What the HR! is an award-winning podcast. Presented by TCSHRM and hosted by Becky Lauseng, Jay Olson, and Lena Scullard. The podcast provides insights, strategies, and anecdotes that explore how to build better businesses through modern people practices and approaches. Topics covered include Organizational Development, Employee Engagement, Listening Strategies, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Company Culture, Transformation, Talent, and Leadership.
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Episodes
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Percent Pledge's CEO Joel Pollick joins the show to discuss Percent Pledge and Workplace Philanthropy. They recently released a report outlining all of their findings from 16,000 surveys. In this episode we discuss what employers need to offer around philanthropy and what employees desire.
Joel Pollick is the Founder & CEO of Percent Pledge. Board Director at Lymphoma Research Foundation. Joel grew up in philanthropy (Marc Pollick founded The Giving Back Fund in 1997), which drove his passion for doing good. Then Joel built Percent Pledge to make workplace philanthropy easy for businesses of all sizes.
Percent Pledge website - percentpledge.org
Engaging Employees in Giving Research Report
Guide to a Meaningful Giving Tuesday Celebration
Guest:
Joel Pollick: Founder & CEO @ Percent Pledge
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Gen Z workers bring high expectations to their workplaces, including how they’re trained. Research has shown that Gen Z values career-advancing learning and development opportunities, expecting companies to invest significantly in professional growth. According to a report by Linkedin Learning, a surprising 67% of L&D pros may not realize what motivates Gen Z to learn.
Administrate's CEO John Peebles joins the podcast to discuss his findings and how their system has helped close the gap.
Guest:
John Peebles: CEO at Administrate
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Summer Davies is an award-winning leadership development expert focused on cultivated thriving work environments where people feel equipped, capable, valued, and connected. It has been my privilege to coach, teach, and study leaders around the world and my unique depth and breadth of experience has given me an unending passion for helping managers bring to life the leader they want to be, and LOVE leading.
Guest:
Summer Davies M.Ed.: Leadership Development Expert
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Kevin Mosher joins the show to give us a compliance update on multiple new pieces of legislature. See below for time stamps and topics.
2:00 - Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Federal
8:30 - Parental Leave Update: Minnesota
11:10 - Break Time for Expressing Milk: Minnesota
13:35 - Cannabis is Legal in Minnesota
22:25 - Paid Sick & Safe Leave Update: Minnesota
35:05 - Captive Meeting Law: Minnesota
42:00 - Pay History Law: Minnesota
Guest:
Kevin Mosher: HR Attorney. Partner at Thompson Coe
https://www.thompsoncoe.com/resources/myhrgenius/
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
What the HR! recently won the SHRM Pinnacle award! In this episode we have TCSHRM Past President Becky Lauseng interview us to get a behind the scenes look into the creation of the podcast. Tune in to hear our story from the beginning, and what Jess and I have learned over the 3 years of hosting this podcast.
Guest:
Beck Lauseng - Vice President of People Operations at Onsights (formerly Anno.Ai)
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Samantha Lomow joins the show to talk about the benefits of having fun in the workplace.
Throughout her 25+ year career across toys, entertainment, fashion and retail industries, Samantha has led multi-billion-dollar brand portfolios at prominent global companies, most recently at Foot Locker Inc. where she was EVP & Chief Customer Officer. Prior to that, Samantha spent 20 years at Hasbro rising to President of Branded Entertainment, and during that time she helped prove Hasbro’s growth blueprint, including leading the company’s foray into entertainment with the first Transformers live action film. Samantha currently serves as a Board Member for Claire’s advising on their transition to an omni-channel model. As an experienced leader of transformation and change, Samantha brings a unique approach to leadership, one that has been inspired by a career in play.
Guest:
Samantha Lomow: C-Suite Executive | Independent Director | Orchestrate Global Business Transformation, Establish Operational Excellence & Creatively Position Companies to Scale & Accelerate Profitable, Sustainable Growth
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Angie Bissen joins us to discuss Hormel Foods decision to build a 5 million dollar onsite child care center to support their employees and the community. Angie led this project from start to finish and brings a wealth of knowledge and plenty of lessons learned.
Guest:
Angie Bissen
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Beth Hendler-Grunt is a dynamic leader, adviser, and facilitator who has extensive experience consulting from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms. She has proven success with guiding firms, sales teams and individuals to achieve their sales performance and strategic planning goals.
Ms. Hendler-Grunt has leveraged and scaled her corporate expertise to guide college students to help them succeed when they graduate. This is based on a clear understanding of the career development process and the requirements needed to succeed in today’s competitive environment. Next Great Step has facilitated student strategy and development sessions for recent graduates and current students at leading universities as well as one-on-one consultations.
Guest:
Beth Hendler-Grunt
linkedin.com/in/bethhendlergrunt
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Kerry-Ann is a financial services marketer, currently leading the marketing function at JMMB
(Financial) Group, which has operations across the Caribbean, with headquarters in Kingston,
Jamaica, where she’s currently based.
A firm believer in the need to implement creative, out-of-the-box marketing strategies, to drive
deeper customer and employee engagement that create the win for brands; her current role as
Group Chief Marketing Officer includes the overall leadership of marketing strategy development
and execution, including customer insight management.
Kerry-Ann is also the producer and host of The Internal Marketing Podcast; a personal project
where she supports the business leadership community by hosting discussions with various
subject matter experts in internal marketing and employee advocacy. Specifically, her aim is to
‘flip the marketing conversation’ to focus on how companies can market internally (to their
employees), with a view to ultimately engaging and empowering them to become advocates of
the company brand.
Guest:
Kerry-Ann Betton Stimpson: CMO, JMMB Group
linkedin.com/in/kerryastimpson
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
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Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Tianna is a People & Recruiting Leader who has a passion for building diverse teams and high-impact programs that help companies scale. She joined Notion three years ago as their first talent hire leading the Tech Recruiting Team. For the last two years, she’s been leading Talent Ops & Recruiting programs at Notion and has helped the company scale from around 30 to almost 600 employees. Tianna’s also helped both Lyft and GitHub in their hyper-growth phases as a recruiting leader. She has over 15 years of experience in the People/ Talents culture building space. She’s worn hats in most people functions people ops, HR, recruiting, programs, and enablement and is launching her own consulting firm
Guest:
Tianna Johnson: Head of Talent Operations at Notion
Hosts:
Mike Thul - linkedin.com/in/thulmichael
Jessie Novey - linkedin.com/in/jessienovey
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Twin Cities Society For Human Resources: Recognized as one of the nation's largest SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) chapters, TCSHRM is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. With an ongoing calendar of events, we are an active SHRM group always looking to promote, influence, and educate our members through multiple channels.
Join Us! Become a TCSHRM Member. https://www.tcshrm.org/
Thank you for listening, and if you enjoy this podcast please consider leaving a review as it helps us reach more listeners.
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