Frontline Training Solutions
45 episodes listed below
Practical talk for better workplaces.
Behind the Frontline is a business podcast built around everyday workforce problems and the leadership habits that shape them. Recent episodes move from hiring-market behavior to manager-driven engagement, coaching questions, accountability, and team dynamics.
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Behind the Frontline is a business podcast focused on the friction points between organizations, managers, teams, and job seekers. It comes from Frontline Training Solutions, and its recent episodes are closely tied to the company’s webinars and training programs. That gives the show a distinct format. A webinar sets the topic, then the podcast turns it into a more conversational debrief with people inside Frontline’s orbit. The subjects are familiar workplace problems, but the treatment is concrete. Hiring is framed through changed job-seeker behavior, AI-assisted applications, interview ghosting, and the burden placed on hiring managers sorting through hundreds of candidates. The show also looks at the employer side of that power shift. When organizations have too many applicants, they can learn their own bad habits, and the conversation warns that those habits may hurt them when the talent market shifts again. Retention episodes move away from perks and slogans. They focus on team dynamics, common ground, role clarity, and the heavy influence managers have on engagement. Coaching episodes are especially operational. Lorraine Medici’s conversation about curiosity and accountability works through confidence, motivation, skill, deflection, and the moments when a coaching conversation starts to feel chaotic. The show’s vocabulary is training-room practical: barriers, culture fit, shared language, open enrollment, engagement surveys, leadership teams, one-on-ones, and development. It is not an investigative business show or a founder interview series. It is closer to a continuing education channel for people responsible for workplace performance. The pacing is warm and direct, with studio guests asked to translate webinar material into usable leadership language. Calls back to Frontline resources are frequent, so the editorial frame is openly connected to training and consulting. Its value comes from specificity: hiring for personality and culture fit, teaching skills later, building shared culture through group training, and asking better questions before giving advice. For managers and HR professionals, it offers a steady supply of practical prompts for the next difficult conversation.
Made for: Behind the Frontline is for employers, HR teams, managers, and training-minded leaders handling hiring, retention, coaching, and team culture. It best suits listeners who want workplace guidance they can turn into conversations and development plans.
What sets it apart: The show turns Frontline Training Solutions webinar topics into applied studio discussions, keeping the focus on real management behaviors rather than abstract business advice. Its recurring strength is practical language for coaching, engagement, hiring, and team dynamics.
Join us Behind the Frontline, a podcast hosted by Frontline Training Solutions' Creative Director, Nic Dampier, and Managing Director, Nathan Leaman, where we facilitate in-depth discussions around timeless solutions for everyday workplace and workforce challenges.At Frontline Training Solutions, an Express Employment Professionals company, we create thriving organizations where everyone matters through training, consulting, coaching and real solutions to everyday challenges in the workplace. To learn more about the solutions we have available for your company, visit us at www.frontlineon.com. Subscribe to @BehindtheFrontline on YouTube to watch the video version of this podcast to gain valu…
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A hiring conversation about ghosting, AI applications, culture fit, and why training still matters.
Behind the Frontline takes on a labor market where job-seeker behavior has shifted and employers are feeling the fallout too. David Robb and Mike Lee talk through ghosting interviews, applicants not following up, and the ways tools now let people cast a wider net, including AI…
Retention is framed as a manager-shaped issue, with growth and team dynamics carrying much of the weight.
The piece treats retention as a management problem with clear human stakes, moving from the webinar discussion into team dynamics and the everyday choices leaders make.
A practical coaching guide built around open-ended questions and the hill/will/skill frame.
Behind the Frontline treats coaching as a practical workplace tool, with Nick Dampier and Lorraine Medici working through open-ended questions, the hill/will/skill frame, and the warning signs that appear when a conversation slips into deflection or the person cannot name the…
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Family grief, public questions, and the responsibilities of care.
Behind the Frontline Episode 045 follows up Frontline Training Solutions' webinar 'Strategic Leadership: Leading Beyond the Next Quarter,' with Dr.
Behind the Frontline episode 041, Preparing for the Workforce Ahead, centers on Nick talking with David Robb and Mike Lee about labor-market planning, AI, and workforce succession.
Guillermo Gutierrez and the Behind the Frontline hosts focus on retention, team dynamics, and a webinar that came only two hours earlier.
Nick Dampier and Lorraine Medici use the archived coaching webinar from Frontline Training Solutions to unpack open-ended questions, "hill, will, skill," and the developmental will tool.
Nick Dampier hosts Jimmy Nelson and Ryan Williams of Frontline Training Solutions on how bad leadership affects employee engagement, retention, and business results.
Nathan Lehman, President of Frontline Training Solutions, explains the Balance of Leadership model as the simultaneous practice of authentic connection and difficult challenge.
Behind the Frontline recaps two Frontline Training Solutions webinars, "Future of Talent" and "Building a Future-Ready Workforce," with David Robb and Janice Petrini.
Nathan Lehman, president of Frontline Training Solutions, tells host Nick that requests for the Supervisor Bootcamp and Leadership Foundations programs are arriving at two or three a week.