This podcast is about how CIPD and Job Centre Plus are collaborating on a mentoring pilot to help young people back to work. Stephanie Bird, CIPD’s Director of Capability, explains the CIPD’s involvement with the scheme and how it works along with Karen Warren HR Manager at Warwick District Council. Julie Lindsay, District Operations Manager Mercia North, Department for Work and Pensions, has been overseeing the pilot scheme. We also hear from John Linden a 23 year old jobseeker with a degree in...
Mar 25, 2014•21 min
In this podcast Chris Roebuck, visiting professor of transformational leadership at Cass Business School, Gill Rider President of CIPD and former Civil Service head of HR, Robert Booker, HR Director at BG Group plc, a global gas organisation, Michael Chivers, Corporate Vice President Human Resources at Sony Ericsson and Ed Griffin, Development Partner at D3 Partners and Interim HR Direct at Chime Marketing, take a controversial look at HR. They explain why they believe that far too many HR opera...
Mar 25, 2014•25 min
In this podcast John Philpott gives his new year forecast and Jean Tomlin, HR Director for The London 2012 Organising Committee, tells us about running the HR side of the Olympics.
Mar 25, 2014•23 min
This podcast examines trust in the workplace and in leadership generally: whether it has diminished and if so, how can it be rebuilt? Philippa Lamb talks to Vanessa Robinson, CIPD Head of HR Practice, Veronica Hope-Hailey - Associate Dean, MBA Programmes & Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management, Jane Beine, Head of Partner Development at John Lewis, Kirit Patel, CEO, Day Lewis Pharmacy, Plc and Carol-Ann Edwards, Director of Learning and Organisational Development, Norton Rose
Mar 25, 2014•24 min
More and more organisations are recognising the value of social media to their success. Neil Morrison, Group HR Director at Random House, Richard Sealey, Director at Foviance and Alison Chisnell of Informa share their experiences
Mar 25, 2014•26 min
In this podcast Philippa Lamb discusses pensions with Pensions Minister, Steve Webb , Charles Cotton, CIPD Public Policy Advisor, Reward, Steve Rumbles, Head of UK DC Pensions at BlackRock and Tim Taylor, Head of Reward and Recognition at TUI Travel UK and Ireland.
Mar 25, 2014•26 min
In this podcast some young people discuss their experiences on training schems along with Jennifer Oakley, recruitment Delivery Manager for Transport for London and Zarena Brown, HR Director, Hilton Hotels who both run youth employment programmes. Katrina Rudiger gives the CIPD perspective.
Mar 25, 2014•23 min
According to CIPD’s research Shaping the Future, the ability to be continually change-ready is one of the eight key factors that contribute to the most successful organisations and if leaders and followers can be permanently agile then the organisation has a greater chance of sustainable success. Agility is discussed with Dr Jill Miller, CIPD Research Adviser, Jonathan Cormack, Group Head of Organisation Development at Standard Chartered Bank, Dharmendra
Mar 25, 2014•24 min
In this podcast Claire McCartney, Adviser Resourcing and Talent Planning, CIPD, Charlotte Rayner, Professor of Human Resource Management at Portsmouth Business School, Anand Pillai, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Quality, Talent Transformation and Leadership Development, HCL Technologies, and Ian Mintram, Glaxo Smithkline-Senior Vice President, HR leadership of Emerging Markets, discuss how a shared sense of purpose is defined and what that translates into for the organisation and its ...
Mar 25, 2014•24 min
How can organisations effectively deploy reward to achieve objectives in many different locations and how can they maintain equity and motivation and when market rates and conditions vary so much around the world? Charles Cotton, the CIPD’s Adviser on Reward, Peter Newhouse, Global Head of Reward at Unilever and Frances Richardson, Head of Reward at Oxfam, discuss.
Mar 25, 2014•24 min
In this podcast John Baker, former Development and HR Operations Director, Legal & General, Charles Elvin, Director, Centre of Professional Learning and Development, The Open University. Clive Hutchinson, Company Leader, Cougar Automation and John McGurk, Learning and Talent Adviser, CIPD discuss what impact social media is having on the world of work and how learning and development is becoming 'social'
Mar 25, 2014•24 min
In this podcast Lynne Featherstone, Lib-Dem minister for equalities, Julian Smith, Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon and Dianah Worman iCIPD’s Diversity Advisor discuss fairness at work, the Government's role in driving it and what is needed to ensure it happens.
Mar 25, 2014•29 min
In this podcast Georgina Kvassay, Senior Manager, Recruitment and Resourcing at KPMG meets with a group of second year university students to take a litmus test of undergraduate thoughts about HR. Sam Westwood, HR Officer, McDonalds and Esther O’Halloran - HR Director and Interim MD at Paul UK, the French artisan bakery chain, explain why they chose a career in HR.
Mar 25, 2014•23 min
In this podcast Max Blumberg, Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, Alison Hilton, Director of HR Service Delivery at Openreach BT, My-Linh Ngo, Associate Director, SRI Research at Henderson Global Investors and Angela Baron, CIPD Adviser OD and Engagement discuss how metrics can be used to drive the value organisations generate from their people.
Mar 25, 2014•21 min
In this podcast Jackie Orme, CEO CIPD, John Philpott, Chief Economist CIPD, Stephen Moir, Corporate Director: People, Policy and Law for Cambridgeshire County Council. and Alan Walters, VP HR, Unilever, give their insight of the challenges facing HR in 2011
Mar 25, 2014•19 min
This podcast looks at the key behaviours of successful HR leadership. Senior practitioners, Imelda Walsh, Sainsbury's Group HR Director from 2004 -2010, Lee Sears, Bridge Consultancy, Hayley Tatum, Tesco UK and Ireland Operations Personnel Director and Siobhan Sheridan, HR Director, Job Centre Plus, talk about their experience and career progression.
