Small Talk Window

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  • "Small Talk Window" is where host Brent Skinner and his guest have a small window of time to dispense with the small talk as quickly as possible and settle into a meaningful conversation related to the world of work.
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Episodes
  • Embracing Uncertainty in the Growth Mindset to Improve Business Outcomes with Nikhil Arora, CEO of Epignosis

    Embracing Uncertainty in the Growth Mindset to Improve Business Outcomes with Nikhil Arora, CEO of Epignosis
    Feb 21 2025
    Epignosis CEO Nikhil Arora has been a guest on the podcast previously. In that episode, we discussed the curious and undeniable benefits of unlearning when it comes to fostering an organization's learning culture. As for this episode, it's interesting. Having a growth mindset is important to a business and to individual contributors in the workforce. The most visceral objectives for each differ, of course. An employer needs to focus on business outcomes: increasing profits, improving EBITDA, ensuring its own perpetuity very much as a “going concern,” in the parlance of accounting. Meanwhile, employees need to invest in their professional development to maximize their value to the organization. The great thing about all this is that the latter’s improvement fuels the former’s success. What’s more, high-performing employees instinctually understand this individual imperative and the benefit it brings to the whole. Nikhil and I delve into how uncertainty in the growth mindset leads to better business outcomes, and faster. It's about creating a safe place for failure, one of life's greatest teachers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
  • Harnessing Community-Powered Hiring, with Summer Delaney, CEO and Founder of CollabWORK

    Harnessing Community-Powered Hiring, with Summer Delaney, CEO and Founder of CollabWORK
    Jan 24 2025
    My guest for this episode of the podcast is Summer Delaney, who got her start in her career working for the iconic Katie Couric. Later, Summer founded CollabWORK, where she is CEO. Summer saw where recruiting had been for years and, with CollabWORK, disrupted things a bit. In many respects, recruiting today is still where it's been for a long time: with some evolution along the way, yes, a nevertheless elaborate system designed to approach finding talent with the conveniences of the online environment. In other words, it's been essentially just as recruiters approached it in the paleolithic era -- just kidding, the era predating the Internet. CollabWORK will integrate with an applicant tracking system. It plugs easily into the existing reality of recruiting today. At the same time, through community-powered hiring, CollabWORK reaches top talent in a way that other solutions won't. Through community-powered hiring, a hiring organization using CollabWORK can go to that coveted passive talent where they already spend their days -- behind the walled gardens of specialized online professional communities such as Slack and others. For more context, and to understand the ethos behind community-powered hiring, listen to my conversation with Summer. And, be sure to read this Open View Report on the topic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    19 mins
  • A Swan Song to Transform Compliance Training, with John Hansen, CEO and Chairman of Atana

    A Swan Song to Transform Compliance Training, with John Hansen, CEO and Chairman of Atana
    Jan 17 2025
    For this episode of "Small Talk Window," my guest is John Hansen, CEO and chairman of Atana. We talked about Atana's jam: transforming workplace learning into a tool for cultural and business impact. A long-time entrepreneur with an uber-interesting career in leading companies and other organizations in high technology and abutting areas, John tells me Atana is his "swan song," a notable final accomplishment ahead of retirement. Committed to creating workplaces where employees feel respected, engaged, and safe, he really wants to leave an impact on learning in the world of work. And I cannot help but believe that he will. Atana’s approach reimagines learning and development (L&D) as a strategic asset—delivering engaging, impactful content while uncovering employee insights to inform leadership decisions. John explains it much better than I do. Listen to this episode and find out for yourself. To say John's enthusiasm for learning is infectious is a wild understatement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 mins

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