The #LIFEWITHEASE Podcast - The Future Of Virtual Work & Culture

USING INBOUND TO RETAIN & BUILD CULTURE IN A REMOTE WORLD with Dan Tyre from Hubspot

info@itsease.com (Nathan Harris, Dan Tyre, Hubspot) — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 01:15:04 +0000

Nathan will sit down with Dan Tyre who was the 6th employee at Hubspot and first salesperson. A company that now operates in 130 countries and has become the most successful marketing software in the world.

This marketing platform was what originally inspired Nathan to build his first company which was a marketing agency located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dan Tyre joined HubSpot as a member of the original start-up team in 2007, and has led the sales recruiting, sales training, leadership program, and managed national and international sales teams. An authority on Inbound Marketing and sales, Dan is a regular speaker, writer, blogger, instructor, and coach to those who seek inbound success.

What we will cover:
1. What is inbound why is it so important?
2. How can I use inbound to build a better culture and keep my team members connected?
3. How can I use inbound to attract top talent to my company?
4. How can I use inbound to stand out when looking for a job?
5. Why you should focus more on the people than the tech.
6. Why is all of this more important in a remote environment?
7. Pro tips for people that are new to adopting a remote culture.
8. Q & A

Access Dan's book INBOUND ORGANIZATION
This book reveals the beliefs, principles, and strategies of these successful Inbound Organizations so that you can transform your organization into one too.

An Inbound-focused business creates an amazing culture that treats employees and customers like human beings.

HOW TO LEAD WITH EMPATHY THE NEW WELLNESS with Ryan VanElslander from Zenefits

info@itsease.com (zenefits, Nathan Harris, ryan vanelslander) — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:40:34 +0000

Nathan will talk with Ryan about:
1. What the "New Wellness" is and how it can help you be a better leader in this new normal.
2. What does leading with empathy mean and how do you do it?
3. Learn how to help people drive with their purpose and find their potential.
4. How to properly conduct wellness checks in a safe and approachable way.
5. Learn how to use tech to better enable people to solve human problems.
6. Q & A

As a former small business owner himself, Ryan has a unique perspective of all sides and provides keen insights which help companies, regardless of size, build high performing, highly engaged and productive workforces.

Outside of the office, he enjoys anything outdoors, from hiking in the wilderness to restaurant patios with friends and family. Ryan now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, but began his professional career in Chicago, with a few years in Silicon Valley (San Francisco) in-between.

This is a very relevant episode for those looking to improve on how they lead and attract the right people in their professional and personal lives.

The Post Pandemic Corporate Office w/ Christopher Good from One Workplace

info@itsease.com (Christopher Good, Nathan Harris) — Fri, 9 Oct 2020 00:53:20 +0000

This week we have Christopher Good, who is the Creative Director at One Workplace. Previously, he has worked with IDEO and Michelle Obama’s Office of the First Lady as a Build Partner for the Teachers Guild. And has served as a design thinking specialist for the Unreasonable Group, a business accelerator geared towards high-growth global entrepreneurs.

In this episode, we will sit down to talk about what the office space of the future will be like. We will dive into the mind the Chris who leads the design division of the world's leading commercial design company One Workplace. Giving you insight into what data is being used to predict how spaces will be used and how your organization's leadership can prepare for it.

We will also dive into how this will impact teams and the ways that people can maintain a connected culture in what may feel like a disconnected world.

This is an episode that you truly will not want to miss and we look forward to giving you a chance to listen in on this rare conversation.

Executive Recruiting In A Remote Environment with Dana Hernan

info@itsease.com (Nathan Harris, Dana Hernan) — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:55:49 +0000

As a Director at Comhar Partners, Dana is responsible for full life-cycle management of client and candidate relationships. Dana has played a role in searches across a variety of industries including Industrial, Consumer Products, and Non-Profit practice groups. Prior to Comhar Partners, Dana has held multiple roles working directly for top executives.

Comhar Partners is a recognized national leader in retained executive search, professional recruiting and talent advisory services covering a wide range of industries and markets that believes every client and project is unique and works to bring a consultative and collaborative approach to every search to become an extension of the client.

In this episode we will discuss:

1. How to adapt to the changes of WFH
2. How to find candidates and how to be found as a candidate.
3. Why data is the future of innovation in the talent market.
4. How to interpret and use data properly to improve the workplace.
5. How to remove regional bias.
6. What is the next most significant innovation in the workplace.

Friday, July 24th at 5 PM PST

Our guests have ranged from fortune 500 execs, TED speakers, startup founders, venture capitalists, consultants, and more.

