You Can't Laugh At Work 7 Ft. Tammy Rutherford Of Rustici Software

Being an effective leader and being a great comedian, believe it or not, take many of the same skills, and that's why David Horning is setting out to prove that you CAN laugh at work, one leader at a time.

Tammy Rutherford is the managing director of Rustici Software. A Franklin, Tennessee-based eLearning software company that has appeared on Nashville Business Journal's Best Places To Work List for ten years running. How? They work to help their customers and have fun doing it.

But having fun at work when your team is all under one roof is much simpler than translating that fun onto a virtual platform, but Tammy and her team figured it out.

Sure, Tammy is no comedian, but her willingness to pivot based on the environment around her to give her audience (her team) a positive work experience involves some of the same skills that your favorite comics use to connect with the crowd, no matter how messy it may get.

In this episode we talk about:

-Rustici Software’s actual messy 2020.

-Turning a new hire’s first day into an event, and what did (and didn't) work virtually.

-Translating in-person spontaneous fun onto a virtual platform.

-Ideas to keep people engaged and have fun virtually.

-Measuring the success of engagement strategies through feedback.

-Leaning into failing.

-Growth BECAUSE of Covid.

-Learning to adapt to unexpected disruptions.

-The importance of striking up conversations for the sake of striking up conversations.

-The shifts Rustici Software has made to help them achieve their retention goals.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammy-wise-rutherford-932556/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tammyrutherford

Find out more about Rustici Software: rusticisoftware.com

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You Can't Laugh At That is a podcast launched by comedians David Horning and Steve Mers to prove that anything can be funny in a world that often takes itself too seriously. David and Steve are obsessed with the art and science of comedy and why we laugh, so this podcast was started to prove that when approached with the right intent, perspective, and delivery, you CAN laugh at that.

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