Lilith Christiansen is the founder and lead consultant with HumanGenuity and co-author of the best-selling book Success Onboarding. She focuses on programs and processes that help people thrive in organizations. In this HRTechChat, Lilith discusses her approach to successful onboarding, first impressions, employee experience, and manager enablement, while touching on how new technology can play a role in these.

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[00:00:00] Hi everyone, it's Dylan Taggart. I'm here again for another episode of HRTechChat

[00:00:06] as brought to you by 360 Insights. I'm here with Lilith Christensen today. Lilith is the

[00:00:11] founder and lead consultant of Human Genuity. She's also the former Chief Strategy and Product

[00:00:16] Officer at Silk Road Technologies and prior to joining Silk Road, she was the VP of

[00:00:21] organization development practice at Kaiser Associates. She focuses on programs and processes

[00:00:27] to help people thrive in an organization and we're happy to have her here today. Lilith, thanks

[00:00:32] for joining us. Great, thanks, Dylan. I'm excited to be here.

[00:00:37] And in the event I miss anything, anything you'd like to tell people by yourself before we

[00:00:42] dive into some questions.

[00:00:44] Sure, I think the most exciting thing or kind of new news on my front is that I've launched

[00:00:50] Human Genuity after being Silk Road now rival for the last six years. I've decided to

[00:00:58] return to working directly with organizations to really focus in on helping them create

[00:01:05] exciting programs and experiences that really help their employees thrive. So I'm excited

[00:01:10] to be back on the hands-on side of the business.

[00:01:15] But it's perfect for my first question, which is now that you are taking a more hands-on

[00:01:21] role. What are some of the trends you're noticing? And what are some of the major

[00:01:29] movers from your perspective?

[00:01:33] So I think what I have seen the most so far really is a continuation of some of the trends

[00:01:40] that began emerging as a result of COVID, which I would define as really being a double

[00:01:46] down and a focus on the employee experience by organizations. I think I have seen those

[00:01:54] that are succeeding the most as being ones that are really being thoughtful and careful

[00:02:01] around how they're engineering that experience so that they allow their employees to

[00:02:06] really reach their highest potential. And as a result of that, really start seeing improved

[00:02:12] business outcomes. I've also seen a lot more technology taking hold and newer interests into the market.

[00:02:20] I think we've probably seen that across the board in many industries just in terms of the use

[00:02:25] of artificial intelligence and trying to determine the right way to harness that capability and

[00:02:31] do it in a way that enables an inorganization to succeed more quickly or to reach higher levels

[00:02:38] of performance. There's been a lot new entrance into the market that I've noticed in particular

[00:02:44] to support around talent intelligence and helping to make more data-driven decisions around

[00:02:50] recruiting, development, learning opportunities and supporting growth of the employee population.

[00:03:00] So in terms of promoting employee growth for you, what would you say is the ideal

[00:03:11] employee experience right now that you could deliver to someone in broad strokes obviously

[00:03:15] because of your companies need to be different. But let's say a company is starting up and

[00:03:22] what are the must-have through them to kind of ensure a great employee experience in 2024 given

[00:03:27] the trends you're noticing? Certainly as you said Dylan, lots of different answers for different

[00:03:35] types of organizations and sizes of organizations. But if I had to think of what some of the key

[00:03:41] common threads are that make it most successful is first having a good understanding and definition

[00:03:49] around the culture and the core principles or operating principles for an organization

[00:03:55] and using that as your first North Star, I guess if you will, to make decisions around the

[00:04:03] talent experience or the employee experience. And once you have that set then it's around thinking about

[00:04:11] how your processes are going to get executed and are they operating in alignment with achieving

[00:04:18] against those particular operating values? So if it's around collaboration then are we making decisions

[00:04:26] in a way as the organization making decisions in a way that's bringing in input from a lot of

[00:04:31] different perspectives before decision is made or do they notice that they're in fact kind of