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We look forward to having you tune in to the next episode.

5 Keys To Strong Organizational Values In Remote Teams with Lamya Alaoui

info@itsease.com (Nathan Harris, Lamya Alaoui) — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:43:50 +0000

Lamya’s corporate background includes 15+ years of experience in HR, Talent Acquisition, and Management. She has had the opportunity to build and lead teams for startups and numerous fortune 500 companies.

Her work focuses on improving workplace performance, morale, and engagement through a better understanding of behavioral dimensions, thought processes, and motivational drivers. She mentors at the Alchemist Accelerator and Plug and Play is on the Board of Directors of the Women's Club of Silicon Valley and is an advisor for Astia, a global not-for-profit organization built on a community of experts whose goal is to ensure the success of women in high-growth start-ups.

In this episode we will discuss:

1. Behavioral Economics
2. How do you know that you hired the right person?
3. How can you maintain or build the culture?
4. What subconscious components come to play?
5. How do you understand this as a company?
6. How do you know who is the right person for remote?
7. How do we understand the underlying challenges?
8. How to design strategies for this?

Seeking & Receiving Feedback Handbook: Understanding your people.
Understanding The Johari window: a technique that helps people better understand their relationship with themselves and others.
The Spheres Of Influence: Taking action on the items you can control and influence
you’re focusing your energy where it will be best used!

Our guests will range from fortune 500 execs, TED speakers, startup founders, venture capitalists, consultants, and more.

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We look forward to having you tune in to the next episode.

Our Virtual People - The Future Of Work with Kathy Henrich

info@itsease.com (Kathy Henrich) — Mon, 25 May 2020 23:14:19 +0000

In this episode, you will join our CEO, Nathan Harris, in a conversation with Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition CEO Kathy Henrich on what the future of work looks like and how you can prepare your company and community for it.

Our guests will range from fortune 500 execs, TED speakers, startup founders, venture capitalists, consultants, and more.

Learn more about how Ease is helping companies switch to the future of remote work: www.itsease.com

TED Speaker Torin Perez - Diversity Management In The Workplace and Your Personal Life

info@itsease.com (Nathan Harris, Torin Perez) — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 05:26:16 +0000

In today's #LifeWithEase interview, Nathan sits down with Torin Perez. Torin is a diversity, equality and inclusion consultant with the main purpose of creating inclusive leadership in the workplace. Over the last five years, Torin and has spoken at more than 50 colleges conferences, organizations, and colleges to better improve their diversity management processes.

In the interview today, Torin discusses being a part of the solution, learning and teaching through your experiences, inspiring change in both the boardroom and the classroom plus much more! We are honored and privileged to release this interview!

Learn more at www.itsease.com & www.itsease.com/academy

The UiPath Academy - The Power Of RPA With Mandy Sebel

info@itsease.com (Nathan Harris, Mandy Sebel) — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:20:48 +0000

Join Nathan Harris as he sits down with UiPath's Chief People Officer Mandy Sebel on the #LIFEWITHEASE Podcast to talk about how they are using robotic process automation to improve the workplace experience. A large portion of the population has an inherent fear of artificial intelligence. Many people believe that robots will eventually take our jobs away and see them as a threat. The approach that UiPath is taking to that problem is very different and this is why they have become a unicorn company. UiPath's vision is to have a robot on the desktop of every human in the world. That robot will be an ally that helps them to become more efficient in every aspect of their lives.

UiPath delivers the most advanced Enterprise #RPA Platform, built for business and IT. As you strive to benefit in the Automation First Era, your digital transformation accelerates here.

https://www.uipath.com

Ease is an AI-assisted global talent platform that connects leading companies with the world’s brightest people based on culture fit and allows you to collaborate remotely within our virtual workspace.

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What Does Inclusive Mean with Julius Maina from the US Census Bureau

info@itsease.com (Nathan Harris, Julius Maina) — Tue, 7 Apr 2020 23:05:40 +0000

In this episode, I sit down with Julius Maina to discuss how to create a culture of inclusiveness. There is no denying that our perspectives are shaped by the particular groups that we chose to include ourselves in. This creates a broad level of unconscious bias that impacts the way that we view, accept and judge each other. The only solution to this problem is to take ourselves outside of our comfort zones. Pushing ourselves to experience more and finding ways to bring each other along the way. This will push us to create a more inclusive society by creating a great level of exposure to the cultures of others.

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TED Speaker Kunal Sood - Creating A Fulfilled & Purposeful Life

info@itsease.com (Kunal Sood) — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 04:59:40 +0000

Finding our purpose is something that for most of us is so difficult to even fathom and many times take a tragedy to realize.

