We’ve teamed up with some insightful speakers from the across the industry to deliver a light-hearted look these issues and get under the skin of some key challenges affecting HR teams.
Most are less than 30 minutes, and we recommend enjoying over a coffee or during your lunch break. No agenda, just a topic and how the workplace of now is responding.
So, choose your session, put in your earphones, and listen away in the background as we get to grips with some of the pressing topics around HR.
Making employees feel valued
HR Grapevine podcast: Empathy in HR leadership
With employee wellbeing top of the agenda at many organisations, how can leaders ensure they're listening to and acting on people's needs? This episode uncovers how empathetic leadership – including active listening and acting on people’s needs - leads to better wellbeing among employees.
With:
Gethin Nadin
CIPD podcast: How to make your employees feel valued
This episode dives into the practicalities of building a culture where employees feel valued for the work they do. We look at the role managers play in delivering new hybrid ways of working, the challenges and opportunities it brings and how reward and recognition can be used to ensure people feel valued.
With:
Caroline Drake, Josephina Smith
Promoting a healthy workplace
HR Grapevine podcast: How do you define a healthy workplace?
In this episode, we focus on defining a healthy workplace on an individual, team and company culture level and taking note of the signs and markers of a healthy workplace. We also look into the role HR leaders have to play in fostering employee and company health.
With:
Gethin Nadin
CIPD podcast: Why investing in mental health matters
Join us to discuss why employers should be investing in mental health and prioritising the human factor of the workforce. We look at what employers can do to recognise the early stages of burnout and the methods that can be put in place to help – including support networks and actively encouraging time off work – and how providing mental health support improves staff retention.
With:
Jacqui Summons, Peter Kelly
The importance of financial wellbeing in the workplace
HR Grapevine podcast: Financial wellbeing: Your employees are counting on you
Why is it so important for HR teams to support colleagues’ financial wellbeing? With more than 70% of employees saying they are still stressed about money and 83% expecting their employers to provide financial wellbeing support, we look at the part HR and payroll departments play in promoting financial wellbeing and what more employers can do to support employees through tough times.
With:
Gethin Nadin
CIPD podcast: Are companies doing enough to support employee’s financial wellbeing?
As the cost-of-living crisis worsens, we discuss why financial wellbeing is so important to the employee experience, the impact of low numeracy skills on financial wellbeing and what organisations can do to boost financial wellbeing among employees.
With:
Gethin Nadin, Charles Cotton
CIPD podcast: How to support employees' financial wellbeing – the dos and don’ts
In this episode, we look at the unprecedented challenges facing HR right now and what businesses can do to ease employee stress during the current cost of living crisis. Including:- identifying individuals who may be struggling
- how employee assistance programs can help
- key benefits to support people struggling financially
- the impact of targeted L&D programmes, flexible working and paying the Living Wage
With:
Gethin Nadin, Jamie Broadley
Diversity from the top down
HR Grapevine Podcast: Diversity from the top down
Should HR look to start within its own house when it comes to diversity? How has the meaning of ‘inclusion’ changed within the hybrid workplace? And what data is needed to make well-informed decisions around DEI?
With:
Melanie Hill
Navigating the benefits market
CIPD Podcast: The wellbeing market is huge, how do you navigate it?
In this episode, we unpick how to choose the most effective wellbeing selection for your people, in a market with so many options. We look at the wealth of digital health apps available and discuss whether apps are overplaying their effectiveness without evidence to back it up.
With:
Gethin Nadin, Amy McKeown
Embracing a hybrid workplace
HR Grapevine podcast: Is Hybrid Working the Biggest Driver of Business Change Today?
Join us as we talk about changing working patterns and how a post-pandemic shift to hybrid working patterns is driving changes in business. We reflect on the pandemic but look forward as to how organisations can create a hybrid workplace and compete for talent in the ‘new normal’.
With:
Jacqui Summons
HR Grapevine podcast: Are we Failing a Generation of Younger Workers?
We investigate how newer generations of workers are treated, for example, do hybrid working practices favour established employees over newer ones and how are businesses investing in meeting the demands and needs of the future?
With:
Jacqui Summons
CIPD podcast: How to manage employee wellbeing in the hybrid workplace
We look at the options available to encourage clear communication and socialisation in a remote working environment. Loo0king at existing channels and the implications remote communication could have for diversity and inclusion.
With:
Jacqui Summons, Arti Kashyap Aynsley