HR Coffee Time

Fay Wallis is joined by Payroll and HR professional, Cybill Watkins, who shares her experience of being diagnosed with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), how it has given her answers to questions she has had throughout her life and the inclusive practices she has discovered that can help neurodiverse people to thrive at work.

[00:02] This is the third episode that focuses on neurodiversity. The first two are:

• Episode 24: Understanding & supporting neurodiversity at work, with Melanie Francis
• Episode 59: ADHD – a personal story of the strengths, struggles & strategies that help, with Julie White

[03:14] An introduction to Cybill Watkins

[04:03] Cybill’s journey to receiving her diagnosis

[10:41] Cybill explains what ‘masking’ is

[12:13] Cybill shares some of her strengths and struggles and explains that they often ‘mirror’ each other

[17:58] Cybill shares different strategies she has found helpful

• Joining groups and learning from them
• Being honest with yourself
• Get a mentor
• If you end up experiencing burnout – take time out to recover properly, get adjustments in place, join support groups

[20:15] Cybill recommends following Amanda Kirby on LinkedIn

[20:44] Cybill’s advice to any listeners who think they may be neurodiverse

[23:19] How to ensure you are creating an inclusive workplace and supporting neurodiverse colleagues as much as possible

[30:18] Cybill shares her book recommendation: The Fear Bubble by Ant Middleton

(Disclosure: this book link is an affiliate link which means Fay will earn a small commission from Amazon if you choose to purchase the book using it)

• Autistic Society’s Autism Passport
• Access to Work
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• The Essential HR Planner

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In this episode of HR Coffee Time, Career Coach Fay Wallis offers advice and tips on the best way to get on top of email overwhelm when you’re in a busy HR role.

Please note: All links to books within these show notes are affiliate links, which means Fay will receive a small commission from Amazon (at no cost to you) if you make a purchase through any of them.

[01:50] Fay takes a moment to say thank you for the reviews and for helping HR Coffee Time get to number 7 in the Apple Podcast Careers chart

[02:45] Fay shares her first tip – unsubscribing for those emails you never read

[04:39] Second tip – filtering your emails by sender or date

• Fay recommends How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do by Graham Allcott

[06:43] Tip three – try not to use your inbox as a to-do list

• Complete emails that will take 2 minutes to action straight away
• Allow yourself to have 3 main folders only; ‘action’, ‘read’ and ‘waiting’

[09:04] Tip four – ensure you are setting up auto-replies with useful information

• Fay refers to episode 43 - The one thing that will boost your resilience throughout your HR career, with Tom Cleary

[13:02] Fay recommends reading The Future of Time: How ‘re-working’ time can help you boost productivity, diversity and well-being by Helen Beedham

• Fay refers to episode 65 - Practical strategies that empower women to succeed in leadership roles, with Carla Miller

[14:27] Tip number five – make the most of your email footer

[16:11] Tip number six – make sure your emails are only being sent during core work hours

[19:02] Tip number seven – only check your emails at certain points each day

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It’s too easy to just keep cracking on with work, moving forward and forgetting to take a step back to appreciate the progress that has been made and learn from the previous year. In this episode of HR Coffee Time, career coach Fay Wallis talks through 10 reflection questions, sharing her own answers to them. This episode is also available as a more detailed blog post/article.

Link to blog post/article: https://www.brightskycareercoaching.co.uk/reflecting-on-2022-looking-back-to-look-forward/hr-coffee-time/

• Read the article that accompanies this episode
• Inspiring HR group coaching programme
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Whether you’re a woman in a leadership role, you aspire to be in a leadership role in the future, or you want to support the progression and success of women in your organisation – this episode of HR Coffee Time is here to help. In it, you’ll meet Carla Miller; a women’s leadership coach, author of the book, “Closing the Influence Gap” and host of the Influence & Impact podcast.

Carla speaks to career coach Fay Wallis, talking through some of the key ideas within her book and practical strategies that empower women to succeed in leadership roles.

