HR Coffee Time

If you’ve ever faced the frustration of having your ideas rejected or struggled to secure buy-in and budget for your projects, this episode of HR Coffee Time is here to help. Writing a business case can feel overwhelming but guest, Jo Taylor, shares valuable insights on how to craft a compelling one that significantly enhances your chances of success. She explains what a business case is and the importance of:

• Simplifying
• Starting with the “why”
• Engaging stakeholders early on
• Progress, not perfection

Jo also gives powerful advice on what to do if your business case is rejected.

(Disclosure: this book link is an affiliate link which means that Fay will receive a small commission from Amazon if you make a purchase through it)

• The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age, by Claudia Hammond

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching
• Jo’s website: Let’s Talk Talent
• Let’s Talk Talent’s free resources, including webinars, whitepapers, podcast, newsletter, mentoring scheme and YouTube channel
• Jo’s email address: [email protected]

• Episode 63: How to progress your career by measuring your impact at work
• Episode 34: Influencing – how to get buy-in for your ideas at work

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If you're kind enough to leave a review, let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: [email protected].

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, take a look at all their services detailed on the Bright Sky Career Coaching website

Finding your next HR/People role can feel daunting; especially if you haven't changed jobs in years. This episode of HR Coffee Time is here to help, with job search success tips from career coach Fay Wallis. Learn what to do and how to do it, to hugely increase your chances of landing your perfect role.

• Fay’s online CV and LinkedIn courses
• Fay’s webinar for Presentus: LinkedIn Secrets – How to leverage LinkedIn to get your perfect job

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching

• Episode 4: Finding your next HR job – key tips from an HR Recruiter, with Tansel Omer
• Episode 11: Networking – the three most important networks for your career
• Episode 13: How to get a senior-level HR role, with Craig Elvin
• Episode 15: How networking can help your career
• Episode 16: How to become more confident about networking
• Episode 31: 3 little-known LinkedIn features which will help you get your next job
• Episode 63: How to progress your career by measuring your impact at work
• Episode 81: Recruitment redefined – a better way to find or fill your next role, with Tansel Omer

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If you're kind enough to leave a review, let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: [email protected].

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, take a look at all their services detailed on the Bright Sky Career Coaching website.

Have you ever found yourself in a work meeting, excitedly sharing an idea, only to have someone else take the spotlight, adopt the idea as their own and take all the credit? It’s an all-too-familiar scenario. In this episode of HR Coffee Time, “How to stop other people taking credit for your ideas in meetings” host Fay Wallis, shares three different options for tackling this behaviour at work.

• TIME magazine: ‘Mr. Vice President, I’m Speaking.’ What Research Says About Men Interrupting Women – And How to Stop It
• Harvard Business Review: Amplifying Your Colleagues’ Voices Benefits Everyone
• The Independent: What is hepeating?
• Professor Nicole Gugliucci’s tweet introducing the word, ‘hepeated’
• The Academy of Management Journal 64 (4): Amplifying Voice in Organizations, by Kristin Bain, Tamar Admati Kreps, Nathan Meikle and Elizabeth R. Tenney
• UCLA Anderson Review: In a Teamwork Economy, Status among Group Members Is Crucial, by Michael Totty
• Center for Creative Leadership: The SBI™ framework

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching

• Episode 84: Practical EDI tips from a Top 50 Most Inclusive Employer, with Lisa Faulkner
• Episode 83: Destructive team dynamics – how to spot them & get things back on track, with Gabriella Braun
• Episode 65: Practical strategies that empower women to succeed in leadership roles, with Carla Miller

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If you're kind enough to leave a review, let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: [email protected].

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, they can help you through:

• 1:1 coaching to overcome your career challenges
• Group coaching – build your confidence, credibility & influence in 6 weeks through Fay’s signature programme, Inspiring HR
• Interview coaching to succeed in your next interview
• Career change coaching to find a new, more fulfilling career
• The ‘Power Up Your LinkedIn Profile’ online course, to create a powerful LinkedIn profile and build your confidence at using LinkedIn to get your next role.
• The free pdf condensed version of Fay’s HR Planner for 2023

It can be hard to be clear on what matters most to you for your HR / People career; especially when you’re busy firefighting at work. In this episode of HR Coffee Time, career coach Fay Wallis shares 6 questions to identify and prioritise what matters for your career, so that you can set realistic steps and goals to achieve what’s most important to you.

