In this episode, we are joined by Vern Howard, CEO of Hallo to call BS on Diversity Recruiting. An industry where billions are spent each year, the results are still disappointing and lackluster. Many companies continue to lack diversity in all ranks and we have even seen a decline in diversity at the highest levels of organizations across all indu…

Knee jerk benchmarking in HR systems and decisions has created a race towards the mediocre for most startups. Considering we're supposed to be the innovators there's an awful lot of cheating off of someone else's homework going on and most conclusions reached from a benchmarking exercise fail to remember that the information you're benchmarking aga…

We often say that culture is not free food or ping pong tables, but something that employees experience every day they work with your company. Since the proliferation of startup culture, perks have been perpetuated as a way for companies to attract talent. Free food, ping pong tables, and arcade machines are just some of the most popular ones. If y…

Christine Tao, co-Founder & CEO, and Lori Mazan, co-Founder, President/Chief Coaching Officer of Sounding Board, Inc. join Anthony Onesto and New Yawk HR to discuss how, since their last appearance on the show, HR and Leadership Development have taken on new meaning due to COVID-19 and the country’s reckoning with diversity and equality. Christine …

Many companies are discovering the hard way that people really aren’t going to be as productive working at home as they would be in the office. At least, they won’t if you think that all it takes is making meetings virtual and installing spy software to monitor your employees. In this episode, we call bullshit on the magical thinking that’s hamperi…

We have gone from "do we close the office", to "we are working from home" and now we are in the phase of "do we return to the office and how". The good news is that this is the phase we are now talking about, the bad news is that this phase may be the most complex for Human Resource leaders and teams. How do we maintain employee privacy when we nee…

Coronavirus has taken its toll on companies around the globe. The best description we have heard is a Marvel reference to Thanos’ snap. Within a blink of an eye, companies are failing, freezing hiring, and layoff millions of staff. In fact, we are hitting record numbers of unemployment claims. It’s a VERY hard time for everyone. But, during these t…

Christine Tao, co-Founder & CEO, and Lori Mazan, co-Founder, President/Chief Coaching Officer of Sounding Board, Inc. join Anthony to discuss how learning is changing in this new world of work and the impact that digital transformation and change management has on companies today. Sounding Board’s data-driven, tech-based coaching platform is truly …

Workplace giving matters, but most approaches are dated. Today, an estimated $4.8 billion is already donated annually through employee giving programs in North America, mostly through big companies. Big companies have embraced CSR but smaller companies have fallen behind on this trend. While only 20% of S&P 500 companies published CSR reports in 20…

Research is showing that the next generation of employees prefers experiences to traditional rewards and recognition. Instead of getting a bag of SWAG or some random bottle of champagne, employees are expecting something different. Yet, we continue to provide the SWAG bag or that bottle of champagne on anniversaries or birthdays - a gift that seems…

For years recruiters have been ghosting candidates so we are calling BS on candidate ghosting, the latest phenomenon to apparently plague recruiters and we discuss how to stop it. Katrina Collier shows companies how to solve the problem of candidate engagement. Recruiters, HR and hiring leaders don’t have an issue finding people, they have an issue…

Imagine you run HR for a company. You walk into the CEO's office with an idea - I want to bring the entire organization together for one week and have everyone review each other. They are going to hate doing it, the systems will be fractured, it will cost millions in employee's time, and the result will reduce productivity. The CEO would likely kic…

For years companies have used various motivation tools and strategies to try and get employees to meet and exceed their job expectations. We have used bonus plans, sales commission programs, competency frameworks as a means to solve the skills gap, frequent feedback conversations as the next answer for performance management, and org re-structures …

In this episode, we call BS on a billion dollar industry - leadership training. The topic that keeps most CEO's up at night is people, and leadership skills are at the heart of this challenge. Companies are investing within leadership training and development in unprecedented numbers, yet we haven't moved the needle as employee engagement is at an …

New Yawk HR tackles a very topical subject - diversity and inclusion. Why hasn't the needle moved? We continue to struggle with gender and race diversity in companies of all sizes even with an increase in staffing, budget and focus around D & I. Is it because we are avoiding the root cause of systemic issues around people that are different? We are…

We all know that the first slide in all our HR/People reports is headcount. Headcount last month, a few months back, and the entire year last year. It's typically a bar graph, showing the ups and downs of your headcount. For the eager analyst, there may also be a trend line. With the help of Maya Carmeli, CEO and Co-Founder of Cally, we are calling…

On today's show, we call BS on job descriptions with Katrin Kibben, CEO and Founder of Three Ears Media. Katrina Kibben is the Founder and CEO of Three Ears Media, a firm dedicated to teaching recruiters how to be better writers. For most of Katrina's career, she has been a marketer living in a recruiter's world - listening to both sides of the tal…

Wellness programs have been in existence for decades. The average company spends $1,200 per EE per year on wellness, it's a billion dollar industry. Dig deeper (thanks to good SEO and Ad buys these are buried stories) you find that most employees don't participate, think its a waste of time, and HR leaders are baffled by the lack of impact. Why? Jo…