Transform Your Workplace

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A Comprehensive Market Analysis with Chris Cubbage Oct 18, 2022

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Take a deep dive into the current market with guest Chris Cubbage, Founder of Retirement Advocates. In this episode of Transform Your Workplace, Chris provides listeners with an in-depth market analysis with discussion topics ranging from investing and housing issues to productivity and financial literacy — and everything in between. If you're wondering what's around the corner and how to prepare for your financial future, you don't want to miss this episode.

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Employee Engagement: Eliminating Quiet Quitting with Joe Galvin Oct 11, 2022

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Quiet quitting may be a new term, but it's not a new concept. According to our most recent guest, the pandemic has exacerbated an age-old problem: low employee engagement and productivity. Listen in as Brandon Laws sits down with Joe Galvin, Chief Research Officer of Vistage, and the two discuss how to set high expectations and boost productivity despite the challenges of the hybrid/remote workplace.

TAKEAWAYS

Quiet quitting is the concept of employees meeting only the accepted standards and not trying to do more.
Leaders must be intentional about engaging their teams, communicating clearly, and keeping standards high if they want to see higher productivity in a post-Covid workplace.
The people who aren't working at home are the same people who weren't working in the office; they just spend more energy creating the illusion of activity.
Commuting is a waste of time, productivity, and emotional energy, and eliminating the commute frees people to get more done.
Leaders need to recognize that it's not about attendance and hours worked but about the timeliness and quality of the deliverables.

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Seeking Social Justice with Rahimeh Ramezany Oct 05, 2022

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What can businesses do to empower and develop the marginalized? This episode features a timely discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with intercultural practitioner Rahimeh Ramezany. From her own experience as an employee to her observations of marginalized groups in the workplace, Rahimeh exposes the power plays at work within today's business world.

TAKEAWAYS

Employers must align their values with those of their employees and customers.
Companies show what they care about through what they say, what they do, and where they allocate their money.
DEI practitioners should go out of their way to learn about different cultures and identity groups so that they can be more inclusive and sensitive to needs.
If business leaders haven't even been attempting to check in with their people, it's time to take accountability for that and make a change.

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Building a High-Performance Team Natalie Dawson Sep 27, 2022

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Ready to take your team to the next level? In this episode of Transform Your Workplace, Brandon Laws sits down with leadership and teamwork expert Natalie Dawson to discuss her book, Teamwork: How to Build a High-Performance Team. Listen in to learn all about best practices for engaging and developing people.

TAKEAWAYS

Leaders must figure out the balance between striving toward the goals of the business and guiding employees toward their own career aspirations.
To create a pipeline of talent, be intentional about promoting the amazing things that your employees are doing on a daily basis.
When onboarding, get people the information they need as efficiently and quickly as possible while also over-delivering with regards to self-development.
Ask team members about their personal, professional, and financial goals so that you know how to coach them.
invest in team members who demonstrate that they're willing to take criticism and feedback, develop skill sets, read books, and take courses so that they're ready for future opportunities.

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BONUS EPISODE: Anne Donovan Healthiest Employers Sep 23, 2022

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At Xenium, it's always been about the people. We can't support you and your people without taking care of our own. Which is why we're so proud to announce the Portland Business Journal has awarded us with second place in their Oregon's Healthiest Employer program.

In this bonus episode, Brandon Laws sits down with the President of Xenium, Anne Donovan, to discuss some of Xenium's wellness program initiatives.

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Clearing the Path to Workplace Equity with Tara Jaye Frank Sep 20, 2022

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A waymaker is an active leader who opens doors, removes barriers, and ushers people through to greater levels of contribution. In this episode, Brandon Laws sits down with Tara Jaye Frank, author of The Waymakers, to discuss the inspiration behind her new book, a roadmap for fostering workplace equity. Listen in and learn how to recognize and seize opportunities to interrupt systems and processes that hinder equity in the workplace.

TAKEAWAYS

Inequity is rooted in power dynamics which exist in almost every system in which we work.
When we determine who to hire, who to promote, or who to invite into a certain room where information is being disseminated, we are witnessing power dynamics at work.
Power is usually concentrated within a select group of people, and whether that power is or is not shared dictates the degree to which other people can succeed.
Equitable outcomes are tied to equitable opportunities, and not everyone gets access to those opportunities.
If we don't train ourselves to interrupt some of these processes and ask better questions, then they don't ever change.
We can take responsibility for our role in facilitating change by asking better questions and pushing back against bias.

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From the Ground Up - Guiding Emerging Leaders with Leo MacLeod Sep 13, 2022

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In this episode of Transform Your Workplace, Brandon Laws sits down with guest Leo Macleod — thought leader, consultant, and author of From the Ground Up. Listen in as the two discuss stories from Leo's new book about those who have gone from contributor to leader despite the challenges of climbing the corporate ladder.

TAKEAWAYS

At the start of the typical career, we are taught to own a task completely and to work independently,
The challenge arises when we move into a position of managing other people because we tend to hold on to the project, which is not a good recipe for empowering others.
Start by designing your 'mountain' —both personally and professionally — and that will inform what skills you need to develop to move forward in your career.
Aligning yourself on a team with your mentor puts you in a position of learning the skills and getting the experience to progress in the workplace.
Be mindful of how you're spending not so much your time but your energy.

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Navigating the Burnout Epidemic with Jennifer Moss Sep 06, 2022

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Burnout has always been an issue, but with the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, chronic stress has stepped into the forefront of the conversation about mental and physical wellness. In this episode, guest Jennifer Moss, author of The Burnout Epidemic, talks about the importance of recognizing and destigmatizing the chronic stress — worsened by the pandemic — so that we can find peace and productivity in the workplace.

TAKEAWAYS

The World Health Organization has identified "burnout" as "institutional stress left unmanaged."
Employees who are experiencing burnout often feel stigmatized, so they don't speak up.
During the pandemic, employees were still supposed to hit pre-COVID goals while also working toward stretch goals — this combination was a massive, unidentified chronic stressor.
A Microsoft Trends report found that much of the global workforce was resigning due to workload and lack of empathy from their employers.
Leaders must look at budget allocations and bifurcate between wellness and burnout prevention.

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Building a Second Brain with Tiago Forte Aug 30, 2022

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In this episode of Transform Your Workplace, Tiago Forte, author of A Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential, talks about his innovative, time-tested method for the organization of ideas. What he calls "building a second brain" is a process of organizing, storing, and reflecting on ideas — all to make an "external impact" in your personal life or career. Sit down with host Brandon Laws as he talks with Tiago about his new book and about how his "second brain" has revolutionized his education and career.

TAKEAWAYS

The "second brain" is a system that allows you to preserve and store all of your most important information.
Users reflect on, process, analyze, and understand this information to create an external impact.
A common pitfall is becoming an information collector without any particular purpose in mind.
We improve communication by having better inputs: research, examples, metaphors, data points, stories — the supporting evidence that then becomes part of your communication.
When you keep a collection of very succinct notes all in one place, you start to notice connections or associations that you hadn't recognized before.

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BONUS EPISODE: Thoughts on Malcolm Gladwell's Remote Work Opinions Aug 26, 2022

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Host Brandon Laws is joined by Xenium employee and HR expert Nicole Blevins! The two discuss Malcolm Gladwell's recent polarizing comments regarding remote work.

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