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America Back to Work Sharon O’Donnell, OHR Consulting
Building Trust and Retention through Transparent Leadership
On this week’s episode of America Back to Work, Arnette Heintze sits down with Sharon O’Donnell, founder of OHR Consulting.
Sharon shares her vast experience in HR and organizational management, highlighting transparent leadership techniques and their influence on employee trust and retention as America returns to the workplace.
From her start as a teacher to becoming a headhunter and eventually establishing her consulting firm, Sharon discusses key lessons learned and best practices for fostering a thriving workplace.
Key Takeaways
- The shift from blind loyalty to a demand for growth and development opportunities.
- The benefits of open discussions about pay and its effect on employee satisfaction and performance.
- The importance of having an open channel of communication from employees to top-level management.
- What transparent leadership looks like and why it’s crucial in the modern workplace.
- How failing to live up to declared values can damage an organization.
- Strategies for organizations with a historically closed culture to transition to a more transparent environment.
Memorable Quotes
- “Gone are the days of blind employee loyalty. People don’t last at jobs for 15-20 years anymore.”
- “Companies have to do a better job of training people on people skills. How do you communicate hard topics? How do you say things honestly in a non-painful way?”
- “Leadership has to live what they say.”
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S2Verify is one of the leading, privately held, pre-employment background screening companies in the United States.
Arnette Heintze is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at S2Verify. Before establishing S2Verify, Arnette spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
He served more than 20 years in the United States Secret Service as a special agent and senior executive where he planned, designed, and implemented security strategies to protect U.S. Presidents, world leaders, events of national significance, and our nation’s most sensitive assets, including financial infrastructure.
After retiring from the Secret Service, Arnette focused on building growth and performance of innovative start-ups and SMBs. In 2004, he established Hillard Heintze, a globally recognized strategic security risk management and investigations firm. In 2009, along with Bill Whitford and Jim Zimbardi, Arnette established S2Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.