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On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Mark DiMassimo, starting at 0:00: The new buzzword among small business owners and other employers is quiet quitting. This is when people only do the minimum at work to keep their job instead of resigning. What can small business owners do to prevent quiet quitting from happening in their workplace?
SEGMENT 2 with Dr. Gabe De La Rosa, starting at 20:00: We face a huge mental health crisis in this country, especially among our employees. As business owners, we need to understand the problem and how we can help.
SEGMENT 3 with Sharon Sullivan, starting at 36:30: A recent report came out citing the best and worst cities to live in during a ZOMBIE apocalypse. What are the results?
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More on each segment below.
Segment 1: Mark DiMassimo is the Founder and Creative Chief of DiGo (DiMassimo Goldstein), the industry-leading agency in Positive Behavior Change marketing, which he founded in 1996 in New York City.
- What causes quiet quitting?
- Is quiet quitting a new thing?
- What can small business owners do about it?
- How can we prevent employees from wanting to quiet quit?
- Recognizing that quiet quitting is part of the mental health crisis.
Segment 2: Dr. Gabe De La Rosa is the Chief Behavioral Science Officer at Fierce Inc.—a training company with over 300 Fortune 500 clients. Companies should have a proactive communication strategy to help address and alleviate staff stress and anxiety. Dr. De La Rosa’s expertise relating to organizational stress cannot be overstated. He has valuable experience measuring the impact of stress on individuals in one of the highest stakes workplace cultures: the U.S. Navy. There he works as a contractor in the role of Industrial/Organizational Psychologist for the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control.
- How big is the mental health problem? $300 billion lost annually—avoidably caused by workplace angst.
- Gabe’s work with the US Navy involves understanding and enhancing organizational factors impacting performance among Sailors and Marines
- A first-of-its-kind workplace wellness app, Pulse by Fierce, is designed to stem staff stress, combat toxic culture, and improve employee wellbeing.
- The journey that led the company to develop this app and the experts behind it.
- How does the app work? what are the results?
Segment 3: Sharon Sullivan is the managing editor of Lawn Love. They just published a report that addresses the best and worst cities.
- Why have this list?
- What makes a city zombie-friendly or not?
- Which cities made sense in the ranking, and which ones were surprising?
- How did this list compare to last year’s? Why?
- A look at some of our metrics, and why we selected them.
- Were there any patterns in the findings?
