Download Here: BI #91 – John Putzier and Dave Baker on Making HR an Integral Part of the Company

Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds

Show notes:

Canadian Management Centre is pleased to host AMA’s Podcast “Making HR an Integral Part of the Company” with guests John Putzier and Dave Baker.

Gone are the days of HR only being good for the company picnic. John Putzier and Dave Baker, authors of the new book The Everything HR Kit, want Human Resources to start inspiring their employees starting on day one and then never stopping. Though HR often has to take a legal stance and say no sometimes, they can also act as a creative team and come up with innovative solutions themselves.

John Putzier is President of First Step Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in workplace performance. A prolific and popular speaker, he is the author of Get Weird.

Dave Baker is President and CEO of Human Capital Advisors LLC, an HR consulting firm that specializes in turnkey HR solutions, and together they are authors of The Everything HR Kit, a new book from Amacom, a subsidiary of the American Management Association.

Download Here: BI #90 – Jody Heymann on Keeping Every Employee Motivated and Profitable

Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to host AMA’s Podcast “Keeping Every Employee Motivated and Profitable” with guest Jody Heymann.

Jody Heymann wants companies to invest in workers at the bottom of the ladder. These employees, the ones running the factory assembly lines or the retail cash registers, are the ones closest to the products and the customers and the employees who really know what is going on with the company. Smart managers know that if there is a problem that needs to be solved, they go to these employees first. In her book Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder, Jody shows that the most successful companies are the ones who have invested in training and benefits for all of their employees, keeping them happy, productive, and turning a profit.

Download Here: BI #89 – Vineet Nayar on Achieving Success by Putting Employees First, Customers Second

Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to host AMA’s Podcast “Achieving Success by Putting Employees First, Customers Second” with guest Vineet Nayar.

Nelson Mandella, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr. They all had something in common: the ability to inspire people and make them want to change. Vineet Nayar looks to them as an example of how to effectively manage a company, by inspiring and listening to the employees and making them the priority. That way managing people becomes less about directing them in what to do and more about motivating them to make their own decisions.

Download Here: BI #88 – Michael Bungay Stanier on Great Work

Show notes:

Canadian Management Centre is pleased to host AMA’s Podcast “Great Work” with guest Michael Bungay Stanier.

Work smart, not hard. Plenty of employees have heard that but how does it actually work? In his new book Do More Great Work, Michael Bungay Stanier offers fifteen different exercises that give practical advice for how to turn your results from good to great.

Download Here: BI #87 – Jim Kirkpatrick on Training on Trial

Duration: 19 minutes 54 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to present the podcast, Training on Trial with guest Jim Kirkpatrick.

In this podcast, Jim Kirkpatrick sits down with Canadian Management Centre’s Tania Cervoni to discuss his new book, Training on Trial: How workplace learning must reinvent itself to remain relevant. Jim’s latest novel will give you an edge on enhancing the value of the learning and development services you provide – before you’re forced to defend your work.

Download Here: BI #86 – Alice Adams on Bridging the Gender Divide at Work

Duration: 18 minutes 07 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to host AMA’s Management Podcast “Bridging the Gender Divide at Work” with guest Alice Adams.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. This popular summation of the gender divide is given a lot of credence in the workplace. But the fact is that working women and men are far more alike than commonly realized—and managers who understand that can develop lasting, productive gender equity at work. In Playing to Strength, Alice Adams guides managers and organizations who want to achieve the type of gender-balanced environment that brings out the best in both men and women.

Download Here: BI #85 – Mark Johnson on Finding Consumer Needs

Duration: 22 minutes

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In his new book, Seizing the White Space, Mark Johnson developed the idea of White Space, a need in the market that your company can meet. Whether it’s improving on what you already work on or finding something new to perfect, every company has some White Space just waiting to be filled.

Download Here: BI #84 – Nilofer Merchant on Real Collaboration

Duration: 12 minutes 06 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Real Collaboration” with guest Nilofer Merchant.

Management gurus have always said ‘people matter.’ But those same gurus still relegate strategy to an elite set of executives who focus on frameworks, long presentations, and hierarchical approaches. After many years of working with Apple, Adobe, HP, and many other companies, Nilofer Merchant discovered the best way to create a winning strategy, which she details in her book, The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy.

Download Here: BI #83 – Robbie Vorhaus on Branding Your Business Through Stories

Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Branding Your Business Through Stories” with guest Robbie Vorhaus.

What is your story? Who is your audience? How are you telling your story? Robbie Vorhaus, of Vorhaus Communications, says that with good storytelling companies can brand and market themselves to really get attention. Every company has a soul and a story to tell.

Download Here: BI #82 – Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love on Finding Your Passion at Work

Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Finding Your Passion at Work” with guests Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love.

Smart managers know how to engage their employees. The best way to do that is to engage their passions and access what they care about so employees will care about their work and learn to enjoy it. Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love have devised a system to determine what drives employees’ passions.