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#TChat Recap: Mending Employee And Employer Relations

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Mending Employee And Employer Relations

It’s been an exciting 4 years since we begun this amazing social learning adventure. We’re proud to continue to build our #TChat community into a great source for trending HR and thought leadership topics. This week, we focused on mending employee and employer relations. Our community was joined by Marla Gottschalk, Ph.D., Industrial & Organizational Psychologist and Director of Thought Leadership at Kilberry Leadership Advisors; and Chip Joyce, CEO and Co-founder of Allied Talent. Both are experts in the World of Work. Each shared their unique insights to our community about the troubling woes of mending employee and employer relations. And it is a highly important topic. Remember when Gallup published their report about employee engagement? Employee engagement, the candidate experience, and talent management all ties back into how employees get along with their employers.

Mending employee and employer relations involves taking a look at various organizational challenges that relate to talent management. One of these challenges is the:

Bridging the gap between employees and their employers starts when we take the time to understand each others needs. Helping each other manage our priorities will make a difference. Part of what makes an organization healthy is keeping organizational goals aligned with their employees’ goals. Because at the end of the day:

It’s not just about work, it’s about making a difference through the belief in what we’re doing. We live in a world that is continuing to build itself around social connectivity. Engagement, passion, and connectivity are not just bounded in our personal lives; we can share these same experiences at work. Employees want to know that they have an opportunity to make a difference at work and perhaps in the world. This can’t happen until employees and employers have necessary conversations about what they expect out of their relationship.

Neither side is always going to win every single battle, but it’s when we start learning how to compromise with each other that we can start to build trust. Keeping employee and employer relations healthy is about managing trust and expectations.

The moment a future employee walks in the door every moment that happens afterwards dictates the kind of trust and belief they will have. Mending employee and employer relations takes work, but we don’t always have to be playing catch up with employees all the time. We can start building better employee and employer relations the moment they walk in the door. Developing the kind of organization we can all believe in is possible. It doesn’t just happen overnight, but we have to do our best to keep our lines of communication open. We need to explain what our expectations and priorities are. We have to begin managing these expectations and priorities together.

What Our Community Had To Say On #TChat 

What’s Up Next? #TChat Next Wednesday, Dec. 10th!

TChatRadio_logo_020813We’ll be discussing How to Legally Leverage Social Media in the Recruitment Process during our Social Hour on #TChat with our guest hosts: Nick Fishman, Chief      Marketing Officer, EmployeeScreenIQ, and Jason Morris, Founder, EmployeeScreenIQ.

 #TChat Radio Kicks Off at 7pm ET / 4pm PT — Our  weekly live broadcast runs 30 minutes. Usually, #TChat-  ters listen in and engage with our Twitter community.  View this week’s BlogTalkRadio preview: How to Legally Leverage Social Media in the Recruitment Process

#TChat Twitter Kicks Off at 7:30pm ET/ 4pm PT — Our Social Hour midpoint begins and ends with our highly engaging 30-minute Twitter discussion. We enjoy taking a deep social dive into our weekly topic by asking 3 thought adrenalizing questions. So join in on the fun during #TChat and share some of your brain power with us (or tweet us @TalentCulture).

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#TChat Preview: Anniversary & Mending The Employee-Employer Relationship

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The TalentCulture #TChat Show is back! After a week off for Thanksgiving, we’ll be live on Wednesday, December 3, 2014, from 7-8 pm ET (4-5 pm PT). The #TChat radio portion runs the first 30 minutes from 7-7:30 pm ET, followed by the #TChat Twitter chat from 7:30-8 pm ET.

In our last show we talked about the challenges of enabling a talent management strategy with technology, and this week we’re going to talk about the future of the employee-employer relationship — and celebrate the TalentCulture #TChat Show’s 4-year anniversary!

We keep talking incessantly about how bad the relationship is between employees and employers. Yes, we get it. It’s bad.

But even with the limited solutions that are offered today in the world of work, none has been actionable enough; we just keep playing misery shuffleboard.

Our guests for this week’s show argue that the key driver of organizational sustainability is the strength of the social contract that develops between an employer and its employees. And the fact that companies can and should recruit, manage, and retain entrepreneurial employees who will make them adaptive and innovative.

Oh, and we’ll also be celebrating the TalentCulture #TChat Show’s 4-year anniversary! If you’re tc-ipaper-blog2-700x325interested in taking a bit of a virtual trip down memory lane, check out our cool new anniversary iPaper.

As for next week’s show, join TalentCulture #TChat Show co-creators and hosts Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman as we learn about the future of the employee-employer relationship with our guests: Marla Gottschalk, Ph.D., Industrial & Organizational Psychologist and Director of Thought Leadership at Kilberry Leadership Advisors; and Chip Joyce, CEO and Co-founder of Allied Talent.

Special Offer:

Allied Talent is making the Executive Summary of The Alliance, which is not publicly available, to our audience. The Alliance, a highly regarded book on managing talent in the networked age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, is about the loyalty pact between employer and employee. Download the Executive Summary here.

Related Reading:

Marla Gottschalk: Making Teams Work: Is There A Better Way?