• The Essential HR Planner

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching

• Episode 80: How quarterly reviews can help you thrive in your HR career
• Episode 69: Monthly review – the simple secret to making progress in your HR career
• Episode 66: Reflecting on 2022 – looking back to look forward

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please can you rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? If you're kind enough to leave a review, please do let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: [email protected].

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

How Fay & Bright Sky Career Coaching Can Help You

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, they can help you through:

• 1:1 coaching to overcome your career challenges
• Group coaching – build your confidence, credibility & influence in 6 weeks through Fay’s signature programme, Inspiring HR
• Interview coaching to succeed in your next interview
• Career change coaching to find a new, more fulfilling career
• The ‘Power Up Your LinkedIn Profile’ online course, to create a powerful LinkedIn profile and build your confidence at using LinkedIn to get your next role.
• The free pdf condensed version of Fay’s HR Planner for 2023

Although the FSCS (Financial Services Compensation Scheme) is a relatively small organisation, employing around 250 people, the People team’s work in the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion space has led to it consistently ranking in the ‘Top 50 Most Inclusive Employers’ list.

In this episode of HR Coffee Time, their Head of People – Lisa Faulkner shares practical tips and advice for any organisation who wants to focus on EDI based on her experience within the FSCS.

Lisa’s advice includes:

1. Start small and then expand on what you’ve done so far.

2. Use internal and external data.

3. Set yourself realistic targets.

4. Turn to other organisations for advice and support.

5. Commit to charters.

6. Ask people throughout your organisation what will help them.

7. Consider the wider impact you can have on the local community and the world as a whole.

• Business in the Community
• The Race at Work Charter
• Change the Race Ratio
• Adecco’s Creating Brighter Futures program
• CIPD’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion reports
• The Women in Finance Charter
• The Responsible Business Tracker
• Positive East

(Disclosure: this book link is an affiliate link which means that Fay will receive a small commission from Amazon if you make a purchase through it)

• The HR (R)Evolution: Change the Workplace, Change the World, by Alan Watkins & Nick Dalton
• Coherence: The Science of Exceptional Leadership and Performance, by Alan Watkins

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching

• Episode 58: How to feel more confident using data & analytics in your HR role, with Angela Moyle
• Episode 70: Supporting yourself, or your colleagues at work with Tourette Syndrome, with Devon Lovell
• Episode 68: Real life insights into understanding & supporting autism in the workplace, with Cybill Watkins
• Episode 65: Practical strategies that empower women to succeed in leadership roles, with Carla Miller
• Episode 59: ADHD – a personal story of the strengths, struggles & strategies that help, with Julie White
• Episode 42: Diversity & Inclusion at work – 7 mistakes to avoid (& what to do instead), with Dr Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey
• Episode 24: Understanding & supporting neurodiversity at work, with Melanie Francis
• Episode 14: Understanding & fixing your organisations gender pay gap, with Melissa Blissett
• Episode 12: Supporting women returning to work after a career break, with Sally Dhillon

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please can you rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? If you’re kind enough to leave a review, please do let Fay know so she can say ‘thank you’. You can always reach her at: [email protected]

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, they can help you through:

• 1:1 coaching to overcome your career challenges
• Group coaching – build your confidence, credibility & influence in 6 weeks through Fay’s signature programme, Inspiring HR
• Interview coaching to succeed in your next interview
• Career change coaching to find a new, more fulfilling career
• The ‘Power Up Your LinkedIn Profile’ online course, to create a powerful LinkedIn profile and build your confidence at using LinkedIn to get your next role.
• The free pdf condensed version of Fay’s HR Planner for 2023

Whether you’re working in a tiny organisation or a huge one, you will have to interact with teams. And because people and relationships are complicated, those teams won’t always be working together as well as they could be. This can have a negative impact on the people in that team, other people around them and ultimately on the success of the organisation or business you all work for.

