Working with People Podcast

Chiara Toselli interviews Ann Melinger on how to set core values and competencies!

1) What are company values and what are core competencies? Why are they important?
2) How can companies determine their company values and competencies? What are some of the biggest challenges when setting core values and competencies?
3) How do company values shape company culture? How can organizations communicate and integrate their company values and competencies into the day-to-day of their employees?
4) Can values and competencies change over the lifetime of an organization? Why or why not?

Find Ann on LinkedIn and check out Brilliant Ink!

Find Chiara on LinkedIn! 

Harrison Kim Interviews Ashley McKarney on How to Run a Successful Engagement Survey! 

1. What is an engagement survey?
2. Why are they important for organizations to implement? 
3. What type of questions should be included? How often should you host engagement surveys?
4. What can organizations do with the data they collect from engagement surveys? 
5. How can you get C-suite on board? How can you get employees on board?

Find Ashley on LinkedIn and check out Involvi's website and LinkedIn!


Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded November 2022

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Harrison Kim interviews Darrin Jahnel on how to seek out the best talent and steps to retain A-list employees.

1. What does the recruiting process look like for top talent? Where can organizations find these A-players?
2. How does the recruiting process change as an organization scales their company?
3. What challenges should organizations expect when trying to recruit top talent?
4. What are some strategies that have worked for you in the past to retain A-list employees?

Find Darrin on his website and LinkedIn and check out his company website!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded September 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Stephan Wiedner on psychological safety in the workplace. 

1. Can you define psychological safety?
2. Can you describe the link between psychological safety and interpersonal skills?
3. How can organizations assess interpersonal skills? 
4. Can you discuss some examples where organizations can help their employees improve interpersonal skills?

Find Stephan on LinkedIn and check out Zarango!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded July 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Traci Scherck on how people data impacts employee retention.

1. Can you define people data/people analytics?

2. Why are people analytics/people data important? How does it impact employee development and retention?

3. What type of data should an organization be collecting? How should they be collecting it?

4. How can organizations use the predictive index for employee retention?

Find Traci on LinkedIn and Elevated Talent Consulting!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded July 2022

Harrison Kim Interviews Teddy Chestnut on why interview training is the secret to making better hiring decisions.

1. What is interview training? 

2. Can you provide some insight on what makes an interview successful? 

3. Can you speak on the importance of interview training? Why is interview training critical to making better hiring decisions?

 4. What challenges arise during interviews that interview training can overcome? 

5. How can manager/ leaders of an organizations become better at interview training?

Connect with Teddy on LinkedIn! Check out BrigthHire's website and LinkedIn!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded June 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Gina Lin on the importance of normalizing career coaching and career transitions. 

1. Can you define career coaching?
2. What is the importance of normalizing career coaching and career transitions?
3. In the past, career transitions were often looked down upon. Why is that? How and why is the outlook changing?
4. What are some reasons someone may choose to have a career transition?
5. What are the most challenging parts of a career transition that you have seen?

Find Gina Lin on LinkedIn and check out AlphaSights

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded May 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Tim Brehmer on how onboarding bridges the gap between the candidate and employee experience.

1. What does a successful onboarding program look like?
2. How does onboarding bridge the gap between the candidate and employee experience?
3. What are some common challenges that arise when onboarding new employees?
4. How can organizations calculate the ROI of a successful onboarding program? 

 Find Tim on LinkedIn and check out Enboarder!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded May 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Katie McLaughlin on how to engage your workplace with theatre based exercises. 

1. Can you speak to the importance of engaging your workforce?
2. Why is it so challenging to engage today's workforce?
3. What techniques/exercises would you recommend to engage the workforce?
4. How can organizations measure if these techniques/ exercises are successful?

Find Katie on LinkedIn and check out her website Mclaughlinmethod!

Check out her how to guide to using culture survey data to uncover & take action on your team's needs discussed in the episode. 

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded May 2022

Harrison Kim Interview Robert Rawson on managing multicultural teams remotely

1. Can you define what a multicultural team is? Why are they so important?
2. What are some best practices to manage multicultural teams remotely? 
3. What are some challenges in managing multicultural teams remotely? 
4. How is managing multicultural teams in a remote setting different than in-office?

