TALK HR UK powered by Alexander Lloyd HR Recruitment

Talk HR UK is a Video Podcast powered by Alexander Lloyd. Members of the HR Recruitment team will be talking to HR Leaders based in the South East of the UK about their professional and personal experiences. Our discussions will detail HR initiatives and industry topics. We will share ideas and concepts that are currently being delivered in a variety of sectors, and aim to allow HR Leaders to showcase how HR challenges differ from organisation to organisation. In episode 16, Simon Geere talks to Bertie Tonks from Collinson, the most influential HR practitioner in 2023 according to HR Magazine. We titled this episode, “HR THE REINVENTION - SHAKING UP THE PROFESSION!” In this mini journey through HR as we know it, we discuss : o Reinventing the HR Operating Model o How we organise ourselves and grow the right capability in order to deliver something new o Strategic People Planning – translating the capabilities o How we get the right weight of leadership standing by our side to deliver change and difference. www.alexanderlloyd.co.uk

Talk HR UK is a Podcast powered by Alexander Lloyd. Members of the HR Recruitment team will be talking to HR Leaders based in the South East of the UK about their professional and personal experiences. Our discussions will detail HR initiatives and industry topics. We will share ideas and concepts that are currently being delivered in a variety of sectors, and aim to allow HR Leaders to showcase how HR challenges differ from organisation to organisation. In episode 15, Simon Geere talks to Gavin Russell, Founder of Pepper Moth, an online coaching academy and membership club that enables leaders to master their culture. This podcast is a recording of an in-person event we ran in 2023.......for those who couldn't make it on the day, or those who are just interested in the principles of successful culture transformation....welcome to Culture Timebomb…..five pragmatic steps to lead your Leadership Team to culture heaven, before they reach culture hell! www.alexanderlloyd.co.uk

In episode 14, Simon Geere talks to James Gordanifar, Global Head of Early Careers Talent Acquisition at WTW about how early careers recruitment and development has changed since the pandemic. In the podcast we discuss : • Pre-pandemic, how we traditionally attracted Early Careers talent to the organisation • The challenges and obstacles that COVID put in the way • The tools now being utilised in Early Careers Recruitment • How students have responded to these new methods – successes and failures • Now that things are returning to a degree of normality what pressure is there in this area to resume face to face recruitment activity? • Further changes and improvements to predict for the future of Early Careers

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In episode 13, Simon Geere talks to Steve Woodhouse, HR Director at Marsh UK and Ireland about the increasing the capability of managers.  

In the podcast we discuss :  

◼ How the role of the manager and the required skills of a leader have changed with hybrid working over the last 18 months. 

◼ New initiatives or processes that Marsh are trying out to help support managers, and the successes so far. 

◼ How managers are reacting to the renewed focus. 

◼ The changes to the culture at Marsh we are seeing as a result of remote working. 

◼ The successes in keeping people connected.

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This episode follows on as a companion piece to episode 9 recorded with Gavin Russell (why culture and engagement isn't working). 

In this second part, Simon Geere asks Gavin Russell (Founder of Peppermoth), Ben Foulkes (Business Psychologist) and Imogen March (HR Director, Executive Coach & NED) a series of questions posed by YOU, the subscribers to Talk HR UK.  

Gavin, Ben and Imogen discuss:  

◼ If HR focusses on upskilling leaders, does culture take care of itself?  

◼ How do you enable culture and engagement to work in our new hybrid world? 

◼ How does HR get everyone to understand what culture is, and what it takes to get it to deliver real value?

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In episode 11, Simon Geere talks to Sam Geis, VP and People Partner at KBR about the concept of becoming a values based organisation.  In the podcast we discuss :  

◼ What is a values based organisation? 

◼ What organisations are doing in order to behave like a values based organisation. 

◼ How HR can help an organisation moved to a values based culture. 

◼ The challenges facing organisations trying to create this kind of cultural transformation. 

◼ How to bring values to life on a daily basis. 

◼ Why it is so important for organisations to have a clear, relatable purpose. 