Meghan M. Biro: You’re Hired And It’s Mutual: 5 Ways Employee Culture Is Great For Leaders

TINYhr: The 7 Key Trends Impacting Today’s Workplace

Brandon Hall Group: High-Performance Onboarding As A Driver Of Employee Engagement

Elizabeth Lupfer: Using Video To Increase Employee Engagement And Collaboration

Michael Bertrand: Employee Engagement Is About The People, Not The Tools

We hope you’ll join the #TChat conversation this week and share your questions, opinions and ideas with our guest and the TalentCulture Community.

#TChat Events: The #TChat Anniversary Show — Enabling The Employee-Employer Social Contract

TChatRadio_logo_020813#TChat Radio — Wed, December 3rd — 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT Tune in to the #TChat Radio show with our hosts, Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman, as they talk with our guests: Marla Gottschalk and Chip Joyce, CEO and Co-founder of Allied Talent.

Tune in LIVE online Wednesday, December 3rd!

#TChat Twitter Chat — Wed, December 3rd — 7:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm PT Immediately following the radio show, Meghan, Kevin, Marla and Chip will move to the #TChat Twitter stream, where we’ll continue the discussion with the entire TalentCulture community. Everyone with a Twitter account is invited to participate, as we gather for a dynamic live chat, focused on these related questions:

Q1: What are the pressing issues with the employee-employer relationship today? #TChat (Tweet this Question)

Q2: What should a social contract between employee and employer look like? #TChat (Tweet this Question)

Q3: Happy Anniversary, #TChat Community! What topics would you like us to cover in 2015? #TChat (Tweet this Question)

Throughout the week we’ll keep the discussion going on the #TChat Twitter feed, our TalentCulture World of Work Community LinkedIn group, and in our new TalentCulture G+ community. So feel free to drop by anytime and share your questions, ideas and opinions. See you there!!

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#TChat Preview: Anniversary Show And Employee-Employer Relationship

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The TalentCulture #TChat Show will take a break for Thanksgiving, but will be back live on Wednesday, December 3, 2014, from 7-8 pm ET (4-5 pm PT). The #TChat radio portion runs the first 30 minutes from 7-7:30 pm ET, followed by the #TChat Twitter chat from 7:30-8 pm ET.

Last week we talked about the challenges of enabling a talent management strategy with technology, and in our next show we’re going to talk about the future of the employee-employer relationship — and celebrate the TalentCulture #TChat Show’s 4-year anniversary!

We keep talking incessantly about how bad the relationship is between employees and employers. Yes, we get it. It’s bad.

But even with the limited solutions that are offered today in the world of work, none has been actionable enough; we just keep playing misery shuffleboard.

Our guests for the upcoming show argue that the key driver of organizational sustainability is the strength of the social contract that develops between an employer and its employees. And the fact that companies can and should recruit, manage, and retain entrepreneurial employees who will make them adaptive and innovative.

Oh, and did we say it’s the TalentCulture #TChat Show’s 4-year anniversary? We did? Well, if you’re tc-ipaper-blog2-700x325interested in learning more and taking a bit of a trip down memory lane, check out our cool new anniversary iPaper.

As for our upcoming show, join TalentCulture #TChat Show co-creators and hosts Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman as we learn about the future of the employee-employer relationship with our guests: Marla Gottschalk, Ph.D., Industrial & Organizational Psychologist and Director of Thought Leadership at Kilberry Leadership Advisors; and Chip Joyce, CEO and Co-founder of Allied Talent.

Special Offer:

Allied Talent is making the Executive Summary of The Alliance, which is not publicly available, to our audience. The Alliance, a book by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, is about the loyalty pact between employer and employee. Download the Executive Summary here.

Related Reading:

Meghan M. Biro: How To Make Work Matter

Tracy Maylett: How To Leverage The Five Keys Of Employee Engagement

David Bator: Are Your Employee Engagement Efforts Getting Outdated?

Kevin Daum: 5 Simple Ways To Get Employees More Engaged

Russ Fradin: Here Is A Simple And Fun Way To Boost Employee Engagement

We hope you’ll join the #TChat conversation this week and share your questions, opinions and ideas with our guest and the TalentCulture Community.

#TChat Events: The #TChat Anniversary Show — Enabling The Employee-Employer Social Contract

TChatRadio_logo_020813#TChat Radio — Wed, December 3rd — 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT Tune in to the #TChat Radio show with our hosts, Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman, as they talk with our guests: Marla Gottschalk and Chip Joyce, CEO and Co-founder of Allied Talent.

Tune in LIVE online Wednesday, December 3rd!

#TChat Twitter Chat — Wed, December 3rd — 7:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm PT Immediately following the radio show, Meghan, Kevin, Marla and Chip will move to the #TChat Twitter stream, where we’ll continue the discussion with the entire TalentCulture community. Everyone with a Twitter account is invited to participate, as we gather for a dynamic live chat, focused on these related questions:

Q1: What are the pressing issues with the employee-employer relationship today? #TChat (Tweet this Question)

Q2: What should a social contract between employee and employer look like? #TChat (Tweet this Question)

Q3: Happy Anniversary, #TChat Community! What topics would you like us to cover in 2015? #TChat (Tweet this Question)

Until the show, we’ll keep the discussion going on the #TChat Twitter feed, our TalentCulture World of Work Community LinkedIn group, and in our new TalentCulture G+ community. So feel free to drop by anytime and share your questions, ideas and opinions. See you there!!

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