
From Performance Management to Performance Acceleration with Guest Stephen Friedman
foHRsight
11/02/23
•44m
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In this week’s episode, Naomi Titleman has a chance to connect with Stephen Friedman who, amongst other interesting things, is a Professor of Organizational Studies at Schulich School of Business.
It’s the start of a new term, and Stephen shares his early insights from engaging with 650 students – and his tricks to remember their names!
Once they cover their mutual love of ice cream, they go on to explore a range of interesting topics based on Stephen’s fascination with business and human relationships.
They talk about a range of topics including performance management, unlimited vacation and the 9-box grid.
You can connect with Stephen at LinkedIn here –
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenfriedman1/
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The Burnout-Growth Curve
October 26, 2023
•31m
Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.
In this week’s episode, hosts Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman introduce listeners to The Burnout-Growth Curve.
According to research from Gartner, over 50% of HR leaders are struggling with too much to do making the risk of burnout for the profession a real possibility.
The Burnout-Growth Curve introduced by Nick Petrie provides a framework based on research that shows the likely steps people go through when they feel burnt out and identifies some steps to take to ensure sustainable change.
In the episode, Naomi and Mark share their perspectives around dealing with burnout and how it is specifically impacting the HR function.
You can learn more about The Burnout-Growth Curve here –
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nick-petrie-1b60156_when-we-interviewed-people-who-had-burned-activity-7104554982787452928-7cet/
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Rob Sadow, Co-founder of Flex Index: Flexible Work
November 9, 2023
•36m
Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.
This week Naomi Titleman is joined by Rob Sadow who is a LinkedIn top voice on flexible work, founder and CEO of Scoop, inventor of the Flex Index and host of his very own podcast.
Naomi has a chance to speak to Rob about one of her favourite topics – hybrid work. Rob shares information on how Scoop pivoted from supporting people with their commute to helping organizations use their time in the office more effectively and shares data from Flex Index that tracks organizations' policies and practices related to work flexibility.
They share more about the “magic number” and provide some practical strategies to support your flexible working plans.
You can learn more about Rob’s work by following these links:
The Flex Index can be found here:
https://www.flex.scoopforwork.com/
And his newsletter here:
https://flexindex.substack.com/
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