◼ The changes we're seeing to the concept of Employee Value Proposition as new generations enter the workforce.  

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In episode 10, Simon Geere talks to Carrie Kebble, Employee Experience, Wellbeing and Inclusion Partner at Thales about increasing the visibility of mental health first aid and wellbeing in a hybrid environment.  

In the podcast we discuss:  

• What led Carrie to this newly created role 

• How did the strategy for this project come about  

• How Carrie pulled the Mental Health First Aid team together to improve cohesion 

• How the role and responsibilities of MHFAs has changed over the last 2 years 

• The outcomes of the discovery workshops 

• How these new initiatives are being implemented at Thales

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe to hear about all future episodes.

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In episode 9, Simon Geere talks to Gavin Russell, Founder of Peppermoth about why our current culture and engagement approach isn’t working & what to do about it!   

In the podcast we discuss :  

◼ Why Gavin thinks that current efforts to transform culture and engagement aren't working 

◼ The positive impact of HR on culture 

◼ How can Chief People Officers and HR Directors influence organisational culture - 6 key actions 

◼Employee experience vs. employee engagement 

◼ How HR Leaders can change their approach to improve employee engagement 

◼ Fixing burnt out leadership teams to enable culture change  

Thanks for listening! This time, we'd like to hear your questions about the challenges to HR of changing culture and improving employee engagement.   

We're conscious that you may or may not agree with all the points that Gavin makes in this conversation, and he has agreed (with a panel) to answer any questions that you have about culture and engagement.  

We plan to record a second part to this podcast that answers these questions in the near future!  

Please send your questions to sge@alexanderlloyd.co.uk and Simon will be in touch!  

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The Alexander Lloyd HR Recruitment team are delighted to partner again with Andy Knorpel, a Consultant at Synchrony Law, to bring you the first of our webinars in 2022.

On Wednesday 23rd March 2022, Andy will be looking at what he considers to be the most important cases for HR practitioners over the last few months, then provide a short update on the implications of the Government’s recent announcement that all remaining COVID-related legal restrictions are to be lifted.

This virtual event will be hosted by Simon Geere and the HR Recruitment team. 

Check out the HR Talk UK podcast on our YouTube channel :  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN2FHWn5R3ePidJFif0PBaw

In episode 8, Simon Geere talks to Natalie Rogers, Chief People Officer and Susan Sanderson, Senior Manager Corporate Sustainability and CSR from Unum about how to become a more responsible organisation and employer.

In the podcast we discuss :

◼ What is a responsible business? 

◼ What customers expect from organisations in terms of both responsibility and sustainability? 

◼ The impact of the regulators on financial services organisations in this area. 

◼ Steps that organisations can take to become a responsible business and employer.

◼ How to engage employees in the drive to become a responsible organisation. 

◼ Successfully delivered CSR and sustainability initiatives.

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe to hear about all future episodes.

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In episode 7, Simon Geere talks to Louise Davies, CEO from The Vegan Society about how to handle veganism in the workplace. 

In the podcast we discuss :  

• What it actually means to be vegan. 

• Why veganism has become so popular. 

• How well UK employers whose products have no obvious direct link to veganism understand the importance of the shift towards plant-based choices. 

• The impact of veganism becoming a protected characteristic in the UK. 

• Changes in practice employers can make regarding the treatment of ethical vegans employed at their organisations. 

• How  HR professionals can tailor their Employee Value Proposition and Employer Brand to increase employee engagement and possibly wellbeing? 

• Corporate initiatives that support vegan thinking and promote healthy-living or inclusivity.  

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe to hear about all future episodes. 

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Alexander Lloyd’s HR Recruitment Team & Andrew Knorpel from Synchrony Law are pleased to invite you to a webinar on 4th November 2021 at 12pm hosted by Simon Geere.

Once again, Andy will focus on non-pandemic-related aspects of employment practice, including recent Government proposals for new legislation relating to carer’s leave, flexible working and sexual harassment. He will also provide an update on data protection developments affecting employee data, including a number of initiatives and decisions from the Information Commissioner’s Office.