Please note: All links to books within these show notes are affiliate links, which means Fay will receive a small commission from Amazon (at no cost to you) if you make a purchase through any of them.

Key Points From This Episode

[01:29] A reminder that The Essential HR Planner is available to buy

[02:26] An introduction to Carla Miller

[04:27] What led Carla to write her book, ‘Closing the Influence Gap’

[10:02] The first part of the book – seeing yourself as a leader

[11:55] The second part of the book – getting others to see you as a leader

[21:09] The third part of the book – increasing your influence and impact

[23:03] The fourth part of the book – taking control of your career

[23:10] Carla talks through the idea of ‘operating from under an umbrella which she learnt from the book, ‘Why Men Win at Work’ by Jill Whitty-Collins

[27:57] Fay mentions episode 37: The ‘first 100 days’ plan to succeed in your new HR leadership role, with Niamh O’Keeffe

[31:53] Fay mentions episode 53: Why coaching skills can help your HR career (and how to develop them), with Charlie Warshawski

[32:53]Carla’s book recommendation: “The Future of Time: How ‘re-working’ time can help you boost productivity, diversity and wellbeing” by Helen J. Beedham

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• The Bright Sky Career Coaching website
• Connect with Carla Miller on LinkedIn
• Carla’s podcast: Influence & Impact
• Carla’s website
• Video: how to rate & review HR Coffee Time on Apple Podcasts
• The Essential HR Planner

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If you’re finding recruitment challenging at the moment, you’re not alone. We’re in the midst of what is being described as a ‘recruitment crisis’ with many organisations struggling to fill vacancies and wondering where all the good candidates have gone.

Dr Nemo D’Qrill has an answer to this challenge. They believe that the good candidates haven’t gone anywhere; it’s just that are current recruitment practices aren’t effective enough at finding them. In this episode of HR Coffee Time, Nemo joins Career Coach Fay Wallis to explain how to remove bias from recruitment to discover overlooked talent.

[01:54] A reminder that The Essential HR Planner is available to buy

[02:58] An introduction to Nemo D’Qrill

[04:01] Nemo shares how their interest in recruitment methods started

[6:51] Fay talks about her experiences of working in recruitment

[08:12] Nemo offers practical tips to remove the bias and making recruitment practices more inclusive

• Remove names from CVs
• Use scoring systems during interviews
• Gender neutral & culturally sensitive job descriptions

[11:25] Nemo explains the assessments their business Sigma Polaris has created that can be used in the recruitment process. The assessments determine core skills, competencies and work preferences and eliminate an average of 29 cases of bias for every hire.

[17:54] Taking the fear out of taking assessments

[21:17] How large organisations have successfully hired by using Sigma Polaris’ technology

[26:12] Nemo shares their book recommendation: The Art of War by Sun Tzu

(Disclosure: this book link is an affiliate link which means Fay will earn a small commission from Amazon if you choose to purchase the book using it)

[28:53] Nemo talks about the book they are writing, which has a working title of, “Gender (de)Polarisation”

[32:50] How to contact Nemo

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• The Bright Sky Career Coaching website
• Connect with Nemo on LinkedIn
• Nemo’s company: Sigma Polaris
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• The Essential HR Planner

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Measuring your impact at work is one of the best ways of getting yourself ready to progress your HR career. It proves to yourself and to everyone around you that you’ve been doing a brilliant job. Once you know how to measure your impact at work, you can use this information to impress with your CV, in performance appraisal conversations, in interviews and in conversations with your manager or senior leadership team.

In this episode of HR Coffee Time, career coach Fay Wallis teaches you how to do it.

