By Chris, Paul & Rachel chat about People (HR, L&D, Career Coaching & Recruitment)
The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.
This week, we have a relaxed conversation around identifying what you need as a business - is it management, or is it leadership?
With management being more procedural - what needs to get done and how - versus leadership which focuses more on inspiring your people to produce their best, how do you understand which approach is needed and when?
We start the conversation by defining each and asking how business goes about developing leadership skills and management skills - what programmes are available and how you choose the right development approach for your needs. Times are changing, and so is the approach to developing leadership skills, especially considering changing working environments, and so we touch on this aspect.
Conversation then moves to how organisations frame a role, and how the language they use to describe leadership or management gives candidates a snapshot of how that organisation perceives positions of responsibility.
Chris proposes that management tends to focus on what has occurred, versus leaders that tend to look forward at what is yet to come - perhaps this is a differentiator? Is one bad and one good?
Overall, it is important to realise that modern business needs elements from both, and both roles have their place in making an organisation successful.
Enjoy this weeks episode and, as always, we would love to engage with you on the topic. Join the conversation on our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-peopletalk-podcast/
Skills Vs. Attributes - do you know the difference?
This weeks episode looks at the difference between skills and attributes, how each are developed, and the impact of each on employee capability.
We start off by asking Chris how each is evidenced through the recruitment process and what is best practice around job specifications and assessing skills & attributes at interview.
importantly, we also discuss how individuals demonstrate attributes through 'standard' CV's.
We then go on to discuss that as you advance up the career ladder, attributes become more important due to leadership roles focusing on supporting businesses through change and or difficulty, changing what you are looking for in these individuals.
Of course we see skills shortages mentioned everywhere throughout the press. Have you ever seen an attributes shortage receive the same coverage? Especially with the need for key attributes needed for effective remote working.
At the core of this subject of course is how you develop both skills and attributes, and our conversation continues into how businesses can do both and the considerations that need to be made for the different approaches needed.
We hope you enjoy the conversation and, as always, if you have any friends or colleagues that you think would enjoy this podcast, please bring them into the conversation.
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This week Chris leads us on a great conversation around your Employee Value Proposition (EVP). This is an episode that was recorded a few weeks ago that unfortunately Rachel was unable to join us in recording - don't worry, she is back to full fitness and back with us on the PeopleTalk Podcast!
So what is an employee value proposition?
As a business, your employee value proposition is the value that you are able to offer your employees, including benefits, environment and the like.
This week, me and Chris reflect on our understanding and experience of EVP, how this has changed with the onset of remote and hybrid working, and how employers should now be communicating their EVP to potential and existing employees.
The conversation then moves on to how SME's should approach EVP (it is not just a focus for large corporates!), how you need to follow up with your promised benefits and not just pay lip service to them, and whether you can use personal development as part of your EVP.
As ever, we love this topic and would love to hear your thoughts. As a topic there is so much to consider around how you structure your EVP and how you keep it current, and so would love to hear your experiences with this.
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Happy Birthday....to us!!!! This week, 'The Peopletalk Podcast' turns 1!!
We started out 12 months ago as 3 people coming together to talk about our weeks in the World of People and to act as a support network to each other, a way of sharing our thoughts in the midst of a global lockdown. This week we reflect on our first year as a podcast, our favourite episodes and themes and a few thoughts on the next 12 months
Discussing how in years to come these episodes will be like mini time capsules, allowing us to reflect on the changing world through crazy times and look back on what has stuck around, what has flexed and what has returned to the way it was before. Such a cool way of looking at it we thought!
So Happy Birthday us and we hope to be celebrating many more in the years to come
Imposter Syndrome
As we do most week, the subject was recommended to us as a topic, so we start with a good old google search to define and give us some starting structure.....
"Imposter syndrome is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud"
Interestingly it went on to say that It disproportionately affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments.
This week we covered a range of areas including
Our personal experiences...first leadership roles, starting businesses and podcasts...we've been there!
