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By the numbers: Industry 4.0, 5G, and Wi-Fi 6

By the numbers: Industry 4.0, 5G, and Wi-Fi 6

Episode 16 · · 18:43

Our guest this week is Will Townsend, Senior Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. He travels the world spending time with enterprise infrastructure providers and operators. So, he un...

Laying the Foundation for 5G With Chad Rasmussen

Laying the Foundation for 5G With Chad Rasmussen

Episode 15 · · 18:13

If you’re in vertical telecom, you’re familiar with permitting delays and workforce shortages. Your counterparts in horizontal deployments face similar challenges: more applications ...

Cultivating a Culture to Thrive in a 5G World With Dan Leaf, CEO of Leaf Communications

Cultivating a Culture to Thrive in a 5G World With Dan Leaf, CEO of Leaf Communications

Episode 14 · · 18:11

Finding and retaining talent are twin challenges facing our industry. Add in rapid company growth, and those challenges get more critical and severe. And yet Leaf Communications isn’...

Breaking Down The Barriers to Fiber Broadband Deployment With Lisa Youngers

Breaking Down The Barriers to Fiber Broadband Deployment With Lisa Youngers

Episode 13 · · 25:45

Perhaps because much of the time, it’s actually less visible.We’re talking about the fiber network. And 5G and smart cities cannot exist without it.In the top 25 U.S. metro areas alo...

Need For Tower Workers With Todd Shlekeway

Need For Tower Workers With Todd Shlekeway

Episode 12 · · 24:34

Episode 12: How NATE is tackling the 5G Labor Shortage Guest Todd Schlekeway, Executive Director of NATE It’s a slow climb to train enough tower technicians. FCC Commissioner Brendan...

Upgrading Telecom: Software Defined Network Gives Us New Value & Fresh Skills With Steve Canepa

Upgrading Telecom: Software Defined Network Gives Us New Value & Fresh Skills With Steve Canepa

Episode 11 · · 25:27

.The future of telecom is much more than an advance from 4G to 5G. The entire industry is being upgraded. It’s no longer just a vehicle for voice and data. There’s a new space for te...

Turning Buzz into Resounding Success With Jay Brown

Turning Buzz into Resounding Success With Jay Brown

Episode 10 · · 37:09

Culture, Diversity, and Workforce Development. They sound like corporate buzz-speak. And it’s true that some companies only pay them lip service. But for the workplaces that understa...

The New Rules of Employee Engagement With Rick Gallegos, CEO of Dale Carnegie Tampa

The New Rules of Employee Engagement With Rick Gallegos, CEO of Dale Carnegie Tampa

Episode 9 · · 26:22

What does employee engagement really mean? Our guest this week, Rick Gallagos, CEO of Dale Carnegie Tampa Bay, describes it as “discretionary effort.” An engaged employee goes beyond...

Building 5G: Inside the Mind of a Tower Climber With Kathy Gill

Building 5G: Inside the Mind of a Tower Climber With Kathy Gill

Episode 8 · · 21:03

Have you heard that tower climbers will jump to a company for even the smallest increase in pay? It’s not necessarily true. What is true is companies are under a lot of pressure to g...

Talent is Ageless:  Solving the 5G Workforce Shortage With Miranda Allen

Talent is Ageless: Solving the 5G Workforce Shortage With Miranda Allen

Episode 7 · · 20:03

Do you have a talent shortfall? Open spots that you just can’t fill? The workforce shortage and its impact on the race to 5G is a regular discussion topic in the industry. If you’re ...

How Artificial Intelligence will Impact the Human Workforce

How Artificial Intelligence will Impact the Human Workforce

Episode 5 · · 23:27

The fear that AI will take away a significant number of jobs is somewhat exaggerated, says Rana Gujral. Gujral is the CEO of Behavioral Signals and an expert on AI. Behavioral Signal...

Spotlight on Culture: Tilson is on a Mission With Joshua Broder and Adria Horn

Spotlight on Culture: Tilson is on a Mission With Joshua Broder and Adria Horn

Episode 4 · · 28:41

Every company has a culture, but not every company has a winning culture. One that attracts and keeps talent. With a workforce shortage throughout the wireless industry, though, many...

The Future of Work: Key Trends for the Next Decade with Alexandra Levit

The Future of Work: Key Trends for the Next Decade with Alexandra Levit

Episode 3 · · 17:42

Robots and AI are poised to make life a lot easier for us. But that reality is causing a lot of people to lose sleep. Workers will be displaced, industries will be disrupted, and our...

How to Attract, Retain and Engage the Millennial Workforce With Dr Kent Wessinger

How to Attract, Retain and Engage the Millennial Workforce With Dr Kent Wessinger

Episode 2 · · 20:00

By 2020—just a few short months away—millennials will make up over 50% of the workforce. If you don’t understand your company’s average millennial retention rate (not your overall re...

How 5G will Transform the Workforce With Kevin Shatzkamer

How 5G will Transform the Workforce With Kevin Shatzkamer

Episode 1 · · 14:42

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