How to Adapt in a Changing World with Ira Wolfe

Jan 23, 2021

Ira S Wolfe is interviewed by Mary Ann Samedi on Set to Lead

In this episode, Ira discusses:

Ira Wolfe shares the stages of adaptability and how to thrive and sustain through change. 

• Adaptability is a skill and can be learned
• The true definition of adaptability
• Difference between adaptability and agility
• Four stages of adaptability
• Factors required to help someone’s capacity to adapt.  It’s more than grit and resilience.

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Thriving during the Pandemic using our Adaptability Quotient with Ira Wolfe

Jan 18, 2021

Ira S Wolfe is interviewed by Justin Francisco on Mindful Impact

In this episode, Ira discusses:

The COVID-19 pandemic at large, the fixed vs. growth mindset, adaptability quotient, and much more. 

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Leading in the Age of Googlization with Ira S Wolfe

Jan 18, 2021

Ira S Wolfe is interviewed by The Leadership Hacker, Steve Rush.

In this episode, Ira discusses:

• The different value from working on the business vs. in the business
• How to embrace the new VUCA
• Antifragile: When we make a mistake, we learn from it and we become stronger.
• The importance of not letting other’s opinions form your decisions

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Adaptability: Navigating a World That’s Changing Faster Than Ever Before

Jan 11, 2021

Ira S Wolfe is interviewed by Suzanne York on the Humans Optimized Podcast

In this episode, Ira discusses:

2020 (and now 2021…) tested our ability to handle disruption, stress, and uncertainty. Everything about the way we live and work needed to be re-evaluated. Whether we intended to or not, that experience has allowed us to gain valuable skills in many of the areas that were predicted to be keys to success in the future of work. Well, that future is now. Ira Wolfe, founder of Success Performance Solutions and president of Poised for the Future Company joins me today to talk about adaptability, Googlization, and bringing forward the good from 2020. “Everything is in a state of flux, even the status quo.”

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Building a Strong Team with Ira S Wolfe

Jan 11, 2021

Ira S Wolfe is interviewed by Jay Owen on Building a Business That Lasts Podcast

In this episode, Ira discusses:

People and personalities matter when it comes to hiring, building a trusted team, and working toward success in your business. Ira Wolfe is an expert in these things, including best practices in hiring and succession. If you want to build a strong, healthy team that helps your business succeed, then you have to understand — and apply — this formula.

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How to Reinvent Yourself in 2021 (Growth Mindset)

Jan 4, 2021

Find out what happened when this successful six-figure dentist walked away from his practice to live the entrepreneur life. As a self-proclaimed millennial in a baby boomer’s body, Ira Wolfe, Tedx speaker and host of Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization, shares his life lessons and business experiences with us.

In this episode, we cover:

• How Ira finds top performers
• Ira’s creative marketing tips to get people’s attention
• Ira’s take on the use of AI chats to replace pre-employment testing as we know it
• How to find the courage to walk away from a career that doesn’t make you happy
• How to use growth mindset principles to free yourself to try new things
• The reality of prepping for a Ted Talk

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Recruiting in the Age of Googlization

Dec 8, 2020

Ira S Wolfe visits with John Golden on his podcast Sales Pop!. In This Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Ira Wolfe to discuss the recruitment process in the age of Googlization, and the high level of integration between people, business, and technology that lead to the creation of the new age, the age of Googlization.

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Recruiting in the Age of Googlization with Ira Wolfe

Dec 1, 2020

Nick Day is joined on The HR L&D Podcast sofa by Ira Wolfe, President and Chief Googlization Officer of Success Performance Solutions!

Ira Wolfe is ranked by Thinkers360 as the #1Global Thought Leaders and Influencers in Future of Work category, #3 in HR, and top 20 for Leadership. He has been described as a “Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body and the world’s first Chief Googlization Officer.

In this “Recruiting in the Age of Googlization” episode with Ira Wolfe on The HR L&D Podcast, we also explore:

1. I would like to start with the acronym VUCA. Can you tell our listeners what this means and more importantly, why it matters?
2. How do we “get back to normal?”
3. Where will “normal” be one year from now?
4. What is Googlization?
5. What is the future of “employability?”
6. What are the five horrible hiring mistakes companies make?
7. Your latest book, “Recruiting in the Age of Googlization” is a brilliant and practical blueprint to help businesses to attract, acquire, and retain more talent. – Can you tell us more about this blueprint and let our listeners know how job searching will change in the Age of Googlization?
8. How do you think talent acquisition needs to change?
9. How can leaders build trust?

