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5th Jul 2023

Launch! Empowering Busy Human Resources Teams for Success

About The Guest(s):

Dr. Jim and CT Leong have been helping midsize companies for years to build engaged people, empowered managers, and elite teams. They understand the challenges faced by busy HR leaders in midsize companies and provide expert help in setting up impactful and sustainable programs.

Summary:

EngageRocket's core purpose is to enable and empower people to thrive and help organizations succeed, particularly small to mid-sized organizations with limited HR teams. They aim to partner with organizations that prioritize building a collaborative and empowered culture, as this is crucial for attracting and retaining talent. EngageRocket also focuses on helping organizations navigate remote and hybrid work environments, as well as solving performance management and employee engagement challenges. Their platform provides actionable insights to empower HR leaders and teams to build engaged managers, teams, and organizations.


  • "Our core purpose is to enable and empower people to thrive and help organizations to succeed." - Dr. Jim
  • "We want to partner up with those organizations that put a strong emphasis on building a collaborative and empowered culture." - Dr. Jim
  • "Helping HR teams empower their managers, keep their people engaged, and build elite teams has been at the heart of the Engage Rocket mission since the beginning." - Dr. Jim
  • "We help [small and medium-sized businesses] to do more with less." - CT Leong




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Core purpose: enable people to thrive and help organizations succeed

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Focus on small to mid-sized organizations and HR teams

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Partner with organizations that prioritize collaborative and empowered culture

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Help organizations manage remote and hybrid work environments

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Empower HR leaders to build empowered managers and engage teams

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Democratize employee engagement to the entire enterprise

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Busy HR leaders face lack of time for engagement

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Lack of focus on surveys and feedback in mid-sized companies

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Self-service tools are complex and time-consuming for HR teams

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Helping busy HR teams set up impactful programs

Transcript

All Systems Go! We Are Ready for Launch

Dr. Jim: [:

And those are really important questions. Our core purpose is to enable and empower people to thrive and help organizations to succeed. And from a US context, we are especially focused. On helping small to mid-sized organizations and small HR teams achieve that level of success. So what does that actually mean?

We obviously want to align ourselves with those leaders who take a people first mentality. Now, you might be thinking that's pr buzz phrasing, but. Realistically, we want organizations that are committed to building elite teams through engaged employees and empowered leadership and management.

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We want to partner up with those organizations that put a strong emphasis on building a collaborative and empowered culture. Because if you're a small to mid-size organization, that's actually going to be one of the biggest factors that will help you better attract and retain your talent.

organizations often struggle [:

And HR leaders in those organizations are doing this on a tight staff. And need a lot of support, and that's why we're entering into the marketplace. When you ask us why does this matter?

Helping HR teams empower their managers, keep their people engaged and build elite teams Has been at the heart of the engaged Rocket Mission since the beginning. This is an opportunity for HR leaders in the US who are leading small to mid-size organizations to really shift the paradigm and be a force that democratizes employee engagement to the entire enterprise. Really

excited to actually push out a lot of actionable insights that's gonna empower small to mid-size teams and HR leaders. To build empowered managers, engage teams and elite organizations.

CT: Hi everyone. My name [:

Leaders are chasing growth or fighting for survival, HR. You wear many hats. Payroll, compliance, recruitment, diversity and inclusion. Engagement and performance are important and sometimes urgent, but there isn't enough time left in the day. The second big problem is that these surveys and [00:04:00] feedback, these aren't core to the makeup of HR teams at the mid-sized company level.

Most of the team is gonna be focused on other priorities. So what ends up happening is we either guess we Google or we grope in the dark, and the result is that we do a lot of work for very little roi. The third big problem that we face is that there are a lot of self-service tools in the market, and these are great, but the configuration is complex and it takes up both time and expertise that a team doesn't have.

ople goals. With deep people [:

Leaders get real time insights into their people and how to coach them better. We believe that. The small and medium business segment is the backbone of America's economy and indeed the world. We help them to do more with less. Thanks for listening.

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Engaging Leadership
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K-12 public schools are the hubs of communities all over the country. The best districts have excellent leadership that serves their teams and their communities.

Each week we share the stories of K-12 leaders who are transforming their schools, their students, and their communities.

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About your hosts

CheeTung Leong

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I'm committed to helping people live their best lives through work.

I'm one of the co-founders of EngageRocket, an HRTech SaaS startup and we are focused on helping organizations build empowered managers, engaged employees, and elite teams.

I'm a big nerd when it comes to economics and psychology and regularly use data and tech to help folks live their best lives.

I've been recognized by Prestige Magazine as one of the top 40 under 40 business leaders and have been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and Tech in Asia.

Jim Kanichirayil

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Your friendly neighborhood talent strategy nerd is the producer and co-host for The HR Impact Show. He's spent his career in sales and has been typically in startup b2b HRTech and TA-Tech organizations.

He's built high-performance sales teams throughout his career and is passionate about all things employee life cycle and especially employee retention and turnover.