In this episode of HR Coffee Time, Fay Wallis is joined by Gabriella Braun, who shares fascinating insights into groups and teams, explaining three of the unconscious ways teams behave destructively when they’re under pressure.

Gabriella is the author of, “All That We Are” and the Director of Working Well, a specialist consultancy firm using psychoanalytic and systemic thinking to help leaders and teams to understand the hidden truths of their behaviour at work. Listen to the episode or read the transcript on the Bright Sky Career Coaching website to learn all about destructive team dynamics – how to spot them & get things back on track.

(Disclosure: the book links are affiliate links which means that Fay will receive a small commission from Amazon if you make a purchase through either of them)

• Gabriella’s book recommendation: “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves” by Stephen Grosz
• Gabriella’s book: “All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work” by Gabriella Braun

• Connect with Gabriella on LinkedIn
• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Gabriella’s consultancy website: Working Well
• Gabriella’s book website: Gabriella Braun
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching

• Episode 35: Helping teams thrive with personal user manuals
• Episode 22: How to handle conflict at work, with Ginny Radmall

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please can you rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? If you’re kind enough to leave a review, please do let Fay know so she can say ‘thank you’. You can always reach her at: [email protected]

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, they can help you through:

• 1:1 coaching to overcome your career challenges
• Group coaching – build your confidence, credibility & influence in 6 weeks through Fay’s signature programme, Inspiring HR
• Interview coaching to succeed in your next interview
• Career change coaching to find a new, more fulfilling career
• The ‘Power Up Your LinkedIn Profile’ online course, to create a powerful LinkedIn profile and build your confidence at using LinkedIn to get your next role.
• The free pdf condensed version of Fay’s HR Planner for 2023

A lack of confidence can stop us from tackling all sorts of challenges at work. Maybe it's holding you back from putting your ideas forward for a new initiative, or preventing you from creating and presenting an HR or People strategy for the first time, or stopping you from challenging someone at work when you disagree with them, or you can't bring yourself to speak up in meetings.

Whatever your challenge is - this episode of HR Coffee Time is here to help. In it, career & executive coach Fay Wallis shares 3 tips to tackle a challenge at work when you aren't feeling confident:

1. Creating a vision board
2. Adopting a test-and-learn approach
3. Using affirmations

• The Essential HR Planner
• "Big Feelings: How to be okay when things are not okay" by Liz Fosslein & Mollie West Duffy
• "I Can Do It: How to use affirmations to change your life" by Louise Hay (Disclosure: the book links are affiliate links, which means Fay will receive a small commission from Amazon if you make a purchase through either of them.)

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching

• Episode 1: How to feel more confident at work
• Episode 36: Four simple but powerful techniques to banish imposter syndrome, with Joanna Lott
• Episode 73: 5 ways to feel more confident in your next interview, meeting, or presentation

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please can you rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? If you're kind enough to leave a review, please do let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: [email protected].

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, they can help you through:

• 1:1 coaching to overcome your career challenges
• Group coaching – build your confidence, credibility & influence in 6 weeks through Fay’s signature programme, Inspiring HR
• Interview coaching to succeed in your next interview
• Career change coaching to find a new, more fulfilling career
• The ‘Power Up Your LinkedIn Profile’ online course, to create a powerful LinkedIn profile and build your confidence at using LinkedIn to get your next role.
• The Essential HR Planner

If you're looking for a new role, or you're responsible for Recruitment in the organisation you work for, this episode of HR Coffee Time is here to help. You'll get to hear from Tansel Omer, the CEO and Founder of a new Recruitment platform - Presentus. Tansel joins Career Coach, Fay Wallis on the show to talk through how Presentus is a unique solution to your recruitment challenges.

