HR Rebooted Podcast

Season 4: Episode 1: Rebooting HR Rebooted

We are back and talking about our plans for this next chapter in HR Rebooted.  We're focusing a FULL season on certain topics. Our first season will be focused on Fractional Work and The Future of Work.  Listen to see what else we have in store!

Season 4: Episode 1: Michelle & Tracie Catch Up

Season 3: Episode 6: Tiffany Loses an Earring!

Tiffany Castagno joins Michelle and Tracie to talk about Culture (and is so passionate about it, she loses an earring!).   Tiffany is the founder and CEO of CEPHR, Cultivating the Evolution of Professional HR. Find more information about  CEPHR at https://www.cephrconsulting.com/

Season 3: Episode 5: How HR Can Create an Inclusive Culture

In this Episode, Michelle and Tracie connect with Katharine Halpin about how HR Professionals can take the lead in creating an inclusive culture and getting a seat at the table.

Season 3: Episode 4: Mental Health At Work

In this episode, Melissa Doman talks about how important it is to have the conversation about mental health at work.  She also talks with us about how to have this conversation with employees to ensure employee wellbeing.

Season 3: Episode 3: A Conversation with HR Rebel Christina Wang

Christina Wang is an HR Business Partner and a member of the HR Rebels group.  In this conversation she talks about how much the HR Rebels group has helped her in her career and advocacy.   

Season 3: Episode 2: HR with Heart

In this episode, Michelle Strasburger and Tracie Sponenberg met with Julie Turney. Julie is changing the way HR people take care of themselves with her new HR Consulting business.  She's lifting others up, something that we need more of in the HR Community! You can connect with Julie on Linked In at https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamjulieturney

Season 3: Episode 1: HR Burnout

It's been a challenging year for those in the Human Resources Profession.  Many find themselves dealing with burnout and have no where to turn.  In this episode, we are thrilled to chat with Laurie Ruettimann about HR Burnout and taking control of your career.  Laurie has a new book coming out in January called "Betting on You". A must read for anyone dealing with HR Burnout. You can learn more about Laurie here:  https://laurieruettimann.com/about/

Season 3 Kickoff

Season 3 is here! In this short episode, Michelle and Tracie talk about what's in store for this season.  We're looking to get feedback too on what you want to hear for future episodes and seasons.

Season 2: Episode 10: A Conversation About Values

Tracie and Michelle met with Debra Corey on Values.  Why are Values important? How do you implement them and embed them in your culture?

Season 2: Episode 9: Analytics

Tracie and Michelle met with Julie Alig, an expert in analytics. Julie is working with businesses and HR organizations to create meaningful analytics to help solve their business problems.  In this episode, Julie talks about how to embrace analytics to help you support your business.

Season 2: Episode 8: The Employee Experience with Josh Drean

Michelle & Tracie meet with Josh Drean to discuss the importance of the employee experience.  

Season 2: Episode 7: Terminations with Care

During this trying time, businesses are forced to look at Furloughs, layoffs and terminations. In this episode, Michelle Strasburger and Tracie Sponenberg talk about how to terminate someone in a more "human" way.  

Season 2: Episode 6: The Future of HR

We have no idea what the future of HR is but we're guessing that it might include some impact from COVID-19. In this episode, Michelle & Tracie talk about what these things could include.

Season 2: Episode 5: Vulnerability

In this episode, Michelle Strasburger & Tracie Sponenberg host with special guest Not The HR Lady, Tara!  In this talk, she talks about Living Out Loud and 3 key ways to do that. First, start with kindness Assume good intentions Use micro suggestions to influence

Season 2: Episode 4: Catching up

Michelle & Tracie discuss how leaders can help their remote employees stay connected and also catch up on what’s going on with them. 

Season 2: Episode 3: A conversation with Adam Rosenfeld

There's so much going on in HR right now. In this episode Michelle Strasburger and Tracie Sponenberg have a conversation with Adam Rosenfeld on how HR can have a voice during this time and help with equality and to eliminate injustices in the workplace.

Season Two: Episode 2: Taking care of your employees

It's very interesting times and HR Professionals have been challenged to rethink how they manage work in general.  With some of us dealing with employees working remotely, updating policies, dealing with furloughs, it's a whole new world!  During this episode, Tracie and Michelle talk about how to manage your employees and help them out during this time, now that the dust has settled a little. In this world of uncertainty, it's up to HR to step up and make sure we're doing all we can to help...

