TALK HR UK Podcast

🎧TALK HR UK: S1 E25🎧 is featuring our guest Daniel Pullin, Principal Health & Wellbeing Consultant from Towergate Health & Protection.  We dive into the world of Mental Health & Wellbeing, the challenges organisations face in the SME space, and how simple step by step measures can help engage your workforce and keep moral high.  We know why Mental Health & Wellbeing is important, but do we now how to implement a sensible strategy? We discussed: 🔥 The common challenges felt for SME's when it comes to trying to support MHWB, and perhaps a lack of resources or tools 🔥 benefits and the role they can play towards supporting Mental Health 🔥 debated the future landscape of benefits & products they may be offered  🔥 the reaction to the market brought upon the pandemic in the benefits world

🎧 A fascinating discussion with Paula Leach, former CPO of FDM a global, listed business within the IT Consultancy world. 🎧   Challenging the concept of leadership and management, as we dived into the intrinsic of good leaders and how this can align the business together against their objectives.    ✔️ What is leadership  ✔️ Where do so many go wrong  ✔️ Create space & allow freedom  ✔️ 2D career structures and how a 3D structure can work  ✔️ Accidental Leadership: tenure or technical   Paula's book has just gone up for pre-order now on Amazon and publication date is 11th February Vantage Point: How to create culture where employees thrive: Amazon.co.uk: Paula Leach: 9781911671008: Books  www.vantagepointsconsulting.com

🎧 TALK HR UK S1 EPISODE 20 🎧 is now out 🔥  "Necessity is the mother of implementation"  We had the privilege of having Sue Evans Head of HR & Organisational Development  at West Sussex County Council as our guest this week.   She was hugely honest, passionate and insightful as we discussed a range of topics.  Key highlights from our session below!   ⭐ Sue joined the organisation 2 months before the pandemic, then BAM!  ⭐ Challenges on supporting Mental Health & Wellbeing whilst being remote, but the importance of this  ⭐ Employee engagement ⭐ Changing environments, with AGILE working  ⭐ Managing performance on outcome  ⭐ Social connection and how to find that when working remotely  ⭐ Reset plan for West Sussex Council for 2021 and further  ⭐ Hiring top talent and building an employer brand  We love creating this form of content for the HR Community and the uptake has been brilliant.  So please share some support, by following our LINKEDIN TALK HR UK page and tell all your colleagues and peers about us. Do not keep us a secret!

🎧 S1 Ep 14 - The Man, The Myth, The Legend   Richard Miller joins us on the TALK HR UK PODCAST for this Episode as we take a moment to discuss the last 6 months and some of his achievements as a Job Seeker and what I call, become a LinkedIn Influencer. Some of the below are key highlights from this Podcast.    🚀 Candidate Experience  🚀 LinkedIn Profiles  🚀 Networking  🚀 300k views on a single post  🚀 9k extra connections in the last 6 months  🚀 Leads database/sharing file

TALK HR UK Podcast  Woman within Insurance   For our 11th Episode for Season 1 (crazy how we have done so many now) we had our guest speaker Jo McGowan who is the HR Director for the rapidly growing Insurance business that is First Central.  First Central is changing the way they interact with their customers and it's refreshing to see.  We discussed:  🚀How First Central adapted during Covid  🚀The challenges Covid brought to a fast growing business (200 hires since March) 😱  🚀The sector culture changes that we have seen  🚀What is so appealing about the Insurance/FS sector  🚀The lack of Females within Insurance/FS  🚀Why there is a shortage of Females in Insurance/FS  🚀What we could do to help drive a positive agenda forward, starting from the Education sector  

A deep dive analysis, between two different recruitment agencies, sharing their expertise to maximise your opportunities on LinkedIn. It can feel like LinkedIn is a complex social media platform reliant on algorithms, but there are simple measures to help yourself.  The discussion covered, Profile Building, Network Growth, Marketing/Content, Notifications and Inbound leads.