Key Points From This Episode

[00:27] A reminder about The Essential HR Planner

[02:13] By measuring your impact at work you can use the information to stand out from everyone else with your CV, convince your boss to give you a promotion, impress the senior leadership team, or make an impact in future interviews

[03:21] Fay references episode 44: “Succeeding as an HR professional – how to influence at a senior level”

[03:33] What you’re learning today comes from the world of project management

[03:55] The success of all projects can be measured by using one of three things – time, cost, or quality

[05:55] If you’re not confident with data & metrics, Fay recommends listening to episode 58: “How to feel more confident using data and analytics in your HR role, with Angela Moyle”

[06:00] An example of how to measure a goal/your performance using ‘cost’ of recruitment

[08:24] An example of how to measure a goal/your performance using ‘quality’ of management training

[10:30] An example of how to measure a goal/your performance using ‘time’ by introducing an HR intranet

[13:17] Some things will straddle two or three of the measures – for example an initiative to reduce turnover could be measured using all three things

[14:55] Let Fay know if you put any of the advice into action

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• The Bright Sky Career Coaching website
• Video: how to rate & review HR Coffee Time on Apple Podcasts
• The Essential HR Planner

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There are so many demands on the HR and People team that you may find your goals & plans for your career slipping to the bottom of your ‘to do’ list. It doesn’t have to be this way though! Learn how to get confident, organised & plan for your goals for 2023 with the HR Planner – whether you have the free pdf version, or the hardback version.

In this episode of HR Coffee Time, Career Coach & creator of the HR Planner, Fay Wallis, talks you through each part of the HR Planner, explaining how to use the activities in it and how these can help.

[00:02] Fay explains how to:

• Order The Essential HR Planner

[06:43] The first activity in the HR Planner: ‘Looking Back to Look Forward’ – 10 questions to help you reflect on the past year & plan for the year ahead

[09:04] Fay refers back to previous episodes focused on networking and building relationships:

• Building relationships with difficult people at work
• Networking – the three most important networks for your career
• How networking can help your career
• How to become more confident about networking
• 3 tips to build a better relationship with a difficult person at work

[10:00] Fay references Shawn Achor’s TED talk to learn more about the power of gratitude: ‘The Happy Secret to Better Work’

[11:08] Exercises to help you think through and plan your career goals – looking inwards & looking outwards

[16:02] Finalising your career goals using more than just SMART

[18:20] The next section of the HR Planner – Key HR tasks/events to plan for

[19:53] The quarterly planning page

[21:45] The main part of the HR Planner – the monthly calendar containing awareness & inclusion dates

[25:49] The final activities in the HR Planner – to build your confidence & resilience: the praise pages and the ‘feeling good’ box page

[26:47] Fay refers back to episode 51: Two ideas to help you bounce back from a tough day at work

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• The Bright Sky Career Coaching website
• Video: how to rate & review HR Coffee Time on Apple Podcasts
• The Essential HR Planner

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Do you lack confidence about how to be strategic in your HR or People professional role? Perhaps you’ve even missed out on job opportunities because you haven’t been able to prove you can operate at a strategic level? On this week’s episode of HR Coffee Time, Career Coach Fay Wallis shares the four pillars that will help you to be strategic in your HR role.

[00:02] Fay refers to episode 57: Using the Johari Window to develop & grow in your HR career

[02:28] The first pillar – making sure you have strong operational foundations

• Having a clear process
• Be sure to have enough resources

[06:00] The second pillar – Developing and honing your business acumen

• Fay refers to episode 26: How to be strategic in your new HR leadership role
• Fay explains how you will benefit from the HR strategy shaping template

[12:20] The third pillar – relationship building and influencing skills

• Building relationships with difficult people within the workplace

[13:54] Fay refers to previous episodes that focus on the different ways to help you build relationships and influencing skills:

• Episode 3: Building relationships with difficult people at work
• Episode 34: Influencing– how to get buy-in for your ideas at work
• Episode 41: 3 tips to build a better relationship with a difficult person at work
• Episode 44: Succeeding as an HR professional – how to influence at a senior level

[17:13] The fourth pillar - using measurements, evidence and relevant analytics.

