Episodes
This week, we recorded a special live edition of The Best Team Wins podcast, featuring Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman, the co-hosts of the Chad and Cheese podcast, billed as the "most dangerous HR podcast." During the episode, Chad and Cheese discussed why employers need to stop thinking about job seekers as candidates and instead think of them as customers. Other topics touched on included: Why you need an efficient hiring process process in place before investing in recruitment marketing...
Published 04/19/19
This week, Amy Friedrich, President – U.S. Insurance Solutions at Principal Financial Group, joined me on the podcast. The company was recently ranked #1 on the Forbes list of Best Employers for Women and in her role, Amy oversees 3,500 of Principal's 15,000+ employees.    During the episode, Amy discussed several keys to success as a business leader, including getting to know employees, ensuring all team members feel welcome and focusing on both gender diversity and ethics. Amy also...
Published 03/15/19
Andy Medley, CEO and Co-Founder at PERQ, is the featured guest on The Best Team Wins podcast this week. During the episode, Andy discussed the importance of a strong employment brand, a defined employee value proposition and ensuring prospective hires have personality traits that align with the company's core values. He also touched on his favorite interview question and the top personality trait the PERQ team looks for in a leader. 
Published 03/08/19
Max Yoder, CEO and co-founder at Lessonly, joined me on the podcast this week. Max discussed how to set clear employee expectations and effectively have difficult conversations. He also discussed the importance of building camaraderie among Lessonly's leadership team and, as a result, creating mutual trust and respect among employees.    During the episode, Max also shared his favorite Lessonly company value, "Share before you're ready," and how adhering to this value has contributed to the...
Published 03/01/19
Jason VandeBoom, Founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign, joined the podcast this week, where he shared several keys to success on the people side of the business during periods of rapid growth.    ActiveCampaign kicked off 2017 with about 80 employees and has since grown to more than 300 employees. During this time, ActiveCampaign has focused on making change easier on employees without slowing down. Some steps the team has taken to build their best team and empower employees include: enabling...
Published 01/18/19
We're excited to share the 100th episode of The Best Team Wins podcast. The podcast was first launched in 2016, with the aim of providing business and HR leaders with compelling content to improve their hiring, company culture and talent management efforts. To commemorate the 100th episode, we touched base with a few of our top guests from the past to learn about where they are now and how the people side of their businesses have changed. The guests include: Rodney Williams, Co-Founder and...
Published 12/14/18
Shannon Ward, VP of People at Hireology, joined the podcast this week to discuss how Hireology secures top talent given today's record-low unemployment rate and competitive hiring market.  During the episode, Shannon discussed why this year was the ideal time for Hireology to hire a VP of People, the importance of creating a great candidate experience, tips for measuring employee engagement and best practices for sharing employee feedback. 
Published 12/07/18
Lee Caraher, Founder and CEO of Double Forte, a national public relations and digital marketing agency, is the featured guest on the podcast this week.    During the episode, Lee discussed the importance of building an employee alumni network, so businesses can promote loyalty among both current and past employees. She also touched on key tips to be more direct when it comes to giving employee feedback and why leaders shouldn't solve all problems for their employees, but rather give them...
Published 11/16/18
Matt Rizzetta, CEO of North 6th Agency (N6A), a New York-based public relations and social media agency, joined me on the podcast this week. During the episode, Matt shared a rundown of the agency's unique Pace Points program, which gives employees the chance to redeem points for perks like free groceries or transit, dream vacation packages like one month in Europe, yearly gym memberships, concert tickets, and more. Points are earned through individual, group and company-wide achievements. ...
Published 10/26/18
Jason Fiftal, Chief Operating Officer at ghSMART, is the featured guest on this week's podcast.  During the episode, Jason discussed the importance of putting the "who" (your employees) first, and best practices for hiring the right people and setting them up for success. These include: following a structured interview process, leveraging a scorecard to grade interviews, effective onboarding and scheduling a structured follow up with each employee after the first 60 days to discuss overall...
Published 10/19/18
Sherry Schultz, Chief Human Resources Officer at Walser Automotive Group, is this week's featured guest on The Best Team Wins podcast. Last week, my team at Hireology hosted Elevate 2018, the only retail automotive summit dedicated to human capital management. This week's episode features a recording of Sherry's presentation on The Future of Dealership Human Capital Management.  During the presentation, Sherry spoke about the importance of building a strong employment brand and talent...
