Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen on Loneliness and Forging Meaningful Connections
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen are co-founders of LessLonely.com, the world’s first resource fully dedicated to reducing worker isolation and strengthening team connections. Their new book is Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In.
In this conversation they show what’s causing today’s loneliness, the role inclusion plays in solving it, and how you can decrease loneliness and increase belonging, engagement, and performance with employees at every level.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help you find the right professionals for your team faster and for free. And trust me, I've spent a lot of time |
| 0:15.1 | looking through LinkedIn jobs and by far it has been the easiest way for me to find viable |
| 0:21.2 | candidates fast. |
| 0:22.6 | And LinkedIn isn't just a job board. |
| 0:24.2 | LinkedIn helps you hire professionals |
| 0:26.0 | you can't find anywhere else because even those who aren't |
| 0:28.6 | actively searching for a new job |
| 0:30.2 | might be open to the perfect role that you have. |
| 0:33.0 | In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. |
| 0:38.0 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
| 0:41.0 | On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified |
| 0:45.0 | candidates within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn. |
| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
| 0:55.6 | LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier. |
| 0:58.8 | They even just launch a feature that helps you write job descriptions, |
| 1:01.8 | making the process even easier and quicker. |
| 1:04.5 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:06.6 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and this is your host Eric Fisher and this is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity. |
| 1:37.0 | This week I'm excited to share with you a conversation I had with Ryan Jenkins and Stephen Van Coen. I got the opportunity to talk to them about their new book |
| 1:45.1 | Connectable how leaders can move teams from isolated to all-in and in this |
| 1:51.1 | conversation we're talking about something we've never talked about |
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