[00:04:38] soloing it as leaders and making their own decisions and moving a path forward. So I think it's

[00:04:45] looking for alignment and ensuring that your processes are operating in consistency with those

[00:04:53] operating principles or core values. Another piece that I'd say is really important and the

[00:05:00] sooner that an organization can begin operating in this way, say from its founding through its

[00:05:05] maturity, is around supporting the manager in that process of helping really supporting the

[00:05:14] employee in terms of that employee experience. I think that's a really critical lunch pen to the

[00:05:21] overall success and I'm sure we've all seen those studies around that individuals don't leave

[00:05:28] companies, they leave managers so the more that I think an organization can provide support to the

[00:05:35] managers around what are best practices, how to engage with their employees, how to support that

[00:05:41] experience I think is absolutely critical. One of the elements that I see always as a piece that

[00:05:50] helps drive success is around supporting feedback between a manager and an employee or even

[00:05:57] between the employee and the organization at large that if there's, there's still a lot of work in progress

[00:06:04] let's say and formalizing programs and processes. If the organization starts by ensuring there is

[00:06:13] an active feedback channel between managers and employees and up through leadership, that and itself

[00:06:19] can really help the organization mature a lot more quickly. And when I think about feedback, what that

[00:06:26] means to me is it's providing positive reinforcement around what the employee is doing in their role.

[00:06:33] It's also providing development support for them and it's the manager asking for feedback too

[00:06:40] from that individual. How is it going from your standpoint? Is there other ways that I could help

[00:06:46] support you better than what I'm doing now? And then lastly to make sure that when there is

[00:06:53] insight, share either around the manager or around the organization more broadly that

[00:07:00] something is done with that information. That it's not just kind of going into a black hole, but rather

[00:07:07] there's a kind of circle back to employees or the employee population around what was heard

[00:07:13] and what is being done or not because sometimes we know we can't take action on every

[00:07:20] idea or piece of feedback that we receive from our employees but it's just as important to share

[00:07:26] the context as to why not because that can itself create a role learning opportunity for the organization

[00:07:34] or an individual. And in terms of the culture you mentioned, there's going to be a couple

[00:07:40] questions and follow up questions to what you just said. In terms of the culture aspect,

[00:07:47] is that something you feel like all employees are looking for? All people looking for a job

[00:07:53] looking for a word, where do you feel culture kind of ranks within their kind of list of priorities?

[00:08:00] And is that more of a white collar trend or blue collar trend or both?

[00:08:05] That's a good question Dylan. I hadn't thought about necessarily differing

[00:08:10] and changing it between blue collar versus white collar. The way that I look at it and I think is

[00:08:19] pretty well proven out is honestly to look back at that like Maslobs hierarchy it needs.

[00:08:25] So the first and foremost that any employee whether it's an hourly position or salary,

[00:08:31] different types of roles is making sure are they going to have their basic needs met?

[00:08:36] Are they getting the right kind of salary or compensation that they need is the work environment

[00:08:42] one that supports what's needed of them? And then beyond that it gets to those next level pieces where

[00:08:49] I do think the culture comes in pretty quickly and especially when we look at the diversity of

[00:08:57] generations and the workforce and what the up and coming generation is looking for, that experience

[00:09:04] that they're going to have and how the culture influences it. I really do see as being critically

[00:09:10] important and what culture could mean even if it's not as documented as the way I mentioned before,

[00:09:18] it's still the working norms of that organization. Does someone feel supported if that's what they

[00:09:25] need or do they prefer a more kind of solitary working environment? I do believe those are things

[00:09:31] that individuals are looking for no matter what their role is in the company or what industry

[00:09:38] they're playing in. That makes a lot of sense and in terms of the feedback channel,

[00:09:45] see we're talking about in the kind of a latter half of your first answer.