#podcast #podcasting #impostersyndrome #HR #Humanresources #thepeopletalkpodacast
Resilience
This week we chatted about resilience. A great follow up conversation to lasts weeks focus on Mental Health in the Workplace. Paul lead this week and was honest to say he has had a week to forget...isolating after a family member tested positive for Covid (don't worry, they're fine), a lightning strike leading to no internet and any entertainment for home bound Children and being forced to work from home!!
Paul was reflecting on his tough couple of weeks and was reading this article (https://positivepsychology.com/resilience-in-the-workplace) and thought it would not only be a timely conversation for him but also a great follow on from last week.
The article summarised by saying...
"Broadly speaking, resilience is the ability to ‘bounce back’ when encountering the challenges that are an inevitable part of life. The workplace presents a different range of stressors to employees. What is resilience in the workplace? Why is it even important? Can individuals even become more resilient anyway? The exciting thing about resilience is that it is a skill. Like any skill, with practice, resilience can be learned."
We covered a few areas in this chat including-
We were joined by another guest this week, which centred around the so very important theme of Mental health in the Work Place
We welcomed Chris West.
Chris has a huge passion for helping and developing people. Whether this has been supporting team members, peers, graduates, customers or appearing at events and being the one in a group of friends that is there to help. A career in FMCG Sales leadership over nearly 20 years, leading teams, P&L management and national retailer relationships.
We know that the last 18 months have been very tough for lots of people and Chris has been open and honest that physically he struggled with two knee operations, mentally he struggled with the death of two friends. So maybe this has acted as the catalyst for him to make a shift in career away from the corporate environment in to consulting where he will specialise in Advanced Grief recovery, mental health first aid and coaching.
This weeks chat was a starting point, a way for us to continue the conversation and give some sight on the value it brings to a business to offer support and create a culture that encourages the conversation.
Chris started with the facts...
31st episode of the PeopleTalk podcast and we're talking about all the positives that we feel are here to stay after the last 18 months and how we are seeing them impacting our worlds in HR, L&D and recruitment.....the overriding theme we chatted through....people are key to business success!!
We were are all in agreement that our businesses have sensed and are seeing real positivity and pace in business in the UK in particular, early signs that we may being seeing global talent mobility slowly starting to open up again and that businesses are thinking more than 4 weeks ahead again!
A few of the themes we covered-
The importance of HR- if the function didnt have a seat at the table, it does now!
Remote working- think more about flexible working; it is more than just WFH...ability to get the job done when it suits you but how do businesses adapt to this.
Wellness- is firmly on the agenda with real meaning now not fluffy things!- burnout, mental health, work/life balance are rightly being openly talked about and supported.
Onboarding and Company Culture- the importance of truly understanding your culture and how you bring people in to the business rather than simply relying on the 'office vibe' and free coffee/drinks!
Training- a lot of businesses have realised the need to invest here to develop their people. More so in some cases where businesses have realised they can't rely on more casual/informal development in an office environment
Leadership skills- the remote/hybrid leader is evolving. The need for leaders, who have demonstrated adaptability, is #1 on the must have list in recruiting currently.
This week's PeopleTalk podcast welcomed a guest to mark our 30th recording to begin the conversation with Paul, Rachel and Chris around Diversity & Inclusion.
Good people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives are vital to an organisation’s success — both inherent diversity (e.g., race, gender) and acquired diversity (experience, cultural background) are associated with more sales revenue, more customers, greater innovation and higher profits (HBR, 2016).
We welcomed Jessica Hornsby from Equalital joined us this week (www.equalital.com) . At Equalital, they use proven psychology to actively advise clients how to find, develop and motivate the very best talent, nurturing and capitalising on the unique perspectives each person can bring
We really didn't scratch the surface and all came away with plenty questions and points for discussion and will definitely carry this on during future episodes
#diversity #diversityandinclusion #diversityequityandinclusion
This week in the UK the sunshine has made an appearance and as we are lucky enough as individuals to have our own businesses and be able to work around this so, we headed out for the day yesterday and thought it might be topical to reflect up on how the change in the seasons can effect employee motivation.
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The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.