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Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley, featuring Ira Wolfe

Nov 2, 2020

Ira Wolfe is the President and Chief Googlization Officer at Success Performance Solutions. Terrified and fascinated by VUCA-level change, a future of work global thought Leader and author. Host Ross Thornley and Ira discuss ‘what is VUCA’ (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) and why does it matter? Skills he thinks are essential for the next decade and what people could start doing today to help them thrive in an exponential world?

Timestamps:

:58: Ira’s background

2:44: Life before Success Performance Solutions and highlights along the way

8:13: Ira’s freedom to move around and how he identifies

10:05: Critical thinking in approach to practice and how it evolved

14:58: VUCA and why it’s important

18:24: Who can we learn from

24:29: Unlearning, including stories involving its positives and difficulties

36:11: Practical ways to help individuals prepare for the future

45:15: Ira’s favorite chapter from all of his books and why. 4

8:41: What Ira is most excited about in the future of Success Performance Solutions

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Recruiting in the Modern Time with Ira Wolfe

Nov 2, 2020

Ira S. Wolfe is a “Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body” and the world’s first Chief Googlization Officer. He is President of Poised for the Future Company, founder of Success Performance Solutions, a TEDx Speaker, Top 10 Global Thought Leader on Future of Work and HR (Thinkers360), host of Geeks Geezers Googlization podcast, and frequent presenter at SHRM and business conferences. His most recent book is Recruiting in the Age of Googlization, now in its 2nd edition, is recognized as one of the best HR and Recruiting books of all-time by Book Authority. He is the Founder of the Googlization Nation Community and frequent contributor to HR and business blogs including Cornerstone on Demand’s ReWork. He is also the author of 5 other books including Perfect Labor Storm and Understanding Business Values and Motivators. For more information about Ira Wolfe be sure to visit the websites below.

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An Organizational Superpower – Employee Adaptability

Oct 29, 2020

OSW Daily with Ira Wolfe

• Adaptability, an Organizational Superpower – Employee Adaptability
• What is Unlearn Ability? It can boost your adaptability by 40% –
• What increases adaptability at work? –
• What influences stress at work?

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Recruiting in the Age of Googlization

Oct 21, 2020

How our changing world has affected recruiting?

How job search has changed?

Getting rid of the HR black hole.

How smartphones changed the game?

How companies can adapt to the current environment?

Recruiting is marketing.

Why recruiting is about changing mindsets?

How has the pandemic has affected recruiting?

The importance of adaptability.

When the shift hits your plan!

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Adapting to the Future of Work

Oct 19, 2020

In this episode of the Transformative Leader Podcast, Amir Ghannad interviews speaker, author, and work futurist, Ira Wolfe, about how we can survive and thrive amidst the uncertainty presented by the future of work, especially in a post-pandemic world.

Some topics discussed in this episode include:

• How Ira discovered his passion for work futurism and adapting to change, starting from his desire to get into dentistry of all things!
• Many of the complexities and uncertainties in today’s society to which business and individuals must learn to adapt themselves to grow and be successful.
• The critical importance of adopting a growth mindset, as opposed to a fixed one, when facing challenges and uncertainty.
• Five traits that leaders must develop to demonstrate their trustworthiness, and help guide their people and organizations through difficult or complex situations.
• The importance of adaptability and looking ahead when it comes to recruiting, hiring, and searching for a job in the future of work in general, and during the pandemic as well.
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Work Matters #4, Future of Employability, Ira S Wolfe

Oct 5, 2020

In this episode of Work Matters, Julie Mann is joined by Ira Wolfe, President and Chief “Googlization” Officer at Success Performance Solutions, to employment forecast and much more!

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Work Matters #3, Knowledge is Power, Ira S Wolfe

Sept 28, 2020

In this episode of Work Matters, Julie Mann is joined by Ira Wolfe, President and Chief “Googlization” Officer at Success Performance Solutions, to discuss people analytics and much more!

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