HR Most Influential Podcast
HR Most Influential Podcast
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The HR Most Influential podcast speaks to some of the practitioners, academics and consultants making up HR magazine's annual HR Most Influential list, which celebrates instrumental figures in the people profession.
We’ll be asking them to pull back the curtain on their working lives and explore the major issues facing the world of work.
HR Focus Podcast
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HR Focus dives into practical issues surrounding HR leaders. Interviewing expert guests, and bringing them questions from our own audience,
Episodes
21 episodes
4.1 The Future of HR (is Giving Transactional Work the Boot), with James Devine
Did HR miss its chance to win real recognition after the pandemic?Possibly.Can HR win that acclaim anyway?Absolutely.As automated HR technology becomes ever-more sophisticated, HR practitioners are being gi...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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36:40
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3.6 Taking the pulse with Tiger de Souza
Once, HR professionals could walk around the office or factory floor and see employees' mood for themselves.Now, the workforce is more separated than ever. So how can HR rebuild connections within its organisation, whether for hybrid of...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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33:06
3.5 How To Work With Your CEO, with Kerry Smith
No matter where you are in your career, it's important to get on with your boss.But for an HR leader, it's vital – and not just for selfish reasons.In episode 5 of series 3, we dive into why CPOs and HRDs are uniquely positio...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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37:38
3.4 Don't Let DEI Die with Woosh Raza
You've seen the headines: "DEI must die," "Progressive diktat," "A lightning rod for controversy."It is no secret that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are taking flak in the court of public opinion.But b...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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38:47
3.3 Siding Against Stress with Rachel Lewis
The UK is in the grip of a mental health crisis.Some 20-30% of UK working adults showing signs of emotional exhaustion, and burnout has been stuck firmly on HR's agenda for the past four years.And while HR is well ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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38:42
HR Focus (3): How to introduce AI to talent management
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform HR.But just like any tool, it needs direction.After all the hype of 2023, it's fair to say that we're all quite excited – or worried – about AI. But how many of ...
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Season 100
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Episode 3
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39:37
3.2 When Change Meets Resistance, with Pam Parkes
Change – the only constant of the past few years – is notoriously difficult to navigate.And for every successful change initiative dreamed up by HR strategists, there are several more that never survived contact with reality....
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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36:11
HR Focus (2): The Talent Mismatch
The skills needed by employees have evolved rapidly over the past few decades, with employees racing to keep up with time.But with just 30% of CEOs confident that their business has the skills it needs, why do talent teams so often find...
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Season 100
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Episode 2
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36:55
3.1 Hyper-personalisation with Bertie Tonks
Does your phone ever show you adverts for things you hadn't even realised you wanted? Hyper-personalisation may not be new to customer experience teams, but has only recently broken onto the people profession scene....
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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37:56
HR Focus (1): SME Talent
In the war for talent, how can David beat Goliath?In the first episode of our brand-new podcast, HR Focus, we zoom in on the difficulties facing SMEs in finding, retaining, and developing talent.HR magazine editor Jo Ga...
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Season 100
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Episode 1
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40:18
2.7 Understanding Employee Experience with Jabbar Sardar
Employee experience has become a defining feature of modern HR practice.Weaving together the threads of wellbeing, reward, development, organisational design... and, well, just about all of HR, it has become a crucial lens...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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36:53
2.6 Putting the 'S' in ESG with Neil Morrison
When so many companies accept ESG as a fact of life – why do so few commit to the 'S', societal good? HR director of FTSE-100 water company Severn Trent, and two-time HR Most Influential listee Neil Morrison is a passionate proponent of...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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35:14
2.5 Solving the hybrid working conundrum with Gemma Dale
HR Most Influential Thinker Gemma Dale has literally written the book on hybrid and flexible working – twice over. A lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, author, consultant, and previous HR Director, Dale u...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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41:10
2.4 AI: The Human Impact with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
HR Most Influential Thinker Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic has dedicated much of his life to studying human intelligence.Now, he turns his attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI) — and the effect it is having on the humans that use it...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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44:59
2.3 Breaking the Mould with John Amaechi
HR Most Influential Hall of Fame inductee John Amaechi is no stranger to breaking moulds.NBA star turned business leader, Amaechi is a highly successful organisational psychologist, consultant and New York Times b...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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43:21
2.2 Employee Activism with Megan Reitz
How should HR engage with activist employees? Why are many leaders in an 'optimism bubble'?Megan Reitz talks to Jo about leadership, dialogue, and change. Tune in for a masterclass on how to work sensitively and...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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40:22
S2.1 Doing More With Less with Hayley Lewis
Encouraging staff to 'do more with less' may well be an appealing concept, but is it ethical?Jo meets Hayley Lewis to discuss whether HR is facilitating this and enabling organisations to cut costs but not cut the work – and what ‘quiet ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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38:20
4. Building outcomes-based cultures with Philippa Bonay
Philippa Bonay, the HR director for the Government Analysis Function and director of people and business services for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) discusses the creation of an outcomes-based culture within the civil service.
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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34:27
3. Responsible business with Shereen Daniels
Jo speaks to Shereen Daniels, anti-racism advocate, founder of HR Rewired, and HMRI 2021's #1 Thinker about what it means for business to be responsible.Ethics, employee activism and a certain amount of Gen Z myth-busting all com...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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42:54
2. Communicating purpose with Eugenio Pirri
HR magazine editor Jo Gallacher talks to HRMI 2021's #1 Practitioner Eugenio Pirri about how organisations can communicate their purpose to employees, and the importance of dialogue.Genio, chief culture and operations executive for luxu...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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37:53
1. Lifelong learning with David Frost
We speak to David Frost, people and organisational development director at fruit and vegetable company Dole, about lifelong learning in the workplace. He talks to Jo about the changing skills requirements of employers, the developments needed i...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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39:35