Hosted by Joe Marques with KayLee Hansen · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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Work isn't supposed to feel like this. And most people know it. How Work Actually Works is for the people ready to close the gap between what work could be and what it actually is. Hosted by Joe Marques and KayLee Hansen, the show explores what it really takes to build cultures where people don't have to pretend, where leaders shape environments worth showing up to, and where the work itself means something. Real stories. Honest conversations. Practical ideas to make it happen. 🎧 New episodes every other week. 💡 More at AuthenticUnlimited.com
Joe Marques with KayLee Hansen hosts How Work Actually Works, a business show with 20 episodes published.
Most leaders think a performance problem is a people problem. Usually it isn't. It's a clarity problem. An environment problem. A leadership problem. The trick is knowing which one you're staring at before you start fixi
Most of us don't say the real thing at work. We say the safe thing. The polished thing. The version that won't rock the boat. And the more we do it, the more the whole place starts to feel like theater. In this episode o
Most leaders think they’re coaching. But too often, they’re answering faster than people can learn. They solve the problem. They give the answer. They step in, clean it up, and wonder why everyone keeps bringing every de
The same workforce. The same equipment. The same town. One system produced absenteeism, low quality, and a factory GM had to close. The other system produced GM's number one plant. What changed wasn't the people. It was
Most people who say they do not have enough time are not really talking about time. They are talking about the way their week keeps getting taken from them. It happens slowly. A calendar fills up with meetings. Urgent th
Most sales teams are built on pressure. Hit the number. Check the pipeline. Watch the leaderboard. And when the numbers slip, push harder. But what if pushing harder is exactly what's breaking the team? In this episode o
People don’t stay because of one big thing. And they usually don’t leave because of one big thing either. They stay, or start to drift, based on three everyday experiences at work: Do I feel seen here? Do I feel like I b
When trust breaks down, people don't just disengage. They adapt. They go quiet in meetings, cc: six people on every email, and stop asking questions they actually need answered. They trade truth for peace, ownership for
Most meetings follow the same script. Someone builds a deck, reads the slides, asks "any questions?" at the end, and calls it a success if nobody pushes back. But getting through your slides isn't the same as getting thr
Every interaction moves people in one of two directions. Toward threat. Or toward safety. Most leaders don't set out to put their people on the defensive. But it happens anyway—in the meeting where someone gets publicly
There's a difference between resetting and reframing. Most organizations treat a new year or new quarter like a magic eraser—turn the page, set new goals, pretend last year's struggles disappeared. But people don't forge
There's a difference between being watched and being seen. Most workplaces have mastered watching—monitoring performance, tracking metrics, observing output. But seeing? That's the part that gets missed. And it's the par
What actually makes people want to follow a leader? In this episode of How Work Actually Works, Joe Marques and KayLee Hansen break leadership down to its simplest—and most misunderstood—ingredients. Using an unexpectedl
What happens when you stop trying to fix what's broken and start building on what works? In our first guest episode, Joe and KayLee welcome Tria Deibert, SVP of Culture and Team Member Wellbeing at Hackensack Meridian He
Episode 5 opens with a surprise: Joe reveals the first physical proof copies of The Unmasking: Why We Hide and How We Find What’s Real—the moment the book finally becomes real (coming to Amazon December 9th) From there,
Most teams aren’t quiet because they lack ideas — they’re quiet because they’ve learned it isn’t safe to speak. In this episode, Joe and KayLee dig into the MASK Framework™ — the four protection patterns people carry int
For decades, leaders have been told to choose: results or relationships, performance or people. It’s a lie. In this episode, Joe and KayLee dismantle that false choice. From Bob Chapman’s “touch lives” philosophy to the
In this intimate conversation, KayLee Hansen turns the mic toward Joe Marques to explore the story behind his forthcoming book The Unmasking — Why We Hide and How We Find What’s Real. Joe opens up about the health scare
Work is broken — and we’re here to talk about how to fix it. In this first episode, Joe Marques (Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Authentic Unlimited) and KayLee Hansen (Senior Director of Culture & Client Experience) s
Welcome to How Work Actually Works. Most people talk about how work should work. We're here to talk about how it actually works—the good, the messy, and what it takes to make it better. Join Joe Marques and KayLee Hansen
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How Work Actually Works is hosted by Joe Marques with KayLee Hansen. The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 20 episodes.
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