Better Monday® Podcast by Sofokus

32 | Mental health-friendly workplaces with Mareike Bruns

31 | Investing in happy companies with Timo Ketonen

30 | Employee well-being and digitalization with Joana Pais Afonso

29 | Remote Culture Architecture with Darcy Marie Boles

28 | Managing a widely distributed organization with Melissa Mauk

Season 4 of the Better Monday® Podcast starts with an interview with Mine Dedekoca, workplace curator & happiness coach.

27 | Sustainable workplace happiness with Mine Dedekoca

Season 4 of the Better Monday® Podcast starts with an interview with Mine Dedekoca, workplace curator & happiness coach.

26 | Recruiting in the New Normal Era with Saana Rossi

The transition to the hybrid era has not only affected our ways of viewing leadership, communication and managing our work, but it has also caused quite a bit of head-scratching to recruiters and people working with HR. How to assess the know-how and motivation of a candidate virtually? How to appeal to potential employees and give them a realistic image of your company without human contact? These questions are discussed in this episode where Milla interviews Saana Rossi, one of the most influential recruiters in Finland.  Saana Rossi describes herself as an adventurer by heart. Saana has a long background…

25 | Communication in the New Normal Skot Waldron

In this Better Monday® podcast episode, Milla and her guest Skot Waldron talk about communication in the new normal era.  For almost 20 years Skot has worked with companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Royal Caribbean, and The Coca-Cola Company. He started his career by focusing on external communication but sifted to internal communication about four years ago. Nowadays Skot is an internal communication strategist who uses his extensive knowledge of brand development to build loyalty amongst individuals, teams, and organizations.  Skot coaches both leaders and teams to sell ideas and sell themselves as a personal brand. He believes the…

24 | Psychologial safety at work with Laura Gallaher

On this episode of the Better Monday podcast, Milla is interviewing Laura Gallaher, an organizational psychologist, who has a long history of working with people-focused leaders. Laura actually started her career at NASA after the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded upon re-entry in 2003, killing everybody aboard. Following the tragedy, NASA hired her and a team of organizational psychologists to change the cultural influences that were deemed to play a role in the accident. After NASA Laura was hired by the Walt Disney Company, where she continued to help the organization by training and consulting. In this episode, we talk about psychological…

23 | Hybrid vs. Remote work with Liam Martin (2/2)

In the last episode, Milla and her guest Liam Martin talked about remote work and how it differs from hybrid work. In the second part of Liam’s interview, they discuss the pros and cons of remote work. Liam also shares his views on how companies could support their employees’ work-life balance and happiness at work. Liam Martin thinks remote-first is the best working model for three reasons Asynchronous mindset. When people can consume information when it best suits them, it is possible to make decisions without arranging unnecessary meetings, and people can spend their time more efficiently.  The ability to travel. Being able…

22 | Hybrid vs. Remote work, Liam Martin (1/2)

This episode of the Better Monday® podcast is a special one: we focus on the pros and cons of hybrid work, remote work, and other working models for not one but TWO whole episodes! The subject is so important we didn’t even want to try to squeeze it into 30 minutes. Our guest star for covering the topic for the next two episodes is Liam Martin, a remote work advocate, as he calls himself. Liam is a co-founder of several remote-first companies and co-organizer of a conference called Running Remote. Liam’s companies have no physical offices, and his team members come…

21 | Leadership in hybrid work with Sue Bingham

Sue Bingham has been at the forefront of creating positive change in the workplace for more than 35 years. She is the founder of HPWP Group and the co-creator of HPWP philosophy, which is a non-traditional, results-producing, and challenging approach to leadership that drives high levels of business performance. Sue has personally conducted hundreds of leadership workshops, courses, and seminars and trained thousands of leaders.  In this episode, Milla and Sue talk about leadership in the era of the New Normal. Sue also shares some of the challenges she has faced when working with leaders from different fields. If you’re interested in learning…