Harmonious Workplaces Podcast
Brought to you by Industrial-Organizational Psychology (I-O) practitioners, Change Management and Organizational Development (OD) Consultants, Human Resources Professionals, and Management Consultants, Harmonious Workplaces seeks to help organizations compose safe, inclusive, and productive organizations. Join Rich Cruz, Sharyl Volpe, Ben Kleinman, and other I-Os, HRMs, ODs, and more for discussions on topics that shape the way we work together.
Episodes
In this episode, Ben and Rich talk about using feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.
What's one thing you can do to ensure your hard-earned change doesn't stagnate, but serves as a foundation for continuous improvement? Keep listening to find out.
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#changemanagement #organizationaldevelopment #workplaceculsture #makechangeyourfriend
In this episode, Rich and Ben discuss how change management and project management are different, but both are required to deliver value.
And what's one thing you could do to ensure your change management and project management processes and teams are optimized to deliver maximum value? Keep listening to find out.
Find more episodes at www.harmoniousworkplaces.com
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In this episode, we talk about sustaining the change.
What's one thing you can do to ensure all your hard work helping stakeholders adopt a change becomes embedded? Keep listening to find out.
For more episodes, visit www.harmoniousworkplaces.com.
For more on our change execution and adoption services, visit https://harmoniousworkplaces.com/change-execution-adoption/
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In this episode, we continue our conversations about stakeholder engagement, concentrating on rewards and consequences to support change initiatives.
What's one thing you can do to motivate others or right the ship? To keep the flywheel of change from spinning out of control by reinforcing organizational citizenship behaviors and reducing counterproductive work behaviors. Keep listening to find out.
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In this episode, we discuss managing stakeholder resistance to a change.
What's one thing you could do in a short circuit? Stakeholder resistance and wire your organization to adopt change successfully? Keep listening to find out.
#changemanagement #organizationaldevelopment #changeleadership #changeresistance #makechangeyourfriend
Welcome to our 107th podcast with our special guest, John Hibbs. In this episode, we discuss John's concept of the Monergy flow, which connects profits, people, and purpose.
What's one thing you could do to make more money, surround yourself with people you love, and make the world a better place? Keep listening to find out.
Since screen sharing wasn't available, here are the links to John's model:
In this episode, we continue our discussion about stakeholder engagement, focusing on learning, development, training, and discovery activities.
What's one thing you can do to make sure your people have the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to have the capabilities to adapt to changes? Keep listening to find out.
For more episodes, visit www.harmoniousworkplaces.com.
In this episode, we continue our discussion about stakeholder engagement from our last episode, moving from communication to learning and development, and rewards and reinforcement.
What's one thing you could do to effectively help enable learning within your organization and establish the mechanisms to keep your team satisfied, productive, and engaged? Keep listening to find out.
For more episodes, visit www.harmoniousworkplaces...
In this episode, Ben and Rich discuss stakeholder engagement.
What's one thing you can do to effectively ensure the people involved in your change initiative have their requirements met and meet those requirements? Keep listening to find out.
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Find Hermie the HR Hermit Crab books, cartoons, and videos at www.hermiehrcrab.com.
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Welcome to our 103rd podcast. Today, we're talking about monitoring your transformation. Why do it, why it's often overlooked and undervalued, and how to get started.
If you're not sure how, what's one thing you could do to make sure your hard work is actually working? Keep listening to find out.
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#changemanagement #knowledgecontinuity #organizationaldevelopment #changeleadership...
Welcome to our 102nd podcast. In this episode, we discuss cross-cultural challenges in global change initiatives.
What's one thing you can do to keep your global teams engaged and aligned with your change initiatives? Keep listening to find out.
For more episodes, visit www.harmoniousworkplaces.com
#organizationaldevelopment #changemanagement #culture #workplaceculture #makechangeyourfriend
Welcome to our 101st podcast. In this episode, we talk about how sequences, iterations, and permutations can help you grow your own knowledge performance tree.
What's one thing you could do to plant your own knowledge performance tree within your workplace? Keep listening to find out.
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To learn more about our Knowledge-to-Performance Tree model as featured in TD Magazine, visit: ...
Welcome to our 100th podcast! Woo-hoo. We welcome back to the stage our cohost, coauthor, and content partner, Sharyl Volpe, in this milestone episode. Together, we talk about how concepts from the arts can reduce uncertainty and make your business more resilient.
What's one thing you can do to reduce the cost of uncertainty? Like an art form? Keep listening to find out.
For more episodes, visit www.harmoniousworkplaces.com
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In this episode, we talk about communication channels, tools, and techniques within organizations.
What's one thing you can do to make the way you communicate with others more effective on the job? To turn knowledge into capability? Keep listening to find out.
For more episodes, visit https://www.harmoniousworkplaces.com
#changemanagement #communication #organizationaldevelopment #makechangeyourfriend
In this episode, we discuss feedback in organizations. What are the best practices for soliciting and providing feedback?
What's one thing you can do to make feedback usable by deciding in advance how you'll respond to it purposefully? Keep listening to find out.
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#changemanagement #knowledgecontinuity #feedback #organizationaldevelopment #makechangeyourfriend
Welcome to our 97th podcast. Today we're talking about urgency. When is it helpful, and when does it cause panic?
What's one thing you can do to get people moving without panicking? Keep listening to find out.
Find more podcasts at www.harmoniousworkplaces.com. #organizationaldevelopment #changemanagement #changeleadership #makechangeyourfriend #workplace #culture
In this episode, we talk about knowledge transfer in the workplace. This relates to our article in TD Magazine, "Plant the Seeds for Knowledge Transfer."
What's one thing you could do to make sure your unwritten know-how doesn't leave when people walk out the door? Keep listening to find out.
For more podcast episodes, visit www.harmoniousworkplaces.com.
#knowledgetransfer #knowledgecapture #businessprocess #changemanagement #human...
In this episode, we continue our conversation about goal-setting and motivation, specifically digging more into motivation.
What's one thing you could do to create motivation or keep it going? Keep listening to find out.
For more episodes, visit www.harmoniousworkplaces.com/podcast
#organizationalpsychology #iopsychology #motivation #goalsetting #changemanagement #makechangeyourfriend
In this episode, we talk about something that consistently drives interest, questions, and frankly, frustration in organizations' goal-setting and motivation.
What's the one thing leaders, managers, and individuals can do differently in 2026 to turn goal-setting from an annual exercise into a driver of execution, engagement, and performance? Keep listening to find out.
Find more episodes at www.harmoniousworkplaces.com.
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Welcome to our 93rd podcast. Today, we're reviewing other people's 2026 trends to see how they compare with our predictions.
What trends did others find that we missed? Keep listening to find out.
Visit our website for more episodes: www.harmoniousworkplaces.com
#trends #predictions #workplace #workplaceculture #changemanagement #organizationaldevelopment #iopsychology #humanresources
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