Flexibility, Autonomy, and the Fight Against Attrition

About the guest

Barbie Winterbottom

CEO, Business of HR

Barbie Winterbottom is also an author, Culture coach, Keynote speaker and an up and coming HR influencer. Her experience over the past 25+ years has earned her the reputation as the Culture Whisperer’, in the business circles. Barbie is also a DEI and company culture champion who has worked with well recognized global brands like Amazon, Starbucks Coffee, Wipro, Microsoft and Glassdoor to name a few. She is also an alumni of Florida state university and also an official member of Forbes HR council. Here’s a gist of what Barbie speaks about in this video: The importance of asking direct questions and creating safe spaces for people to respond because it creates a layer of safety where people feel as though they can be more open and genuine with their feedback.

Followed by taking actions on the insights. Using third party applications and tech to garner honest and anonymous feedback from employees. Thus sending across a message that their organization values transparent feedback and works on addressing them seriously. Employees must know that it’s okay to share the good, the bad, and the ugly without any repercussions. How merely having policies is not enough.

People leaders need to constantly check on if they have created a safe space and a sense of belonging to actually enforce those policies effectively. Training managers and people leaders to listen to their teams better and empowering them with the ability to give real time solutions instead of sending them to the HR department. Barbie believes that as long as company culture is treated as an “HR policy” it is definitely going to fail. Catch all this and more with Shelley Smith in Episode 6 of Season 3 of CultureClub X. Guest Barbie Winterbottom CEO, The Business of HR