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In this episode, we examine why and how leaders can create a toxic environment, and how and why companies protect those leaders.
Our prescription for this episode is to understand misguided structure and opinions that create and shelter leaders who put their companies at risk, but also how we can fix these conditions and help our leaders become successful.
In this episode, we examine what it takes to get people interested and committed to workplace culture change. This conversation is relevant to employees at all level.
Our prescription for this episode is to understand the biggest roadblocks to change in your workplace, and build a strategy to tackle those roadblocks head-on.
Past Episode Referenced:
Season 2 Episode 4: What Is The Cost Of Doing Nothing About Your Workplace Culture?
In this episode, we explore 3 questions from listeners and conversations with clients:
1. Are organizations underutilizing how they build and use policies?
2. What’s one thing you would recommend to improve our workplace culture?
3. How do I make my team feel inclusive?
Our prescription for this episode: Understand the full impact and use of your policies, your communication, and being consistent. These are vital elements to make a workplace more meaningful and productive.
In this episode, we examine employee performance and the types of expectations that organizations and leaders have on the purpose and use of performance management.
Our prescription for this episode is to understand the intended purpose of performance management in your workplace. Is performance management a control tool or a productivity tool?
Past Episode Referenced:
Season 2 Episode 18: What Does HR Stand For In Your Company
In this episode, we examine psychological injury and the encouraging trend of prioritizing situations that cause Gradual Onset Psychological Injury; particularly Chronic Job Dissatisfaction, Institutional Betrayal, and Toxic Stress.
Our prescription for this episode is to understand the different types of causes of psychological injury: acute event-based causes and chronic environmental-based causes. If you are interested in having your workplace assessed for these causes, check out our Company Culture Health Check!
Past Episode Referenced (“Action is Reaction Fallacy”):
Season 3 Episode 2: What Are Common Stumbling Blocks To Business Growth?
In this episode, we examine The 5 Threatening Truths of Business:
The Technical Founder Paradox: When the skills, abilities, and mindset of the founders, which were crucial to starting and growing the business, are what stand in the way of the business’ sustainability and scalability.
The Fragile Grip Principle: The acknowledgment of how the fragile relationship, between employers and employees, is handled by businesses greatly impacts their future success.
The Revenue Stabilizing Blindspot: The effect caused by businesses undervaluing positions that stabilize revenue, instead only favoring positions that generate revenue.
The Business Law of The Linchpin: The dependency businesses create on a single person or position for stability and growth that puts the business’ sustainability at risk.
The Action is Reaction Fallacy: The mistaken mindset that the business can survive and grow by only reacting, that success can come without acting with strategic intent.
Our prescription for this episode: take a step back and reflect on the degree to which these Threatening Truths are influencing your business. A fresh mindset, proper structures and processes, and strategic interventions can and will make a world of difference.
Past Episodes Referenced:
Season: 1 Episode: 10: What To Expect From The Labour Market In 2023?
Season: 2 Episode: 21: What Is The Technical Founder Paradox?
In this episode, we examine the past and current thinking around employee loyalty, digging into old assumptions and the new realities about the relationship and commitments of businesses and employees.
Our prescription for this episode: understand the connection between employee loyalty and employee motivation through purpose. How we help employees find a sense of meaning in their everyday lives is the key to rebuilding the employer/employee relationship.
Learn more about Igniting Motivation™: The 8 Sparks of Purpose with our online fundamentals course.
In this episode, we examine common expectations that exist in our workplaces that severely damage our organizational culture. We also provide some practical ways to look at our workplace and the expectations we place on employees that can resolve these issues.
Our prescription for this episode: we need to accept that the highly visible signs of success are the most important ways to measure success. Often is it the less tangible, everyday improvements that actually matter.
In this episode, we will examine the truth behind organizational culture, the common misunderstanding that most businesses have, and what the steps are to build a strong, supportive, and productive culture.
Our prescription for this episode: Learn to view your organization through the lens of the Workplace Culture Hierarchy, and be intentional in how you shape your workplace.
For more info on the Workplace Culture Hierarchy, visit www.academy.roman3.ca
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine what Job Dissatisfaction is, where it comes from, and, most importantly, how potentially dangerous it is to our workplaces.
Our prescription for this episode: To understand The 7X3 Rule and to build a strong foundation for your organization that will combat Job Dissatisfaction.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine the common misconceptions around employee engagement and try to identify the root cause of these issues.
