Geeks Geezers And Googlization Podcast

Companies have spent billions of dollars on improving employee engagement for more than 30 years. But according to our guest Mark S Babbitt, world-renowned career and leadership mentor, “we’ve barely moved the needle.” Mark decided it was time to do things differently and started WorqIQ, to help companies focus on the human side of business. “Many companies have simply beaten the human right out of Human Resources. I don’t want things to go back to the way they used to be. I don’t want humankind to miss this opportunity.”  To help get people to work together to solve the problems organizations face, Mark coined the term workplace intelligence; it’s the emotional intelligence of an organization.  Most simply companies don’t know what they stand for, company cultures suck, Mark told us. They can’t look a candidate in the eye and say “here you are safe. Here we respect you as a person. You will grow here as a human being.” Mark is on a mission to fix that. He is also founder of YouTern, a social career resource