Work Matters
Join host Thomas Bertels as he tackles today’s biggest issues with business leaders and experts on the Work Matters podcast.
Work Matters
Join host Thomas Bertels as he tackles today’s biggest issues with business leaders and experts on the Work Matters podcast.
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Season 4
Employee Experience Design with Tonille Miller
(Season 4 | Episode 2)
Tonille Miller, management consultant, I/O psychologist, and founder of EXT, on designing the employee experience. She shares her framework to build better workplaces and details the qualities leaders need to help people do the best work of their lives. Discussing the impact of Return to Office mandates on employees, she reveals strategies to better measure productivity and effectiveness without sacrificing engagement.
AI and the Future of Work with Tony O'Driscoll
(Season 4 | Episode 1)
Professor and author Tony O’Driscoll on AI and the future of work. Tony shares how we could improve work by combining machine intelligence with human imagination to help organizations to thrive in the future. He proposes evolving the role of the middle manager to become a “center leader” charged with creating work that delivers aspiration, alignment, autonomy, and accountability. And he unpacks how using AI not to simply increase consumption but optimize lives could deliver greater fulfillment based on individual human values.
Season 3
Leadership Team Development with Mike Moshier & David Yawman
(Season 3 | Episode 10)
Mike Moshier and Dave Yawman, Cresco Partners, on their approach for developing high performing leadership teams. In today’s fast-paced work world, they advocate teams intentionally pause, build relationships and trust, and set expectations for how work gets done. Mike and Dave share the importance of aligning on both purpose (strategic, operational, etc.) and priorities, unpack the challenges leadership teams face, how best to overcome them, and discuss the pandemic and remote work’s impact on team development and employee accountability.
Humanizing Human Capital with Stela Lupushor and Solange Charas
(Season 3 | Episode 9)
Dr. Solange Charas and Stela Lupushor, co-authors of “Humanizing Human Capital,” share how four major trends – demographics, digitization, datafication, and disintermediation – impact HR. Putting Human Capital in the context of the pandemic, the authors explain the tensions between employees and employers around remote work, surveillance technology, and the greater need for worker autonomy and discuss how harnessing the power of data analytics can move organizations successfully into the future of work. They explain that by listening to the employees’ voice and incorporating employee feedback, HR can improve retention rates, positively shape the brand, and reduce costs of recruiting and training.
The Beta Codex with Niels Pflaeging
(Season 3 | Episode 8)
Niels Pflaeging, speaker, consultant, and author of “OpenSpace Beta” and “Leading with Flexible Targets” on his open-source Beta Codex Network that grew out of Beyond Budgeting. He unpacks how this framework drives transformation from alpha – top down, command and control – towards beta – decentralized, cell-based, agile ways of working with successful examples from Southwest, Toyota, and Handelsbanken. He discusses the proliferation of outdated management models and puts Beta in the context of “The Big Quit” – sharing how command and control models stifle potential, human motivation, and the joy of work.
Knowledge Worker Productivity with Laurent Choain
(Season 3 | Episode 7)
Laurent Choain, Chief Leadership, Education & Culture at Mazars, traces the evolution of knowledge work, explains why Mazars made ‘making friends for life’ a central part of their employee value proposition, unpacks the relationship between autonomy and freedom, explains the concept of the creative class, and gives us the backstory of Baccarat’s famous “un parfait” collection.
The Power of Alignment with Al Cini
(Season 3 | Episode 6)
Ali Cini, managing director of BCAT Partners, explains his Brand and Culture Alignment Toolkit (BCAT) and unpacks how asking the incorporating question – “Who are we when we’re doing our best work on our best day?” – shifts an organization towards a shared positive role model and purpose. He highlights the benefits of focusing on this collective best self and how it delivers an aligned brand and culture that positively impacts performance and sense of purpose.
Beyond Budgeting with Bjarte Bogsnes
(Season 3 | Episode 5)
Bjarte Bogsnes, Beyond Budgeting pioneer and author of “Implementing Beyond Budgeting – Unlocking the Performance Potential,” on the principles, advantages, best practices, and challenges to implementing Beyond Budgeting for business agility from his decades long journey.
Corporate Soul with Ralf Specht
(Season 3 | Episode 4)
Ralf Specht, author of “Building Corporate Soul,” shares his framework for aligning on purpose, behavior, and understanding to ensure words match actions. With examples from LinkedIn, Hilton, and Lego, he demonstrates how shared purpose, understanding, and behaviors can improve belonging, employee engagement, and propel organizations to grow three times faster than their competitors.
Global Leadership with Oliver Crocco
(Season 3 | Episode 3)
Oliver (Ozzie) Crocco, Assistant Professor of Leadership and HR Development at Louisiana State University (LSU), on leadership development in the global context. He contrasts the leadership styles in the individualistic U.S. versus that of the more collectivist culture of S.E. Asia, and unpacks the common attributes needed for successful global leadership in organizations, and offers advice for U.S. companies to combat the Great Resignation and increase employee well-being and loyalty.
The Multi-Generational Workforce with Rachele Focardi
(Season 3 | Episode 2)
Rachele Focardi, founder of XYZ@Work and author of “Reframing Generational Stereotypes,” on multi-generational workplace dynamics. She shares how organizations can bridge generational divides and harness the strengths of intergenerational collaboration. By aligning on purpose, flexibility, diversity, shared vision, and acknowledgment, today’s multi-generational workforce can lead a cultural workplace revolution.
The Intentional Organization with Sergio Caredda
(Season 3 | Episode 1)
Sergio Caredda, innovative HR professional, on his ‘intentional organization’ framework for improving business performance with people through shared purpose and consistency. He discusses the importance of intentional job design, the need to think about organization design as continuous improvement, the inherent dangers of adopting external ‘best practices’, the roles of leaders at all levels to shape work, and how HR can enable them.
