SuccessFactors Business Execution Podcasts

Expert Interviews and Insights Focusing on Business Execution

Suzy Tonini - Deloitte-Touche-Tomatsu: Social networking and business execution
Business Execution Radio Episode 76

Mark Murphy: Leadership IQ - Getting the most out of employees
Business Execution Radio Episode 74
Mark Murphy, Chairman and CEO of Leadership IQ discusses what differentiates the top 10% of successful leaders. He explains the importance of setting goals that are not only well-defined, but that also challenge employees to learn new skills and capabilities.

Pravir Malik: Aurosoorya - Managing the stress of business execution
Business Execution Radio Episode 73
Pravir Malik, is President of Aurosoorya, a company that specializes in helping organizations minimize the negative impact that stress has on productivity and performance.

JC Herrera – McAfee: Goal management, pay for performance and business execution
Business Execution Radio Episode 72
J.C. Herrera, VP of Compensation, Benefits and HRIS at McAfee describes how his organization uses quarterly goal reviews to drive a highly focused, pay for performance drive culture.

Robert Craven - Scale Passion: Executing business growth strategies in small to mid-size entrepreneurial owned organizations
Business Execution Radio Episode 71
Robert Craven is former CEO of two high-growth, entrepreneurial companies. After taking these organizations from concept to reality, Robert was inspired to create Scale Passion, a company focused on helping entrepreneurs build companies.

Jim Ware - Distributed workforces and business performance
Business Execution Radio Episode 70
Jim Ware, Executive Producer for the Work Design Collaborative shares insights gained from helping organizations leverage the use of distributed offices and telecommuting. He explains that productivity should be based on what people do, not where they do it.

Tom Zigray - The Alignment Group: The impact of unionization on business execution
Business Execution Radio Episode 69

Bruce Richardson - AMR Research: What is Business Execution Software and why is it important?
Business Execution Radio Episode 68
This episode marks our transition from “People Performance Radio” to “Business Execution Radio”. The name change reflects SuccessFactors’ position as the market leader in the area of Business Execution Software. Bruce Richardson, of AMR Research explains the role Business Execution Software plays in driving company success.

Laura Pratt - Elevations Credit Union: Unlocking the power of competency models
Business Execution Radio Episode 67
Laura Pratt, Manager of People at Elevations Credit Union shares experiences creating and deploying an integrated set of competency models to align different talent management practices across the company. She tells how what started out as a project focused primarily on integrating staffing, performance management, and succession planning has led to major changes in how employees see their careers and how managers make decisions about talent.

Leslie Neitzel - SuccessFactors University: Implementing talent management technology
Business Execution Radio Episode 66
Leslie Neitzel, Director of SuccessFactors University discusses elements that characterize successful and impactful deployments of talent management technology. Leslie explains what is required to drive adoption and effective system use beyond simply training people on how to use the technology.

Patrick Casseday - Schneider Electric: Using 360 surveys to increase sales revenue
Business Execution Radio Episode 65

Kevin Wheeler - Future of Talent Institute: The rising creative class, workforce sustainability, and other emerging workforce challenges
Business Execution Radio Episode 64
Kevin Wheeler, chairman of the Future of Talent Institute provides an overview of demographic, technological, and cultural shifts impacting workforce productivity and performance. Drawing on extensive experience working with companies around the globe, Kevin discusses how companies are adapting to a workforce that is becoming more creative, autonomous, and heterogeneous.

Jacqueline Moyse - Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group: Hospitality, humility, and cross cultural leadership
Business Execution Radio Episode 63
Jacqueline Moyse, Head of Organisational Development for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group discusses challenges of maintaining a distinctive and common brand of customer across hotels operating in multiple countries and cultures.

Vince Racioppo—Aldridge Electric: Systematically building competencies for critical job roles
Business Execution Radio Episode 62
Vince Racioppo, Talent Management expert for Aldridge Electric discusses methods for identifying and developing critical competencies that drive success in pivotal organizational roles. This information was used to create a development program to systematically build competencies of less experienced staff to accelerate their ability to take on high impact project manager responsibilities.

Robert (Bob) Lewis, APT Inc: Why job descriptions matter and how to make them meaningful
Business Execution Radio Episode 61
Robert (Bob) Lewis, Director of APT Inc. discusses the role job descriptions play for guiding employee performance and ensuring effective and legally compliant staffing and compensation practices. As jobs increasingly focus on intangible concepts like “service” and “knowledge work”, it can be difficult to capture and define specific job requirements.

Jennifer Pierce & Sandra Murray-Leduc—Hudson's Bay Company: Building retail talent in one of the world's oldest, continually operating companies
Business Execution Radio Episode 60

Scott Powers - Alvarez & Marsal: Managing Talent in a Corporate Turn-Around Environment
Business Execution Radio Episode 59
Scott Powers, Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal discusses the role of talent management in corporate turn-arounds. Alvarez & Marsal helps firms manage promising but underperforming organizations. Scott discusses the role of talent management in his work, with an emphasis on the importance of goal management in ensuring companies stay focused when they are fighting for their very survival.

