Joining me today is Stephanie Maillet, who is not your typically trained human resources pro. Stephanie originally found her passion for working with people managing bands and musicians in the Boston area. Stephanie is currently based at Handsome as Head of People where she helps foster an inclusive, nurturing, and communicative environment for employees through career coaching. In today's episode we find out about Stephanie’s diverse career background, what career coaching is, the difference career coaching can make to a company, challenges surrounding distributed workforces, and so much more.    Key Points From This Episode: Details about Stephanie’s career journey. What made Stephanie pursue a career in career coaching. Differences between traditional coaching and career coaching. How the changing work environment is leading to a need for career coaches. Stephanie and Rob discuss issues surrounding traditional management of the workforce. The first steps Stephanie takes when coaching someone. Homework for employees and what it entails. Experiences Stephanie has had working as a life coach. Homework assignments and how they are beneficial. The value that a life coach can make to your workforce. Company culture and why it is important. What Stephanie regards as the biggest challenge for remote-working. Examples of Stephanie’s methods to ensure the mental well-being of employees. Stephanie tells us how to keep your workforce connected.   Tweetables: “Retention is really important but I never want to feel like people are leaving because they didn’t get the most out of the organization and that people feel supported and cared for in everything that we do.” — @stephaniemz1 [0:21:29]   “In a remote culture like the one that we have at Handsome, there isn’t that, so you have to create your own rituals and we’re working on ways in which to connect people to each other beyond the projects that they’re on.” — @stephaniemz1 [0:24:20]   “Everything has to be so scheduled and if you are not careful, it can only be transactional. That is not as rewarding of an experience as people tend to want, whether they know they want it or not.” — @stephaniemz1 [0:25:50]   “We are also trying to find ways to get people together in person because I still don’t know a better way to really get to know each other than actually meeting each other in person.” — @stephaniemz1 [0:29:50]   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   Stephanie Maillet on LinkedIn Stephanie Maillet on Twitter Talk Talent to Me