Our prescription for this episode: Avoid the mistakes that come with thinking too short term about employee engagement, and follow our ‘3 Don’ts’ to reduce the typical wasted effort that plagues many organizations.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine the existing, standard people and culture advice from leading business management books and gurus. Our goal is to identify the cause of the typical people and culture strategies that are holding our workplaces back.
Our prescription for this episode: Be aware that many of the traditional advice on culture and productivity are unsustainable and difficult to measure. However, if we take a new approach, we can both improve our people and culture efforts and practically quantify our successes.
You can learn more about Roman 3’s People Intelligence & Culture Transformation (PICT) tools at www.roman3.ca/pict
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine an extremely valuable and versatile management skill that is overlooked by many. We also explore the difference between leadership skills and management skills.
Our prescription for this episode: It’s time to improve how we communicate with our employees, our customers, and ourselves. There is a lot to gain from improving our skills, both as managers and aspiring leaders.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine the major workplace and labour market impacts of 2022, and identify the root causes of many of the biggest challenges this year.
Twitter, Elon Musk, DEI, Fragile Grip Principle, WFH, Google Layoffs, The 4 Day Work Week, Return to the Office, No One Wants To Work Anymore, Microsoft Pledges for Diversity, and much more!
Our prescription for this episode: There was a lot to learn this year. Let’s not make the same mistakes in 2023.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine what the labour market will look like in 2023, and attempt to predict the challenges and opportunities to come.
Our prescription for this episode: It’s time to learn from the past and to reframe our understanding of the delicate relationship that organizations have with their employees. But to fully understand what this will look like, we need to understand the “Fragile Grip Principle”.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine how business can create stability in their talent acquisition, and bolster their recruitment efforts.
Our prescription for this episode: if an organization wanted to stand out in their effort to attract talent, they need to create a pipeline of talent that will not only improve their recruitment efforts, but have the talent seeking them out.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine what inclusion in the workplace is; and more importantly what it’s not.
Our prescription for this episode is to challenge the assumptions that most of us use when we think about inclusion; what it looks like, how we get it, and how we implement it.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine the hidden truth behind the labour market, which is that it operates in a very similar way as the consumer market.
Our prescription for this episode is to reframe our understanding of how we brand and market our products to our potential customers, as a way to guide us in how can brand and market our opportunities to our potential employees.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine Paid Time Off and the rise of Unlimited PTO. We will look at the effectiveness of using PTO to address Employee Burnout and Talent Attraction.
Our diagnosis and prescription for this episode will attempt to put some clarity on the intent and ideals behind how we frame, design, and implement various policies. Are they designed to empower the best work? Or to restrict the options and actions of employees?
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine questions like; how important are trade and labour unions in this day and age? What should unions be focused on? How can “The 7X3 Rule” create common ground for unions and businesses?
Our diagnosis and prescription for this issue will attempt to reframe how we as a society thinks about and understands unions. We also discussion some new ways to thinking about the role that unions can plan in improve the strength and sustainability of our workplace, and the organizations that employ their members.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine the realities and arguments surrounding working from home, and provide some exploratory surgery on the motivates fueling them.
Our diagnosis and prescription for this issue will provide owners, managers, and HR professionals a clear understand of the legitimate and non-legitimate reasons for bringing employees back to the office.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will examine what it really means to create belonging in the workplace. Our conversation will explore the recent conversation sparked by Malcolm Gladwell and how Work From Home (WFH) and belonging are connected.
Our diagnosis and prescription for this issue will provide leaders, managers, and HR professionals a fresh approach to create belonging in their workplace, regardless of it’s size and locations.
Stat cited: In April found that 65% of workers said that remote work or work-from-home (WFH) options impacted their decision to accept or reject a job offer. As many as 40% of respondents said they would take lower pay if it meant working remotely. – Employ Inc.
In this episode, we will examine how psychological safety impacts the workplace. We will explore what causes it’s absence and the symptoms that its absence creates. Most importantly, we will explain how to can start to build it practically and sustainably in your workplace.
Our diagnosis and prescription for this issue will give leaders and managers a practical breakdown of some small steps they can use to build psychological safety today.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
In this episode, we will explore the rise of the phrase Quiet Quitting and how it is currently impacting the workplace. We will address where it comes from and the truth that it is not a new or “Gen Z” unique idea.
Our diagnosis and prescription for this issue will give managers and HR professional a clear idea of what to expect, both now and the future.
For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.