John Ambrose - Skillsoft: Using Social Media to Support Knowledge Management
Business Execution Radio Episode 58
John Ambrose, Senior Vice President of Strategy for Skillsoft discusses how technology is facilitating knowledge sharing among employees both within and across organizations. He also provides insights into leveraging social networking tools such as “Twitter” to rapidly locate the information you need when you need it.

Thomas Britt - Clemson University: High Engagement and High Maintenance
Business Execution Radio Episode 57
Thomas Britt, psychology professor at Clemson University shares insights from research studying potential limitations and downsides of employee engagement. Thomas explains that highly engaged employees tend to have much more demanding expectations from employers in terms of the resources they expect from employers.

Susan Burns – Talent Synchronicity: Candidate relationship management
Business Execution Radio Episode 56
Susan Burns, Chief Talent Strategist at Talent Synchronicity explains how staffing and recruiting functions are changing to create more adaptive and sustainable workforce strategies. Learn what someone who has long been on the forefront of employment branding and staffing is forecasting for the coming years.

Nigel Bristow - Targeted Learning: Managing knowledge workers
Business Execution Radio Episode 55

Tom Mahan - Engaging with employees to gain high impact workforce intelligence
Business Execution Radio Episode 54
Tom Mahan, President and CEO of The Work Institute discusses the concept of “workforce intelligence” and what it takes to truly understand the issues impacting employee retention and performance. Do you truly know what factors are limiting the performance and retention of your employees and how to resolve them?

Jeff Hunter - Maximizing performance of a highly creative workforce
Business Execution Radio Episode 53
Jeff Hunter, Senior Director of EA University discusses the unique challenges of performing talent management in the interactive entertainment industry. Emphasizing the need to “monetize creativity”, Jeff discusses methods to maintain the productive levels of creative tension that are required to build highly innovative, engaging, and fun electronic games and applications.

Steve Hunt - 52 weeks of People Performance Radio!
Business Execution Radio Episode 52
During this episode I encourage you to look in our archives and listen to some past shows. We avoid reruns here at People Performance Radio, but we do have a lot of interviews that are worth hearing more than once!

EasyReviews.com: free performance review software
Business Execution Radio Episode 51

Jim Irvine – SHIFT the way you think about talent management processes
Business Execution Radio Episode 50
Jim Irvine, Manager of Talent Management for Nissan North America describes how Nissan is increasing workforce productivity during what is probably the largest downturn in the history of the automotive industry. Want to shift your talent management methods into overdrive? Listen to Jim Irvine from Nissan North America this week on People Performance Radio.

Tess Reinhard – Managing, mentoring and retaining high tech employees
Business Execution Radio Episode 49
Tess Reinhard, Director of Organizational Capability for CDW discusses methods to maximize the productivity and engagement of technology employees. Tess shares techniques CDW uses to develop mentoring relationships between these relatively new employees and more tenured company experts.

Kirk Hallowell – How to talk talent management with your CXO
Business Execution Radio Episode 48
Dr. Kirk Hallowell, principal at Matchpoint Coaching, is a talent management expert with extensive experience in leadership development, succession planning, and workforce analytics. Kirk and Steve discuss the challenge of engaging executives and line managers in meaningful dialogue around complex talent management issues.

Bruce Felt, SuccessFactors – A CFO's perspective on controlling workforce costs
Business Execution Radio Episode 47
Bruce Felt, Chief Financial Officer for SuccessFactors discusses how senior financial officers approach the challenge of controlling workforce costs. Bruce shares the things that matter to CFOs when it comes to talent management and workforce productivity.

Mike Hudy – Using technology to integrate employee selection and candidate recruitment
Business Execution Radio Episode 46
Dr. Mike Hudy is a principal at Shaker Consulting, a company specializing in web-enabled employee recruitment and selection methods. Mike describes the Virtual Job Tryout (VJT), a staffing tool that has been called one of the most innovative selection systems on the market.

Nicholas Garbis – Workforce planning and analytics: planning now for the future
Business Execution Radio Episode 44
Nicholas Garbis, Senior Consultant at Infohrm, shares insights and tips for diagnosing, forecasting and planning to address current and future workforce trending. He explains what workforce analytics is and how it helps companies make more intelligent decisions around managing their most expensive asset, their employees.

