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Drew Jones – The Open Culture Handbook

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Employee engagement in American firms has hovered at around only 30 percent for decades. Leaders and Managers need to shift from abstract ideals to tangible, employee-centric practices that foster organic cultural growth and empower your teams to innovate, adapt, and outshine the competition.

That’s the value in this week’s HR Power Hour segment where host David Ciullo discusses with Drew Jones, Founding Partner at Experient and Author of the new book, The Open Culture Handbook: Learn the Five Essential Questions that will Revolutionize Your Approach to Engagement and Innovation. Don’t miss it.

About The Guest:

Drew Jones, PhD, is an anthropologist, former business school professor, and practicing management consultant. He is a founding partner of Experient, a workplace culture and strategy consultancy.

Over the past 20 years he has worked on culture, leadership, and workplace design projects with clients throughout the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. He is published widely in academic management journals and magazines and has published three previous books on design thinking and innovation, coworking, and activity-based working (ABW).

His new book is Open Culture Handbook: Five Questions to Drive Engagement and Innovation (Amplify Publishing, Oct. 3, 2023). Learn more at DrewJones.co.

Debra Weiss Ford – 10 Employment Law Tips for Managers

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Managers are on the front line when it comes to dealing with employee relations and “staying out of legal trouble”. This has become more difficult then ever.

In this weeks HR Power Hour segment, host David Ciullo discussed with our guest Debra Weiss Ford, Employment Attorney with Jackson Lewis, 10 Employment Law Tips for Managers. Listen as we discuss being proactive in keeping your leaders and managers trained on the fundamental basics and how this will make a huge difference in their success and lower the risk to the organization.

About The Guest:

Debra Weiss Ford is office managing principal and litigation manager of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She has more than 35 years of experience representing employers in litigation matters before the state and federal courts and administrative agencies.

Debra also represents employers before the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights, the Maine Human Rights Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New Hampshire Department of Labor, and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Debra trains frequently in New England on issues related to employment law, including discrimination, wrongful discharge, reductions in force, termination issues, wage and hour issues, proper documentation, leaves of absence, and Title IX compliance. She regularly advises clients on employment-related matters.

Debra was a member of the New Hampshire Board of Bar Examiners from 1993 to 2005. She was appointed by the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to serve on the Merit Selection Panel to consider the reappointment of the incumbent magistrate. In 2003, she was appointed to serve on the Federal Court Advisory Committee. She is an approved federal and state mediator.

Ashley Goodall – The Problem With Change

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For decades, change—and its more sleekly packaged version, “disruption”—have been seen as essential tools for the growth of any business.

That’s a huge problem, argues Ashley Goodall in his ground-breaking new book. While shaking things up is the first thing a new leader is expected to do, and while generations of executives have been taught that change is an unalloyed good, the reality on the ground is very different.

Change isn’t always good, and it often fails to achieve what we expect it to (resulting in yet more change)—and a big part of the reason for this is that change makes it harder or people to do their jobs.

About The Guest:

Ashley Goodall is a leadership expert who has spent his career exploring large organizations from the inside, most recently as an executive at Cisco. He is the co-author of Nine Lies About Work, which was selected as the best management book of 2019 by Strategy + Business and as one of Amazon’s best business and leadership books of 2019.

Prior to Cisco, he spent fourteen years at Deloitte as a consultant and as the Chief Learning Officer for Leadership and Professional development. His book, The Problem with Change, publishes May 7, 2024.

Sean Lemson – One Drop of Poison: How One Bad Leader Can Slowly Kill Your Company.

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Poisonous leaders are leaders who take a toll on the workforce, and therefore the bottom line. A company needs to know how to protect itself from this hidden cost, including the right metrics, the right coaching, and a careful look at how incentives may drive their bad behavior.

In this week’s HR Power Hour segment, host David Ciullo discusses with author, leadership, and team performance expert Sean Lemson his new book, One Drop of Poison:

How One Bad Leader Can Slowly Kill Your Company. It doesn’t take much to ruin the whole organization, but companies can offset the impacts by taking three simple actions and paying close attention to the overall mindset of employees.

About The Guest:

Sean Lemson is a leadership expert, executive and team performance coach, and the founder of Motivated Outcomes, an organization devoted to improving performance, engagement, and leadership in today’s organizations.

His new book is: One Drop of Poison: How One Bad Leader Can Slowly Kill Your Company.