O.C. Tanner’s Culture by Design Podcast

Keeping your culture compassionate with guest Mayerland Harris

We talk to Mayerland Harris from H-E-B about keeping your culture compassionate in the middle of a crisis, preventing hiring bias, and how the grocery chain has embraced its place as a first responder in their home state of Texas during the pandemic.

10 new mandates for HR leaders with guest Pete DeBellis

Pete DeBellis from Deloitte is on to talk about the new mandates for HR leaders today and why we need to rethink the role of HR if we’re going to successfully adapt to an unknown future.

Bonus! | The 2021 Global Culture Report Audiobook?

This episode, we're experimenting. Because the 2021 Global Culture Report is a must-read for everyone interested in how work is changing. But who has time to read anymore? So we're turning the report into an audiobook, so you can listen and learn while you do the dishes, drive to the store, or tend to your pandemic garden project. First up, the foreword and introduction—to set the stage and give a tantalizing peek at the insights to come. Have a listen and let us know what you think (theworkplace@octanner.com). Should we keep going and turn the whole report into an audiobook?

Changing to meet the future with guest Nicolette Barnard

This episode, we’re talking with Nicolette Barnard from Siemens Pacific about managing change, building more agile cultures, and why apprenticeships are poised to be the future of lifelong learning.

 

 

Highlights from the 2021 Global Culture Report with guest Dr. Alex Lovell

This episode, we’re talking with Dr. Alex Lovell about the 2021 Global Culture Report. Remote work, hybrid schedules, burnout, anxiety, self-care, mental health days, and what employees ACTUALLY think about their workplace culture in this new normal.

Coaching great leaders with guest Pete Shepherd

We talk with Pete Shepherd of Human Periscope about how to develop better leaders, and what it really means to be a great leader in times of crisis. We also discuss imposter syndrome, empathy, and what sonder means.

 

Check out Pete's own podcast The Long and the Short of It, which he co-hosts with Jen Waldman.

 

What's going on in YOUR workplace culture? Tell us about it. Send your stories, questions, or topic suggestions to theworkplace@octanner.com.

 

Employee appreciation in a crisis with guest Natalie Snyder

We talk with Natalie Snyder from GE Appliances about using times of crisis and change as opportunities to grow—as a company, a culture, and as individuals. And how recognition plays a key role in connecting all three together into something bigger. We also discuss the fast approaching Employee Appreciation Day (March 5), and why it might be the most important day of 2021 for HR leaders.

Evolving your culture with guest Tim Kuppler

This episode, we’re rebroadcasting a conversation with Tim Kuppler about that practicalities of evolving a workplace culture that’s more relevant than ever. We also introduce a new segment, Workplace of the Week, where we share stories from our listeners about how they’re working to shape their workplace cultures.

Speaking truth to HR with guest Laurie Ruettimann

This episode, we’re talking with Laurie Ruettimann—host of Punk Rock HR—about, well, a lot of things. The balance of productivity and self-care. Why meetings might be our mortal enemies. What the great remote-work experiment has done to our collective cultures. And what it could look like as we start to maybe think about possibly going back into the office at some point. Let’s not rush things.

The talent motherlode with guest Jina Krause-Vilmar

This episode, we’re talking with Jina Krause-Vilmar from Upwardly Global about why immigrants and refugees are a motherlode of untapped talent, and how helping them integrate into the American workforce benefits literally everyone.

What was YOUR first job? Send us an email with stories about your first job to theworkplace@octanner.com and we’ll feature the best ones in an episode later this season.