The Underdog Workplace Edge
A podcast about keeping employees AND increasing your profit??? Your humble Underdog is here to help smaller companies without HR and Training departments grow their profitability while keeping great people, one interaction at a time. She’s been in the corporate space and solved a lot of problems in the people-process-purpose arena with precision instead of pushing big time-consuming programs and flavor-of-the-year changes. Her aim is to help owners and leaders of small businesses keep and grow employees at work by involving them in smarter work methods. Her mission? To help you get quick results in daily work situations without expensive training and long programs. Smaller companies have an edge - the opportunity to pursue profit while personally caring for the people in their business - each and every day. Calling all underdogs to join the conversation!
Episodes
008 - Quite often we think about using coupon cards (you know - the fundraising kind you buy from kids in your neighborhood) as the only time you ever redeem something. Redemption is purchasing back… getting value back for a price paid.
We all make mistakes and have misunderstandings, especially at work. Instead of trying to make fewer mistakes, we have an opportunity to seek redemption. Seeking redemption in failures lead...
007 - With so many people who don't see work to be a good thing, it's up to you and me to help them change their minds.
Many people in our society today don't want to work or they avoid work.
Some younger people think they don't have what it takes to do hard work.
Whether people are avoiding work or afraid of it, we can change their perception.
Work isn't just about one person getting paid… it's about our...
006 - When it comes to training, less talking is better for the goal of the training. After all, what's the goal of training? That an employee can DO something at the end of it. Is your training focused on just that goal of what the employee needs?
- Who's doing all of the talking in the training in your workplace?
- How do you transfer knowledge from process experts to new employees?
- What is the result of your training? Is ...
005 - Employees don't know all of the reasons that leave an employer. After all, people have needs that they don't realize and articulate - they just go where they're met. So, what is a need that employees have today and how is that being met in your workplace?
- Gallup has developed a 12 question employee survey that indicates how engaged employees are. (If they're not engaged, they're likely to leave t...
003 - You know all about everything that's happening in your business. And, you KNOW there's a lot of opportunity to work better, faster, cheaper... but where can you start? The lowest hanging fruit is somewhere you might not think to look.
- What's the best starting point to find your greatest opportunities for better results fast?
- What's the harm in just talking to a few employees for their ideas?
- How do you...
001 - In this podcast launch of the Underdog Workplace Edge find out...
- Who I'm calling underdogs.
- How I was an underdog and allowed it to catapult me to breakthrough results.
- The 3 areas you need to juggle every day in an underdog workplace.
- How on-boarding isn't limited to new employees - it's the antidote to chaos in your business.
- If you're an underdog
- What you can expect in future episodes.
002 - Are you overwhelmed by all of the priorities at work? In this episode, we are categorizing them to make sure we're hitting on the ones that have the most potential to grow your profits and your business.
- How do you determine if a work week is successful?
- What's your edge in a smaller workplace when it comes to priorities?
- What types of priorities are competing for your time?
- Where do you need to develop and deleg...
004 - We talk to a lot of people day in and day out... and we fall into ruts and routines of conversations without realizing it. What messages are you sending and are they the things that you are truly most concerned about in your workplace? Let's think through this today to see if we can clear up mixed messages.
- What are your employees hearing from you on a regular basis?
- Are your main talking points supporting ...
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