Culture & Engagement

It seems ironic that so many companies seek to engage their employees through the use of technology platforms that may, for one reason or another, put more distance between organizations and employees. Technology doesn’t eliminate the need for thought, planning and leadership. The articles here result from our quest to find the right balance.

Today’s workplace is, to say the least, uneasy. The economy’s unsettled and the dynamics that appeared in the wake of Covid-19 has forced HR departments to juggle the often conflicting needs of the workforce and the C-suite. According to performance management platform provider 15Five, one-third of workers plan to quit...
Transcript Mark (00:00): Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Giselle Mota, chief of product inclusion at ADP. She helps the company's teams make sure its products can be used by the widest possible range of people, no matter...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Kelli Dragovich, the chief people officer at Pendo. Their 1000 employees aim to help organizations generate intelligence about the use of their products. Our talk will cover the distributed workforce,...
yes Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Amy Leschke-Kahle, the vice president of performance acceleration at the Marcus Buckingham Company. They're a unit of ADP. She helps employers empower their organizations to improve engagement in performance. We're going...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. Mark: My guest today is Addie Swartz. The CEO of reacHIRE. They recently launched a new product called Aurora, that aims to help women build up their soft skills for business using content, advice, and community. Aurora...
Transcript to come Today, we visit with Gilles Bertaux, the CEO of Livestorm. It’s a browser-based video tool that helps manage – among other things – meetings, webinars and virtual events. We’re going to talk about video technology and where it’s going, redefining use cases to strengthen what users can...
DEI software is often more complicated than most HR professionals realize. To help you understand why, we asked a number of DEI leaders and CEO to get their best insights. Here's what they said. The Human Factors Are Too Complex for the Software The problem with DEI software is that...
Alight rolled out the latest release of its employee experience platform, Alight Worklife. The update combines AI and data with content covering health, finances, clinical navigation, retiree healthcare, payroll and wellbeing. With it, the company said, workers are will be able to create an integrated experience for their families...
Transcription to Come Our guest today is Himanshu Palsule, the CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. He leads a company that has 75 million users, 6,000 customers with availability in 50 countries. We’ll talk about Cornerstone’s acquisitions of EdCast and SumTotal, it’s leveraging of content, and more, on this edition of PeopleTech. Image:...
Transcription Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Reggie Willis, the chief diversity officer at Ally, a digital financial services company. He's responsible for the D&I activities there, including the implementation of programs, working with stakeholders and making sure his...