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Pressure is something that we all experience both at work and at home. Getting to a point where you are not only able to appropriately manage pressure, but also to embrace it, is key to high performing in your personal and professional life.
In this episode of HR Power Hour, join host Tawny Alvarez as she talks with James Cluskey, former professional tennis player turned executive coach and founder of Give Learn as they discuss the necessity of community in embracing pressure and how to view performance to help you become a high performer.
About The Guest:
James Cluskey is a former professional tennis player turned entrepreneur and private tennis coach to Sir Richard Branson. He represented Ireland in the Davis Cup from 2006-2015 and won 15 professional titles, with a career-high ranking of 145 in the world. In 2018, James and three others broke the Guinness World Record for the longest doubles tennis match, playing continuously for over 60 hours.
Since retiring from professional tennis, James has carried passion for high performance and is the founder of Give Learn, an e-learning company that offers both LIVE and on-demand classes with global experts around soft skills. Give Learn links learning to social good and allows users to earn points to donate to different social causes. James believes in connecting people to develop their life and career.
He is a passionate advocate of human interaction, whether in person or remotely. James authored the book “Advantage: Lessons In Sport And Business To Achieve Your Goals.”
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Your employees bring their emotions to work every day. What’s going on at home, the dynamics of their teams, relationships with their managers, and their health and the health of the work culture.
In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses with Chief Innovation Officer and new Author, JD Pincus, his first book: The Emotionally Agile Brain; Mastering the 12 Emotional Needs That Drive Us.
The book builds on the AgileBrain assessment which works to support employee positive change and taps into the power of emotional insight to drive positive personal growth, improved team dynamics, healthier cultures, and deeper business insights.
About The Guest:
J.D. Pincus, Ph.D. is a social psychologist and human capital thought leader focusing on emerging methods for measuring emotion and motivation, and a Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
His AgileBrain measurement technique is a peer-reviewed, published, and validated image-based assessment that cuts through noise and posturing to reveal the actual motivational-emotional state of the workforce. His new book, The Emotionally Agile Brain: Mastering the 12 Emotional Needs that Drive Us, will be published in 2024 by Rowman and Littlefield.
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Severance Agreements are tools often used by companies when ending a relationship with an employee.
A separation agreement may be used to assist the employee in landing on their feet or because the company recognizes that there could be some risks related to the termination or because that’s just how the company has always operated.
Regardless of the reason why a company chooses to offer a separating employee a severance agreement, understanding the terms that should be included in such an agreement and what rights or responsibilities those terms create is important.
On this episode of HR Power Hour, join host Tawny Alvarez as she talks to Erik Peters, a Partner in Verrill’s Labor and Employment practice group about the use of severance agreements and the terms that are often included within them.
About The Guest:
Erik is a Partner in Verrill’s Labor & Employment Group. He regularly conducts workplace investigations, advises clients on employment law and human resources compliance issues, and defends companies accused of discrimination or harassment based upon disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, whistleblower retaliation, and wage and hour violations. Additionally, he has successfully represented many individuals who were the victims of discrimination.
A significant part of Erik’s practice involves conducting workplace investigations. In conjunction with this, he successfully completed the Association of Workplace Investigators’ Training Institute, which teaches the knowledge and skills necessary to perform impartial workplace investigations. Erik also regularly conducts anti-harassment training for his management side clients and for other attorneys.
Throughout his legal career, Erik has represented individuals, businesses and municipalities on thousands of claims and lawsuits involving motor vehicle collisions, premises liability, products liability, wrongful death, construction defects, property disputes and subrogation. Erik has also represented businesses of all sizes in disputes involving breach of contract, business torts, breach of fiduciary duty allegations and shareholder issues.
Erik lives in Freeport with his wife, family and animals. In his spare time, he skis, hangs out on his family’s sailboat, Venture, and goes to many high school sports games.
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Have your ever reflected as a leader, manager, or HR professional and asked yourself “Am I part of the problem?” Managers and leaders need to understand that 1. Your personality annoys us, 2. Common sense isn’t common, and 3. You suck at communicating.
In this segment, host David Ciullo and national speaker and author Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady® discuss the things leaders should know to get stuff done! This is honest, authentic, and direct conversation that will help to make you a better professional and human in life and at work.
About The Guest:
Wendy Sellers is The HR Lady®. Her expertise stems from personal experience, as she entered the field of HR without a clear plan and faced numerous challenges along the way. This has made her authentic, transparent, results-oriented, and committed to providing practical solutions without hidden agendas. The HR Lady® is an HR Consultant offering management training, conference speaking, and HR advisory services and resources. With over 25 years of experience, Wendy has worked in many areas, such as HR operations, downsizing, change management, corporate culture, coaching, training, education, and leadership development.
In addition to her formal education (Master’s in Human Resources and Master’s in Health Care Administration), Wendy has been certified with many monikers, including the SPHR (HRCI) and SHRM-SCP certifications (she also taught the SHRM course), Certified Internal Investigation Administrator, a DiSC certified personality style trainer, health/life insurance licensed (to scare off any agent who might try to take advantage of your company), a Dale Carnegie course graduate focusing on leadership and empathy, and is also an active and past board member and volunteer for multiple non-profits.
Wendy’s straightforward style means she doesn’t sugar-coat things. She believes that people are a company’s greatest asset and should be treated as such. That means training and empowering managers, supervisors, and employees to succeed is not an option; it is mandatory. Wendy trains administrators on HR compliance and managers on the rest: the people part, from hiring to termination.
She has served businesses of all sizes, ranging from local startups to global enterprises. Wendy has worked in and across diverse industries, including healthcare, dental, professional services, technology, manufacturing, construction, engineering, non-profit, higher education (college & universities), federal contractors, public safety, and government agencies – to name a few.
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