The Underdog Workplace Edge
A podcast about keeping employees AND increasing your profit??? Your humble Underdog is here to help smaller companies without HR and Training departments grow their profitability while keeping great people, one interaction at a time. She’s been in the corporate space and solved a lot of problems in the people-process-purpose arena with precision instead of pushing big time-consuming programs and flavor-of-the-year changes. Her aim is to help owners and leaders of small businesses keep and grow employees at work by involving them in smarter work methods. Her mission? To help you get quick results in daily work situations without expensive training and long programs. Smaller companies have an edge - the opportunity to pursue profit while personally caring for the people in their business - each and every day. Calling all underdogs to join the conversation!
Episodes
8 episodes
UWE 008: Stop flushing investment opportunities at work!
008 - Quite often we think about using coupon cards (you know - the fundraising kind you buy from kids in your neighborhood) as the only time you ever redeem something. Redemption is purchasing back… getting value back for a price paid....
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Episode 8
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12:55
UWE 007: We have to go get them
007 - With so many people who don't see work to be a good thing, it's up to you and me to help them change their minds. Many people in our society today don't want to work or they avoid work.Some younger people think they don...
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Episode 7
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14:57
UWE 006: Knowledge isn't liquid and brains aren't vessels
006 - When it comes to training, less talking is better for the goal of the training. After all, what's the goal of training? That an employee can DO something at the end of it. Is your training focused on just that goal of what the employee ne...
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Episode 6
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8:52
UWE 005: Leveraging Gallup's controversial survey question
005 - Employees don't know all of the reasons that leave an employer. After all, people have needs that they don't realize and articulate - they just go where they're met. So, what is a need that employees have today and how is that...
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Episode 5
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15:00
UWE 004: Stop Sending Mixed Messages
004 - We talk to a lot of people day in and day out... and we fall into ruts and routines of conversations without realizing it. What messages are you sending and are they the things that you are truly most concerned...
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Episode 4
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16:27
UWE 003: Finding the quick wins in your business
003 - You know all about everything that's happening in your business. And, you KNOW there's a lot of opportunity to work better, faster, cheaper... but where can you start? The lowest hanging fruit is somewhere you might not think ...
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Episode 3
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13:13