The modern employer #wildcards

We are joined by Will (Head of People) from MyTutor. In this exciting episode, we look into how we scale intentionally and we learn from our mistakes whilst we do it. How to build your talent acquisition teams and the importance of this and how the people team evolves when scaling. 

Value Proposition In this episode, we look at how People people look to decide what their next step in the people world is. This is mostly valuable if you are already within the People function or looking to enter the people function as we look at the intricacies of the people function. The lookouts in the next step of your people career. Looking at People journey’s start-up and scale up environments 

We want to introduce this week John Faulkner-Wilcocks who talks to us about culture as a product. In this episode, we discuss how to passionately be against branding People teams as administrators? How to get buy-in from your founders when your culture needs help? Where are all the tools for building culture? All this and much more in this episode as we learn how to build culture as a product

Guest engineer: Polly Petrelli joins us in this episode. She comes from the startup world as an engineer and she tells us how you could attract a great engineer like her and retain an engineer like her. Find out what she looks for in a job and let's bust some myths! 

In our newest episode "Salary Benchmarking Made Easy" we will talk about:- Why salary benchmarking is important and at what stage it becomes more relevant?- What to watch out for when conducting salary benchmarking?- Practical tips and advice that you can implement tomorrow.

This podcast is aimed at start-up leaders who are in the process of scaling up their operations. You will find our conversations around mobilising your people, building scalable behaviours and selecting the right HR professionals at each stage really valuable.  We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast and get the actionable tips and advice you always do when it comes to the Modern Employer channel content. We welcome a special guest Ghilaine Chan- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghilainechan. She has over 20 years of experience in scaling international businesses, social enterprises, sustainability, non-profits and charities with a focus on people management, programme delivery, project management, customer support, and consultancy. She helps people to operate fast-growing businesses in a productive and streamlined way, whilst increasing motivation and improving customer relationships in a fast-paced, changing environment. She brings order to chaos and creates scalable processes around the business, empowering them to delight their customers.Topic 1 - Mobilising employees at the beginning - intentional culture driven by leaders (showing the behaviours)Topic 2 - Building scalable behaviours across functionsTopic 3 - How to pick the right People person for each stage of growth?Checkout Learnerbly's Head of People role here, Modern Employer verified: https://learnerbly.teamtailor.com/jobs/1093323-head-of-people

We have another amazing guest on the show Jack Villiers working with scaling business' his expertise is valued in the industry. We focus on the building blocks of scaling right and look at the areas in which we can action a better scaling culture. Why be a company that says 'scaling transition' why not be the company that scales well and that mitigates a transition period of chaos. Scaling has many facets and in this short podcast we give away some areas to focus on first. Join us on this exciting podcast now. 

In this weeks episode we have a very special guest, People and Talent consultant with over 25 years of experience scaling an early Google and moving onto to consult for some of the largest US tech companies, Stephan Thoma. We are learning some brilliant insights into the definition of long-term strategy as a People function. How to build organisational effectiveness using a framework and what practical questions to think about when building world class people strategy. Lot's of free advice here on podcast! Come check out our other episodes to hear Olya and Karthika speak about all thing People and Talent. 

This weeks episode we have a business consultant Pavel joining us for this episode: We will be all discussing how to develop your metrics accordingly to your business strategy. The foundations of data, metrics and analytics and the differences. How to build you data through surveys, 1:1 , focus groups. How to practically put the tools together to get effective metrics for your People team and help executive leaders build the same. 

BBC Article dissection, find the link here to the bbc article: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201023-coronavirus-how-will-the-pandemic-change-the-way-we-work?ocid=ww.social.link.linkedinThe world of work is changing and we are looking at the way in which it has changed and our predictions with clever insights from the BBC article. Topic: Gender InequalityTopic 2: Do people even want to go back to work in offices anymore?Topic 3:  Recruitment in 2021, what are candidates looking for?Enjoy our first podcast of the year and the start of Season 2 !

In this episode we look at the importance of 2020 and how our transformational change as an organisation will impact People/ HR roadmaps moving into 2021. What are the key take aways in establishing the right roadmap for your people team. 1) Org Design 2) HR road map strategy fundamentals 3) Crisis management preparedness - Proactive vs Reactive in 2021 4) Re- establishing a HR roadmap that works for you. 

Find out more about what flexible working really means. How to make the jump and what to consider. 

In this podcast episode The modern employer #wildcards welcomes April to discuss her experience as a HR consultant around the redundancy process. The Modern Employer looks at how to make a remote redundancy a process that isn't half hearted and a well thought out process. We look at common mistakes around the remote redundancy process, aim to rectify and build change transformation in this process and we give you the most innovative modern ideas on how to best conduct a remote redundancy as an organisation and a people team member. As an employee being made redundant we have also added in ways you can take care of yourself and your rights during the process. 

Onboarding in the new normal can be tough. You maybe on-boarding new recruits remotely but as an organisation wonder how you can do this to match your culture you've tirelessly built. We understand  organisations are building remote cultures all the time recently and how do we effectively do this, whilst pivoting our culture?  Onboarding is the true essence of an employee's success within your business.

Boris has asked us if we can to work from home. However many business' are choosing to stay open - Find out tips and tricks to help your work force feel comfortable and safe in an office space. We have a special guest joining Georgia Barrett a People and Culture coordinator to take us through the tips and tricks to navigate an office re-entry that is safe and builds the right culture. As a business you maybe thinking of opening up later down the line find out what you can do to help employee's. 

We are in a new age. We are discussing the differences of Talent Acquisition and Recruitment. As an organisation is your money best spent on a Talent acquisition or a recruitment agency. 1) Learn how to set up a talent function and the remit of Talent acquisition2) Innovative ways of looking through CV's and making sure candidate experience is met 3) What does the future of our TA look like? What other creative way could we source the right talent? What is culture add? 4) Fundamental differences between Talent Acquisition and recruiters 5) Why do we not use agency recruiters?6) When would we use recruiters ? Bonus For all those looking to go from agency recruitment to in house. Learn how our host did exactly that and made her way up into the Head of People and Talent. 

We are following up from the flexible working webinar. We are answering the burning questions around how to make your company a flexible working environment. We consider all the angles to make sure organisations are providing the best culture and employee experience. 1) HR flexible working current news update -https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-people-feel-returning-workplace-emily-spaven/-https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8590111/Workers-resentful-colleagues-working-home-HR-staff-say.html--------------2) Business leaders feel obliged to be visible or leading by example regardless of location , that is deemed inspirational? --------------3) Suspected commercial value and building rapport through a virtual world vs face 2 face meetings? --------------4) How do we conquer going remote first and keep people at heart?