Find Robert on LinkedIn. check out the Running Remote conference and be sure to read his book "Running Remote" launching in August 2022!


Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded April 2022

Harrison Kim Interview Christina Wang on the importance of continuous performance management. 

1. What is the purpose of performance management? Why is it important?
2. Continuous performance management and feedback have become "popular" in the last several years - what are some of the big challenges with shifting into this from traditional PM?
3. Should you have annual reviews, even if you have continuous feedback?
4. What are your thoughts on ratings?
5. Professional services firms are structured differently from most traditional organizations. They are truly project-based businesses - does PM look different in any way? Why or why not?
6. How do you assess the ROI of a performance management program?

Find Christina on LinkedIn and check out her website Six Tomatoes!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded April 2022

Harrison Kim interview Ramona Shaw on how to best support new managers in their transition to leadership

1. What are some essential skills that new managers need?

2. What are the biggest challenges new managers face? 

3. How can organizations better support their new managers?

4. What is something that new managers can do today to improve their skillset? 

Find Ramona on LinkedIn and check out her website and podcast. Don't miss out on her new book, "The Confident And Competent Lead Manager" coming May, 2022! 

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded April 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Thad Price on the importance of employee development programs. 

1) Can you define what an employee development program is?

2) Why are development programs crucial for employee retention?

3) What are the most challenging parts of creating a successful development program?

4) How can companies calculate the ROI of employee development programs

Find Thad on LinkedIn! 

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded April 2022

Harrison Kim interview Jessica Williams on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

1) Can you discuss the importance of DEI for organizations?

2) How does DEI (or lack thereof) impact recruiting and retaining initiatives?

3) What DEI initiatives help attract & retain top talent at an organization?

4) What challenges have you seen when it comes to implementing DEI initiatives at organizations?

5) What are some best practices to develop & drive an impactful DEI strategy?

Find Jessica on LinkedIn and check out her website Hidden Gem Career Coaching!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded March 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Sony Das on  team dynamics and preferences.

1.  You've run an internal initiative to get a better understanding of your team members' preferences and team dynamics. Can you tell me more about how this got started?
2. What are some of the methodologies / steps you took? 
3.  What were your findings? What have been the benefits?
4. What could have gone better?

Find Sony on LinkedIn!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded March 2022

Harrison Kim interview Erica Rooney on leadership coaching.

1. Can you define leadership coaching? How is this different than traditional leadership/ managing? 
2. What types of questions should leaders be asking when trying to coach their employees? 
3. What challenges do leaders run into when trying to coach their employees? 

Find Erica on LinkedIn and check out her website!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

 To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded March 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Allison Sproul on talent attraction tips for startups.

1.  Should a startup's approach to attracting talent be different from a more mature corporation's?
2. What are some challenges that startups face when attracting talent? 
3. What are some talent attraction tips for startups?
4. What role does the company culture play in attracting talent?

Find Allison on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded February 2022

Harrison Kim interview Alison Eyring on the importance of growth leadership 

 1) Can you define growth leadership? 

2) What are some qualities or skills that growth leaders have? 

3) How can leaders develop the right mindset to become a growth leader? 

4) What challenges to growth leaders run into? 

 Find Alison on LinkedIn and on Twitter

 Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded January 2022

Harrison Kim Interview Bethany Turon on “Old school” vs “New School” Management! 

 1) What are the "old school" and “new school” management styles?

2) Can you explain the importance of management in employee development and engagement and overall organizational success?

3) What are some new leadership challenges for the virtual/hybrid world of work?

4) How can organizations train their managers to become great leaders? 

Find Bethany and her thought leadership on LinkedIn!

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded January 2022

Harrison Kim interviews Annissa Deshpande on modernized human resources! 

1) How do you define modern HR?

2) How is modern HR different from traditional HR?

3) What are the benefits of modern HR?

4) What are the biggest obstacles companies face in implementing these modern HR initiatives?

Find Annissa on her website at theloglab.net.

 Check out her book "The Comeback: A Modern HR Novel". 

Find Harrison Kim at Pavestep at harrison.kim@pavestep.com.

To be featured on Working with People by Pavestep, email Riley Steinbach at Riley.steinbach@pavestep.com. 

Recorded January 2022