In this episode of Tap’d Talks HR, Anthony speaks with Marie Chequer, Organisational Wellbeing Consultant, on how an organisations success is driven by the wellbeing of its employees. Marie shares insight into what wellbeing is, different approaches to it, and how you can get begin to address employee wellbeing yourself.

How wellbeing drives success

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks with Kevin Teoh, Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, Department of Organisational Psychology. They explore the latest research on job crafting, and Kevin discusses the importance of employees balancing workplace demands & resources with their own personal needs & abilities.

Job Crafting - Empowering Employees to Make Change

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks with Wayne Clarke, Founder of the Global Growth Institute, on the challenges of remote leadership. Wayne explores the difficulties leaders have faced over the past two years, and highlights the factors that can bring about more effective remote leadership. They also discuss the importance of one-to-one meetings between leaders and team members, and how interacting with teams on a more personal level can better engage and motivate them.

The Challenges of Remote Leadership

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks with Tarin Calmeyer, Holistic Wellness Practitioner and Founder of Remote Team Wellness, on the topic of remote wellbeing. They explore the benefits of being location independent and its impact on employee wellbeing, as well as the challenges that often come with it.

Remote Team Wellness

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony revisits three previous podcasts, all on the topic of hybrid working, and discusses both the benefits of remote working, and of being back in the office. In this episode we hear from Wayne Clarke, Founder of the Global Growth Institute, Dr. Aeron O’Connor, an Anthropologist at University College London, and from Tap'd leadership expert Andi Roberts.

Hybrid and Dispersed Teams in 2022

Welcome to the launch of our new series of Tap'd Talks HR. In this short launch episode Anthony gives us a sneak peek into what you can expect from the podcast in 2023. With new episodes each month, we will be discussing relevant and up to date HR topics with some exciting guest speakers and covering hot topics such as fostering and engaging hybrid workforces, balancing a fair wage and protecting the longevity of organisations.

What you can expect from Tap’d Talks HR in 2023

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Tony Eames, CEO of Total Active Hub, a global platform that enables employees to be more physically active, supporting their long term health. They discuss the misconceptions of physical exercise, what being active really means and why physical activity is so important to organisations.

Misconceptions of Physical Exercise

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Victoria Brown, Head of Research and Development at Belbin. They discuss the effect of hybrid working on your teams, how you can make sure your people's strengths and personalities can shine, and how you can go about designing the perfect virtual and hybrid team.

The Effect of Hybrid Working on Teams

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR Anthony speaks to Kate Faxen, an Organisational Change Specialist, working for WHEN, the Women in Higher Education Network - a network developed to accelerate change and propel people to achieve their ambitions in academia. Kate discusses WHEN's pioneering 100 Black British Women Professors programme and shares findings from their research. In 2018, there were only 25 Black British Female professors in the UK, compared to over 12,500 white males. Kate shares why 70% of the cohort have felt, since launch, the programme has already accelerated their career progression.

Supporting black women to progress their careers in academia

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR Anthony speaks to Nelson Sivalingam, CEO & Co-Founder of HowNow and author of 'Learning at Speed'.

They discuss the future of learning, the importance of making learning meaningful for the individual, and why learning environments need to be fit for the future and developed focusing on the learning experience rather than admin efficiency. Is it time to wave goodbye to the traditional LMS system?

Is it time to wave goodbye to the traditional LMS?

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Rachel Lewis, an Occupational Psychologist specialising in work, health and wellbeing. Rachel has recently released research on how organisations can support employees through the cost-of-living crisis. With the biggest fall in living standards since records begun, they discuss the different ways organisations can be helping their employees, and the initiatives that may feel right, but are actually doing more harm that good. Rachel's work in mental health at work has seen her recently named in HR Magazine's 2023 Most Influential List.

Supporting your employees through the Cost of Living crisis

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Megan Butler, an analyst who focuses on all things AI in HR. They discuss the latest AI HR trends, how the narrative around AI is switching from one of replacing jobs to its use in making people more productive, chat GPT and why it's so important with any use of AI to get solid foundations in place.

How AI is making real change in the workplace

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks with John Hackston, Head of Thought Leadership at the Myers Briggs Company. They discuss recent research which explores how people adapted to home working and working back in the office, through the lens of MBTI personality profiling. They discuss the key findings and why it's so important for organisations to be offering employees a choice and why there's no one size fits all approach.

Hybrid Working & Personality -through the lens of MBTI

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to storytelling author, Karen Eber. Karen has recently published a book, 'The Perfect Story - How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence and Inspire.' They discuss the science of storytelling, why it's important, what makes storytelling work inside an organisation, and how you can best tell a story.