Steve Venokur – Skills management: making sure employees have the knowledge and expertise needed to support your business
Business Execution Radio Episode 43
Steve Venokur, Managing Partner of People Sciences, has over 20 years of experience developing skills management systems for large corporations in a range of industries. Steve explains what skills management is and why it is critical to maintaining a steady supply of qualified talent to support business needs

Ron Adler - Minimizing legal exposure in an increasingly litigious talent management environment
Business Execution Radio Episode 42
Ron Adler is president of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a management training company with a focus on helping companies avoid problems associated with illegal or otherwise improper talent management practices. Ron discuss the Employee Labor Law Audit (ELLA), a tool that allows companies to evaluate, identify, and proactively address human resource practices that could expose them to legal risk.

Anita Rosen - Using eLearning to increase the efficiency and impact of training programs
Business Execution Radio Episode 41
Anita Rosen is president of the online training company ReadyGo Inc. and author of multiple books on eCommerce including “eLearning 2.0: proven practices and emerging technologies to achieve results.” Anita provides a balanced overview of the strengths and limitation of eLearning methods.

Talya Bauer - Effectively On-Boarding New Employees
Business Execution Radio Episode 40
Talya Bauer is the Cameron Professor of Management at Portland State University and the editor of the Journal of Management, one of the top research journals focused on studying effective management and leadership techniques.

Russell Klosk - The Obama Administration, 111th Congress, Talent Management, and You
Business Execution Radio Episode 39
Russell Klosk, HR Line of Business Director for RGS Associates is a talent management professional with extensive experience working with different branches of the federal government.

Charles Handler - Using Assessments to Improve Hiring Decisions
Business Execution Radio Episode 38
Charles Handler, Ph.D., PHR is president and founder of Rocket-Hire, a company that helps organization leverage online staffing and assessment tools to improve their hiring processes. Charles discusses different types of online assessments and what is required to effectively leverage these powerful but often poorly understood tools.

Bob Phillips - Managing Downsizing and Reductions in Force
Business Execution Radio Episode 37
Bob Phillips is president of RW & Associates, a consulting company that leverages in-depth experience in finance and human resources to help companies achieve their business goals. Bob shares hard-earned lessons on what is required to successfully lead organizations through the difficult decisions that are often required in a down economy.

Mel Kleiman - Maximizing the Performance of Hourly Workforces
Business Execution Radio Episode 36
Mel Kleiman is the President and Founder of Humetrics, a company that helps organizations maximize the productivity of hourly workforces. Mel notes that hourly employees represent over 60% of the workforce in the United States yet receive surprisingly little attention from the talent management community in general.

Palle Ellemann - How to Be a Great Company in Any Country or Economy
Business Execution Radio Episode 35
Palle Elleman is Managing Director of the Great Place to Work Institute Europe, a company that helps organizations increase employee engagement and productivity through assessing and improving the quality of the workplace. Palle shares insights gained from his experience studying employee engagement and satisfaction across dozens of countries.

People Performance Radio - 2008 Year in Review
Business Execution Radio Episode 34
Dr. Steven Hunt and Jim Matheson check in for one last show in 2008. Steve gives us an update on the status of Talent Management in these times of uncertainty, and gives us a preview of what we can expect for People Performance Radio in 2009!

Jim Newman - Making Talent Management Technology Work
Business Execution Radio Episode 33
Jim Newman is President of HRizons, a company that helps organizations define and implement talent management processes and technology. Jim shares insights gained from years of experience using, designing, and deploying different talent management processes in a range of organizations.

Rich Moran - Business Success, Leadership Stupidity, and Employee Happiness
Business Execution Radio Episode 32
This interview with Richard Moran from Venrock covers topics ranging from strategies for dealing with the economic downturn to fundamental shifts in employee attitudes. Rich’s experiences and observations are far ranging, relevant to business, and personally meaningful.

Eric Lesser – Great talent management for a lousy economy
Business Execution Radio Episode 31
Eric Lesser shares results from a recent study examining how company’s can effectively manage talent in a poor economy.

Lexy Martin - The past and future of talent management technology
Business Execution Radio Episode 30
Lexy Martin shares intriguing observations about how talent management technology is evolving from a focus on automation and consistency to a slowly growing focus on transformation and strategic change.

Paul Falcone - Good ways for dealing with bad performance
Business Execution Radio Episode 29
Paul Falcone shares techniques for dealing with difficult performance issues in ways that increase the chance of turning around underperforming employees while simultaneously decreasing the potential of putting a company at legal risk due to making inappropriate or questionable termination decisions.

Josh Bersin - Techniques for Using Technology
Business Execution Radio Episode 28
Josh shares insights about how companies can maximize the value of technology enabled talent management practices. He draws on his personal experience combined with Bersin & Associates vast research base to provides a variety of illustrative stories and data-based observations about the current and future state of talent management.

Andrea Weiland - Building a Healthy Bottom Line
Business Execution Radio Episode 27
Andrea, a former Olympic athlete and CEO for ICPH, shares several useful tips for creating a more healthy organization including how to manage energy instead of time and how to make major improvements in organizational health through small changes to your company’s lifestyle.

