This is the first podcast feature episode. I want to highlight podcasts that I believe will benefit those that listen to Inspired and Intentional.
Joe Sanok
This episode went longer than I'd planned. But that's ok, 'cause you're going to get some great small business/entrepreneur advice as well as learn about another podcast to add to your playlist.
http://inspiredandintentional.com/practiceofthepractice
Enterprise social networks, user interface, performance management, and human centered design. These are all topics Kevin Jone and I discuss in this 3rd and final episode with him.
Kevin Jones works with companies to help them reimagine and change the way they work, operate, and how they engage their employees. The only way to do this is to challenge the status quo.
Kevin is an advisor, international speaker, and videographer, his expertise lies in organizational strategy, Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs), initiative adoption, and bringing the best out of employees. He focuses on the human side of business and technology. Kevin’s clients include NASA, Lowes, JCPenny, Dell, and many other well known companies. He’s authored two e-books, and produces videos that help communicate how we can challenge the status quo.
Questions
What technology could you implement that would improve the communication between teams at your company?
Do you really need to be doing everything you’re doing? Are there policies or traditional activities that could be dropped? What could you do to free up time to begin redesigning your workplace?
Are your employee surveys designed for the employees or managers?
What can you do to bubble up ideas for a new culture at your company?
Notes taken during editing
Resources
Kevin Jones at vinjones.com - https://vinjones.com/
Employee Engagement measurement tools at viaPing - https://viaping.com/
Kevin Jones interview on the Switch and Shift podcast The Rebel Leader, Our Complicated Fascination with Employee Engagement - http://switchandshift.com/fascination-employee-engagement
XPlane works on organizational design. http://www.xplane.com/
Barry Wehmiller Leadership Institute - http://www.bwleadershipinstitute.com/
Notes taken during the editing of the podcast
Q- we do things that keep us busy - cut it and need to trim it.
Traditional ways are working for you right now. But how can it be better?
User Interface and User Experience - how could you use design principles to alter the way your work is done? How your organization is structured?
How can you look at your performance management processes differently
Human centered design.
Portrait Artist - I discovered Meredith Binnette at her school’s senior art show. She's recently graduated high school and is pursuing art in college. Meredith, good luck in your pursuits.
The Inspired and Intentional business show is about those at the vanguard of a movement of business, government, and nonprofit leaders who believe work can be better...different.
You can run a business or organization that:
Affirms people
Is financially solid
Inspires your community
Operates openly with excellence
And
Communicates a clear, consistent vision
Now let’s be inspired.
The Inspired and Intentional podcast/business show is copyright 2016 by it's owner. The music is Funk Game Loop, Kevin MacLeod Royalty Free from Incompatech.
In part 2 of my series with Kevin Jones, I asked for details on his company viaPing and the work he’s doing around employee feedback. We’ve all seen the yearly, or in one case every 3 year, employee feedback surveys. We take them and very rarely see any results or actions taken as a result. Kevin’s thought of another method that he’s helped companies implement and it’s called viaPing and it’s a methodology of daily employee feedback. Yes, daily.
This talk is not just about his company it’s about loosening up control, giving employees more room to take chances, and creating opportunities for conversations to begin among all levels and departments of your company.
Kevin Jones works with companies to help them reimagine and change the way they work, operate, and how they engage their employees. The only way to do this is to challenge the status quo.
Kevin is an advisor, international speaker, and videographer, his expertise lies in organizational strategy, Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs), initiative adoption, and bringing the best out of employees. He focuses on the human side of business and technology. Kevin’s clients include NASA, Lowes, JCPenny, Dell, and many other well known companies. He’s authored two e-books, and produces videos that help communicate how we can challenge the status quo.
Questions -
How can you create communication methods so people who don’t know each other to meet and share ideas to create solutions?
Like the invoicing team at the consultants, what departments could start asking questions to the users to improve how they operate?
Resources
Kevin Jones at vinjones.com - https://vinjones.com/
Employee Engagement measurement tools at viaPing - https://viaping.com/
Kevin Jones interview on the Switch and Shift podcast The Rebel Leader, Our Complicated Fascination with Employee Engagement - http://switchandshift.com/fascination-employee-engagement
Q 2423 We don’t care what our employees think.
Engagement and employee feedback can be more effective if it’s more grassroots.
Employee feedback should be more often than once a year. It should also be shared with each other to begin conversations.
Don’t assume management needs to solve the problems. Create something insourced management - let it come from the bottom/inside up.
