Watt About HR

In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by employment lawyer at Keystone Law, Emma Wayland who works in partnership with Ditton HR to offer clients the full range of employment law services to business owners. Find out more about Keyston Law: https://www.keystonelaw.com/

About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by Julie Leach who is the learning and development expert at Ditton HR.

Julie is CIPD qualified, has many years of experience in HR, learning and development, is the co-founder of Chancery Training which specialises in enhancing individual and team performance and is the president of the Kingston Chamber of Commerce.

Julie and Claire talk about the importance of ensuring line managers have sufficient training and understanding of leadership, effective communication and bringing out the best in the team.

They discuss the fears of new managers and the risks to the business of not investing in their development early on.

Whether you are an experienced manager looking to enhance your skills, a business owner wanting to upskill your team or an individual wanting to learn more about your journey to becoming a more effective manager, this podcast is for you.

About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by Stephanie Rough who is the recruitment expert at Ditton HR. Stephanie is MCIPD qualified and has many years of experience in navigating the changing landscape of talent acquisition from her days working in recruitment.

For nearly 20 years Stephanie has worked in bespoke recruitment for private and corporate clients, and having been the MD of the market leader in private household recruitment Stephanie knows the importance ensuring quality talent to reach your goals. Stephanie now applies her knowledge of the recruitment agency environment along with her HR qualification and background to support small businesses with their recruitment needs.

Stephanie and Claire talk about the latest trends and challenges in recruitment, discuss strategies for attracting and retaining top talent, and talk about the importance of recruitment reporting and the candidate experience.

Whether you're an experienced recruiter looking to enhance your skills, a small business owner struggling to recruit great people or a job seeker curious about the inner workings of the hiring process, this podcast is for you.

About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by Sam Weerasinghe, owner of wellbeing and mindfulness practice SamMantra. Accredited mindfulness & stress management coach with over 9 years’ experience teaching mindful based stress intervention courses and coping strategies to individuals, schools, charities and corporates. Sam brings mindful based skills to the workplace – an area where chronic stress has become a widespread issue today.

Sam and Claire talk about stress and how and why mindfulness practices and tools can make a real difference to our everyday interactions at work as well as our overall general wellbeing.

About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this episode, Claire is joined by Noelle Davies, a workplace and employment mediator with 20 years experience in operational and global HR. She resolves workplace conflict with mediations and coaching, independent investigations together with relevant conflict related training.

The aim of mediation and conflict coaching is to help participants listen, articulate critical points and move forward. Addressing conflict or disputes as early as possible will lead to quicker and easier resolutions in a far more cost effective manner than time spent on grievances, lost staff hours or in the worst case scenario, employment tribunals.

As an experienced HR professional, Noelle is well versed in all aspects of workplace disputes and investigations from compensation to reorganisations and strategic disagreements. Furthermore, after two decades of managing and supporting conflicts in a major corporate, Noelle is excited to be able to support diverse industries and companies to deal with conflict in new and constructive ways.


About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this episode, Claire is joined by Johanne Penney, a senior executive leader whose work experience spans over 20 years advocating for equality and diversity. Johanne runs EDI training workshops for Ditton HR.

In 2020, after seeing a gap in education around ‘Black lives matter’ (BLM) in corporate companies and the cry for collaboration with individuals, she used the lockdown period in Covid as a reset button, realised her dreams and set up her own anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy called ‘Amp Up Your Voice’.

Johanne is unapologetic in her passion to achieve real equality for Black, minority and ethnic groups. She believes this is the time where progressive companies and individuals can collectively shift the dial and make fundamental, tangible change which is so desperately needed.

About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by Adam Cundell and Louise Aldous-Critchley from Breathe HR to learn more about this powerful and time-saving HR software. Ditton HR has partnered with Breathe HR.

About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by Ditton HR consultant Emma Greggains, an occupational psychologist, and outplacement and career coach, to talk about how to support employees to find their next role following redundancy.

About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by Ditton HR consultant Michelle Smith who specialises in employee relations and handles a lot of redundancies and restructures.

About Claire

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

In this introductory episode of Watt About HR, meet Claire Watt, host of the podcast and founder of Ditton HR, as she's interviewed by podcast producer Steve Randall.

After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago.

Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects.

Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses.

You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting:

https://www.dittonhr.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/
and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited