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279 episodis
HR People Pod – Ep 50: National Volunteers’ Week | The line manager conundrum | Controlling costs while planning for growth
It’s National Volunteers’ Week from the 1st to the 7th of June. The impact of volunteering on creating pathways and enhancing career opportunities bot...
Podcast 230: Why financial wellbeing is a business performance issue
Financial wellbeing is often treated as a personal challenge, but money worries can have a direct impact on performance, absence, engagement and reten...
HR People Pod – Ep 49: Business impact | Employee empowerment | Change readiness in an AI world
As organisations face growing pressure to perform, how can HR move beyond operational excellence to become a true driver of business performance? What...
HR People Pod – Ep 48: Leadership reflections | Skills visibility | Workload creep
What do senior HR leaders wish they had known before stepping into a CPO or HRD role? How can organisations move beyond vague talk of “future skills”...
Podcast 229: From AI experimentation to AI maturity
As use of artificial intelligence moves beyond experimentation, are organisations starting to see real value – or struggling to turn promise into impa...
HR People Pod – Ep 47: Disability disclosure | CEO avatars | Engagement | Productivity myths
Why are HR professionals still feeling forced to hide their disabilities just to get hired? Could an AI version of your CEO really replace human leade...
HR People Pod – Ep 46: Measuring culture, driving performance – with Hani Nabeel
How do you take culture from something leaders instinctively talk about to something they can genuinely understand, measure and act on? What can one o...
HR People Pod – Ep 45: The problem with pay secrecy | Pressure-proof managers | Are PIPs broken?
Why are so many employers still hiding salary details when candidates increasingly expect pay transparency? While technical capability might win a pro...
Podcast 228: The missing first rung: Are we sleepwalking into a talent crisis?
As organisations face mounting cost pressures and AI absorbs many entry-level responsibilities, there is a growing risk that entry-level pathways will...
HR People Pod – Ep 44: Crisis leadership | Impact of employee benefits | Friction-maxxing at work
In a world of uncertainty and constant disruption, what does an effective and human response to crisis really look like? Are employee benefits creatin...
HR People Pod – Ep 43: Inside Davos – AI, work and the future of identity - with Allyn Bailey
What really happens at the World Economic Forum in Davos? And what are global leaders saying about the future of work? Are organisations simply layeri...
Podcast 227: How to make learning stick and drive performance
Does sustained performance depend less on the learning event itself and more on the environment in which it is applied? In modern workplaces – shaped...
HR People Pod – Ep 42: Career moments | Organisational change readiness | ‘Peanut butter’ pay
As volatility becomes the default rather than the exception, what does it really mean for organisations to be ready for change? When it comes to ‘pean...
HR People Pod – Ep 41: Building foundations in a world chasing what’s next
As new trends and demands accelerate, how can HR leaders ensure the profession’s foundations are robust enough to support effective and timely action?...
Podcast 226: Closing skill gaps from within: the case for internal mobility
In a tight labour market and amid rapid skills change, organisations face growing pressure to retain critical capability and reduce reliance on extern...
HR People Pod – Ep 40: Priorities for the People Profession in 2026
2026 is set to be another challenging year for organisations and the people profession. As economic uncertainty continues and AI adoption accelerates,...
HR People Pod – Ep 39: Rewriting the rules on workplace conflict - with David Liddle
Are traditional grievance and disciplinary processes really delivering fairness at work – or are they creating harm, cost and disengagement? With work...
Podcast 225: HR’s role in boosting workplace productivity
Despite technology transforming — and often streamlining — how we work, its impact on productivity has been surprisingly limited. So is productivity m...
HR People Pod – Episode 38: UK Budget response | Hiring for potential | Opportunities in 2026
Apprenticeship funding is up, and tax-free salary sacrifice on pensions will soon be capped. How have our panellists responded to the UK Government’s...
HR People Pod – Episode 37: Leading Under Pressure with Professor Kevin Fong
How can people make the best decisions when time is short and the stakes are high? Why is decentralising decision-making critical for organisations wh...
Podcast 224: Is HR ready for ‘renaissance’ of union power in industrial relations?
