It’s HR Trends week on the Ins and Outs of work podcast! After a ‘Realign’ and a ‘Reconnect’ episode, it’s now time for a conversation around our final trend for HR in 2022: Redeploy. For this, we were being joined by David Perring, Director of Research at analyst firm Fosway. David had a lot of interesting things to share with us, often supported by fascinating research. We talked about how organizations are all about people’s energy, Gen Z and multigenerational workforces, being that...

Welcome back to the Ins and Outs of Work podcast! This week is all about our HR Trends for 2022: Realign, Reconnect, Redeploy.  On today’s episode, we talk with Rishita Jones, Transformation, Communication and Change Consultant at her own company New Routes for Growth (NRG HR). We had a super rich conversation about… the importance of reconnecting in the broadest sense of the word. Without wanting to give away too much, we touched on what Rishita calls HR busting boxes, belonging,...

It’s that time of the year again. Time to look ahead and identify our HR Trends for 2022. Time to invite some fabulous guest experts and hear their thoughts on the most important topics for the year ahead: Realign, Reconnect, Redeploy.  This week will be all about HR Trends on the Ins and Outs of Work podcast. In today’s episode, we talk with Rebecca Wettemann, Principal and thought leader at analyst firm Valoir.  Our conversation touched on the LMS (and why it’s dead), employee-driven...

VHUCA. Virtuality, Humility, Connection, and Authenticity. Those were the HR trends we identified last year for 2021. Were we right? Were we wrong? A bit of both?  In today’s episode of the Ins and Outs of Work, we look back at 2021 and last year’s HR trends video. We listen to some of the most interesting things our guest experts had to say and discuss what we feel has happened (or not) in the world of work over the past year. With our HR trends for 2022 coming ups next week, this...

Are you someone who hates office politics? Someone who refuses to kiss the boss’s bum just to gain their favor? Always keeping away from gossiping and spreading rumors about your colleagues? Then this is the episode you’ve been waiting for!  In today’s episode of the Ins and Outs of Work, your very own resident Insider and Outsider dive into the world of office politics. We discuss a couple of epic office politics examples from pop culture, zoom in on what skills it takes to be a good...

How can we become better at collaboration and communication? Do we need to have fewer meetings? Better meetings? No meetings at all? And what about working asynchronously, how does that help? And how does this affect your company culture?  In today’s episode, we speak with Dmytro Okunyev, Founder and CEO at Chanty. Chanty is a team collaboration app that helps teams communicate and increase productivity. As the founder of 4 companies, Dmytro knows a thing or two (understatement) about team...

The true power of AI is in enabling us to transform what we do as HR people, not simply run old, out-dated processes in a more efficient way! In the third and final episode of our ‘AI Week’, we feature a conversation between Sven Elbert (Senior Analyst at HR analyst firm Fosway) and Amayas Sadeg (Product Marketing Manager at Talentsoft, A Cegid Company). This episode was originally recorded as a live webinar featuring slides on screen. The audio has been edited so that it can be clearly...

The true power of AI is in enabling us to transform what we do as HR people, not simply run old, out-dated processes in a more efficient way! In the third and final episode of our ‘AI Week’, we feature a conversation between Sven Elbert (Senior Analyst at HR analyst firm Fosway) and Amayas Sadeg (Product Marketing Manager at Talentsoft, A Cegid Company). This episode was originally recorded as a live webinar featuring slides on screen. The audio has been edited so that it can be clearly...

The Terminator, Wall-E, Person of Interest...what insights can these pop-culture classics provide us on the realities behind AI and its impact on work? In part 2 of 'AI Week', this episode sees Neelie and Joe speak with Alexandre Pachulski, Founder of Talentsoft, speaker and author of several books including 'Generation AI'. He holds a PHD in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence. In his book 'Generation AI' Alexandre paints a picture of AI through the lens of...

Where is AI actually making a difference to HR practices today? Artificial Intelligence still promises a lot, but what is it actually delivering in the world of HR in 2021? We kicked off 'AI Week' on the podcast by interviewing Marie Rockström of Scandinavian consulting firm HerbertNathan & Co. This is the first of 3 episodes this week focused on the ways in which Artificial Intelligence is impacting human resources in 2021 and beyond. Our guest Marie has over 10 years of experience...

What does good employer branding look like? Surely there's more to it than painting a picture of corporate paradise that every applicant would love? And what can great employer branding do for your recruitment outcomes? In today's episode, we speak with James Ellis, 'The Employer Branding Nerd' and Head of Employer Brand at Roku Inc. James builds “employer branding that's so effective, your marketing team might steal it.”  He’s a noted employer brand and talent strategy thinker, keynote...

HR strategic planning - it's not easy! Especially given the events, uncertainty and turmoil of the last two years...how should you even approach creating a plan for your HR activities in 2022? This epsiode is here to answer that question, as well as dispel some myths and provide 5 big tips to doing your 2022 HR planning right. We've created a Workbook to help you go further in your HR planning! It's a downloadable PDF, full of discussion questions and a structured framework to build your...

