Smith School of Business
Co-Host of The Smith Business Insight Podcast
Business today is constantly changing — new technologies, emerging markets, changing competitors, evolving expectations and more. To succeed you need a strong combination of knowledge, skills and personal abilities.
Smith School of Business, Queen’s University gets you ready and keeps you primed to thrive in this ever-changing business world.
Smith School of Business has hosted 22 Episodes.
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Episode 22: AI Reality Check: The AI Colleague
November 14th, 2023 | Season 4 | 38 mins
ai, hr, jobs, smith business, smith insight
Say hello to the newest member of your team: Cathy Cobot. And goodbye to predictable team dynamics
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Episode 21: AI Reality Check: Legal Disruptors
November 14th, 2023 | Season 4 | 26 mins 21 secs
ai, legal, smith business, smith insight
AI has the potential to take over almost half of the work in law firms and to give individuals and small businesses easier and less expensive access to pricey legal services
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Episode 20: AI Reality Check: Marketing Unbound
November 14th, 2023 | Season 4 | 32 mins 36 secs
ai, marketing, smith business, smith insight
Generative AI is getting so good that the human touch in marketing may be a thing of the past
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Episode 19: AI Reality Check: AI-Powered HR
November 14th, 2023 | Season 4 | 30 mins 44 secs
ai, hr, smith business, smith insight
From recruitment to retention, next-generation platforms promise to streamline humdrum workplace functions and enhance employee experience
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Episode 18: AI Reality Check: Battling Bias
November 14th, 2023 | Season 4 | 33 mins 42 secs
ai, responsible ai, smith business, smith insight
Algorithms hobbled by human biases are playing havoc with people’s lives. How do we best respond to the challenge?
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Episode 17: AI Reality Check: Welcome to the Age of AI
November 14th, 2023 | Season 4 | 28 mins 55 secs
ai, smith business, smith insight
Take a tour inside the big tent of artificial intelligence to learn which applications are starring, which are not ready for prime time and whether any are worth trusting
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Episode 16: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Looming Issues
May 15th, 2023 | Season 3 | 26 mins 27 secs
Robot bosses? Random safety checks at your home office? We may be careening into the unknown, but the workplace of the future will be guided by familiar human needs
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Episode 15: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Meaning
May 4th, 2023 | Season 3 | 32 mins 52 secs
brave new workplace, business education, business ideas, business school, hr, hybrid teams, hybrid workplace, julian barling, managing teams, queen's university, remote, smith school of business, team management, virtual teams, virtual work
Engaging work and the chance to help others — not money or self-interest — are the ultimate job motivators. Someone forgot to tell the boss
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Episode 14: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Autonomy
May 1st, 2023 | Season 3 | 27 mins 25 secs
brave new workplace, business education, business ideas, business school, hr, hybrid teams, hybrid workplace, julian barling, managing teams, queen's university, remote, smith school of business, team management, teams, virtual teams, virtual work
Members of the organizational elite expect to have a major say in how and where they do their own jobs. What will it take for them to get over their need to micromanage others?
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Episode 13: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Safety
April 19th, 2023 | Season 3 | 32 mins 52 secs
The fallout from Covid has changed how we talk about the management of workplace health and safety
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Episode 12: BRAVE NEW WORKPLACE: Leadership
April 19th, 2023 | Season 3 | 31 mins 38 secs
A look behind the hero’s cape reveals the secrets guiding great leaders and the shortcomings of wannabes
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TEAMS Work: Innovating Teams
December 2nd, 2022 | Season 2 | 23 mins 34 secs
business education, business ideas, business school, creative thinking, hr, innovation, managing teams, nusa fain, queen's university, smith school of business, team management, team voice, teams, teamwork, workplace
Innovation teams have jumped from tech firms to general organizations that need to find creative responses to rapid-fire change. What makes them special?
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TEAMS Work: Building High EQ Teams
November 16th, 2022 | Season 2 | 36 mins 26 secs
eq, teams, teamwork
We know how important it is for people to have emotional intelligence to thrive in the workplace. The same goes for teams. Here’s a road map to build team-wide EQ
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TEAMS Work: Secrets of Knowledge-Hungry Teams
November 2nd, 2022 | Season 2 | 39 mins 4 secs
hr, knowledge sharing, team management
Much as we like to think that sharing knowledge is normal team behaviour, the reality is that we often struggle to find that key piece of information a co-worker is overlooking or hiding. Same goes for getting worthwhile feedback. People seem too busy or shy or skittish to offer advice that would improve a team member’s performance. This episode shows you how to release the knowledge dam.
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TEAMS Work: Aligning Diverse Voices
October 17th, 2022 | Season 2 | 33 mins 7 secs
diverse teams, diversity, edii, team management, team voice, team work, teams
Most people support greater diversity in the workplace. But making that a reality is no simple matter. How do team leaders align diverse voices? And how can a diverse mindset be cultivated, whether or not you’re in charge?
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TEAMS Work: Managing Boundary-Busting Teams
October 17th, 2022 | Season 2 | 31 mins 38 secs
business education, business ideas, business school, hr, hybrid teams, hybrid workplace, jana raver, managing teams, queen's university, remote, smith school of business, team management, virtual teams, virtual work
Managing hybrid teams, where some of us are in person and others at home, takes a special kind of finesse. How do we build teams that make the most of being hybrid, and how do we keep pulling in the same direction… even when we’re not in the same space?