[00:09:51] What would you say is a good way to set up these feedback channels especially during

[00:09:57] given that not everyone but a good portion of especially corporate workers are still remote or

[00:10:03] hybrid and so there's less face-to-face interaction so less ways for this kind of like I guess

[00:10:08] organically come up like water cooler style, I guess you could say. And when you are setting up

[00:10:15] those channels, I could see how it could easily get into a way of there being too many checks and

[00:10:22] balances perhaps of like you know okay you got a submit to take it a bumblebee by the time you do that

[00:10:27] you're just like you know it forget it's not that big of a deal so I'm assuming simple is

[00:10:31] easier is better than complicated in that situation but how would you set that up and

[00:10:36] so it's actually it seems organic and somewhere you can actually kind of

[00:10:42] speak the truth I guess without feeling that you're going to be reprimanded. Yeah, so I think a

[00:10:47] couple different ways come to mind for me as you mentioned there are certainly sophisticated

[00:10:54] systems that can be put in place that has the manager and the employee writing down their feedback

[00:11:00] and kind of showing that back and forth that happens. Putting that aside what I would recommend

[00:11:07] is that a minimum providing managers with a guide post around here are the three topics to cover

[00:11:14] once a month with your employees how are things going what's meeting expectations what are you

[00:11:20] surprised about and and and how can I help you achieve your goals I guess I was actually more in the

[00:11:27] three but you know a few just prompts for them that allows them to then have a more organic

[00:11:35] conversation with their employee without necessarily the the rigor or stress of having to

[00:11:41] document that inside type of a formal form or process so that's one way is I would say just equip

[00:11:50] your managers with some talking points around the right kind of content to cover with your employees

[00:11:56] on a regular basis. The other piece that I think is important is creating avenues that allow

[00:12:02] the employees to provide feedback more broadly say around the organization or observations

[00:12:10] that they're seeing and how things are going and it may sound kind of silly but it's almost like

[00:12:17] coming up with the old kind of analog version of a comment box you know I think if organizations

[00:12:25] can provide a way that employees can provide feedback up to management or through HR that's really

[00:12:33] important so you can certainly do surveys on a regular basis try to keep it short if it's

[00:12:39] an employee engagement kind of pulp survey if you're going to do it on a regular basis maybe six

[00:12:46] or fewer questions that are going to be consistently asked that allows you to get trend lines

[00:12:52] around what the pulp's of the employees are in terms of their emotions, feelings, level of engagement

[00:13:00] and then providing in some way of like you said you don't want it to be so formal that it's a

[00:13:06] ticketing system that an employee has to fill out their information and they may have concerns

[00:13:13] around it being tracked back to them individually but a lot of times being able to use a

[00:13:21] someone within HR as being that individual that can co-late information and feedback

[00:13:27] and then present it back to leadership in a consolidated way can really help them

[00:13:35] with ensuring more of the anonymity around feedback that individuals are trying to share with

[00:13:40] the company. Yeah I feel like that the anonymity part is important because I feel

[00:13:48] like you know one wants to be single out of course even though feedback sometimes involves that but

[00:13:55] do you feel like we could ever I feel like in all circumstances anonymity is the best method to take

[00:14:03] feedback for an organization or do you think in some cases that it should be

[00:14:08] looked at from a personal level like if you were a manager do you always want to kind of look at it

[00:14:13] through just the lens of the nuts and bolts of it like there was this issue with person A

[00:14:18] and person B dealt with it this way wasn't great let's take their personalities out of it or

[00:14:22] do you always need to look at that factor or is there kind of a gray area?