A new CIPD report revealed that 62% of employers believe the UK is entering a more unstable period of employee relations. With potential new legal cha...
HR People Pod – Ep 36: Value of the profession | Employment Rights Bill | AI performance reviews
Some consider annual reviews ‘irrelevant’ and a ‘burden’, but how would you feel about AI playing a role in the performance review process? As media s...
HR People Pod – Ep 35: Slow wage growth | Lifelong learning | ‘Green skills’
What does loyalty look like in 2025? In a climate of low wage growth, how can you keep employees motivated and engaged? As warnings come of retirement...
Podcast 223: Beyond learning – Mobilising L&D for organisational change
Organisations face constant and increasingly complex change, making it critical to bring people along on the journey. But can L&D play a more proactiv...
HR People Pod – Ep 34: Digital IDs | Grievances against HR | Incentivising social posts
Is the introduction of digital ID cards using a ‘nut to crack a sledgehammer’ in the effort to curb illegal work, and what impact might this have on U...
HR People Pod – Ep 33: Enabling high performance working: The organisation lens – with Matthew Syed (Episode 2)
Just how important are team dynamics and psychological safety in driving organisational performance? What behaviours do leaders need to model to creat...
HR People Pod – Ep 32: AI and conflict | Eye-rolling | 'Hire-to-retire'| Succession planning
Should AI be used to resolve conflict in the workplace? Are over-sensationalised stories of ‘eye-rolling’ leading to legal issues masking deeper probl...
Podcast 222: Improving organisational outcomes by tackling loneliness at work
Is loneliness at work the hidden crisis no one is talking about? The CIPD’s Good Work Index 2025 report revealed that more than a third of working adu...
HR People Pod – Ep 31: Merging HR/IT functions | Oversharing at work | Absence management | Accountability
Are we seeing a trend in the merging of HR and IT functions, and how could this reshape the role of the profession? Where’s the line between healthy o...
HR People Pod – Ep 30: Enabling high performance working: A growth mindset – with Matthew Syed
What are the enablers and barriers to high performance working? What factors should individuals and teams consider to improve and achieve better perfo...
Podcast 221: Employee engagement and the evolving psychological contract
The psychological contract – those unwritten expectations between employer and employee, so fundamental to building trust and engagement at work – has...
HR People Pod – Ep 29: Unfair dismissal | Hybrid working | Graduate jobs
Would capping the qualifying period for unfair dismissal protection at six months be a reasonable compromise for employers? With hybrid working percei...
HR People Pod – Ep 28: Hilary Scarlett special – Neuroscience for organisational change
When is the right time to communicate organisational change, and how can we strengthen people’s resilience to change? Can a better understanding of ne...
Podcast 220: Do leaders establish culture, or are they a product of it?
Is it chicken or egg – does leadership shape culture, or does culture shape leadership? The relationship between the two is complex and either one cou...
HR People Pod – Ep 27: Management span | People profession: perceptions, challenges, career prospects
What is the ideal ‘span of control’ for a manager and are there obvious warning signs that they might be overstretched? Also in this episode, we discu...
HR People Pod – Ep 26: Getting Britain working - UK Employment Minister Alison McGovern
The Get Britain Working white paper outlines a bold vision to tackle economic inactivity and raise the UK employment rate to 80 per cent. But what doe...
Podcast 219: Dealing with AI use in recruitment and job applications
A third of organisations are already using some form of AI or machine learning in recruitment and onboarding. As employers increasingly make use of AI...
HR People Pod – Ep 25: 'Tinkering with a system that doesn’t work' – Apprenticeships overhaul
How much should ‘policy compliance’ inform pay and bonuses? Apprenticeships are vital to building talent pipelines, but how welcome are upcoming refor...
HR People Pod – Ep 24: International HR Day special
What’s the state of AI adoption across different regions around the world, and how are people professionals reacting to it? Where does the onus lie wh...
Podcast 218: Bridging learning and organisational development
L&D and OD often operate in silos – one focused on individual learning, the other on strategic and cultural change. But is this separation intentional...