Felena Hanson:

1. What it means to “lean out” and why women need to do it.

2. How to shift your mindset from playing it safe to taking the leap.

3. How to make the transition from fear to future.

4. The benefits of a co-working space over working from home.

5. How to discover your life’s purpose, and use it to start a passion-based business.

6. Servant leadership: How the lens of service changed her leadership style for the better.

7. Her unique entrepreneurial journey to founding Hera Hub.

Find Felena Hanson’s book here:

About Felena Hanson:

Felena is a long-time entrepreneur and marketing maven. Her latest venture, Hera Hub, is a spa-inspired shared workspace and community for female entrepreneurs. Hera Hub members have access to a professional space to meet with clients and to connect and collaborate with like-minded business owners, thus giving them the support they need to be prosperous. The business supports hundreds of freelancers, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits in over 16 industry segments.

Felena and Hera Hub have been featured in Inc. Magazine, BBC News, Forbes, and The New York Times. After building three successful locations, she is now expanding across the United States via a licensing model. Her goal is to support over 20,000 women in the launch and growth of their business by 2020.

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