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Melissa Denbow – Encouraging Community Engagement

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Show Topic:
Your business is only successful if there is a market for its products or services. There is only a market if a company recognizes, engages and encourages its team member to build a community that can consume the products or services.

As we all know, a company rarely “acts”—it’s the people within the organization, those who run and participate in the operations that “act” on behalf of the organization.

So how can a company be engaged in its community? Simple, by communicating community engagement as a priority within the organization while ensuring your actions support your verbalized commitment. But in most cases, it is anything but simple; it takes a lot of hard work.

  In this episode of HR Power Hour, join Tawny Alvarez as she talks with Melissa Denbow, Vice President Community Experience Manager at Machias Savings Bank, about the work that she has done to help Machias Savings Bank become a key member of the community it serves, and steps other companies can take to communicate the value of community engagement to its team members.

About The Guest:

Melissa started her career at Machias Savings Bank in October 1995 as a teller, shortly after earning her bachelor’s degree in Business Management.

During the past 28 years at Machias Savings, she has held various positions – Commercial Banker, Branch Manager, Contact Center Manager, and most recently, VP, Community Experience Manager.

While her background is in financial banking and management, her greatest strength is relationship-building and making a difference in the community. She serves on the following boards: Mano en Mano, Junior Achievement, and the Maine Jumpstart Coalition.

In her spare time, Melissa enjoys gardening, canning, and spending time with their blended family of 4 beautiful adult children. Melissa currently resides in Jonesport with her husband, Jeff.

Mark Gonska – Executive Presence: Do You Have it?

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Show Topic:

Executive Presence is a certain set of attitudes, behaviors, and skills which and when combined, send the right signals, influence others, and ultimately drive results. How would you rate yourself in this critical area?

In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses with Mark Gonska, Founder of Career Accelerator and Career Management Associates’ Senior Career and Executive Coach, Executive Presence; Do You Have “It”?

This critical skill is a combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the people around you that they in the presence of someone who’s the real deal.

About The Guest:

Mark is the career accelerator. He has helped thousands of professionals advance in their careers.

He demystifies, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” and “How do I get a better job faster?” As a rainmaker, Mark has built an outplacement practice from coast to coast.

His unmatched relationships with clients and candidates are built on candor and commitment to address problems head-on and solve them. As a collaborative leader, Mark drives top line and profitability growth.

He’s built strategic alliances, developed new products, and delivered operational excellence. He’s action-oriented in all roles: teacher, mentor, and coach.

John Robertson – Leadership Tools in Crisis

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Show Topic:

While companies would prefer to operate “crisis free,” such a goal is usually unobtainable.

 

The crisis could be small—a difficult employee who takes up significant time and energy and appears uncoachable—or a larger crisis—supply chain issues, recalls, active shooter situations.

 

The question, however, that should be asked is whether managers in the organization have the skills and resources to decrease crises before they occur (in addition to respond fully and efficiently when they do occur).

 

In this episode of HR Power Hour join host Tawny Alvarez while she discusses these issues and the tools that we can provide to managers to help them be more effective in crisis with John Robertson, workforce wellness expert and culture alignment specialist of FORTLOG Services, Inc.

About The Guest:

John Robertson is the Founder and President of FORTLOG Services. John built his services with a focus on an encouragement-based approach, resolving root causes as opposed to treating crisis and transition in the workplace symptomatically, as is often the practice. A trusted thinking partner with 30+ years of assisting individuals and organizations in managing all forms of crisis/ change, John leverages a values-anchored ethos as a leadership development specialist, helping organizations and individuals to define the new norm and thrive.

 

Over the years, John has gained extensive and diverse experiences working with Indigenous peoples [First Nations], first responders, small-medium businesses, nonprofits, churches, communities, municipalities, educational, health care, families, and EAPs. John’s qualifications include Conversational IQ™, psychological health and safety advisor, ICF coach, Resilient Leadership, crisis intervention instructor, numerous psychometric tools, Certified Trauma Treatment Specialist (CTTS), Certified grief counselor, and a Masters’s and Bachelors’s degree.

Tracy Maylett – Swipe: The science behind why we don’t finish what we start.

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Show Topic:
Every day we wake up determined to engage with life—to overcome work challenges, finish that novel, reach fitness goals, or repair a strained relationship. Despite our best intentions, we fall short. Why is it so hard to finish what we start?

Reaching goals after repeated frustration starts with understanding the impulse known as the Swipe, a side effect of our high-tech culture.

In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses with bestselling author, internationally recognized organizational psychologist, educator, CEO and Co Author Dr. Tracy Maylett of the new book Swipe: The Science Behind Why We Don’t Finish What We Start.

Listen and learn as we discuss how this mechanism works and how to short-circuit the Swipe, reengage, and finally finish what we start.

About The Guest:

Tracy Maylett, Ed.D, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the Chief Executive Officer of DecisionWise (www.decisionwise.com), a global consulting firm focused on employee experience design and evaluation. His background is in organization development, organization change, experience design and assessment, industrial psychology, executive coaching, HR, and psychometric assessment.

He has a Doctorate in Organization Change from Pepperdine University and an MBA from BYU. He teaches leadership, organizational behavior, employee experience, and talent management in the Marriott School of Business of Brigham Young University, as well as in the University Honors Department at BYU. Maylett has been a Visiting Professor in the International MBA program at Pforzheim University (Germany) from 2015-2023.

His 2017 release of the book, “The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results,” released through Wiley Publishing, was an immediate best-seller, hitting the #1 business book spot in both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Maylett’s most recent book, “Engagement MAGIC: Five Keys to Engaging People, Leaders, and Organizations” was released in January, 2019. His book, “Swipe: The Science Behind Why We Don’t Finish What We Start” is set for release in March of 2023.