The Perfect Route

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The Perfect Route is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 50 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #50

  S01E50 - From IBM Director to Corporate Sage: Rich Strilowich on Integrating Faith and Leadership | Rich Strilowich | The Perfect Route Podcast

  Aug 17, 202633 minS0

  <p>Ever feel like your career and your inner life are running on two completely separate tracks?</p><p>Most executive coaches steer clear of the word spirituality. My guest this episode built an entire second career around it. Rich Strilowich spent more than forty years in IT leadership, most of it inside IBM, climbing from computer science into project and program management, HR, and eventually a director role owning a P&L. For the last thirty years, he's also walked a conscious spiritual path, and for a long time he kept the two worlds separate. Now, as a corporate...

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  Episode #49

  S01E49 - From Support Function to Strategic Partner: How HR Earns a Seat at the Table | Heather Mallette | The Perfect Route

  Aug 10, 202630 minS0

  <p>Is your HR team still measuring activity instead of impact?</p><p><br>If your training calendar is full but your turnover isn't moving, you're not alone, and you're not doing it wrong. You might just be tracking the wrong signals.</p><p><br>In this episode, I sit down with Heather Mallette, president of Nora and a 20-year HR veteran across healthcare, manufacturing, and private equity, to unpack:</p>Why "activity without impact is an expense," and how to tell the difference in your own HR functionThe leading indicators that predict turnover before it hits your financialsHow top...

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  Episode #48

  S01E48 - 3 HR Metrics Every Executive Should Be Watching (And Why Revenue Per Head Matters Most) | Michelle Griffin | The Perfect Route Podcast

  Aug 3, 202639 minS0

  <p>If you think of HR as paperwork, compliance, and a necessary cost, you're not alone, and you're not wrong to want more from it. But most companies are missing the bigger opportunity: HR as a strategic growth partner.</p><p>In this episode, Dr. Michelle Griffin, founder of Griffin Resources and a PhD in industrial organizational psychology, joins me to unpack:</p>Why HR gets treated as a "necessary evil" instead of a growth driverThe metrics, like revenue per head and turnover by department, that turn HR into a strategic partnerThe AI risks most companies haven't priced in yet...

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  Episode #47

  S01E47 - 94% of Employees Will Stay If You Do This One Thing | Kelly Turow | The Perfect Route Podcast

  Jul 27, 202642 minS0

  <p>Is your HR team working harder than ever, but still being left out of the room where strategy happens?</p><p>You are not alone, and you are not doing it wrong. But there is a gap between where most HR leaders are operating and where the C-suite actually needs them to be.</p><p><br>In this episode, I sit down with talent strategy leader Kelly Turow to unpack exactly what that gap looks like, and more importantly, how to close it.</p><p><br>We dig into:</p>Why being too focused on people can actually hurt...

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  Episode #46

  S01E46 - Stop Waiting for Perfect Data: How to Build Leaders Who Move Fast and Decide Well | Jen Paxton | The Perfect Route

  Jul 20, 202630 minS0

  <p>Is your best employee struggling now that they are a manager?</p><p><br>If your newly promoted managers are overwhelmed, your teams are disengaging, and you cannot figure out why, you are not alone. And the answer is probably not who you promoted. It is how you prepared them.</p><p><br>In this episode, we are unpacking:</p>Why promoting without preparing is one of the costliest mistakes a growing company makesWhat manager effectiveness actually looks like and how to measure itHow trust between a manager and their team builds slowly and breaks fastWhy your middle managers...

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