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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

In this episode we look at research from the Boston Consulting Group in association with the European Association of Personnel Management and CIPD,  'The Future of HR in Europe: Key Challenges Through 2015'.

Podcast 13: Globalisation and HR

In this episode we follow up on a CIPD research report which focuses on the way HR departments set about delivering  organisational objectives and the changes they introduced to make this possible.

Podcast 14: The changing face of the HR function

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

Just what is employer brand? And how does HR go about building it? We visited one major DIY retailer to hear about their approach, and got an overview of the CIPD’s research on this burning issue. 

We speak to Deborah Fernon, CIPD organisation and resourcing adviser, who’s led the CIPD’s research on employer branding. We also hear from Nathan Clements and some of his colleagues at B&Q about how the project has been introduced into their company.

Podcast 18:  Employer branding

In this podcast we discuss how learning and coaching add value and contribute to business performance, especially in the current economic climate. We also look at the latest annual CIPD Learning and Development survey.

Podcast 19: Learning and development - equipping people for change

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

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

Podcast 30:  Building sustainable high performance

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 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

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 Jewellers. 

Podcast 37: Employee engagement

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.

Podcast 55: Maximising the value of reward: thinking global, acting local

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

Coaching has become the generic solution to a plethora of HR development needs but is it always the right approach and are we using it effectively? John McGurk, CIPD Adviser, Learning & Talent, Peter Hawkins, Professor of Leadership, Henley Business School, Heather Townsend, Director, Excedia Group, and Neil Morrison, Group HR Director, Random House, discuss.

Podcast 80:  Is coaching actually solving problems for organisations?

Business partnerships are on the rise, with 25% more organisations setting one up in 2014 than in 2013. This episode follows on from the December episode which looked at the key considerations that should be made when approaching business partnerships. In this episode we speak to representatives from Shell and Rolls Royce about their experiences of business partnerships. Sofiah Umar, VP for HR Strategy and Planning for Shell tells us about using business partnerships as a way to collaborate with competitors and the challenges HR face in  accepting the change of mindset required for success, while Charlotte Dearnley, Head of HR for Controls and Data Services at Rolls Royce, speaks about her role in building an individual culture and identity for her business unit, while remaining part of Rolls Royce, and the importance of fostering communication. Philippa Stokes, Head of Global Employment Relations at Rolls Royce echoes this point by describing why it is crucial to foster common understanding. We also hear from Paul Sparrow, Director of the Centre for Performance-led HR and Professor of International Human Resource Management at Lancaster University Management School on the role of HR in launching and sustaining successful business partnerships.

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