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Ways Animation Tech Can Engage Employees w/ Ilya Spitalnik, Powtoon May 18, 2021

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In this episode, we look at cool tech to help engage and educate employees and stakeholders.
Bill's guest this time is Ilya Spitalnik, CEO and founder of Powtoon. Ilya is a serial entrepreneur and thought leader on “the age of acceleration”. He started his career in banking, culminating in a senior position at Deutsche Bank, where he was directly responsible for launching Deutsche Bank’s first online Foreign Exchange Trading System.
Ilya is a passionate growth hacker with an unhealthy obsession for online marketing, brand building, and the “art of sales”. He's also a strong believer in the 80/20 principle.
About Powtoon
Communication, as we experience it today, is damaged. Too much information, too many technologies, too much digital chaos.
Powtoon’s Visual Communication Platform was built to solve this global challenge by providing teams, organizations, and academic institutions with tools to easily create, manage, distribute, and measure visual content, at scale.
With Powtoon, all of your visual resources are unified into a single, interactive ecosystem where company-wide stakeholders can discover, collaborate, and experience your content like never before.
Learn how a Visual Communication Platform can create positive communication experiences at your organization www.powtoon.com

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Tech to Track Needs of Employees w/ Joelle Gargour, Cegid May 14, 2021

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In HRchat episode 293, we discuss employee-centric tech and tracking employees' needs through the current crisis.
Bill's guest is Joelle Gargour, Pre-Sales Project Manager at Cegid. With a tendency to question the status quo, she brings new business opportunities to businesses. Specialized in the implementation of technology solutions and the integration of the Cegid HR solution, she brings her expertise of HR needs while guiding an intelligent employee-centric process for the younger generations.
About Cegid
Cegid Talent allows users to manage candidates, recruiting, training, performance, compensation, career development, and succession. Its business intelligence tools help identify organizational potential in order to clearly drive HR strategies. Learn more at cegid.com.

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Six Elements Essential to Collaboration in the Post-Covid Workplace w/ Barry Flack May 13, 2021

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The role of the HR leader was, of course, central to the organizational response to the pandemic. As we continue to crawl out of the mire of Covid and look ahead, the opportunity becomes about helping to reimagine our businesses; preparing and building better resilience against additional future external pressures.
So what are the competencies and tools that HR needs to have at their disposal? Where should HR be investing their time and money? How can we maintain company culture and collaboration in a changed world?
In HRchat episode 289, we consider six elements essential to collaboration in the post-Covid workplace and the tools and strategies to future-proof businesses so they can best manage future challenges.
Bill's guest is Barry Flack, Workforce Strategist and a top 30 global influencer in HR and HR Tech. Barry is an award-winning HR professional who spent many years running large recruitment & HR functions in a variety of global industries, before embarking on a varied portfolio career.
Barry helps organizations adapt to the changing world of work and use advanced HR tech to solve complex people-related business problems. In the past, he’s been a board-level HRD, Head of Talent, Head of ER/IR, Head of Recruitment, OD, and Programme Head. He now spends his time working with HR Technology start-ups, consulting and practicing with Private Equity and Venture Capital businesses to help portfolio companies build for growth and commentating on the developing world of work.

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The Role of HR in Combatting Data Security Breaches w/ Or Lenchner, Bright Data May 11, 2021

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In this HRchat episode, we consider how HR pros and leaders can be at the center of company efforts to address data security concerns.
Bill's guest this time is Or Lenchner, CEO at Bright Data, a tech platform on a mission to shine a light on the internet; making it transparent again.
Listen to the interview with Or Lenchner and learn:

What are the ongoing implications for data security of en masse WFH employees?
What can leaders do to define and recognize their most important assets and work towards creating a protective environment?
How can HR leaders play a role in combatting malicious activity on social media and protect their company's brand?
What are some of the major shifts currently happening in data collection and are they here to stay?
If listeners want to use online data for HR purposes - how can they start? What is available to them? What kind of results can they expect?

About Or Lenchner
Or is a tech-savvy entrepreneur and a web and technology enthusiast who believes that data is like water - i.e. it should always be transparent and available to all.
Since his appointment as CEO of Bright Data (formerly Luminati Networks), Or has continued to expand the company’s market base as an online data collection platform, dedicated to delivering complete web transparency. Bright Data’s thousands of customers include Fortune 500 companies, major e-commerce firms and sites, prominent finance firms, leading security operators, travel sites, academic and public sector organizations.
About Bright Data
Bright Data’s advanced proxy network and online data solutions deliver reliable, structured data to all organizations, helping them make smarter, informed decisions, faster and more effectively. Learn more at brightdata.com
We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.

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What’s Next For SMB Hiring? w/ Pete Lamson, JazzHR May 07, 2021

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In HRchat 290, we look at recruiting and onboarding in SMBs. Our guest this time is Pete Lamson, CEO at JazzHR - the recruiting software built to help growing companies exceed their recruiting goals.
Listen as Pete and host Bill Banham discuss the impact of the crisis on employees, leaders, and HR pros within SMBs. As some of us slowly start crawling out the other side, hear Pete's predictions for what a stronger future workplace and labor market will look like.
Pete has been CEO of JazzHR since 2015 where he's led the company through a strategic turnaround to become the category-leader in SMB hiring technology and successful exit. As part of a new merger, Pete recently took over the overall leadership of Jobvite, JazzHR, and NXTThing RPO.
Pete has 30+ years of experience in leadership roles with high-growth companies, spending most of his career with B2B technology solutions. Prior to JazzHR, Pete was Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Carbonite where he was responsible for all revenue and industry-leading expansion into the B2B market, which grew to exceed 100,000 customers.