[00:14:28] I would definitely say it's a gray area it is really situational specific I think for

[00:14:34] we're individual development in order for a manager to support that employee and the best way

[00:14:42] possible that I encourage that to be a more open line of communication so that they can

[00:14:50] consider the specific circumstance that individuals involved what was on their plate

[00:14:55] what were the goals of that particular assignment let's say and be able to provide growth and

[00:15:03] development feedback in the context of that situation and for it to be most actionable

[00:15:10] that manager needs to know who the individual is in order to help them in the best way I think

[00:15:16] there are clearly other circumstances where if say that issue is perhaps that the individual is having a

[00:15:26] hard time with their manager or supervisor and they are seeking support from the organization

[00:15:34] to help them work through those challenges obviously be a lot harder for them to go directly

[00:15:39] to the supervisor and say I've got a real problem with you maybe in a super transparent

[00:15:45] organization that's built on a culture like that it can be accepted but I think for most organizations

[00:15:52] that's probably something that would be scary for individuals to do so in those cases I think

[00:15:58] that's what you have to provide that additional avenue and I really do encourage people to

[00:16:05] use their human resources department their employee relations department as an advocate for them

[00:16:12] to help in those opportunities and then I think the other piece where it isn't always necessary

[00:16:20] to have or that tying it back to a specific individual isn't always the best path is when

[00:16:28] an organization is looking for feedback more broadly around a program or an experience

[00:16:37] do they do employees feel like they understand their what's being asked of them are employees

[00:16:45] able to bring their skills to bear in their roles on a regular basis I think those types of

[00:16:53] questions that are getting to how are we doing as an organization and a business can still be

[00:17:00] very valuable if they're aggregated and allow that kind of anonymity that we talked about.

[00:17:08] That makes a lot of sense so switching subjects a little bit I've always thought in my research

[00:17:15] practice a little bit that the first few interactions you have your future employer are really

[00:17:22] going to be the ones that could potentially last the longest especially if they're not good

[00:17:28] if they're good you probably are like okay that was normal and you move on and it was amazing I'm

[00:17:33] sure you'd remember it as well and I know you've written your co-author to book called Successful

[00:17:40] onboarding and I know it's one of the first books outlined creating strategic onboarding programs

[00:17:47] at scale to kind of unlock talent and values what would you say are kind of the key methods for

[00:17:56] doing that for someone who hasn't read them or who's listening to doesn't read the book and what would you say

[00:18:01] is the best way to make the best for some pressure for a company so or if that even matters there

[00:18:08] or if it's really just you know it's got this person to work it's quickly as possible and then

[00:18:13] let's start making a first impression or does it start from like kind of day zero so what are

[00:18:19] kind of the strategies and strategies and takeaways from from the book yeah thanks for asking

[00:18:25] that Dylan I definitely think it starts at the very beginning day zero as you said that has to do

[00:18:31] with how the organization portrays themselves on their website in LinkedIn what their employees say

[00:18:39] about them even when they're customer say about them in social media or out in public all of that

[00:18:44] can inform whether it's a place someone seeks out and they want to work there or not

[00:18:50] honestly same thing goes for the individual right in terms of what they're putting out into

[00:18:56] the space I guess in terms of their social media presence the way that they present themselves in

[00:19:05] that application or on their resume all of those elements of first impressions kind of go both ways

[00:19:13] what I think is really important for organizations as they're thinking about that first impression

[00:19:18] is to not try to oversell in that first impression because that can sometimes be the like

[00:19:28] they're tripping up on themselves before they even get started in the recruiting process so an

[00:19:33] example maybe if you're an organization that is undergoing transformation you are a

[00:19:41] process-based company today you're selling a product that is sold to business customers and

[00:19:50] they're buying a product and using that product on a regular basis but what you're pivoting to

[00:19:55] is more around service and being able to provide consultation let's say that a company is that

[00:20:02] use of that product and that's where the company's looking to grow as you're positioning yourself

[00:20:07] to candidates it's important to talk about that change and not say today we're a services company

[00:20:14] and services what comes first between us and our employees because then you're creating perhaps

[00:20:20] a fault some pressure around what it's going to be like when that employee arrives so it's really

[00:20:24] important to be consistent and transparent around where we today and maybe what aspect is aspirational

[00:20:32] and that also goes with the process there may be maybe a plan in the future that the

