Employee Health Trends with Lauren Florko, Ph.D., The Conference Board of Canada
The pandemic forced significant changes to the workplace, necessitating many employees work from home. Some of these changes have proven permanent. This highlights the changing workplace dynamics, as employers are evolving to remain attractive to potential employees. Another way to attract and retain top talent is through health benefits, which needs to evolve according to new research from The Conference Board of Canada and TELUS Health. Bill's guest this time is Lauren Florko, Ph.D., Seni...
11 Tammi 202215min
How Experiences Can Impact Employee Engagement with Jon Irvine, BlueBoard
In this HRchat episode, we talk about how employee recognition and incentives have evolved and ways experiential rewards can strengthen the employee experience and be a key factor in retaining and attracting employees. Bill's guest this time is Jonathan Irvine, Head of Business Development at Blueboard, an employee recognition and incentives platform powered by hand-curated experiences. The company claims to make it easy for companies to give meaningful employee rewards, incentives, and gift...
7 Tammi 202222min
Measuring Employee Wellbeing with Dr. Don Brown, LifeOmic
Welcome to another episode of the HRchat show. In this episode, we consider tech to monitor and assess employee wellbeing. Bill's guest this time is Dr. Don Brown, Founder, and CEO of LifeOmic, a software company that leverages the cloud, machine learning, and mobile devices to offer disruptive solutions to healthcare providers, researchers, employers, health coaches, health IT companies and individuals. His first company was acquired by EDS in 1986. He founded Software Artistry in 1988 wh...
6 Tammi 202222min
How Play Helps Employee Performance with Jeff Harry
Have you tried to create authentic connections between your employees and leadership teams but keep hitting roadblocks? In this HRchat episode, we consider the role of play in upping engagement levels in the workplace. Bill's guest this time is Jeff Harry, Founder, and Positive Psychology Play Whisperer at Rediscover Your Play. Jeff shows individuals and companies how to tap into their ‘true selves’, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. He has worked with Google,...
4 Tammi 202224min
Labor Market Review and Predictions For 2022 w/ Andrew Flowers, Appcast
2021 in Review and Looking Ahead to Recruiting in 2022 In this special episode of the HRchat show, we wrap up 2021 by reviewing another rollercoaster year in Recruitment and HR. We also make predictions for the labor market in 2022. Bill's guest this time is Andrew Flowers, Labor Economist at Appcast, a global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising technology and services. Prior to joining Appcast in 2021, Andrew spent nearly three years at Indeed.com as an economist at its glob...
30 Joulu 202122min
Crossover Special w/ Chris Bjorling, People and Perfomance Podcast
In this special episode, Bill Banham and Chris Bjorling chat about the first year of the popular People and Performance Podcast, produced in partnership with the team at The HR Gazette. They also offer predictions for what to expect for workforce planning and performance management in 2022 in light of the outbreak of the Omicron variant of Covid. This is a special crossover episode that'll go live on both the People and Performance Podcast and the HRchat show just ahead of the holidays! E...
23 Joulu 202117min
Building Better Business Relationships w/ Ted Rubin
In this HRchat episode, we talk about building and maintaining relationships. Listen too as we talk about lessons from the world of social media marketing that can be transferred to leadership and HR. Bill's guest is Ted Rubin, a leading Social Marketing Strategist, International Keynote Speaker, Business Advisor, Author, Connector, and Provocateur. In March 2009 Ted started using and evangelizing the term ROR, Return on Relationship, hashtag #RonR. His book, Return on Relationship, was re...
21 Joulu 202117min
How to Make Online Hiring More Personal w/ Yves Boudreau, Alongside
In this HRchat episode, we talk about talent attraction, onboarding and a big announcement in the Canadian recruitment tech space. Bill's guest this time is Yves Boudreau, CEO of Alongside, an HR tech company working to improve the ways candidates and companies discover each other. He’s also CEO at the spin-off onboarding tech company AllOnboard HR. Yves has a long history of successful entrepreneurship. He started his first company at the age of 19, a digital creative agency. He then worked...
16 Joulu 202120min
