Evolving to Exceptional with Jessica Tietjen

Small-to-midsize startups or large, Fortune 500 companies?

What are the key differences between how HR operates within each environment?

Have you considered which option is right for you?

Join us on this week's episode as Paige Galka, an HR Professional who has worked with HR teams in both startups and Fortune 500 companies, discusses the differences between working on large, corporate HR teams versus small, single-person-l...

This episode features Rachel Boehm, a Well-Being Consultant and Coach, who helps workplaces and individuals improve their workplace well-being practices. In this episode, we discuss a variety of approaches that can help workplaces positively impact employee well-being. We also address the importance of aligning any well-being techniques with the overall workplace strategy to improve results and the likelihood of adoption. Finally, ...

Why don’t managers and leaders do what they know they should? I had a little epiphany yesterday about the difficulty of actually doing what we know we should do. I've trained hundreds of managers/leaders and I often got frustrated with their inability to take action on what they learned.

Over the years, I've learned that true change requires much more than a focus on behavior. We must go much deeper to understand our emotions and p...

Join us on this week’s podcast with special guest Emily Dirkers, an HR Leader from a local St. Louis tech startup who shares the toughest challenges facing HR Teams today. Learn more about the impact of reductions in force, a post-COVID world, and high levels of burnout on HR professionals and employees.

• The Trauma in Transitions – Layoffs, Downsizing & Terminations article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trauma-transitio...

New Year, New Start, New You! Every year millions of people set new year's resolutions to accomplish new goals and address their challenges. Unfortunately, statistics show most people fail at their attempts to make lasting change in their life. We've found most people fail because they lack support and tend to implement surface level and generic solutions.

Are you wanting to create change in your life? Overcome challenges or accomp...

I’ve made plenty of mistakes throughout my career that span from my early career overconfidence to inadequate management of people at the start, to ultimately allowing myself to become so stressed I experienced burnout. But do you what to know what I consider to be the biggest mistake of them all? Not getting coaching from a third-party coach sooner!

Learn more about how coaching can change your development and overall life.

Evolvi...

With the recent wave of layoffs major companies like Twitter, Meta, and Salesforce are doing, we need to address an issue that accompanies these situations...the trauma they cause. We cannot continue to downplay the impact these situations have on not only the employees who are let go, but all those who are involved in making the tough decisions and executing on them.

Listen to this week’s episode to find out how we address and hea...

We are excited to announce that we have been working on a brand-new Evolving to Exceptional app that will be launching later this month. One of the key features of this app is our Peak Performance Certification Program which we have been working on over the past year to ensure we incorporate as much of the latest research-backed people practices as possible to help you evolve your performance both at work and at home. This program ...

LINK TO THE YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM WITH VISUALS: https://youtu.be/gHjbRaZk4s4

Are you a female leader? Are you struggling to lead the same way you see men leading? Do you struggle with limiting beliefs or imposter syndrome? Do you feel you are being held back or want to make more progress? Are you wanting more development than you're getting today? Do you want to expand into a better job/role? Be promoted? Are you unclear on your direc...

I recently discovered a year ago when I left my job, that I was more than stressed, I was in burnout. As, I talked with others I discovered I was not the only one who wasn't sure what the difference is between stress and burnout. I am now realizing how serious burnout truly is and what an epidemic we have going on with burnout today. Join us as we take a closer look at the effects of burnout, figure out if you have it, and identify...

Traditional training on effective leadership fail to incorporate the unique needs of female leaders in today's workforce. Female leaders within corporate and entrepreneurship settings are experiencing high levels of burn out in their leadership roles because they are being expected to fit the molds of traditional leadership styles they do not align with. In this week's episode, we discuss our new Evolving Female Leaders program tha...

The relationship between employee and employer has long been transactional – employee gives work, employer pays employee. If we could instead transition these relationships to transformational relationships, they would have the potential to bring about transformation results in our businesses. By entering into a shared agreement that creates clarity, confirms commitment, and has constant communication we have the potential to chang...

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Our workplaces have a long and dark history of separation, isolation, and disconnection that lead to negative experiences for people working within them. This week's episode we focus on how cultures of isolation are created in the workplace and why it's important we shift from isolating people to creative inclusive cultures that encourage connection.

In a previous episode, we discussed how traditional business models primarily focused on profit can lead to significant challenges and negative consequences in the workplace. In this week's episode, we explore an alternative approach called "purpose grounded direction" that can help evolving workplaces achieve even greater results.

How would business practices look if we used all three of our brains? In this episode, we explore each of our three brains and how an evolving workplace can incorporate each to create an engaging environment and experience for employees. 

Hello! Many businesses today operate within a transactional relationship model with their employees. This approach can lead employees to feel like they are mere means to an end rather than true assets. Learn more about why employers need to make a shift from transactional relationships to relational relationships.

Hello! This week we’re discussing the dangers of fear-based cultures in the workplace. Learn more about how instilling fear in your people can hinder your evolution to becoming an exceptional workplace.

When businesses are created, it can be easy to get pulled into the need and want for profits. However, when businesses focus on profit, their real purpose can get lost in the midst. Learn more about why a focus on profits can do more harm than good for businesses.