[00:20:39] the talent experiences are going to be white-clove and everything is buttoned up and it's going

[00:20:45] to be one step to the next and it's a super easy process but if through the recruiting and then the

[00:20:52] onboarding nobody tells the new hire where to show up on day one or when to log into a system and

[00:20:58] be virtually welcomed there are already falling down right at the very beginning so

[00:21:06] probably I could go on and give you even more examples as to why that first impression is important

[00:21:12] the other pieces that I believe really laid the groundwork in a allow for an organization to

[00:21:18] have an experience that helps support their their new hires in the best way and allows them to

[00:21:25] operate at their best is to think about yes the experience and the impressions that you're

[00:21:30] going to have but then it's also the content that goes into it it's it's onboarding is a lot more

[00:21:36] than just getting the paperwork done or getting the employee provision with the equipment that they need

[00:21:44] that's important for sure but beyond that it's got to be helping them to understand the

[00:21:48] culture and how to thrive in that culture doing that through it can be one on ones with managers

[00:21:55] it could be through peer group discussions having a buddy or something like that that helps them

[00:22:00] kind of walk that path and there are early days with the organization it's talking about strategy

[00:22:05] so they can connect the docs you had his their day-to-day in the role that they're playing

[00:22:10] help support the overall success of the organization helping them make connections networks within the

[00:22:18] company or even external to it sometimes and then providing that career support growth and

[00:22:24] development the feedback that we talked about earlier and doing that on a regular basis I think

[00:22:29] those four key elements combined with making sure you've got a tight process you get them provisioned

[00:22:35] and then you provide the training that you need is really what makes for the the foundation

[00:22:42] program yeah I do feel like something you mentioned earlier is something that really kind of

[00:22:50] struck an urban sort of court with me just because I feel like prior to you know prior to me

[00:22:55] having this this role I was looking online for jobs and so many companies I feel like get too hypermolek

[00:23:05] with their what they do there it's like okay you sell software let's maybe be on realistic about

[00:23:12] what actually happens and I know everyone always jokes that in tech the word like disrupting

[00:23:17] is over is used all the time but at a certain point it does become a bit of an i-roll and I think

[00:23:23] it's really important what you said let's let's separate what actually occurs here and like point

[00:23:29] eight a point be every day or every week or every month of what actually happens the set realistic

[00:23:36] extra expectations I think that kind of you know circles back to the cultural aspect you

[00:23:41] talked about earlier because if you start off out of the gates being like wow is a guys like

[00:23:46] you look at this company we have like you know it's not like you know keep expectations real

[00:23:53] it's not like every day is good to be you know at the planning the next moon land you know

[00:23:58] I think if the people people's expectations realistic because it kind of it does

[00:24:07] for me personally it left a bad impression because when I would see that I'd be like I don't

[00:24:11] want to work for someone like this it's just it's not that attitude is not the company

[00:24:18] it seems like there's a detachment from reality yes that's exactly right and and if you

[00:24:25] internalize that if if they're that detached overall from reality how is that kind of play to

[00:24:31] you as an individual are the expectations for you going to be potentially you know out of control

[00:24:38] in terms of the hyperbole there that you're looking to accomplish it's funny what you said I'm like

[00:24:45] if every company was as disruptive as they say they are um I don't know how we'd all keep up

[00:24:51] yeah the world would be upside down it would or everything would be solved right we would have

[00:24:59] world peace and we would have for all the cancer so what are the other yeah maybe yeah

[00:25:06] and and and for sure there are some places that do entirely every day embody that absolutely

[00:25:13] and but but I do feel like with those companies they do kind of tame it down a bit

[00:25:21] that is the reputation for season I guess and that's yeah absolutely that's a great point

[00:25:27] and reminds me of something else I often kind of point out or caution organizations with

[00:25:33] that when you see companies like that that we all look at an admire either because of the the

[00:25:39] business that they're impacting and the the way that they're supporting whether it's

