In this episode, Brandon Laws and Tim Winner, Vice President of People at Metal Toad Media discuss the “VP of People” and its role in an organization as it relates to HR and leadership.
Brandon and Tim discuss how focusing on people has fueled growth in Metal Toad Media’s business, including culture development, recruiting great people, and having philosophies instead of workplace policies.
Discussion questions:

– What does a Vice President of People do?
– What types of organizations should have this role?
– What are you doing that is different than most organizations to enhance your organization’s culture?
– How has culture fueled growth?
– How have you handled employer branding and what it means to work within your organization?
– What are ways you are recruiting some of the best talent that fits in your culture?
– Philosophies versus policies – what is the difference?

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Host: Brandon Laws, Xenium HR – Follow Brandon Laws on Twitter
Guest: Tim Winner, Metal Toad Media

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Running Time: 24:39

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“Cut and Dry Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/”