Mar 25, 2014•21 min
In this podcast Dianah Worman, diversity adviser, CIPD, Andrew Harrop, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Age UK and Dave Thomsett, chairman and non-executive director of RJD Technology discuss the business case in support of older workers.
Mar 20, 2014•26 min
In this podcast Angela Baron, CIPD Advisor, Hazel Stimpson, HR Manager at Harrod UK, Commander Iain Upton of the Royal Navy and Samantha Rich, Head of Group Attraction and Talent at AXA UK Plc discuss workforce planning and how a they are meeting the challenge of having the right people in place to deliver their short term and their long term objectives.
Mar 20, 2014•31 min
In this podcast Stephanie Bird CIPD's Director of Capability, Sue Swanborough from General Mills, a global food manufacturer; Jeremy Swain, CEO of Thames Reach, a homeless charity and Julia Clapham from
Mar 20, 2014•21 min
In this podcast Ed Griffin, Development Partner in the Breathe Partnership, Lee Sears, Director of OD consultancy, Bridge, Sati Khakh, Head of Organisation Development at the Civil Aviation Authority and Richard Atienza-Hawkes, Head of Organisational Development for Stoke-on-Trent City Council discuss how organisational development and HR fit together and what sort of skill sets and behaviours lead to really outstanding OD practice.
Mar 20, 2014•25 min
In this podcast Claire McCartney, Advisory on Resource and Talent Planning, Stewart Bromley, Head of People Experience at First Direct, Steve Radcliffe, leadership consultant, and Caroline Sharp, Director of HR and Workforce Strategy, Dumfriess and Galloway NHS Board discuss leadership not only from the top down but at all levels in an organisation - 'distributed leadership'.
Mar 20, 2014•17 min
In this podcast Dr John McGurk, CIPD Adviser on Learning, and Talent Development, Peter Butler, Director of Learning at BT, Nicky Taylor, Learning and Development at Ginsters and Alan Fletcher, Business Development Manager for KMI, discuss the latest trends in learning and development.
Mar 20, 2014•23 min
In this podcast Charles Cotton, Performance and Reward Advisor at the CIPD, Colin Miller, Reward Manager at Kent County Council, Misty Reich, Vice President of HR at KFC UK and Robert Wigmore, Compensation and Benefits Specialist at Munich Re UK Shared Services, discuss creative competitive approaches to reward and the way three very different organisations attract, motivate and retain their employees.
Mar 20, 2014•20 min
In this podcast Lord Young, Jonathan Djanogly and John Thurso, representatives from the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties, discuss workplace policy, regulation and people management.
Mar 20, 2014•30 min
In this podcast Jackie Orme, Joe Dugdale, Sir Richard Needham and David Benson look ahead to the coming year and at how HR can prepare for the forthcoming challenges. Jackie is CIPD Chief Executive, Joe Dugdale is Director of the HR and Organisational Development in the UK Border Agency (UKBA), Sir Richard Needham is Director for International and Commercial Affairs at Dyson and David Benson is Head of Talent and Resourcing at Oxfam.
Mar 20, 2014•20 min
In this podcast Sarah Redshaw, Dean Royles, Perry Timms and Mark Adlestone, all of whom were speakers at CIPD’s Annual Conference and Exhibition at Manchester, discuss what employee engagement means to them, how far it has come in practice and what’s next. Sarah Redshaw is HR Director for the Global Hair Business, Dean Royles is Chair of the Board of CIPD, Perry Timms is Head of Organisational Development at the Big Lottery Fund and Mark Adlestone is Managing Director of Beaverbrooks the Jewelle...
Mar 20, 2014•20 min
In this high-level discussion about the future of HR Lee Sears, Jackie Orme, Gareth Jones and Kevin Brady talk about the challenges for the HR profession and focus on CIPD’s ground-breaking ‘Next generation’ research project. Lee Sears is Strategic Advisor to CIPD, Jackie Orme is CIPD Chief Executive, Gareth Jones is a founding partner of Creative Management Associates and Kevin Brady is HR Director for BT Operate.
Mar 20, 2014•23 min
In this podcast Stephanie Bird, Tanith Dodge, Siobhan Sheridan and Vanessa Robinson talk about the changing nature of the HR profession and what it means for HR careers. The focus is on the CIPD HR Profession Map and how some employers are using it to assess and increase capability in their organisations. Stephanie Bird is CIPD’s Director of HR Capability, Tanith Dodge is a member of the Executive Committee at Marks & Spencer, Siobhan Sheridan is HR Director for the Department of Environment, Fo...
Mar 20, 2014•19 min
In this podcast, members of CIPD’s Reward Panel Charles Cotton, CIPD's Reward and Performance Advisor, John Beadle, Global Head of Human Capital Performance at Standard Chartered Bank and Vice President Reward at the CIPD and Nicki Demby, Principal of Towers Perrin Executive Compensation and Reward Practice discuss issues in executive pay, in particular HR’s role in the debate.
Mar 20, 2014•29 min
This podcast was recorded at the CIPD Employment Law conference on 1 July 2009. Two legal experts, Dominic Regan and Ian Smith, answer listeners’ questions on employment legislation and its impact on HR practices.
Mar 20, 2014•30 min