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How Product Design Thinking Can Help HR w/ Glenn Donaldson, intelliHR May 06, 2021

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On the face of it, product design and HR feel about as far apart as any two aspects of work can be. Yet to the leaders of intelliHR, an innovator in the HR space, there’s a method that’s emerged from product design that can inform and improve HR processes. That tool is called design thinking and it’s almost-purpose built to facilitate change in HR process.
In this HRchat we'll delve into design thinking transformation. Bill's guest this time is Glenn Donaldson, Chief Customer Officer, and President, intelliHR Americas, responsible for leading the global expansion of intelliHR into North America and the United Kingdom.
Glenn Donaldson is a specialist in HR technology, with expertise and passion for product strategy, customer success, and business expansion. Focusing on developing customer-centric strategies, Glenn drives business growth through the fusing of product, HR, and customer service, having worked with a range of industries across the globe in helping deliver more for their people for the past 5 years.
intelliHR is applying a new mode of thinking that could be a game-changer for HR processes and we'll get into that today.
Enjoyed the interview? Check out episode 259 with Glenn and his colleague Rob Bromage that focuses on the 2021 intelliHR Performance Summit.

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Why CEOs Need to Embrace Their Inner HR w/ Janice Sutherland, This Woman Can May 04, 2021

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In episode 288 of the HRchat pod, we explore why CEOs should embrace their inner HR person and the benefits of doing so.

Bill's guest is Janice Sutherland, Founder and CEO at This Woman Can and a recent InnovateWork Caribbean speaker.
Described as an “exceptional career coach” and “fearless women's leadership advocate,” Janice is CEO of this awarding leadership and personal development consultancy. Passionate about supporting the next generation of female leaders, she works with companies to develop their talent resources & attain organizational goals.

Janice's professional career has spanned over 25 years of leadership with prestigious multinationals in the UK and the Caribbean and she made history when she became the first female CEO in the Telecoms Sector in her ancestral home of Antigua and Barbuda, where she is also the local Chair of the Caribbean Women in Leadership.

She is the author of the international best-seller This Woman Can - The no BS guide for women who lead and host of the This Woman Can Podcast, sharing the leadership journeys of Caribbean and Diaspora women. Janice also a sought-after keynote presenter for corporate and nonprofit environments and speaks on issues relating to leadership, women’s advancement, professional success and work/life alignment.

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Evolution of Performance Management with Harrison Kim, Pavestep Apr 30, 2021

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In this HRchat, we talk about retaining top talent and the evolution of performance management. Bill's guest is Harrison Kim, CEO at Pavestep, a performance management solution designed to help companies develop and motivate their people with continuous feedback, goal management, and flexible reviews.
Harrison is a former McKinsey consultant and private equity investor in the human capital management sector. He founded Pavestep to help executives and managers develop, motivate, and understand their talent.
Questions tackled by Harrison include:
* In what ways do you think culture and core values help make an employee want to stay at a company?
* What are the biggest problems with traditional performance management/annual reviews?
* How can organizations shift from traditional performance management to continuous performance management?
* How has remote working shifted the future of performance management? contingent workers?

We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.

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Recruitment Tech Trends w/ Matt Charney, SmartRecruiters Apr 29, 2021

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Matt Charney, new Head of Industry and Product Marketing at SmartRecruiters and partner in RecruitingDaily is the guest in episode 286.
Listen as Matt shares tips for HR leaders looking to hire contingent workers. Matt also offers his ideas about what hiring gig workers says about a brand and he talks about the improvements made to the talent tech stack over the past year to ensure the long-term success of remote hiring.

Matt is one of the top experts in the world when it comes to talent and technology. He has extensive expertise within the recruiting and HR technology industries, with over 15 years of marketing leadership experience at global talent organizations such as Monster Worldwide, Cornerstone OnDemand, Talemetry and the Allegis Group.
At SmartRecruiters, Matt works closely with product and business leadership to deliver compelling core messaging, packaging, pricing and go-to-market campaigns for SmartRecruiters’ core platform, point solutions and marketplace programs. Matt is also a partner in RecruitingDaily, where he served as Executive Editor.

More About Matt Charney
Matt has been recognized as one of the top HR Technology influencers by publications such as LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Forbes, the Huffington Post and HR Magazine, and was recognized by the Society of Human Resources Management as an “HR Gamechanger” for his contributions to talent technology.
He was also named by WordPress as one of the world’s top business bloggers; an in-demand speaker, Charney has keynoted dozens of industry conferences and events all over the world, including South by Southwest Interactive, RecFest, Collision, SHRM Annual Conference, Unleash and the HR Technology Conference, and, of course, six Hiring Success conferences in both the US and Europe).

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Performance Podcast Preview w/ Christopher Bjorling, Fidello Inc. Apr 27, 2021

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In this special episode of the HRchat show, Bill Banham welcomes back Christopher Bjorling, President at Fidello Inc, a consulting and services firm specializing in improving human performance.

Listen as Chris and Bill reflect on ways the Covid crisis impacted Performance Management and chat about a new performance-focused podcast series, produced by The HR Gazette team, coming out later in 2021.
For over 30 years Chris has led Fidello in creating unique talent management solutions. Through the products and services he and his team have created over the years, his organization has helped clients design, develop, implement and integrate talent management processes and systems.
Among these processes and systems are training and development, selection and recruitment, succession planning, performance management, career management, competency management, and learning management. We chat about some of these in episode 285.
Enjoyed this HRchat? You can listen to Chris's first appearance on the podcast (episode 98) here.

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