Podcast Episodes

25. 1M Downloads and Counting: Looking Back on 2024

Season 7 Episode 25

2024 felt like a bit of a rollercoaster—and while we’re ready to close the book on this year, we wouldn’t be first-class org designers if we passed up the chance to hold a retrospective. Add in the f…

Published on 9 months ago

The Future of HR: Giving HRBPs the Future-of-Work Makeover They Deserve [Rebroadcast]

Season 7 Episode 25

Rebroadcast note: We're hard at work recording a brand new miniseries for January, so this week we're resharing one this episode from our Future of HR miniseries. As we've worked with companies over …

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

24. Ask Us Anything No. 3

Season 7 Episode 24

It’s mailbag time! And while we know we said this last time, we really mean it that this was probably the hardest group of questions we’ve dealt with on the show yet! Rodney and Sam get out their thi…

Published on 10 months ago

23. Adopting a Product Mindset in Organizations

Season 7 Episode 23

There are plenty of organizations that say they want to be “customer-focused”—but in practice? It’s easy to fall back on leader-driven opinions and assumptions about what customers really want. That’…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

22. Founder Mode vs. Manager Mode is the Wrong Question

Season 7 Episode 22

If you’ve been on LinkedIn this past month, you’ve likely seen at least one post (or more than you’d care to) about “founder mode.”

Presented as a counter to “manager mode” (meant to represent highly …

Published on 11 months ago

21. From Control to Trust: The People Positivity Journey

Season 7 Episode 21

Over the last nine years, The Ready has seen firsthand how organizations designed to be people positive (a.k.a. a foundational belief that people are eager to contribute and capable of change) outper…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

20. Psychological Safety Starts With Your Leadership Team

Season 7 Episode 20

Psychological safety is a buzzy topic every company claims to want—but only a handful actually achieve. Sometimes, it’s misunderstood as being about “niceness” or “politeness”, but real psychological…

Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago

19. All The Small Things: The Power of Good Habits

Season 7 Episode 19

While exploring bad meetings a few episodes ago, Rodney and Sam hit on something that doesn’t often get a lot of air time: the power of good habits and the discipline to care about the small things. …

Published on 1 year ago

18. If You Won’t Make Changes, That Employee Engagement Survey Is a Waste of Time

Season 7 Episode 18

No burying the lede this week: Employee engagement surveys are broken.

We expect them to tell us everything about a workplace’s culture—but they often miss the mark, capturing just a sliver of what's…

Published on 1 year ago

17. Making Meaningful Progress with Dr. Jason Fox

Season 7 Episode 17

We talk a lot about the importance of emergence—of being more comfortable with being uncomfortable. However, it’s hard to practice what you preach… especially for a podcast with a tight schedule. Nor…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago