Dec 5, 2022
The workplace is rapidly changing and there is an increasing focus on the mental health, wellness, goals, and happiness of employees. Joining us today is the incredible Amy Cappellanti-Wolf to discuss her interesting HR philosophies and help us find the right way to help onboarding employees integrate successfully. Amy is the global chief people officer and transformation leader at Cohesity and has had an extensive career at a multitude of companies, namely Frito-Lay and Disney. In this episode, you’ll hear all about how Amy landed at Cohesity, how her education has served her in her career, what the company is currently focusing on, and the changes Amy has made since starting there. We also discuss how Amy suggests we lead onboarding in order to secure an employee’s retention and help them engage in the work they’re doing, the importance of having diversity on a leadership level, the manager’s role, career path building, gradation, how to measure perspective, and much more! Amy even gives us an example of how to plan an employee’s onboarding process before she tells us how she approaches problem-solving with her teams. Lastly, Amy tells us why she loves her job, what her hopes are for the future, and shares some advice for anyone wanting to work in an HR role.
Key Points From This Episode:
- A (detailed) introduction to today’s guest, Amy Cappellanti-Wolf’s professional background.
- How Amy landed her current role at Cohesity.
- How having an educational background has contributed to Amy’s career.
- How Amy thinks the role of HR has changed over the last two years.
- Amy tells us what is going on at Cohesity at the moment.
- The importance of diversity and inclusion in leadership levels.
- Why Amy wanted to change the mindset of the employees at Cohesity.
- How Cohesity measures people’s perspectives.
- How to lead an employee during onboarding to secure retention and engagement.
- Amy gives us an example of a plan for an employee’s successful onboarding experience.
- Why Cohesity has started to create career path building.
- Amy explains what gradation is.
- Why Amy believes that each employee owns their career and the manager's job is facilitation.
- How Amy approaches team problem-solving and delegating tasks.
- How Amy has built her career on learning from failures and why she loves her job.
- Amy shares some advice for listeners aiming to land up in a VP, CHRO, or HR kind of role.
- Why Amy prefers big dogs: more to hug and more to love.
Tweetables:
“Really great HR is all about consulting to the business, providing solutions that support the business growth and the employee growth. Its risk mitigation, it's also helping leaders be their best because the best leaders also create better teams.” — @AmyCappellanti [0:05:19]
“If you start early on with lower numbers, the law of numbers works for you. If you try to introduce DNI when you're a larger enterprise company, a lot of numbers work against you.” — @AmyCappellanti [0:08:58]
“You get much better business outcomes when you've got a diverse set of people versus a homogeneous set of people.” — @AmyCappellanti [0:09:28]
“There's a ton of studies that if you don't get onboarding, right within the first month to 60 days, retention drops drastically after the first year of employment. It's not only the right thing to do for your employees, but there's real business value and doing that.” — @AmyCappellanti [0:17:11]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf on
LinkedIn
Amy
Cappellanti-Wolf on Twitter