Employee feedback needs to be the beginning of the conversation.
Be more open and let employees know the obstacles to change.
Initiative Adoption - how do you get your teams to adopt initiatives?
One thing - does it align with how your team works?
With a robust employee feedback mechanism, you may see better adoption of new initiatives because they come from the people they affect and not from “on high”.
Portrait Artist - I discovered Meredith Binnette at her school’s senior art show. She's recently graduated high school and is pursuing art in college. Meredith, good luck in your pursuits.
The Inspired and Intentional business show is about those at the vanguard of a movement of business, government, and nonprofit leaders who believe work can be better...different.
You can run a business or organization that:
Affirms people
Is financially solid
Inspires your community
Operates openly with excellence
And
Communicates a clear, consistent vision
Now let’s be inspired.
The Inspired and Intentional podcast/business show is copyright 2016 by it's owner. The music is Funk Game Loop, Kevin MacLeod Royalty Free from Incompatech.
Kevin Jones is the featured guest for the next 3 episodes. In this episode we talk about:
Working through the balance of technology and human side of business and how we cap employees potential.
Even though we have the best intentions employees are still disengaged.
The importance of designing our business for the employees not just the customers.
And one “simple” solution that can help move your organization to more collaboration and engagement.
Kevin Jones works with companies to help them reimagine and change the way they work, operate, and how they engage their employees. The only way to do this is to challenge the status quo.
Kevin is an advisor, international speaker, and videographer, his expertise lies in organizational strategy, Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs), initiative adoption, and bringing the best out of employees. He focuses on the human side of business and technology. Kevin’s clients include NASA, Lowes, JCPenny, Dell, and many other well known companies. He’s authored two e-books, and produces videos that help communicate how we can challenge the status quo.
Questions
Are your company processes, structure, and culture truly aligned to relinquish some control to allow your team to be more agile?
Do your employees understand the why of their work? The purpose?
What can you do to design your work so that you enable employees to give their best to provide the best product for the cusotmers?
Resources
Kevin Jones at vinjones.com - https://vinjones.com/
Employee Engagement measurement tools at viaPing - https://viaping.com/
Kevin Jones interview on the Switch and Shift podcast The Rebel Leader, Our Complicated Fascination with Employee Engagement - http://switchandshift.com/fascination-employee-engagement
Notes Taken During Editing
Technology’s advanced but how we design our work hasn’t advanced as much.
Are humans in the workplace just resources simply to be managed?
We’re marginalizing our people and capping their potential because of how we design our work.
Do you want to move beyond corporate zombies and tap into the potential of your employees? Listen here.
How often are you shooting down the ideas of your team members without consideration for validity.
Employee Capping example: Senior leader who is so busy that he doesn’t have the time to respond to the feedback, so people stop providing feedback, next time he asked.
Is your company set up to put caps on people?
Employees, do you want to love your work?
Engagement is more of a personal thing. Does the employee understand the why of their work? The purpose?
The culture is how we work together. The unsaid things. How we interact. How things get done.
1420 Cost of disengagement and bad culture: mediocrity.
When starting a company we design it for customers. At some point, we need to also think how we design our company for the employees.
Q 2100+- Design to enable employees to give their best to provide the best product for the cusotmers.
Change means change in the company structure and processes as much as in people.
Change can come from a scary yet simple solution: give up some control.
Do you want your company to be more agile? Release some control and let your people be more agile.
Portrait Artist - I discovered Meredith Binnette at her school’s senior art show. She's recently graduated high school and is pursuing art in college. Meredith, good luck in your pursuits.
The Inspired and Intentional business show is about those at the vanguard of a movement of business, government, and nonprofit leaders who believe work can be better...different.
You can run a business or organization that:
Affirms people
Is financially solid
Inspires your community
Operates openly with excellence
And
Communicates a clear, consistent vision
Now let’s be inspired.
The Inspired and Intentional podcast/business show is copyright 2016 by it's owner. The music is Funk Game Loop, Kevin MacLeod Royalty Free from Incompatech.
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Jamie Pritscher is an award-winning entrepreneur committed to excellence, professionalism, positive workplace culture and exceptional client experiences. In addition to positions as Director of Communications at full-service caterer Tasty Catering, Co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of creative marketing agency nuphoriq and Co-founder and CEO of socially-responsible high-end gift company That’s Caring, Jamie is also an active speaker and volunteer in the community.