The RecogNATION: An Employee Engagement Podcast
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Episodes
128 episodes
Managing Change with Jeff Wetherhold
Neely and Kailey speak with Jeff Wetherhold, an accomplished change management advisor, trainer and coach in change management with emphasis in leveraging motivational interviewing to provide evidence-based conversational tools to develop intri...
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41:52
Working Inside Out with Barbara Boselli
Barbara shares her journey from working at Google in strategy and operations to becoming a leadership coach and consultant. She describes how a transformative training in emotional intelligence and mindfulness at Google inspired her to eventual...
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42:50
RecogNation is going to SHRM Talent 2025!
Neely Adkins and Kailey Savona are in the studio today, joined by RecogNation sales team members Andrew Kersjes and Lisa Montalvo. Everyone gets psyched up in their conversation and discusses what they're excited about at this year's SHRM 2025....
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13:00
It's Employee Appreciation Day!
Surprise! We have a special off-schedule episode all about Employee Appreciation Day! Neely and Kailey are back in the studio and sit down with our Human Resources Manager, Abby Daman to discuss what we're doing to celebrate Employee Appreciati...
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16:16
What is Human First Leadership? with Paul Wolfe
Kailey Savona is in the studio today and talks with Paul Wolfe, a human first leadership advocate, and the author of Humans First–Practices for Empathetic, Expressive Leadership. In their conversation, they discuss and talk about the ways you c...
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50:22
A Sinking Feeling in Employee Engagement
This week, Kailey and Neely are reviewing the latest Gallup trends, and shockingly employee engagement is on the decline. Some highlights of the report are:Clarity of expectations. Just 46% of employees know what is expe...
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19:59
The One-Way HR Experience with Matt Baxter
Kailey and Neely are back this week with special guest Matt Baxter, who is CEO of Wedge, a video interviewing software company that connects HR with the best candidates. Matt shares his background, knowledge, and some issues with modern recruit...
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46:52
Self-Starting and Managing Pressures from Feedback with Adam Weber
Kailey and Neely sit down with Executive Coach and 2020 Business Insider Rising Star in HR, Adam Weber. Adam is a self-starter who's created apps, wrote the book "Lead Like a Human" and has an ever-growing list of experience and stories that'll...
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42:01
Where Leaders Can Create Boundaries
Kailey Savona had a chance to talk to the president of WellSpark Health, Andi Campbell. In their conversation, Andi gives her insight into employee well-being, where leaders can open the door to talk to their team members about health, an...
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42:59
Drawing The Line Between Leaders and Front-Line Employees
Neely Adkins and Kailey Savona chat with Marie Deveaux, writer, facilitator, and founder of High Tides Consulting. Marie is an experienced learning and development professional, and in their conversation, she teaches Neely and Kailey that it ta...
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49:34
Seeking Feedback from Yourself with Tonya Herb
Kailey Savona sat down with Tonya Herb, a woman's business life coach and founder of OutSpoken. They talked about empowerment, leadership, and confidence for all aspiring leaders. In their conversation, Tonya tells Kailey the tricks to growing ...
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43:03
How You Can Be An Authentic Leader with Mike Horne
Neely Adkins chats with executive coach Mike Horne, author of The People Dividend. Together, they discuss the importance of authenticity as a leader, the effectiveness of providing feedback, and Gallup statistics about loneliness.
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36:40
Getting Ready for MI SHRM 2024!
In this week's shorty episode, Neely and Kailey sit down with RecogNation's Employee Experience Partners, Andrew Kersjes and Jordan Shaffer. Together, they all talk about what they're looking forward to during this years Michigan SHRM event, ta...
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11:19
Tips For Serving Up Success During Customer Service Week!
RecogNations' own Abby Daman joins Kailey Savona in the studio to discuss what we did for this year's Customer Service Week Celebrations! They walk through our scarecrow-building contest, themes, and tricks to make employees feel valued by lead...
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11:43
Achieving A Milestone of Success with Incentives!
Neely sits down in the studio with RecogNation president Andrew Bishop to catch up and discuss one of the newest features coming to the RecogNation platform, Incentives.
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31:13
Utilizing Positive Psychology with Marc Fussell
Marc Fussell, the founder of Take2Minutes, sits down with Neely to talk about his mission to enhance the mental health of employees both professionally and personally using positive psychology. They delve into the art of positive observation, t...
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40:21
Creating Inclusive Cultures with Shirley Engelmeier
Kailey Savona sits down and talks with Shirley Engelmeier, a DEI coach, author, and CEO of InclusionINC, a leading global consulting and learning organization that links inclusion and diversity. In their conversation, they talk about imposter s...
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47:52
Directing Employee Confidence With Marissa Moyer
CEO and Founder of Leader Laboratories joins Kailey and Neely today to discuss the current issues revolving around employee confidence in the workplace most organizations are facing. In their discussion, they talk about the struggles with impos...
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39:03
A Shorty Episode: The Latest State Of The Global Workplace Report
In this week's shorty episode Kailey and Neely catch up on life updates, and they get into the meat of the latest Gallup Employee Engagement Meta-Analysis that goes into loneliness, productivity, and ways to accelerate performance.
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15:20
Preparing For Employee Experience With Dave Murray
Neely is joined by author and consultant Dave Murray. Together, they go over shared observations of the workplace, and Dave's new book, "The Employee Experience Revolution" which explores what builds a strong workplace; here's a hint, it's not ...
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31:18
Our SHRM Recap: Higlights and Thoughts about SHRM 2024
Kailey and Neely are back from Chicago after attending SHRM 2024 and are joined by RecogNation's own Andrew Bishop, Lisa Moody, and Tricia Huizinga. Learn everyone's highlights about SHRM, what made this year unique, and how the conversations, ...
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26:44
The Human Experience is Changing: Featuring The Experience Strategy Podcast
Employees are expecting new ways to communicate and are looking to be recognized for the work that they're doing. In this week's episode, Neely and Kailey collaborate with The Experience Strategy Podcast hosts, Dave Norton and Aransas Savas.
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44:19
New WFH Stats
In this week's shorty episode, Neely and Kailey are joined by RecogNation President, Andrew Bishop, and Program Engagement Manager, Meghan Arbanas. They discuss new industry reports and surveys about employee preferences for working remotely an...
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28:44
A Generational Workforce Divide with Hannah MacDonald-Dannecker
Kailey is joined by author, public speaker, and partner at Better Together Group, Hannah MacDonald-Dannecker. In their conversation, Kailey and Hannah discuss being a Gen Z-er in the workplace, imposter syndrome, and tips for getting people eng...
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46:20