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Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Steve Cohn about the Link between Customer Experience and Employee Engagement

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

About Steve Cohn:
Steve Cohn has helped thousands of companies, seminar participants and audience members create better and more successful relationships with customers, employees and each other during the past 18 years. He has shared his …

Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 Category: Book Recommendations, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Speaking Up at Work No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Dr. Elizabeth Morrison on Employee Voice & Encouraging Employees to Speak Up

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

About Elizabeth Morrison:
Dr. Elizabeth Morrison is a Professor in the Management and Organizations Department, the ITT Harold Geneen Professor in Creative Management, and the Vice Dean of Faculty at the Stern School.

Dr. Morrison’s research …

Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 Category: Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Speaking Up at Work, Workplace Environment No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Tom Nixon Interviews Kelly Vandever! Kelly Talks about Work Place Communications and Why the Focus of the Podcast Is What It Is

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

Permission to Speak is the video blog and podcast that loiters at the intersections of leaders who want their people to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve an organization’s higher purpose.
Our interviewee for this episode: Kelly Vandever!
Our Guest, Tom Nixon, Interviews Kelly about Workplace Communications and Why Topics of the Podcast/Video Blog Are What They Are

About Tom Nixon:
Tom Nixon is an amazing speaker, a fabulous executive speech coach, an enormously …

Wednesday, July 5th, 2017 Category: Book Recommendations, Communication, Company Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Social Business, Speaking Up at Work, Workplace Environment No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Laurie Genevish on Performance Improvement and Assessments

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

Our guest for this episode: Laurie Genevish
Laurie Genevish is a Performance Improvement Consultant and president of The Performance Difference, a firm that helps companies reduce employee turnover and improve productivity by analyzing hiring

and skill gaps, determining performance success factors, and implementing plans for individual, team and company development.

She …

Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 Category: Leadership, Permission to Speak, Speaking Up at Work No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Dr. Philip Kim on Employee Engagement

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

Dr. Philip Kim is an educator, speaker, consultant, author, and business professor at Walsh University.

We’ll be talking today about his latest book, Zebras & Ostriches: 5 Simple Rules to Engage and …

Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 Category: Book Recommendations, Communication, Company Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Speaking Up at Work, Workplace Environment No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Sandy Weaver about Happiness in the Workplace

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

About Sandy Weaver:
Sandy Weaver believes that happiness is job one and not just in your personal life, but in business too. When people feel better about themselves and are happy, they contribute more which makes …

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 Category: Book Recommendations, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Speaking Up at Work No Comments

Leadership and Listening: Creating Opportunities for Employees to Have Permission to Speak

By Kelly Vandever

It is the part of my podcast interview with Dr. Denise Cumberland that makes me sad.

For a research article, Dr. Cumberland interviewed 13 leaders who had participated in the Undercover Boss television show. (For those not familiar with the show, a CEO or other highly-placed leader goes “undercover” as a lower level employee in their organization to get a new perspective on their company.)

All the leaders told Dr. Cumberland that they learned a ton from the experience and made changes to improve their organization and the support …

Monday, April 10th, 2017 Tags: employee engagement, feedback from employees, listen, listen to employees, relationships, transparency
Category: Adding value to your organization, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Speaking Up at Work No Comments

Permission to Speak – Leadership Blog – Kelly Vandever Interviews Jay Goldman on Employee Centric Workplaces – Part 2

Permission to Speak

Leadership Video Blog & Podcast

Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever

Topics Discussed:

The New York Times best-selling book, The Decoded Company
Three characteristics of a decoded company are (1) technology as a coach and trainer (2) data as sixth sense …

Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 Category: Analytics, Book Recommendations, Communication, Company Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Permission to Speak, Speaking Up at Work, Workplace Environment No Comments