Season 2: Episode 1: Talent Acquisition

What a great kickoff to Season 2! Talent Acquisition is a challenge for most of us in the HR world and a bigger focus in 2020 as we try to find the right talent for today and in the future. In this episode, we met with the Talent Acquisition Team at BottomLine Technologies.  Brooke Sullivan and Kailey Ingerman talk about how they work with leaders across the organization to recruit talent that fits their culture and how they proactively seek out talent for the future.

Episode 10: Season Finale

We are thrilled to share our Season One Finale!  This was really fun and a great conversation.  Tracie and Michelle took questions from their listeners.  These questions were: What should HR be focused on in 2020 and beyond How do you become a strategic partner How do you balance it all? (Work, HR Rebooted, family) We've learned from others along the way and have mentioned a few of them in here. Hope you enjoy this listen!  As always, our podcasts are unscripted and unedited!  Enjoy!

Episode 9: Equal Pay

In this podcast. Tracie Sponenberg and Michelle Strasburger met with Katie Donovan from EqualPayNegotiations.com about how we can close pay gaps.  Katie has been instrumental in pushing this conversation to help drive some real legislative changes.  In this episode, she talks about the gaps, why they exist and how HR professionals can change their practices to pay fairly.  Learn more from Katie at www.equalpaynegotiations.com or follow her on twitter at @kdsalarycoach  This was such a great...

Episode 8: Effective Terminations

In this episode, we talk with Karlyn Borysenko about her study on terminations. She wrote a great article in Forbes Magazine last year about the topic and we wanted to dive in more with her. You can find the article here:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlynborysenko/2018/11/29/how-employees-experience-being-fired-and-what-you-can-learn-from-it/#579b2387414a   In this episode, Karlyn shares her insights in the research she conducted and talks about how HR Pros can be more impactful in facil...

Episode 7: Leadership Development & Science

In this episode, Tracie and Michelle talk with CEO of Get Your Edge, Ted Gorski.  Ted is a certified Coach and focuses on developing leaders.  Ted talks about utilizing neuroscience to become an effective coach and leader and the impact to the organization when leaders are allowed to lead and coach.  We also talk about how HR can drive the mindset change in organizations to focus on this and how to get buy-in from your C-Suite.  Check out more at www.getyouredge.com 

Episode 6: Performance Management

We were sitting @ The Co-Op in Concord, NH and starting talking about what keeps us up at night and what our biggest challenge is in our HR worlds.  We both quickly agreed that it's performance management, so we started to record our conversation.  What are you doing to reboot your performance management process?  #PerformanceManagement #HRsleeplessnights

Episode 4 Addendum: HR Transform Presentation

Here is our presentation from #HRT2019 or HR Transform.  Tracie and I had 15 minutes to talk about ways to lean into technology while keeping the HUMAN in Human Resources.  

Episode 5: A Conversation with NEHRA CEO

In this episode, we had a very special guest, Tracy Burns from NEHRA.  Tracy grew up in HR and is now leading a progressive HR Organization focused on giving HR Pros the tools and training to be successful in this ever changing world.  She talks about #culture and HR's impact on the leading the business.

Episode 4: HR Transform

We arrived at HR Transform to present our topic, "Leaning into technology while keeping the human in Human Resources."  We walked away with a lot more than we expected.  What a great event.  The future is NOW!  @HR Transform  #HRT2019

Episode 3: Developing Your HR Warrior

In this episode, we met with Keri Ohlrich, PhD and Kelly Guenther from Abbracci Group.  They have put together a movement called The HR Warrior.  They have developed a training series to help you become a Warrior and leave your "HR Weenie" behind.  They are bringing this web series to NH for our local HR Rebels group. Check this out today! https://abbraccigroup.regfox.com/hr-warrior-workshop-virtual-feb2019 

Episode 2: Linking Arms with IT

In this episode, we meet with Joanna Young, an IT Executive.  The sound quality is not that great and we worried about sharing it, but the content is too good not to share.  Joanna shares her view of HR, talks about women in technology and shares her favorite TV shows.  Happy listening!

Episode 1: HR Tribe

In this episode, we talk about how we started to build our "HR Tribe".  We also give you tips on how you can build yours. HR can be a lonely place, so having a board of directors or an HR Tribe can help you think outside the box, can challenge you or help you have a sounding board. Learn more at www.hrrebooted.com  Thank you to Profile Coffee in Portsmouth, NH for allowing us to use your space to record and for making us some delicious coffee!

The beginning--We're up to something!

We are up to something! Here's the launch of our new podcast and video series, called HR Rebooted.  Here, we talk about what our plan is.  Our podcasts are uncut, uncensored, and real!