[17:40] Fay refers to episode 58: How to feel more confident using data & analytics in your HR role, with Angela Moyle

[19:19] Fay shares a tool she uses within her Inspiring HR group programme

[21:10] Fay dives deeper into what the Kaplan and Norton balanced scorecard is

[23:18] Fay refers to episode 33: A helpful framework for career conversations at work, with Steve McIntosh

[25:20] Fay provides further information regarding The Essential HR Planner

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• The Bright Sky Career Coaching website
• Video: how to rate & review HR Coffee Time on Apple Podcasts
• Inspiring HR group coaching programme

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Dive into the world of HR Consultancy in this episode of HR Coffee Time, where Career Coach Fay Wallis is joined by experienced HR Consultant, Pam Molyneux.

Pam shares her story of making the move from an in-house HR role to becoming an HR Consultant for a large HR Consultancy firm, before then going on to establish her own business and work as an independent HR Consultant. Pam explains what she loves about HR Consultancy, what the challenges are, and what the key skills are that you need to become a great HR Consultant.

[02:20] An introduction to Pam

[03:23] Pam explains in further detail the difference between an ‘in-house HR role’ and an ‘HR consultancy role’

[05:06] The positive benefits of a HR Consultant role

[08:04] The challenges you may face within your HR Consultancy role

[10:23] The skills needed to make an outstanding HR Consultant

[12:27] Pam offers advice for anyone who may be contemplating a career as a HR Consultant

[14:56] How Pam transitioned from an in-house HR role to an HR consultancy role within a large organisation

[16:43] Becoming an independent HR consultant and setting up your own HR consultancy

[18:22] Overcoming potential challenges you may face when setting up your own HR consultancy

[22:31] Fay would love to hear if this episode has resonated with you in any way

[23:11] Pam shares her book recommendation – The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan

(Disclosure: this book link is an affiliate link which means Fay will earn a small commission from Amazon if you choose to purchase the book using it)

[23:45] Fay refers to episode 56: How to do a great job with collective consultations for redundancies, with Pete Colby

[24:58] How to connect with Pam

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• The Bright Sky Career Coaching website
• Video: how to rate & review HR Coffee Time on Apple Podcasts
• Connect with Pam Molyneux on LinkedIn
• Pam’s business website: PM Business Support Services

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In this episode of HR Coffee Time, Fay Wallis is joined by Julie White, who shares her personal story of obtaining an ADHD diagnosis as an adult, while working as an HR professional. Listen to Julie’s supportive advice and different strategies for anyone who thinks they have ADHD or wants to support others in the workplace with ADHD.

[00:37] Fay takes a moment to thank one particular listener who inspired this episode

[03:32] An introduction to Julie White

[06:00] Julie’s journey to getting her ADHD diagnosis

[08:11] Some of the challenges Julie has experienced

[09:46] Julie offers a range of strategies to help with ADHD

[16:58] Julie’s advice to anyone who wants to support a colleague who has ADHD

[18:27] Julie’s advice for anyone who might think they have ADHD

[19:31] Fay refers to episode 24 - Understanding & supporting neurodiversity at work, with Melanie Francis

[21:42] The strengths Julie is beginning to recognise in herself

[22:54] Fay refers to episode 57 - Using the Johari Window to develop & grow in your HR career

[24:09] How coaching from Creased Puddle has helped Julie

[25:47] ‘Access to Work’ explained

[28:32] Julie shares her book recommendation - The Bullet Journal by Ryder Carroll

(Disclosure: this book link is an affiliate link which means Fay will earn a small commission from Amazon if you choose to purchase the book using it)

[30:56] How to connect with Julie

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• The Bright Sky Career Coaching website
• Video: how to rate & review HR Coffee Time on Apple Podcasts
• Connect with Julie on LinkedIn
• Connect with Bright
• White Life on LinkedIn
• Bright White Life Facebook
• Wellness Coach (@brightwhitelife) - Instagram

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