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Social media and the workplace

Recruitment and selection

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

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

Podcast 4: Talent management

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

In this podcast we consider the impact of the internet on HR. We hear how three very different organisations have used Web 2.0.  The CIPD is doing some research on the impact of Social networking on HR.

Podcast 22: Social Networking, Recruitment and HR

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

Philippa Lamb discusses performance management with Stephen Moir from Cambridgeshire County Council, Stephen Sidebottom from banking giant, Nomura and Michael Spiers from Sainsburys.  The CIPD's, Adviser for Organisation and Resourcing, Angela Baron also provides useful guidance.

Podcast 25: Performance Management

Philippa Lamb finds out about organisational development, the concept and how it can be put in place in different ways at different organisations. Her guests are:

Linda Holbeche, Director of Research and Policy at CIPD.

Christine Lloyd, Executive Director, People and Organisation Development, for Cancer Research UK.

James Anderson-Dixon, who works in the Business Services Department of Nationwide, a building society.

Martina Platts, who has worked on human capital with many companies including PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM Global Business Services.

Podcast 28: Organisational development

This podcast presents interviews with some speakers from CIPD’s recent HRD conference: Victoria Woodison, Robert Galavan, Edward Lawler, Nicola Riley, Chris Worley, Linda Holbeche, Mandy Coalter and Valerie Raven-Hill.

Podcast 31:  Making change  work (Part 1)

This podcast takes a more in-depth look at how CIPD case study organisations implemented a change process and the measures they took to achieve change. Victoria Woodison, Mandy Coalter, Valerie Raven-Hill and Louise Fisher describe their experiences of making change happen and Vanessa Robinson talks about whether the HR profession has taken on board the message about change as a continuum. 

Podcast 31:  Making change work (Part 2)

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.

Podcast 34: Executive remuneration

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.

Podcast 44: HR and organisation development: separate past, joint future?

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.

Podcast 52:  Attracting the brightest and the best

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'


Podcast 54: Learning and development in a socially networked age

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

Podcast 60: Social media - no longer a risk to be managed?

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 Martin Clarkson, Co-founder and Chairman, The Storytellers, Vilma Nikolaidou, Head of OD, Tate Galleries and Wilson Wong, Senior Researcher, OD Insight and Practice, discuss organisation development from the perspective of involving stakeholders in the design and development process, and examine the best ways to communicate OD throughout the organisation.

Podcast 84: OD: taking the business with you?

With new CIPD survey results showing prevailing uncertainty that social media has any role to play in the workplace, we discuss ways in which social and digital technologies can and increasingly will have a real impact on the world of work. We discuss how employers can exploit the potential of a more networked workforce, and talk about the altered power dynamics that can result from a more ‘social business’.
HRD and prolific tweeter Gemma Reucroft (@HR_Gem) speaks about how she’s used social media to network and learn, and how her company is now building social technologies into its communications framework. DPG’s Head of Customer Experience Mike Collins (@MikeCollins007) talks about a networked approach to L&D. We also probe the findings with report author Jonny Gifford (@jonnygiff), who argues that the question is no longer ‘whether’ but ‘how’ you are going to use social media. The episode also includes the legal perspective from solicitor Ron Kane, including his suggestions for collaboratively developing a workable social media policy.

Podcast 85: Social media: what's the point

“At the heart of every business is people; how they create value is the key issue that CEOs are struggling with today” – Charles Tilley, CEO, CIMA

“We’ve got to move beyond short-term financial metrics if we’re going to create growth and come out of the recession strongly” – Ann Francke, CEO, CMI

“There’s a lot of art to HR. This is not about putting every dimension of people into some quantifiable figure” – Peter Cheese, CEO, CIPD
Last year, a collaboration of organisations, including the CIPD, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), launched Valuing your Talent, with the aim of encouraging ‘more businesses to measure the impact that investing in people has on their organisational performance’. The multi-disciplinary project group and the open, collaborative approach were deliberate attempts to overcome obstacles that have foiled previous attempts to provide a framework for measuring human capital. 
The project has now been underway for several months, and, as the report and framework are published, we give the Chief Executives of the participating professional bodies a chance to address some of the issues that have been raised, and to clarify their vision for the project, and the part that each of their professions has to play. 
Philippa Lamb chairs the discussion between Peter Cheese of the CIPD, Charles Tilley of CIMA and Ann Francke of CMI. 


