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We caught up with Daniel H. Pink, author and speaker on workplace, business and management, before his closing keynote speech at the CIPD’s Annual Conference. Daniel was speaking at the November conference on ‘Leadership and the New Principles of Influence’, and in this short interview with podcast presenter Philippa Lamb, he discusses an example of a truly impressive leader, and how he thinks companies can encourage good leadership to flourish. 

Dan has written five bestselling books, his latest of which, To Sell is Human, looks at the skills of persuasion, influence and moving others. The CIPD is currently offering a Drive workshop which is based on Dan’s research, and which focuses on intrinsic motivation, and enhancing workplace performance and engagement.

CIPD Podcast - Dan Pink on leadership

This podcast, the first in a series of four, includes exclusive interviews with some of the top speakers at the CIPD’s Annual Conference and Exhibition in Harrogate (October 2006).

Podcast 1: Annual Conference 2006

This podcast, the second in an initial trial series of four, focuses on the subject of leadership.

Podcast 2: Leadership

Experts and practitioners talk about their experience of change management in this CIPD podcast, the third in a series of four.

Podcast 3: Managing Change

Specialists and practitioners discuss pay strategy and its link to performance. The proper communication of reward plays an important role in how pay and benefits are perceived.

Podcast 5: Reward

Three practitioners explain how they have increased employee engagement and how these efforts have benefited their organisations. Mike Emmott, the CIPD’s adviser on Employee Relations, reveals the results of a recent survey of employee engagement.

Podcast 6: Employee engagement

Philippa Lamb asks Tom the contentious question: why is the US better than us? 

Tom gives three possible reasons why this might be the case. He also refers to an HBR study by Nohria, Joyce and Roberson of 160 companies looking at what management and leadership practices really work. Tom explains the four conclusions and how they are relevant to HR departments. He touches on what HR departments are not doing and has an amusing anecdote. 

Philippa wants to hear how Tom might use this information in a practical way to encourage team building. Tom illustrates his answer by referring to an article by Lynda Gratton and Tamara Erickson in November 2007, on project teams. Diverse, large teams need skilled management and Tom explains how this is done. You may find his ideas controversial. 

‘How do you measure team performance?’ Philippa asks. Tom is honest enough to say he has no pat answer, but he does have some good tips. 

Lastly, Philippa wonders what HR could do better. Tom explains, using two headings: hygiene and equity. Listen to find out more.

Podcast 16: An interview with Tom Stewart

In this podcast we are focusing on reward; hearing from specialists in different sectors and organisations. We will also be getting an insight into the latest CIPD Reward survey.

Podcast 17: Rewarding performance

Talent management is a top challenge for HR professionals. Philippa Lamb discusses the issues with speakers from the recent CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition.

Podcast 24: Strategies for attracting and retaining talent

Lou Burrows explains how appreciation is shown to colleagues at ?What If!.

Podcast 30:  Building sustainable high performance

In this month’s podcast we speak to management guru Gary Hamel on how to build leadership capability for change, so that organisations can thrive. He suggests how this can be achieved and talks about the setting up of MLab, sponsored by CIPD.

Podcast 32: Building leadership capability for change - an interview with Gary Hamel

This podcast is an interview with Stephen Dando about his career progression and the interesting challenges that faced him.  Currently at Thomson Reuters,  Stephen is about to join Bain Capital in America.  However, Stephen's career started in training at United Distillers, a part of Guinness which proved to be a perfect beginning and fitted in with Stephen's ideal role - people development

Podcast 71: Career profile - Stephen Dando

In this podcast Angela Baron, lecturer in HRM at Croydon College, Kate Holt, KPMG, Lesley Ballantyne, Head of Performance Management, John Lewis Partnership, Anna Vasconcelos, Nomura and Simon Nas, Human Resources Director of Carey Olsen, look at the development and characteristics of good performance management and, through case studies, what it looks like in today's workplace.

Podcast 72: Implementing effective performance management

In this podcast CIPD's Chief Executive Peter Cheese. Robert Bolton, Partner, Leader of Global HR Transformation Centre of Excellence, KPMG and Hayley Brown, Talent Intelligence Analyst, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), for AVON Cosmetics, discuss the results of a survey and how HR needs to be able to use analytics to prove its own value to the business.

Podcast 77:  Analytics: How HR can influence strategy through data

In this podcast Gareth Jones visiting Professor at the IE Business School, Madrid, and a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School outlines the six point plan of an authentic organisation - arranged in an acronym DREAMS.

CIPD Podcast - DREAMS: creating the best workplace on Earth

This podcast explores the tricky business of team creation and discusses the role and contribution of evolving technology, the importance of communication patterns and shared values.

Podcast 95: Building the best team

As the nature of organisations changes to become less insular and more networked, strategic business partnerships are on the rise and HR’s role in these partnerships is critical This podcast looks at HR’s role in business partnerships and the key considerations that should be made when approaching business partnerships. We speak to to Paul Sparrow, Director of the Centre for Performance-led HR and Professor of International Human Resource Management at Lancaster University Management School about why business partnerships are on the rise, the concept of mutual benefits and the three overaching themes that his research has identified as affecting the outcome of partnering arrangements; risk and capability, governance and sharing knowledge and learning beyond your own organisation.

This podcast will be followed up by the February episode where we speak to Shell and Rolls Royce to learn about their experience of HR’s role in the success of their business partnerships.



Podcast 96: HR's role in business partnerships - part 1

As the world of work changes at an ever increasing pace this podcast explores the role HR professionals should play in planning and landing change programmes in their organisation.

Podcast 107: Landing transformational change

In today’s business landscape HR professionals are seeking greater business credibility, greater influence and greater impact in their organisations. But what role does HR play in promoting and/or enforcing ethical responsibility in business?

Recent high-profile scandals at Volkswagen, Tesco and Amazon have highlighted the importance of organisational culture and leadership, not to mention the risks of ignoring them. In this roundtable discussion Philippa Foster Back CBE, Director of the Institute of Business Ethics, David Jackson, Associate Director of HR at Manchester Metropolitan University and Laura Harrison, Director of People and Strategy at CIPD, discuss the changing role of HR and how ethical responsibility and business credibility can be balanced and incorporated into that role. 


Podcast 108: HR and Business Ethics

Welcome to our first podcast episode of 2016! In this episode we ask three leading thinkers to share their predictions for what the next 12 months will hold for HR and L&D.

Sharing their insight and foresight Professor Sir Cary Cooper, 50th anniversary professor of organisational psychology and health, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Dave Coplin, Author and Chief Envisioning Officer, Microsoft UK and Inji Duducu, Group HR Director, Benenden Group discuss the key issues facing HR and L&D in the changing world of work including automation, wellbeing, performance management, the leadership of the future, the ongoing debate around email and the concept of finding the right balance in the emerging phenomenon of “work-life integration”.


Podcast 109:  Looking ahead to 2016

Podcast 110: Resilience

Aileen Randhawa, HR Director MBDA, talks about how they have developed their highly sought-after apprenticeship scheme.  Aaron Saxton, Director of Training at UK Fast along with three of his apprentices gives a view of their vibrant apprenticeship scheme from the inside out.

Podcast 111: Apprentices

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