[00:25:46] growth from a business and financial standpoint or it's the impact they're having on the world

[00:25:51] or a population of people or that they're always a best place to work we can can admire that but

[00:25:59] it doesn't necessarily mean every company should try to emulate those specific practices because

[00:26:05] it's got to be something that'll work within your business your culture the constraints that

[00:26:11] you're working in if that was one yeah I think many years ago around when we had first written

[00:26:18] the book that was when people were really starting to pay attention to onboarding and you heard

[00:26:23] about Facebook and Google and others having giant parties at the end of their new hire week and

[00:26:29] having bands come in and inviting all of their new hires and it was a great celebration

[00:26:34] that makes a lot of sense for those businesses at that point in time but it didn't necessarily mean

[00:26:40] that every organization needed to have that kind of an experience and that kind of a budget

[00:26:47] to engage their employees and set them up for success. Yeah for sure because that a certain point

[00:26:54] it's just you kind of shooting yourself in the foot right you know yeah yeah and maybe the

[00:27:00] people you're attracting or maybe not the type that want that otherwise maybe they would go look

[00:27:05] at look to work at a place like that throws these big parties something yeah looking at

[00:27:13] the technology aspect of all this how do you feel I've always thought that like you know

[00:27:20] part of the big health at AI will bring is and and I've been kind of sort of interrupting myself

[00:27:28] here but like the train that the train that thought is that AI is you know meant there's had a

[00:27:35] lot of promises and technology always has a lot of promises some of which are valid.

[00:27:41] Then within the with the AI and kind of digital assistant trend of it all it's that

[00:27:47] oh it's going to take this much more work off the plate of a human being so they can focus on

[00:27:52] XYZ with other human beings. One thing interesting I heard in another interview I did recently was that

[00:27:59] but the woman I spoke to was saying that seems to be the narrative but in reality it just

[00:28:05] seems like there's always more work that's coming that is still preventing me from interacting with

[00:28:09] people. Do you feel like that trend is that's true or do you feel like there is actually a lot of

[00:28:14] promise here to actually be bird and take the bird and off of managers so they can you know have

[00:28:21] a coffee with their employees that have like crunching numbers for an hour. Yeah I think it's going to

[00:28:28] be both ways unfortunately it gets not a simple answer I think there are roles and activities where

[00:28:36] AI is absolutely having that positive impact that it is removing the need for an individual to

[00:28:44] do something repetitive. In the HR space even let's talk about resume review and being able to

[00:28:54] review a stack of 1,000 resumes and come up with a subset that is a more likely set of good

[00:29:03] potential candidates that that used to have to be done by individuals all of the time and now I think

[00:29:10] AI can come in in a way and help save some of that time as it relates to specific recruiters

[00:29:18] but it's not going to replace everything nor should it right we want to have that that human

[00:29:24] expertise their perspective and gut and intuition come into play throughout the process as well

[00:29:32] and I would also think that part of it is maybe that we need to have appropriate expectations

[00:29:41] too around what it can do and it's going to free up my time over here and if my goal is to be engaging

[00:29:47] with my employees more over here you know that's what where I'm trying to get to we may discover and

[00:29:54] I think in the example of the other individual you were speaking with is that we solved this problem

[00:30:02] but then it actually opened up a new door and there's something else here that now we need to tackle

[00:30:08] and figure out how to solve that issue before we can necessarily pivot and have that 100%

[00:30:15] face time with our employees so I think maybe it's looking at AI as it's going to solve one

[00:30:22] and then it opens up a little bit of a door to what our goal is but then it also at the same time

[00:30:28] opens up a door to a new a new challenge that we also need to solve but I think that's part of

[00:30:34] what's exciting about it is allowing us as leaders and individuals managers in the way that we

[00:30:40] engage with AI to get some of the benefit that we're looking for and then it's around learning

[00:30:46] what's next and how do we program it or feed it data or tackle a new task learn something new