Valuing your Talent: CEO Discussion

In this podcast we discuss the impact of increasing numbers of migrant workers on the UK workforce and in particular the effect that this is having on young people as they seek employment. We speak to Gerwyn Davies, Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD, who sets the scene for the numbers of migrant workers compared to 10 years ago. We discuss the rising number of skilled EU workers entering the UK workforce and the impact on the UK employment rate. We also speak to Alex Gennie, Senior Research Fellow, IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) and Sinead Lawrence, Senior Policy Adviser, CBI (Confederation of British Industry) about how the employment landscape is changing in general and why it is important to consider the impact of EU migrant workers as part of this changing landscape. We go on to discuss what EU migrants bring to the workforce in terms of skills and values and the effect this is having on young people in particular. 

Podcast 94: The impact of EU migrant labour on the UK workforce

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

Welcome to the first podcast for 2015! In this podcast Chief Executive Peter Cheese explains the key themes the CIPD will be focusing on in the coming year and introduces 4 important thinkers discussing what they think is significant and cutting edge for the profession right now. First we speak to Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at the Warwick Business School, about the science of human behaviour and its relevance to HR issues. Next we hear from James Rule, Director of HR Solution Effectiveness at Thomson Reuters who describes a scheme called ‘partnering for performance’ that embodies the idea of aligning talent within the business with opportunity and how they have used technology to achieve this. We also hear from Arnab Banerjee, an HR Transformation and Technology expert, who describes the ways technology can optimise HR and his predictions for what will happen in this space. Finally we hear from Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, who outlines why she believes that businesses should stop focusing on sustaining a competitive advantage and instead work towards identifying different opportunities and working in an agile way to take advantage of these opportunities.  

Podcast 97:  Look Ahead To 2015

It’s our 100th podcast! To celebrate this milestone we asked you, our listeners, to take the lead and give us your wise words and views on the HR profession; its highs and lows, how it’s changing, the best advice you’ve been given in your career and what you love about working in HR.

We also put your questions to our trio of expert speakers: HR Director of Telefonica, UK, Ann Pickering, Stefan Stern, visiting professor as CASS Business School, and Max Blumberg, Research Fellow at Goldsmiths University. Ann, Stefan and Max also give their expert insight on successful HR careers, industry trends and buzzwords, and what HR means today. 


Podcast 100: Words of wisdom for HR

Recent research shows that just 7% of L&D professionals evaluate the impact of learning initiatives on the wider business but in these uncertain and evolving times it’s essential that L&D becomes all about alignment; with both business aims and with evolving ways of learning.

But what does alignment actually look like? In this podcast we speak to three experts to gain their insight. Laura Overton, founder of Towards Maturity, discusses what is holding alignment up and what L&D should really be measuring to assess value, while Julian Stodd, Founder and Captain at SeaSalt Learning describes the new world of learning, of social and community, and why L&D need to act as agile facilitators not controllers of learning. Andrew Jacobs, Talent Management and Organisational Development Manager at London Borough of Lewisham, agrees with the importance of embracing new ways of learning but stresses the need to challenge the use of certain methods and technology to ensure it’s what is needed for the business. Andrew also discusses his experience of stripping back his L&D offering to truly align with what people want and what they’re already using.

Do you feel that more needs to be done to align L&D with business objectives in your organisation? How are you embracing evolving learning methods? Join in the discussion on Twitter @CIPD using the hashtag #cipdpodcasts. 


Podcast 103: Aligning L&D With Business Objectives and emerging practices

Research suggests that by 2030 there will be more jobs than people. In this talent-led market, reward strategies will become enormously important in helping organisations to stand out and attract and retain the very best candidates. 

In this podcast Charles Cotton, Public Policy Advisor for Reward at CIPD offers insight into the shifting landscape of reward and the challenges of catering to a changing workforce with increasingly diverse needs and preferences. Neil Morrison, Group HR Director at Penguin Random House discusses the importance of reward in creating a fair and transparent culture following the merger of the two publishing houses in 2014. And Kelly Mitchell, Head of People Services at Home Group shares her organisation’s experience of launching an innovative reward scheme and the benefit of good communication and engagement. 


Podcast 105: The changing landscape of reward

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

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