The Psychology of Storytelling

In this month's episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Leadership & Management Educator Matt Offord. Anthony and Matt discuss the value and impact of outdoor learning and the concept of Ecopedagogy. Drawing on his 30 years experience in the Royal Navy, Matt shares why the outdoor environment can be extremely powerful for leaders and managers.

The Value of Outdoor Learning

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Siobhan Sheridan, Chief People Officer at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Siobhan shares some insights into her own recent wellbeing research and discusses why it's so important for the HR function to place a strategic importance on its own wellbeing.

The Strategic Importance of HR's own Wellbeing

Welcome to our end-of year compilation Tap’d Talks HR podcast where we highlight some of the key moments in the conversations with our guests over the last year. We're always so grateful to our guests in giving up their time to share their insights with our listeners. Hopefully this “best of” podcast will make you want to jump in to some of the over 80 podcasts we have now recorded on Tap’d Talks HR.

2023 End of Year Compilation

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Fred Thompson, Founder and CEO of Thirst, an  Ai driven learning platform. They discuss the world of learning and development in 2024, the exciting developments, the importance of leveraging advance technology and yet still maintaining a human approach to learning, and importantly how technology advances have accelerated the way we measure and report back to the business.

The World of Learning & Development in 2024

In this month's episode of Tap'd Talks HR, we speak to Katy Henrickson, founder of WellFi, an organisation dedicated to delivering a happier, more productive workforce through financial wellbeing. With 77% of employees experiencing some form of financial stress and anxiety over the last 12 months, what can leaders do to support their people and maintain productivity? Katy shares her thoughts and explains why the financial wellbeing of your employees is critical to the vitality and growth of your company.

Improving Productivity Through Financial Wellbeing

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to nutrition coach Candy Duval on the importance of healthy eating and its connection to productivity in the workplace. They discuss how food choices can affect our brain functions and the real impact of leaders neglecting their nutrition. Candy offers up some excellent advice to ensure leaders can continually maintain their high productivity levels.

Healthy Eating and its Connection to Productivity in the Workplace

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to leadership expert Andi Roberts on the importance of HR practitioners being more entrepreneurial. Andi discusses how not only will entrepreneurialism give HR a bigger voice at the top table, but why he believes it will allow you to create more value and make more impact, across your entire organisation.

The Entrepreneurial HR Leader

In this Tap'd Talks HR podcast Anthony speaks to consultant Andi Roberts on the future of transformation and change and its impact on people and future business results.

The Future Of Transformation And Change

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Megan Marie Butler, an AI research Analyst - specialising in HR - at CognitionX on the emerging trends in AI in HR. Did you know there are over 600 AI technologies on the market for HR professionals?

What's emerging in AI for HR?

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR Anthony speaks to #Leadership coach Katherine Powell on why Action Learning has become so relevant to business leaders.

The Power of Action Learning

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR Anthony speaks to Marc McKenna-Coles, Global Diversity & Inclusion Manager at Lloyd's of London on the importance of building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Embracing diversity and inclusion at Lloyd's of London

In this episode, Anthony speaks to Michael Gegg, founder of South Thames Marketing - a professional services marketing consultancy, on the commonalities between marketing and Employee Engagement.

The commonalities between marketing and Employee Engagement

In this episode Anthony speaks to Velina Getova - a psychologist, coach and founder of notyourtherapy.com, a mental health organisation which provides psychological help in the workplace - about imposter syndrome for leaders, and in particular female leaders. They discuss what it is, why it's a concern for leaders and companies, and what individuals can do to get support.

The Leadership Imposter Syndrome

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to David Macdonald, Director of Learning at Arup about performance management systems and if they are fit for purpose. They discuss what is performance management and what it actually isn't; why it's the thing that makes the biggest difference in turning mediocre people into great people (and also great people into mediocre people!); why it's been so badly used and often overlooked; and finally why it's more than just an 'appraisal'!

Are Performance Management systems fit for purpose?

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Dave Millner, the HR Curator, on his new book 'An Introduction to People Analytics'. They discuss why People Analytics is so important to today's HR professional, what analytics can do for you and how you can make the shift to being more data-oriented.

An Introduction to People Analytics

In this episode of Tap'd Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Natal Dank, co-author of the recently published book 'Agile HR: Deliver Value in a Changing World of Work'. They discuss what agile HR is and why she wrote the book, the effect of the pandemic on the HR function and why the HR profession has never had a better opportunity to transform our workplaces.

Agile HR: Delivering Value in a Changing World of Work

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