• The special HR Coffee Time link to visit the Presentus website and register as a candidate (if you’re looking for a new role).
• The special HR Coffee Time link to visit the Presentus website to learn more and register as an organisation (if you’re interested in using Presentus to fill your vacancy/vacancies).

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Connect with Tansel on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching

(Disclosure: these book links are affiliate links, which means Fay will receive a small commission from Amazon if you make a purchase through it).

• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, by Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh
• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please can you rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? If you're kind enough to leave a review, please do let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: [email protected].

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources, by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, they can help you through:

• 1:1 coaching to overcome your career challenges
• Group coaching – build your confidence, credibility & influence in 6 weeks through Fay’s signature programme, Inspiring HR
• Interview coaching to succeed in your next interview
• Career change coaching to find a new, more fulfilling career
• The ‘Power Up Your LinkedIn Profile’ online course, to create a powerful LinkedIn profile and build your confidence at using LinkedIn to get your next role.
• The Essential HR Planner

As an HR professional, you know that the role can be demanding and fast-paced. With so much to do on a day-to-day basis, it can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture and your career & strategic goals.

In this episode of HR Coffee Time, career coach Fay Wallis shares practical advice on how to use a quarterly review to identify areas for improvement, celebrate your achievements, and set meaningful goals for the future. Whether you're working on your own or as part of an HR team, her insights will help you work more efficiently and purposefully.

So, if you're looking for a way to stay on top of your busy HR role while also achieving your career goals, tune in now to discover how the quarterly review can help you work smarter, not harder.

• The Essential HR Planner

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching

• Episode 61: The 4 pillars that will help you be strategic in your HR role
• Episode 26: How to be strategic in your new HR leadership role

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please can you rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? If you're kind enough to leave a review, please do let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: [email protected].

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, they can help you through:

• 1:1 coaching to overcome your career challenges
• Group coaching – build your confidence, credibility & influence in 6 weeks through Fay’s signature programme, Inspiring HR
• Interview coaching to succeed in your next interview
• Career change coaching to find a new, more fulfilling career
• The ‘Power Up Your LinkedIn Profile’ online course, to create a powerful LinkedIn profile and build your confidence at using LinkedIn to get your next role.
• The Essential HR Planner

Career development is an important topic at work. So many people are motivated by being able to develop and grow in their careers, it means that getting career development programmes right in your organisation can lead to higher levels of employee engagement (and help make your organisation somewhere people love to work).

But how do you create a powerful career development programme that has an impact? This episode of HR Coffee Time is here to help. Kate Mansfield (Programme Director at Career Counselling Services) speaks to Career Coach Fay Wallis and shares the key learnings from studying 13 organisations who have introduced career development programmes and initiatives.

• CCCS’s Career Strategy Insights Tool (and report)
• Kate’s book recommendation: “Wisdom at Work: Stay relevant in the second half of your career” by Chip Conley (Disclosure: the book links are affiliate links which means that Fay will receive a small commission from Amazon if you make a purchase through either of them)

• Connect with Kate on LinkedIn
• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• Fay’s website: Bright Sky Career Coaching
• Career Counselling Services (CCS) website

• Episode 33: A helpful framework for career conversations at work, with Steve McIntosh
• Episode 25: How to use career conversations to improve retention & engagement, with Sarah Archer
• Episode 21: The 8 people who will set you up for career success, with Sharon Peake
• Episode 16: How to become more confident about networking
• Episode 15: How networking can help your career
• Episode 11: Networking – the 3 most important networks for your career

If you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please can you rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? If you're kind enough to leave a review, please do let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: [email protected].

Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.

If you’ve been enjoying the podcast & would like some support from Fay or her colleagues at Bright Sky, they can help you through:

• 1:1 coaching to overcome your career challenges
• Group coaching – build your confidence, credibility & influence in 6 weeks through Fay’s signature programme, Inspiring HR
• Interview coaching to succeed in your next interview
• Career change coaching to find a new, more fulfilling career
• The ‘Power Up Your LinkedIn Profile’ online course, to create a powerful LinkedIn profile and build your confidence at using LinkedIn to get your next role.
• The Essential HR Planner