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Cultivating Culture in Difficult Conditions – an Interview with Meg Clark

Cultivating Culture in Difficult Conditions – an Interview with Meg Clark

Imagine that you live, dine, and work together with the same people for 70 days or more straight with little to no time off. This would be a deeply connecting experience if you have people around who inspire you, make you feel safe, and are great teammates. Our guest in this episode is Meg Clark, who is the owner and executive director of Camp Waldemar, an organization that’s been around for over five generations.

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How to Create Psychological Safety and Trust Within Teams Fast – An Interview with Leslie Jones

How to Create Psychological Safety and Trust Within Teams Fast – An Interview with Leslie Jones

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, worrying about something that’s happening in your business? I think we could all agree that the worry is eased when you know you have the right team. But how do you get the right team, and then how do you keep them? In this episode, you will meet Leslie Jones and get introduced to a tool that almost guarantees, when you do it, a stickier culture.

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From Intern to Long-Term Talent – an Interview with Meghan Hovee

From Intern to Long-Term Talent – an Interview with Meghan Hovee

At Turning The Corner, we hear from so many leaders that they can’t find good people to fill their jobs, whether it’s from turnover or growth. One of the things we do is recruiting and as a recruiter in certain fields, we do find that it is hard to find good people. But what if we turn the tables and get a little bit creative and recruit differently? Today’s guest, Meghan Hoovy, has done just that!

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Teaching People To Have a Job

Teaching People To Have a Job

In my opinion, it’s time to stop complaining about the younger generation and get real about our responsibilities as leaders. At one time in our lives, we were the new people in the workplace. We were the ones who needed to be taught how to have a job and be productive members of an organization. 

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Retaining Your Team Through the Generations – an Interview with Karen Norheim

Retaining Your Team Through the Generations – an Interview with Karen Norheim

Too many leaders just accept high turnover as a normal part of doing business. At Turning the Corner, we will argue until we’re exhausted that this is unacceptable. All turnover is expensive, and we need to eliminate it as owners and as business leaders. Our guest on this episode has every reason to have a high turnover rate, as she’s in a tough industry. Yet she maintains a less than 5% employee turnover and has even grown her staff by 25% over the last year.

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Leading Through Chaos – An Interview with Yi Yang

Leading Through Chaos – An Interview with Yi Yang

Leading a company and trying to build an amazing culture in the midst of challenges? It can often seem like an impossible task. And guess what advice some of us get when things get tough? “Just crank up the productivity, forget about how your team’s doing.” Seriously? Turns out, that kind of one-track thinking just leads to disengaged and burnt-out folks on your team. And trust me, that’s a recipe for disaster – less work getting done and people jumping ship left and right.

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Why Employees Are Unionizing

Why Employees Are Unionizing

You may have noticed in the media lately that there is a lot of unionization, as well as threats to unionize and even regulation that is being forced upon businesses. Starbucks and Amazon are two companies in the headlines recently for employee unionization in response to what they perceive as unfair working conditions.

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