The Human Connection Podcast
The Human Connection Podcast
Podcast Description
Is your business’s growth stalled? Employee churn eating into your profits? Struggling with customer retention?You need stronger connections.Every Tuesday, connect with an expert who’s sharing actionable advice for building stronger relationships with your customers, clients, and stakeholders. Hosted by Karl Pontau, a storytelling super-connector, content system strategist, and survivor of two childhood brain tumors, this podcast’s mission is to fix the underlying cause of workplace and societal dysfunction: the lack of human connection.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as workplace culture, employee engagement, customer retention, and the importance of human connection in business. Episodes include discussions on cultural debt with experts like Andie Washington, innovative event strategies with Megan Martin, and authentic marketing approaches with Gina Clementi.
Is your business’s growth stalled? Employee churn eating into your profits? Struggling with customer retention?
You need stronger connections.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, connect with an expert who’s sharing actionable advice for building stronger relationships with your customers, clients, and stakeholders. Hosted by Karl Pontau, a storytelling super-connector, content system strategist, and survivor of two childhood brain tumors, this podcast’s mission is to fix the underlying cause of workplace and societal dysfunction: the lack of human connection.
“Measure twice, prompt once… if we’ve thought about this up front, we can actually get a better result in less time.” — Chris Heuer
You rolled out AI to your whole team. Nobody defined what “done” looks like. Now everyone’s iterating in circles and calling it productivity.
Chris Heuer is founder and managing director of the Team Flow Institute. He has spent more than two decades helping organizations build collective intelligence, and he was part of the founding team at Deloitte Digital. He also hosts CommunityAssistant.ai. Chris joins Karl to explain why the leaders who get the most from AI are the ones who refuse to treat it as an easy button. (He also reads a laptop sticker out loud mid-episode. It’s a good sticker.)
What you’ll get from this episode:
- “Measure twice, prompt once”: define your conditions of satisfaction up front to shorten what Chris calls time to context
- Commander’s intent: what military leadership teaches about delegating to AI, and to your people
- Why AI is a tool, not a teammate, and how conversational interfaces quietly blur that line
- Why self-awareness has to come before AI, since it won’t discover who you are for you
- The case for personal intelligence systems: owning your data instead of paying someone else to hold it
- The “AI dividend”: reinvesting the time AI saves into knowing what you actually want
#H2H #HumanConnectionPodcast #StartupLeadership #CompanyCulture #KarlTheBridge
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You can connect with Chris Heuer here:
https://linkedin.com/in/chrisheuer
You can connect with Karl Pontau here:
www.thehumanconnectionpodcast.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kpontau
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbf_bDWwB9KVrFn5Sj3u2w?sub_confirmation=1
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