huapii hour

Hertta Vuorenmaa, Research Programme Director for Future of Work, walks us through the harmony between change and inclusion and the role HR has to play in this. Technology has drastically changed the way we work and HR leaders need to rethink their processes to retain talent. Hiring people with a growth mindset and including them in every part of your company will bring you success.

Do you have the right people in the right role? Alan Foster, Partner at ghSMART, challenges the classic interviews to find the best fit for your company. Defining company strategies is important, but it is harder to reach your goals if you do not have the right talent to implement them. In this podcast, Alan guides us through selecting the right candidate for the right job. 

Does teamwork always make the dream work? Elisabeth Raes, Team & Leadership Coach of Unicorn Group, Author of High Impact Teaming, opens up the discussion about the foundations of teams and teaming. Team members are first individuals with their own visions and then they become the team members. In this podcast, Elisabeth dives into how to provide a safe space for team members to reach out to their full potential.

Evelyne Van Vosselen, HR Director of Bridgestone EMIA, invites us to talk about change but this time not a disruptive one. Change is inevitable but it is important to understand the maturity level of the organization, make use of the tools you have, bring value while you adapt and make it part of the culture.

Bram De Vos, Chairman of the Board at Hello Customer walks us through the significant connection between the satisfaction of inner and outer customers, shows us the impact of letting your employees know their impact on the results and how this affects the relationship with your customers.

If diversity is being asked to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance. In this podcast, Inclusive Leadership Expert, Keynote Speaker & Author, Elke Jeurissen invites us to understand the misconceptions behind diversity and inclusion, how can companies have more diverse talent and truly include it and what steps can the diverse talent also take to better integrate.

Kirsten Florentie, VP People & Engagement at Telenet explains her vision, passion, and plan to open up work boundaries at Telenet and beyond. It inspires the HR professionals to open up HR and ensure a future-proof organization.

Exceptionally, this podcast is in Dutch.

More often than not companies fall into a pyramid structure and work in silos. Moving from it to collaborative governance can be a struggle so in this episode Michel Halet, the CEO of Partena Professional, shares how the company was able to get rid of the pyramid and the silos so they could be more efficient and provide a better customer experience and employee experience. 

Having an empowered and talented workforce is now more critical than ever. Earlier workforce transformations that used to take decades now occur at an unprecedentedly fast pace. By 2022 at almost 60% of all employees will require significant re- and upskilling to address the skill gap created by technological advancements. Anette Böhm, the CHRO of KBC explains in this episode how KBC re-skills and upskills its employees.

In the 1930’s the S&P 500 often had a lifespan of 90 years. In 1964, 33 years. In 2016 24 years and in 2027 it is forecasted to be only 12 years. If in the past companies could maintain the same business model for decades, today, refusing to adapt would have catastrophic consequences. In this huapii hour podcast, the CHRO of AXA Belgium, Els Jans, talks about change management and how AXA embraced the people resistant to change into their processes leading to them becoming its biggest advocates.

This podcast was recorded remotely due to the global pandemic. It affected the sound quality but not the input quality of the podcast.