Bringing life to work: Recent Episodes
Habanero
Habanero helps humanize the world of work through the creation of modern workplaces and the cultural, communication, collaboration, and content experiences that power them.
With employees and candidates seeking greater flexibility related to the where and when of work, the hybrid work model has become more prevalent than ever. There are advantages to both working from home and in office. Allowing the flexibility to do both helps support employees and their different lifestyles and living situations. It’s also something that employees have come to expect across many industries.
To help organizations navigate this new normal, Habanero Director, Employee Experience James Sloane sat down with Caterina Sanders, senior advisor, workplace experiences, and Toni Albert, experience designer, to talk about their insights on hybrid work. Caterina and Toni share a deep passion for employee engagement, organizational change and high-performing cultures. During the pandemic, they conducted a research study into the effect of this rapid change on organizational culture and employee experience, and they’ve since helped numerous companies – including Habanero – define their own approach to hybrid.
In this episode of the Bringing Life to Work podcast, they share their opinions on the hybrid workplace as it relates to employee experience.
“Hybrid doesn’t sit outside of how you work. It's not an extra benefit that can be given and taken away. It’s how you all work together and move as an organization.” – Toni
Listen to Caterina and Toni respond to these questions about hybrid working:
- Is it eroding our sense of connection?
- What are some common challenges?
- How can organizations get started?
Habanero President Steven Fitzgerald sits down with Geoff Watts, global vice president of people and culture at Wilson Sporting Goods, to chat about organizational purpose.
Listen to learn more about:
- Organizational purpose – what it is and what it isn’t
- The impact that purpose can have on an organization’s potential
- How to bring purpose to life at all levels of your organization
Mallory O’Connor, practice lead, culture and transformation at Habanero, discusses the power of aligning CX and EX and shares ideas you can use in your workplace right now to align CX and EX and improve performance.
In this podcast, Habanero President Steven Fitzgerald and Arrochar Founder Peter John McFarlane will discuss why agile enterprise transformation requires a newer, vulnerable style of leadership that uses the core capability it seeks to embed: agility.
In this previously recorded webinar, Brian Edwards, director of products and services, and Steven Fitzgerald, President of Habanero Consulting, discuss what it takes for an organization to start a successful purpose journey.
Whether you are a leader looking to turn up the dial on the effectiveness of people working with digital tools, or you are attempting to shift your organizational culture, you have likely already faced the question of how you can create meaningful organizational change.
Scratching beneath the surface of common organizational change approaches exposes a change façade where new processes, updated tools, training, incentives and communications give the illusion of change, while the behaviours and beliefs that underlie them never shift.
In this podcast, Habanero President, Steven Fitzgerald, and Brian Edwards, director of products and services discuss successful approaches to enterprise or organizational change. They will cover:
- Why change that happens to people rarely works
- Ways that leaders can work with employees to define the direction and destination of lasting change
According to Gartner “only 3 in 10 business leaders are confident their organization has the culture it needs to drive future business performance.”
We know that great corporate cultures improve customer service, increase sales and revenue, improve employee engagement, and improve nearly every other positive business measure.
So why is corporate culture a mystery, and why do organizations struggle to optimize their cultures to meet their business and customer needs? In this recorded webinar, Habanero President, Steven Fitzgerald, and Brian Edwards, director of products and services, discuss the world of corporate culture including:
- What is corporate or organizational culture, and can it be shaped?
- Are certain cultural attributes more important than others?
- How past beliefs can get in the way of true cultural reflection.
- How to find the right approach for your organization.
- How to go beyond surveys and data to get a clear understanding of your culture.