On this week’s episode of the NEW Manufacturing Insights podcast, sponsored by Stoke RGA, Insight Associate Editor Kate Bruns and Northeast Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance (NEWMA) Executive Director Ann Franz talk to Kristen Jonas, the trained kinesiologist who now focuses on human movement under stress conditions in a different way — as a fractional HR practitioner and adviser with her firm, Kinesiology HR, which will be presenting at NEWMA’s Future of Work Summit on April 14.
A self-described “productivity addict,” Jonas also works as a certified divorce coach and says she enjoys her work because of the variety of industries she is able to serve, including manufacturing. She helps companies with services including interim or supplemental HR; training and speaking; project work; and even a “1-800-HR” concept through which clients can buy a block of hours to get assistance in any situation.
The upcoming Future of Work Summit will focus on employee retention, and Jonas will be presenting a session entitled “Leading through conflict: Tools to strengthen teams and retain talent.”
She tells the co-hosts that conflict leads to turnover, but also to “quiet quitting.” Her session will advise NEWMA members on the high cost of workplace conflict, how it’s caused and how to offset it. Preventing it, she acknowledges, is unlikely.
“If you have humans working for you, you have conflict,” she tells Bruns and Franz on this week’s episode.
Learn more about Jonas’ career journey, her experiences running a business, and what she considers her best leadership insight by listening to this week’s episode on Spreaker or anywhere you get audio podcasts.
NEW Manufacturing Insights is produced by Woodward Community Media; new episodes are released every Thursday.