This virtual event will be hosted by Simon Geere and the HR Recruitment team. Please click the Register link above to let us know that you are interested in attending the event.

Check out the HR Talk UK podcast on our YouTube channel :  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN2FHWn5R3ePidJFif0PBaw

In episode 6, Simon Geere talks to Carla Henson from Toyota GB about how she helped the organisation to develop an improved employee experience strategy. 

In the podcast we discuss :  

▪️What is Employee Experience? 

▪️How Carla and the HR function started the improvement process 

▪️How to involve stakeholders in the business with designing and delivering the concept, and how to launch the initiative 

▪️Explaining what differences employees now see between the pre-EX Toyota and what has been created now 

▪️How to help line managers engage with this initiative  

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe to hear about all future episodes. We hope to see you next week.

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Alexander Lloyd’s HR Recruitment Team & Andrew Knorpel from Synchrony Law are pleased to invite you to a webinar on 24th June 2021 at 12pm hosted by Simon Geere.  

In addition to major cases relating to employment status (which we won’t be covering this time), the tribunals and courts have continued to give their judgments throughout lockdown.   

Andrew will therefore be focussing on what he considers to be the most important cases for HR practitioners so far in 2021. He’ll also provide a short update on any legal changes as we exit lockdown hopefully in July.  

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In episode 5, Simon Geere talks to James Hubbard, EMEA Talent Acquisition Leader at Kimberly-Clark about how to weave diversity & inclusion into your talent acquisition strategy. 

In the podcast we discuss: 

▪️How has D & I influenced the recruitment strategy at Kimberly-Clark 

▪️How to encourage leaders to have diversity of thought 

▪️How to break D & I into manageable chunks 

▪️How to support managers to understand the career journeys and transferable skills of candidates 

▪️What the long term benefits of D & I are to an organisation 

▪️The effect of COVID-19 on D & I 

▪️Recommendations for organisations looking to overhaul their D & I strategy  

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe to hear about all future episodes. We hope to see you next week.  

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In episode 4 Simon Geere talks to Tom Holmwood and Sophie Thornton from the Recruitment team at Surrey County Council about how positively the team responded to the challenges of 2020, driving the team to improve the employer brand and candidate experience.  

Tom & Sophie discuss:  

• How the recruitment team adjusted to remote working; how processes were changed, and what was learnt   
• How the onboarding process was improved  
• The team's commitment to continuous improvement   
• How Tom and Sophie pushed the agile working agenda  
• The challenges and new initiatives brought to the forefront by COVID-19  
• Success stories  

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In episode 3 Simon Geere talks to Craig Pattison, Chief People & Technology Officer from Air Partner, a global aviation services organisation. In 2020, Craig made the decision to roll out Implicit Bias training to Air Partner employees. In the podcast, Craig tells Simon:

• Why Air Partner decided to deliver implicit bias training 
• Responding to claims that implicit/unconscious bias training doesn't work
• Feedback and learning from the training 
• Future diversity & inclusion initiatives that HR can deliver

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In episode 2 Simon Geere talks to Martin Mason, founder of Unleashed, a Talent and Inclusion consultancy. 

Martin discusses:  

• What’s wrong with the 9 box grid method we’ve all been using.
• How organisations can reduce subjectivity in the Talent Management process. 
• How Talent Management processes can become more inclusive across an organisation. 
• Why is the next natural succession plan for any high-potential their boss’s job?  
• When looking at recruiting external talent, how organisations can link the on-boarding process to the talent management process. 
• How organisations can encourage “learner-led” initiatives to ensure that any future skills-gaps are addressed proactively.  

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe to hear about all future episodes. We hope to see you next week.  

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Rich Holgate from Student Beans, a fast growing Marketing & Technology business who work with Google, Dominos & McDonalds to name a few, joins Damien Barnett to discuss...  

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘏𝘙 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 & 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 (𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥) 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘵!  

• It is easy to fall into the trap of managing policies and procedures, and when a wider business see an HR Ops role in that light...then we have to find a way of working differently. 
• How does Data help, Business Partnering and a collaborative approach influence a positive outcome?