To return or not to return? (to the office)...that is the question! Over the last few months, companies have been on a journey to figure out how to navigate a return to 'normal' office life. As Covid restrictions lift in many parts of the world, what should the new normal of work-life look like? We spoke with Marlene Ramsing Gudman of Salesforce, to understand how Salesforce approached this big topic a few months ago. As a mega multi-national company, with over 60,000 employees worldwide,...

Are you paid fairly? Are you paying your people fairly? What does 'fair pay' even mean and how should you approach calculating salaries and bonuses and deciding on benefits for employees? To get answers to these questions and more, we spoke with David Buckmaster of Nike. He's just written a book entitled 'Fair Pay: How to get a raise, close the wage gap, and build stronger businesses'. With his experience as a Global Compensation leader at Nike, and a whole host of other Fortune 500...

Reskilling and Upskilling are often talked about in the same breath. But they are completely different disciplines! Our guest today talks us through how they are different, why they require wildly different approaches and what companies should be focusing on for each. Jasper Schonenberg is Global Reskilling & Upskilling Leader at IKEA. Jasper leads the work of developing, implementing and communicating reskilling and upskilling programs for IKEA employees around the world. And that’s...

Let's get your questions answered on the podcast! Time to share your burning questions on HR and the future of work and get featured in The Ins & Outs of Work podcast! We'll put them to our expert guests throghout season 3. Share your questions here: https://forms.gle/DkvPoPcGmssaTGqc6 On topics from collaboration, hybrid work and AI, to employee engagement and Hr trends for 2022, we'll be covering a lot of ground in season 3! Share your questions and help us cover the topics...

Is the Great Resignation all hype? Blown out of proportion? Wait...Back up...What even is The Great Resignation? Answers to all these questions and more in today's episode! Definition section The Great Resignation is the name given to a recent trend that shows that up to 40% of the global workforce - mainly millennials - are seriously considering leaving their employer this year.   Read more...

Public Service Announcement! We'll be recording a live podcast episode at an online event called The HRcoreAcademy Summit, coming very soon! Join us for our live session on Thursday 14 October at 11:50am CEST, and hear Neelie & Joe talk about talent trends for 2022. Register here: https://www.hrcoreacademy.com/ The title of our session is 'Forget the War on Talent, Retention is the New Battleground'.

Skills gaps, skills shortages, the war for talent...It's all connected. Upskilling and reskilling are quickly becoming major strategic priorities for HR and L&D teams around the world. The World Economic Forum, in fact, estimates that 1 billion people will need to be reskilled by 2030 - a situation driven by new technologies, changing business models and whole new ways of working. Does your organization have the skills it needs to be successful in the future? What kind of skills will...

EXCITING THINGS COMING - SEE YOU AGAIN SOON! Season 2 is done and dusted! We hope you enjoyed our journey together through the employee lifecycle over the last 6 weeks. Over summer 2021 we touched on six major pillars of the employee experience, with 'How To' episodes on each, especially designed for HR people, managers and business leaders: Employer BrandingCandidate ExperienceOnboardingPerformance ReviewsEmployee EngagementOffboarding The great news is that the back catalogue is all...

Let's walk you through some steps! Join your favorite 'HR Insider' and 'HR Outsider' as we go back to basics this summer and run through 6 fundamental topics in HR. Welcome to Part 2 of our employee offboarding topic (the final episode in this season of The Ins & Outs of Work!) in which we’ll share some serious 'Insider Actions' in the form of actionable tips to help you do better offboarding, as well as an example of a company that is nailing things in the employee offboarding...

What is employee offboarding? Is it more than an exit interview? Join your favorite 'HR Insider' and 'HR Outsider' as we go back to basics this summer and run through 6 fundamental topics in HR. We're now onto our final topic in the employee lifecycle and in today's episode we talk employee offboarding. We kick off this topic by answering a few questions: What is offboarding? Why does it matter? Plus, a great ‘did you know’ section, followed by the ‘Outsider Outpouring’ and the debunking...

Join your favorite 'HR Insider' and 'HR Outsider' as we go back to basics this summer and run through 6 fundamental topics in HR. Welcome to Part 2 of our employee engagement topic in which we’ll share some serious 'Insider Actions' in the form of actionable tips to help you better measure and improve employee engagement, as well as an example of a company that is nailing things in the employee engagement department. Questions or comments on today's episode? Tweet us at...

Join your favorite 'HR Insider' and 'HR Outsider' as we go back to basics this summer and run through 6 fundamental topics in HR. We're now onto our second-to-last topic in the employee lifecycle and in today's episode we talk employee engagement. We kick off this topic by answering a few questions: What is employee engagement? Why does it matter? Plus, a great ‘did you know’/ short history section, followed by the ‘Outsider Outpouring’ and the debunking of three employee...