Talent Optimization Podcast & Blog

Bridging the gap between CEO's and HR Professionals of talent optimization for your business

EP 63: How Small Organizations Can Make A Big Impact with Sara Horein

How Small Organizations Can Make A Big Impact When we are bringing new members into our organizations, it’s essential to ensure that they will align well with our culture and values. One way that an organization might go about this is by having their employees support the community in some way. This could be a...

EP 62: How to Use Data to Make a Big Impact with Rashad Nelms

How to Use Data to Make a Big Impact There is plenty of data available to help companies answer key questions about their workforce and its needs. However, many businesses are not utilizing this approach for attracting and retaining staff. Instead, many businesses are searching externally for the answers that are available to them internally....

EP 61: Better Decision Making in Organizations with Traci Scherck

Better Decision Making in Organizations How do you make decisions? Do you base them on how you’re feeling, or do you base them on objective reasons? Knowing how we make decisions can help us understand how to best serve inside of our organizations, as well as how to manage that as leaders. So, in this...

EP 60: Executive Coaching to Move Forward with Bobbie Sue Wolk

Executive Coaching to Move Forward Bobbie Sue Wolk is the first International Coaching Federation (ICF) Certified Coach in Alaska and has coached clients on every continent except Antarctica! Also a certified executive coach, business consultant, author, and entrepreneur, Bobbie Sue joins the show today to share her approach to working with executives to maximize their...

EP 58: How to Implement a Coaching Culture with Donna Star

How to Implement a Coaching Culture A coaching culture is all about creating a positive place for your team to be who they are whilst also elevating each other. As a former corporate executive turned corporate coach, Donna Star knows a thing or two about implementing a coaching culture into a business. Today she joins...

EP 57: Creating A Coaching Culture with Traci Scherck

Creating A Coaching Culture Creating a coaching culture within your organization can improve not only the way employees interact with each other, but also the way they communicate with customers. It can improve the way a business is run and transform the organization at its core simply by opening up the conversation on a daily...

EP 55: High Potential Mentoring Programs with Traci Scherck

High Potential Mentoring Programs When we have the right processes in place, our people should be able to thrive in their positions. If your staff—whether high level or not—are not exceeding in their positions, it’s so important that we are able to diagnose that problem correctly. So, in this episode, I will be discussing high...

EP 54: Building A Successful Mentorship Program with Heather Dobson

Building A Successful Mentorship Program Have you ever started a job and thought to yourself how much easier it would have been if you had someone there showing you the ropes? Mentoring is an essential part of any successful business and is an exceptional way to retain quality staff. As the Director of Business &...