Rodney Evans, Co-host of Brave New Work and Partner at the Ready: The Future of HR

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11/23/23

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Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.

In this week’s episode, Naomi Titleman has the privilege to nerd out with co-host of podcast Brave New Work and partner at The Ready Rodney Evans.

You can learn more about her work here:

https://www.bravenewwork.com/podcast

https://www.theready.com/

Rodney shares some background to the podcast and explains why she enjoys working at The Ready so much – an organization that uses a self-managing system.

They talk about the future of HR and the important role HR plays in supporting organizations. This means evolving beyond the (now traditional) Ulrich model and finding an approach that is much more adaptive to a set of changing circumstances to get to the depth of the problem that needs to be solved.

This includes both how teams are structured with cross-functional teams, using systems and design thinking techniques (that involve end users) and using experiments and pilots.

It also involves HR changing its view that it is a service function and learning to “say no to get behind the bigger yes.”
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The Importance of Purpose & Values with Guest Susan Conrad

November 16, 2023

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42m

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.

In this week’s episode, Mark Edgar is joined by guest Susan Conrad who is part of the Chapman & Co Leadership Institute – an organization that supports companies create a people-first culture. She is also a serial entrepreneur and sees her purpose as serving as a catalyst so people achieve more together.

Mark partners with Susan and team as part of his Chief People Officer role at Wajax as we continue to focus on building a people-first company.

A lot of the Chapman & Co Leadership Institute work is based on the Barry-Wehmiller journey who have created a very intentional culture focused on unleashing the potential of every person in the organization. You can learn more about the company and the work in these links.

Everybody Matters Documentary (37 minutes)

Everybody Matters Book & Discussion Guide (see attached)

Truly Human Leadership Animation Video (10 minutes)

In this episode they talk about the importance of taking a people approach and the role a purpose and a set of values has in creating a sustainable culture. They talk about the unique approach they take to creating a purpose and values.

You can learn more about Susan’s work by following her on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-conrad-b167636/

Or you can email here at susan.conrad@ccoleadership.com
Quick reminder

Don’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.

Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/
Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/
future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/

And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/

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The Very Bad Recruitment Process with Guest David Pullara

November 30, 2023

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33m

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.

David Pullara is a marketing expert and fractional Chief Marketing Officer. He is also the author of Tom Talent and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Recruitment Process.

In this episode, David and Naomi Titleman talk about the often broken hiring process and the impact this has on candidates’ perceptions of companies. He presents some interesting research from his book and they discuss practical ways to make improvements to how you hire.

You can learn more about David’s work here:

https://www.davidpullara.com/

And get a copy of his book here:

https://www.amazon.ca/Terrible-Horrible-No-Good-Very-Bad-Recruitment-ebook/dp/B0CJPQNMCG/
Quick reminder

Don’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.