Rob Bernshteyn - Managing Talent in a Challenging Economy
Business Execution Radio Episode 26
Rob Bernshteyn shares some interesting and occasionally counter intuitive observations about talent management strategies in uncertain economic market. This includes techniques for optimizing workforce productivity, retaining your high performers when you most need them, and effectively and fairly managing organizational restructuring.

Catharine Larkin - Inspiring Leadership Success
Business Execution Radio Episode 25
Catharine Larkin shares stories from over 25 years of experience working one-on-one with C-level leaders to help them achieve business success.

Ken Scarlett - Fully Engaging Employees
Business Execution Radio Episode 24
Ken Scarlett shares a variety of insights gained from his extensive experience measuring and analyzing employee attitudes.

Bruno Aziza & Joey Fitts - Enabling a Culture of Intelligence Execution
Business Execution Radio Episode 23
Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts discuss their new book “Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution”.

David Sirota - How to Give Your Employees What They Want
Business Execution Radio Episode 22
David Sirota shares insights from over 35 years of experience working with companies to assess, diagnose, and increase employee morale.

Dr. Jac Fitz Enz - Managing Tomorrow, Today!
Business Execution Radio Episode 21
Dr. Jac Fitz-Enz gives us a sneak preview into the “next big thing” in talent management measurement: predictive modeling.

People Don't Have Talent, They Have Talents With An 'S'
Business Execution Radio Episode 20
Professor Andrew Mayo discusses the difference between people related measures and HR metrics. Professor Mayo calls attention to critical things affecting a company’s ability to accurately evaluate the productivity of its workforce.

Kim Ruyle, Ph.D., Lominger - Learning Agility and Leadership Potential
Business Execution Radio Episode 19
In this interview, Kim explains the meaning of leadership agility and why it is so critical to leadership success. He peels back the onion on vague terms like "high potential" and shares the key characteristics companies need to consider with identifying and developing future leaders.

Tom Olivo - You Can't Measure What You Can't See
Business Execution Radio Episode 18
Tom Olivo of Success Profiles discusses how companies can gain greater insight into the performance levels of the their people. He tells us about the importance of using multiple measures to dial in on the true performance of people at all levels of an organization.

SuccessFactors Thought Leader Network
Business Execution Radio Episode 17
In this episode we talk to the Erik Berggren, the head of SuccessFactors Research. Erik discusses what SuccessFactors is doing to increase our understanding of the critical role talent management plays in driving business results.

Big Announcement for People Performance Radio!
Business Execution Radio Episode 16
Jim Matheson and Dr. Steve Hunt announce some changes in the show! The show is going to take a turn starting next week. For the next few months the show is going to focus exclusively on interviews of Thought Leaders in the Talent Management industry!

Organization Effectiveness in a Distributed Workforce
Business Execution Radio Episode 15
Interview with Julius Schillinger from Health Net. Health Net deals with a quickly growing and vastly distributed workforce. They also work in employee assistance and counseling for the united states military.

Common Sense Talent Management
Business Execution Radio Episode 14
Dr. Steve announces that he will be writing a new book next year plus an interview with Mark Rutherford from Kelly Bluebook.

Employee Assessments
Business Execution Radio Episode 13

Measuring Leadership Competencies
Business Execution Radio Episode 12
Dr. Steve sat down with Zoe Hruby from Lominger and discuss how performance challenges are often around behavioral competencies as well as the need to identify and develop future leaders based upon competency assessment.

Developing Future Leaders
Business Execution Radio Episode 11

Talent Management Interview: CDW
Business Execution Radio Episode 10
In his first interview, Jim caught up with Troy Heinritz, Senior HRIS Analyst at CDW Corporation to talk about their implementation of SuccessFactors.

Successful Deployments
Business Execution Radio Episode 9
Dr. Steve caught up with Kristen Frykman from Birchbark Consulting. One of the pillars in a good organization is Talent Management. Kristen is typically brought in during the implementation stage to help with successful deployments with HR solutions.

Lars Dalgaard Interview
Business Execution Radio Episode 8

Interview with Bob Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule
Business Execution Radio Episode 7
Listen in as two Organizational Psychologist PhDs talk about what defines an asshole in the workplace, how to avoid them and how to prevent breeding them. If there was ever an episode of PP Radio to not miss - this would be it!

SuccessFactors drives top line growth
Business Execution Radio Episode 6
The discussion on this podcast centers around the recent study conducted by Saugatuck Technology Inc., a leading SaaS (software-as-a-Service) consulting and research service. Saugatuck studied all public customers with 500 or more employees that have been using SuccessFactors for at least 3 full quarters and found that at least 2-3% top line growth is attributable to the usage of SuccessFactors