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Renee Kaspar discusses the ongoing Great Transition in the workplace and the importance of finding stability amidst change.

On this episode of People Solve Problems, host Jamie Flinchbaugh welcomes Renee Kaspar, Author and Workplace Strategist at Renee Kaspar Labs. A thirty-year veteran of human resources and the author of the forthcoming book HR Confidential, Renee has spent her career in the rooms where the most significant decisions about people get made. She joins Jamie to talk about what she calls The Great Transition, the period we are all living through, in which the foundations of work are shifting beneath our feet. Renee describes The Great Transition as a systems change rather than a single event. When one part of the system shifts because of AI, she explains, everything connected to it shifts too, which is why changing work also means rethinking education, hiring, pay, benefits, and how performance is measured. She likens the experience to raising a child, terrifying and constantly changing, with one crucial difference: a new parent has some kind of roadmap, and right now, no one does. To navigate a system in motion, she suggests finding an anchor and working outward from it, asking what has to move freely for that anchor to reach its next stage. Much of the conversation circles around…

People in this episode

Host: Jamie Flinchbaugh

Guest: Renee Kaspar

Topics covered

• The Great Transition
• workplace strategy
• human resources
• agency
• system change

Keywords

• Great Transition
• workplace
• human resources
• agency
• AI
• performance measurement
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Renee Kaspar Labs

Books & works: HR Confidential

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