Small Talk Window

We’re hearing a lot about people analytics these days. Aren’t we? One big reason is the technology that powers people analytics has advanced light years in recent years. Alas, a few misconceptions have slipped past unchallenged amid this breakneck pace of innovation, and John Federman, CEO of HireRo...

Mike Erlin, founder and CEO of AbilityMap (and a repeat guest on the "Small Talk Window" podcast), had his team run Catwoman through their highly robust psychometrics instrument to unearth Catwoman's human skills and how she might best utilize these on the job. Let's just say there's a very clear re...

There was an article published recently in The Wall Street Journal. The content, especially the headline, "The White-Collar Hiring Rut Is Here. That’s Bad News for Young College Grads," suggests there's a massive decrease in the number of candidates being hired by Fortune 500 employers into roles th...

Much of the chatter out there says AI is going to take over our work and leave us with nothing to do. That’s certainly a possibility, especially if we do nothing about it. But consider what Kieran Flanagan, chief marketing officer of Hubspot (and venture capitalist), has to say. He proposes an elega...

Joining as the guest for this episode of "Small Talk Window" is Lauren Miller. Lauren is an isolved People Hero. That means she uses isolved in her capacity as owner of an Arkansas-based location of Right at Home, provider of in-home care services to seniors and others facing physical and other chal...

For this episode of “Small Talk Window,” Jocelyn King, CEO of VirgilHR, joins host Brent Skinner to discuss a Texas-based court’s eleventh-hour effect on the Federal Trade Commission’s brewing, hotly debated ban on non-competes. HR departments were going to have to comply with a key component of the...

For this episode of the podcast, we ask, “Why?” Why are you switching your learning solution or deploying one for the first time? The drive to focus anew on establishing a learning culture, implement a workable learning management system (LMS), or kick things off from scratch learning-wise at your o...

Joining host Brent Skinner for this episode of "Small Talk Window" is Caitlin MacGregor, co-founder and CEO of Plum. Employer culture and employee experience can be really tough to get right. If you’re an organization that cares at all about any of that, you’re continually searching for ways to reco...

Most of us have heard of firms like Gartner, IDC and Forrester. But what do we know about industry analysts, really? For this episode of the "Small Talk Window" podcast, Robin Schaffer, principal AR consultant at Schaffer AR, joins host Brent Skinner to discuss just what an industry analyst is and h...

Most of us are familiar with the concept of original sin in Western theology. Well, there is original sin in skills ontologies, too. It was the early 1950s, and the United States Army had established a behavioral science research and development institute. The objective? Introduce efficiency and sta...