[00:30:54] that will help both the AI and ourselves so that we can continue to get closer and closer to

[00:31:02] that ideal state in terms of you know in this case you're in more human interaction with our employees

[00:31:10] and in terms of you know the kind of technology needing to align with the company's goals

[00:31:16] how would you advise someone who is looking to invest in technology you know especially if they're

[00:31:23] a smaller medium size business with you know maybe a stricter budget

[00:31:28] how would you advise them to look at this technology

[00:31:32] from an HR perspective and to say okay it's worth buying or let's like think about the

[00:31:39] benefit more and like what metrics you think they should be factory and because obviously everyone

[00:31:45] wants to shine a new object but sometimes a shining object has zero value to you but what are some

[00:31:54] good strategies to shape their thinking on this and to maybe frame the way they evaluate the technology

[00:32:01] well I think at first it comes with needing to start around being really crisp and solid on

[00:32:10] what the goals are that the organizations looking to achieve and where are the places where

[00:32:19] that as a talent leader you feel like there's an opportunity have the greatest impact on the business

[00:32:26] by investing in a technology or a solution that helps you solve a particular problem

[00:32:33] on the one hand I think it's an incredible time to be in HR and to be looking at technology options

[00:32:43] because they are proliferating I swear every day it seems like there's a new company that's

[00:32:48] entering the market with a particular solution that solves something that hasn't been solved before

[00:32:55] or trying to make that widget a little bit better so it's great in terms of there being

[00:32:59] options the downside of that of course is a potential buyer is where you start and what's the right

[00:33:07] place to make that first investment and I think the the only way you can guide yourself on that is

[00:33:14] being really clear on the front end around what's the problem you're trying to solve and what's the

[00:33:19] impact that you're looking to drive and then being able to consider all of the potential

[00:33:27] options you have I think as a as a smaller to medium size business the answer's probably not in a big

[00:33:35] HRIS well I shouldn't even said bin but like a solution that tries to accomplish multiple facets

[00:33:43] of supporting HR or talent management I think as a smaller organization you're better off looking

[00:33:50] at a technology that can solve one problem really well and you can be able to quantify see the

[00:33:58] impact of that more easily and and be able to return value to the business as well as see the enhancement

[00:34:07] from an employee experience standpoint and make more progress there rather than trying to look

[00:34:14] for a technology that may be solved your recruiting challenges and your performance management problems

[00:34:20] or you know the issues that you have there in terms of maybe inefficiency and elements like that

[00:34:27] I would say to start small in specific in a way that aligns with helping to achieve

[00:34:34] your goals from a talent standpoint and then aligns to having a specific business impact.

[00:34:41] Very interesting well thank you so much for speaking with me today it was great having you

[00:34:49] tell the people where they can find you and if you're upgrading anything in the future

[00:34:56] yeah thanks Dylan so as we mentioned at the very beginning or when you introduce me I've just launched

[00:35:03] my new consultancy called Human Genuity you can probably tell by that I'm really focused on the

[00:35:09] people side of the business and putting in place programs and processes that allows the individuals

[00:35:16] to reach their full potential within the company you I think as we talked about through our discussion

[00:35:23] around AI and technology that can be a tool that really helps us and helps businesses achieve

[00:35:29] next level but we can't do it without the humans in the business being there to influence it to

[00:35:35] train it and provide their ingenuity around helping a business to succeed so that's really my focus

[00:35:42] I'm really interested in engaging with organizations that want to invest in their people in order

[00:35:48] to drive better business outcomes since I've just launched I don't have a website up yet

[00:35:54] but it will be coming soon so in the meantime you can connect with me via LinkedIn again it's

[00:36:00] LELAth Creshenson and my organization is a human genuity.

[00:36:06] Cool well with that thank you everyone for listening LELA thank you again for joining us

[00:36:10] and we'll see you next time. Great thanks for the time Dylan.