Knowing tragedy is something that Kunal and I share and might be why God brought us together.

In this interview, we will talk about our stories and how you can avoid falling into the darkness in order to fight to find your light.

Helping you to answer the billion-dollar questions.

Who am I and who do I want to become. Is the sum of me what the world believes I should be or am?

Or should I run from it all to find what I believe is my individuality? Even if others laugh in my face and say my dreams will be nothing but a fallacy.

See for most of your life you will have to endure the grief of others’ disbelief and that is okay.

Because that is where strength is born!

Forcing you to push and pull away at the layers of life like an onion as you hold back the tears that come from the fear that they might just be right.

While also knowing that no matter what you are willing to fight for what YOU believe is right.

Forcing you to become the elephant in the room that most people are so ashamed of because they fail to realize its beauty and might.

That outsider that stands proudly in its own skin with no need to bolster because your might is clear for all to see in every fabric of your existence.

Today that elephant is Kunal and I invite you to join in this interview where you will have a chance to hear his story.

TED Speaker Don Wettrick - How Our Educational System Is Failing Us

info@itsease.com (startedup foundation, don wettrick, hr transform) — Mon, 9 Dec 2019 05:51:52 +0000

The past forced us to live in a box, educated and mislead by the processes that are as dead and gone as the 80s yes man.

An era where the tools to be successful weren’t attainable by the common man.

People had to instead invest in working for the man.

With the hopes that their service would be valued even after they depart from the roll that they were married to.

Today, that is not the case

But the classroom still teaches and preaches the notion that you must leave your identity at the door.

And that if you did

the success that you dream of would-be for sure...

Standing high above the rest as you held that degree or diploma to your chest

Then we got hit by the great recession and everyone came out with some form of confession.

Showing us that we had to take our lives into our own hands and that the era of a lifelong organization wasn’t true.

Pushing you to focus on developing you

Because the only thing that would be around in the next 25 years was you and not the company that paid checks to you.

Pushing the next generation of Gen Z towards a new form of independence.

This is something that I realized through the work and words of Don Wettrick.

A man committed to redefining the perspectives of youth so that they can have a future that shines brighter than the sun we gaze upon.

Giving them all a closer connection to their identity and moving them farther away from the label placed on the box that they have been put in.

He realized that today’s work will demand authenticity, passion, commitment, and self-expression from his students in every layer of their fabric.

Pushing them to compete not for a seat at the table but instead for a chance to craft their own.

Helping them to realize that the tables have been turned and that it was their turn to create seats for others to join.

In this interview, you will hear just how Don Wettrick did this and after I will share what he and I created.

An opportunity to open doors for the next generation, regardless of where they came from or where they wanted to go.

Don’s classroom of high school visionaries has been recognized in Forbes 3 times, established multiple patents, has caught the attention of Tom Bilyeu, Gary V, Seth Goddin, Tim Ferris and many more.

Welcome to the #LIFEWITHEASE Podcast and here is a chance to step into the mind of Don Wettrick!

Learn more at: https://startedupfoundation.org/

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How To Use Data To Design A Customized Work Experience with One Workplace

Sun, 1 Dec 2019 22:49:27 +0000

One Workplace is based in the Bay Area and is the nation’s largest commercial interior design company. They engage in a number of activities to support businesses.

One is creating tailored commercial office furniture, meeting pods, focus rooms, and phone booths that match the culture of your business. One Workplace also provides services like interior architecture construction and design workspaces by using office sensors to collect employee behavior data so that they can predict the best ways to optimize your working environments.

Key Takeaways:

-They people that come into your office are all individuals with very individual needs and it's our job to be serving them.

-Use data to understand the personality, learning styles and working styles that your team members will thrive in. Then work to create that experience for them and it will not only improve efficiency but it will also increase retention and drive collaborative innovation.

-The digital era is changing the way that we work so you have to create both physical working environments for people to thrive in but also virtual environments as well.

-Work location flexibility can improve employee productivity.

Our partnership with One Workplace, Steelcase and Configura allowed us to become the first freelance marketplace that provides on-demand access to CET so that designers can build a business from home to support furniture dealers.

Here is a link to the case study to learn more and to gain access to this community: https://www.itsease.com/blog/one-workplace/

Here is a link to learn more about One Workplace: https://www.oneworkplace.com/

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Welcome to the #LIFEWITHEASE Podcast

info@itsease.com (Ease, Inc.) — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 04:47:43 +0000

Listen to the host and creator Nathan Harris as he explains what you can expect from the #LIFEWITHEASE Podcast.

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