PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 242 - Big Ideas for Employee Benefits in 2016

HR Happy Hour 242 - Big Ideas for Employee Benefits in 2016

Recorded Wednesday March 30, 2016 at the Health & Benefits Leadership Conference

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Nate Randall, President and Founder, Ursa Major Consulting

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This week on the show Steve sat down at the Health & Benefits Leadership Conference with Nate Randall, President & Founder at Ursa Major Consulting to talk about three big ideas and trends in employee benefits that Nate is seeing as he works with organizations around the country. 

Nate shared some ideas around managing benefits in a global and distributed environment, and the challenges that can present. We also talked a little about use of Private Exchanges for employee benefit coverage, and some considerations that employers should take into account when evaluating this model. Finally, we spent some time discussing the new trend of employers offering Financial Wellness programs for their employees, and some important factors employers need to consider before deploying these kind of programs.

Nate also shared some insights from one of his former roles at Tesla Motors, and the challenges they faced in scaling up the organization from under 1,000 employees to over 13,000 in a very short time.

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This was an interesting and informative show with one the the industry's leading experts and thinkers on employee benefits - we hope you will check it out.

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PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 241 - Tackling Recruiting Challenges with Modern HR Technology

HR Happy Hour 241 - Tackling Recruiting Challenges with Modern HR Technology

Recorded Wednesday March 23, 2016

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Jon Bischke, CEO and Founder, Entelo

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This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Trish and Steve are joined by Jon Bischke, CEO and Founder of Entelo, a leading provider of innovative HR and recruiting technology solutions that help organizations find and assess talent as well as help them improve the diversity of their talent pools and pipelines.

Entelo technology helps organizations not only unearth candidates by building comprehensive candidate profiles that are far more complete than what can be found on a simple resume or LinkedIn profile, but it also enables organizations to spend their limited time and resources focusing on learning more about the very best candidates.

Entelo has innovated in the area of diversity, and has built what are the industry's first set of solutions explicitly designed to help organizations enhance and expand the diversity of their candidate pools. Listen to the show to learn more about how Tech can help HR leaders in this important area.

Jon also shared details of the World's Greatest Sourcer contest - you can learn more about that at www.worldsgreatestsourcer.com. 

Additionally, Steve lamented the fact that resumes still are not dead as yet., we pitched (once again) the impending Diet Dr. Pepper show sponsorship, and the idea of recruiting for 'Culture Add' instead of 'culture fit'.

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This was an interesting and informative show with one of the HR and recruiting technology industry's most innovative leaders, many thanks to Jon and Entelo for joining us.

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PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 240 - Oracle HCM World Preview: Big Bets for HR in 2016

HR Happy Hour 240 - Oracle HCM World Preview: Big Bets for HR

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Bertrand Dussert, VP, HCM Transformation & Thought Leadership, Oracle

Recorded Tuesday, March 22, 2016

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Today on the HR Happy Hour Show, Trish and Steve welcomed back the show Oracle's Bertrand Dussert, one of our Top 5 all-time HR Happy Hour guests, to talk about some of the 'Big Bets' CHROs and HR leaders are making in 2016, as well as previewing the upcoming Oracle HCM World event in Chicago taking place April 5-7 in Chicago.

Bertrand spends tons of time meeting with senior HR leaders from some of the world's largest organizations and this gives him fantastic insight and perspective on what the major issues are that are facing CHROs today, and how the best performing organizations are tackling these challenges, supported by modern HCM technologies. 

We talked data and analytics, the desire to reinvent performance and talent management, and how HR leaders are moving to improve the overall employee experience. Additionally, we debated Steve's position on the HR Happy Hour Show's 9-box grid, and whether or not he will ever live up to his potential.

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This was a fun, interesting, and thought-provoking show, we hope you enjoy it. 

You can learn more about Oracle HCM World here. If you will be there, be sure to find the HR Happy Hour Show team, as we will be in attendance as well, doing some interviews on site.

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PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 239 - The Human Jukebox Project, #EntryLevelBoss, and Other Stories

HR Happy Hour 239 - The Human Jukebox Project, #EntryLevelBoss, and Other Stories

Recorded Friday, March 18, 2016

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Alexa Schoen, Founder, EntryLevelBoss

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This week on the HR Happy Hour, we welcome Alexa Shoen to the show.  We are thrilled to have Alexa on the show because of her diverse background.  Whether in her role as a freelance Content Strategist & Communications Advisor in Berlin, her newly released album The Human Jukebox Project, or her highly successful #EntryLevelBoss movement, Alexa is on the move.  She uses her creativity to inspire others, not only her fellow Millennials, but a whole new generation of people who are looking for inspiration in their careers.  

We chat with Alexa about the impact of music and how it's possible to collaborate via social using that medium.  We also talk about the ways the #EntryLevelBoss movement is training people to think about work differently.  Please  join hosts Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane and our guest, Alexa Schoen, this week for what will be an interesting and important topic.

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This was a fun and interesting show, and I hope you check it out.

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PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 238 - Keeping the Human in HR, Live from Ultimate Connections

HR Happy Hour 238 - Keeping the Human in HR: Live from Ultimate Connections 2016

Recorded LIVE at Ultimate Connections 2016 in Las Vegas

Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane

Guest: Cecile Alper-Leroux, VP HCM Innovation, Ultimate Software

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This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we welcome back friend of the show and one of our favorite guests, Cecile Alper-Leroux, VP of HCM Innovation at Ultimate Software to talk about the three big mega-trends that are facing HR leaders in 2016, and some of the ways that technology can help HR leaders and their organizations meet these challenges.

The three big topics we touched upon on the show include, the concept of the  "Employee Experience", and how that differs from traditional ways of measuring employee engagement, the evolution and transformation of performance management as many organizations are re-thinking their performance management processes, and finally, how HR and HR technology has strive to make predictive and prescriptive analytics more accessible and relevant for HR and business leaders in 2016.

This was a fun and interesting conversation about some big issues in HR, ways HR leaders can wrap their minds around these issues, and how technology continues to evolve to address these dynamic trends.

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Many thanks to Cecile and to the team at Ultimate Software for once again welcoming the HR Happy Hour to the Ultimate Connections event.

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