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Season 2 Episode 6: How to Bring People Onto Your Team Even When You Didn't Hire Them

October 09, 2023 • Mark Kenny

Welcome to the Becoming Unassailable podcast! This podcast is all about helping leaders build functional, collaborative, and aligned teams so that your organization becomes unassailable.

My guest for this episode is Singer Buchanan, Executive Director of our Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Contract Compliance for the State of Kentucky.

In this episode, Singer gives a masterclass in how to bring new people onto the team, make them feel valued, and engage them into the team. What's more? He explains how to do this even when you don't have control over who gets hired onto your team (the State of Kentucky uses a merit system).

What you will learn in this episode:

What factors to look for when hiring new people onto the team.
The key actions to take after hiring new people.
The simple, straightforward, strategy for engaging new people, that anyone can do.
How to bring new people onto the team when you don't have control who gets hired onto the team.
How to recruit and add new people to a volunteer team.
Why remote meetings and work is an opportunity.

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About Singer

Singer began his state government career in 1992 with the Public Protection and Regulation Cabinet. From there, he was employed in Finance and Administration office of EEOCC. During his 30+ years of experience, he has worked in four Cabinets and served in many positions, but is best known for his work in the field of equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion while at the Personnel Cabinet.

Singer is the longest serving EEO Coordinator in the history of Kentucky’s state government. He is the primary training provider for diversity, anti-harassment, EEO and ADA compliance and training. He is the lead contact to agency EEO and ADA Coordinators and is often asked to speak at conferences and agency training events. He enjoys working with state employees and helping them to navigate state government with his knowledge of the many programs and agencies.

Singer earned his undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Toledo and his Master’s in Public Administration from Kentucky State University. He is very involved in the Frankfort community, serving on the Board of Directors for Expree Credit Union. He and his wife, Sharon, have four grown children, three grandkids and four Maltese.