Published 10/12/18
Maria Katris, Co-Founder and CEO of Built In, joined me on the podcast this week. In this episode, Maria discussed how the hiring landscape has changed since Built In was founded eight years ago, key ways millennials have redefined the job search, and the importance of humanizing recruitment.   Maria is an intrapreneur and entrepreneur with 15+ years of marketing, strategy and consulting experience and has worked in diverse industries including: healthcare, technology and in-home services....
Published 09/28/18
This week, Kris Plachy, Founder and Master Executive Coach at Leadership Coach, LLC, joined me on the podcast. In this episode, Kris discussed the importance of organizations building an accountability structure and actionable tips for dealing with difficult people. Kris has her own podcast, “How to Lead.” The podcast is exclusively for people who lead and manage other people. It will teach you how to manage difficult employees, how to have difficult conversations, how to coach top...
Published 09/14/18
Wayne Sleight, Chief Operating Officer at 97th Floor, joined me on the podcast this week. In this episode, Wayne talked about how 97th Floor has built a network of talent to continuously hire the best team and the company's process for establishing core values. He also discussed 97th Floor's status as a ROWE-certified company. The idea behind ROWE, a human resources management strategy, is to give employees 100% autonomy in exchange for 100% accountability.
Published 09/07/18
Christine Comaford, CEO and Neuroscience-Based Leadership & Culture Coach at SmartTribes Institute, joined me on the podcast this week. In the episode, Christine talked about how she uses the latest neuroscience research to improve the people side of the business, including: hiring right, and boosting employee engagement, employee performance, creativity, innovation, collaboration and more. Christine was named one of the Top 50 Human Behavior Experts to Follow in 2017 and one of the...
Published 08/24/18
This week, Bob Glazer, founder and CEO at Acceleration Partners, joined me on the podcast. Bob was recently named #2 on Glassdoor's Highest-Rated CEOs list, has an email newsletter called "Friday Forward" with more than 35,000 subscribers, and is the author of the book Performance Partnerships.  In this episode, Bob shares best practices for how he's scaled his team for global success, including partnering with Entrepreneurs Organization and ghSMART, following a repeatable hiring process,...
Published 08/17/18
Dave Juarez, Sales Manager at Hireology, joined the podcast to discuss how he's helped the Hireology sales team grow by 30+ hires in his first six months on the job. Dave shared how he goes about the hiring process, his favorite interview questions, what it takes to succeed in a sales role and his approach to new hire onboarding.
Published 08/10/18
Susan Beth, COO at NRD Capital, joined the podcast to discuss her experience as a franchisee, franchisor and on the private equity side of franchising. Susan touched on key criteria she looks for when investing in franchise businesses, including transparency, a clear direction on what will happen going forward, strong leadership and a continued passion for the brand and the service that's being provided.
Published 08/03/18
Lukas Krause, CEO of Real Property Management, joined the podcast to share how he's helped his business scale by focusing on continuously improving the people strategy - including hiring the right people for the right roles ensuring all employees are culture fits. 
Published 07/20/18
Bruce Tulgan, Founder, Consultant and Speaker at Rainmaker Thinking, joined the podcast this week to discuss how detrimental under management can be to any business, and the importance of structured onboarding, meetings and feedback. 
Published 07/13/18
Tony Iannessa, CEO of Big Construction, LLC joined the podcast to discuss how he's built a strong team through investing in hiring and employee training, shares his latest book recommendation for entrepreneurs and discusses plans for the future on the people side of his business. 
Published 06/29/18
Lindsay Verstegen, SVP of People at ShopRunner, joins us on the podcast to discuss how she helped redefine the company's vision, mission and values to build employee trust. 
Published 06/22/18
My guest this week is Glenn Pasch, CEO of PCG companies in New Jersey. This former actor turned entrepreneur dropped in to talk with me about his learnings from his ten years at the helm of this 40-employee firm. Listen in to learn about what Glenn calls "the secret killer of your bottom line."
Published 06/08/18
Mary Ann O'Connell, Founder and President of FranWise, joins the podcast to share her expertise from 30+ years in the franchising industry. In the episode, Mary Ann discusses what works and what doesn't when it comes to franchise operations, including how to make the most of the people side of the business. 
Published 06/01/18