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Simon Geere from Alexander Lloyd’s HR Recruitment Team & Rebecca Thornley-Gibson from DMH are pleased to invite you to a webinar on 25th March 2021 at 12pm

Restrictive covenants divide opinion on whether they are necessary and enforceable in employment contracts, but many employers see significant value in using them to protect their business interests.

The debate is about to get more interesting as a government consultation on the use of restrictive covenants is now underway; in this webinar, we discuss how you can use restrictive covenants for business benefit, and what possible changes may arise as a result of the current consultation.

As always there is a steady stream of new employment law that we all need to keep up to date with so we’ll be selecting some of the most important 2020 and 2021 case law and legislative developments to share with you.

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In this episode, Simon Geere talks to Debbie Sanders, an Employee Relations, Industrial Relations, Change and Transformation Consultant. 

Debbie has recently set up her own Employee Relations consultancy after a successful career in Employee and Industrial Relations in a number of well-known organisations.  

In the podcast we cover: 

1. The increase in demand for Employee Relations skills.  

2. Why Employee Relations is not the most popular specialism in HR.   

3. What attracted Debbie to Employee Relations.  

4. What Employee Relations  challenges organisations will face over the short and medium term.  

5. What HR/ER should do to support organisations and face these challenges.  

6. How to improve the relationship with the trade unions.   

7. What are the key Employee Relations skills that all HR professionals should develop.  

8. How can HR professionals improve their skills in conflict resolution.  

9. How does it feel when organisations have a positive employee relations environment.  

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In this episode, Simon Geere talks to Sarah Scannella, a career coach, change professional and executive coach about her career change from HR Director to starting her own coaching business, and the benefits of coaching at an individual and organisational level.

In the podcast we cover:

Why Sarah switched from HR to coaching.

What skills are required for a successful coach – how Sarah made the transition.

How coaching has become even more useful and relevant in 2020/21.

The areas of HR that coaching can support. 

Examples of the work carried out so far – the benefits to the individuals / organisations.

How coaching can help people to navigate change.

How organisations need to adapt to encourage a coaching culture.

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As the New Year brings new challenges with another lockdown, we bring you the first in a new series of HR webinars.  

In our first webinar, we partner with Andy Knorpel, a Consultant at Synchrony Law, and Wendy Ladd, an occupational health specialist practitioner with AWL Occupational Health, who has a particular interest in mental health.  

Even before the most recent lockdown was announced, many employers had decided that their staff would be unlikely to return to the workplace for a number of months.  It now seems highly unlikely that office life will return to any kind of normality (whatever that may be) before Easter 2021.  Some staff have been happy to work from home, but others have greatly missed their previous interactions with colleagues. 

Simon Geere, Andy and Wendy will be looking at employee mental health and related issues arising out of the pandemic and lockdown.  They will discuss what problems are likely to arise and focus on how employers should deal with them.  

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In this episode, Simon Geere talks to David Shimkus, a Learning & Development professional and Organisational Development Project Manager  about the importance of identifying the most suitable L&D framework for your organisation, and the best way to embed the framework.

In the podcast we cover:

·  What is a Learning & Development framework?

·  What would a Learning & Development framework achieve that a ‘training plan’ would not?

·  How do you identify the right Learning & Development framework?

·  How to you embed the framework to make it culturally normal?

·  What tips do you have for winning over a business into using the framework?

·  What happens when you don’t have a framework in place?

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In this episode, Simon Geere talks to David Hodges, a Head of HR at Thales. David has recently been working on a cross-functional project at Thales that aims to change mindset at an organisational level in the area of experience vs. potential when hiring both internally or externally.

In the podcast we cover: 

What David has learnt about how "experience" is used in candidate selection 

Why David became interested in challenging the overriding use of experience as criteria in candidate assessment 

How hiring managers can improve their skills in candidate selection  

Which individuals may gain advantage via their experience rather than their ability 

Why experience is no longer a valid indicator of future performance in the VUCA landscape 

Which criteria outside of experience will grow in relevance in the coming years 

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