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Hear Trent Cotton, Head of Talent Insights at iCIMS, break down the five mindsets he says the next chief HR officer needs, using Google's own managerless experiment and a 95% AI pilot failure rate to back it up.
In this solo episode of The Team Check-In, Emre tackles one of the most common frustrations in performance management: the competency framework that gets defined, written up, and then never makes it into the review itself. Almost every company has one. Very few put it to work. Emre breaks down the three reasons frameworks get built and then ignored, how to map competencies to role families rather than individual job titles, why behavioral anchors are the part most frameworks get wrong, and how to design a rating scale your managers will actually use.
Hear Tim Newbold, founder of OKR Quickstart, on why most OKR rollouts stall after the first quarter, and the executive habits that finally make them work.
Hear Dr. Joerg Storm, former Mercedes-Benz IT executive, on 12 years leading teams across Japan and Germany and what culture changes about management.
Hear Hannes Albrecht, founder of How-to-OKR, explain what OKRs actually are, and why the fastest way to kill them is to make them too complicated.
Hear Carol Fraser, founder of Dancing Leaders and a 30-year HR veteran, explain how partner dancing exposes the way people really lead, and what the brain science says about changing it.
Most organizations have company values — yet very few use them. They sit on a website, printed on a wall, or buried in an onboarding deck… but they rarely guide decisions, shape culture, or influence performance. In this episode of The Team Check-In, Emre sits down with Ann Melinger, Founder & CEO of Bink, who brings 25+ years of expertise in employee communications, culture transformation, and values-driven leadership. Together, they unpack topics such as: Why company values become “wallpaper” in most organizations, the biggest misconceptions leaders have about defining values, how to translate a value into clear, observable behaviors, and so much more!
Hear Mindy Honcoop, founder of Agile in HR, explain why fear and shame are the blockers hiding behind missed goals, and how leaders can surface them without doing harm.
Hear Felicia Heward, a fractional HR leader who helped scale Tesla, explain what fast growth demands of HR, and why so much of the job comes down to reading the people on the floor.
Hear Natalie Ledbetter, a fractional Chief People Officer who has scaled startups from the inside, explain why founders who treat HR as a late hire pay for it, and how the best ones use it as a lever for speed.