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- 6 days ago38 min
HR People Pod – Ep 61: Strategic HR | Better hiring | Pay transparency | AI and critical thinking
What makes an HR function truly strategic — and how important is investment? As employers prepare for changes to unfair dismissal rights, how can people professionals help hiring managers make better recruitment decisions? Should employees have the right to know what their colleagues earn? Finally, as AI becomes embedded in the workplace, is it weakening our critical thinking and decision-making skills—or helping us use them more effectively?Leah De Silva, Senior Programme Manager for the CIPD Trust, Head of People and Culture at Dowds Group, Rob Rees; and David Blackburn, Managing Director of David R. Blackburn Consulting.Recorded: 30 October 2026---Your next listen:HR People Pod – Ep 60: Commercial confidence, productivity and AI – with Neil CarberryCIPD Podcast 219: Dealing with AI use in recruitment and job applicationsHR People Pod – Ep 54: Future planning as a discipline – with Tom CheeswrightAdditional resources:Report: HR pulse 2026: Inside the people professionReport: Resourcing and talent planning report 2026Tracking law changes: Employment Rights Act 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago29 min
HR People Pod – Ep 60: Commercial confidence, productivity and AI – with Neil Carberry
What opportunities does building commercial acumen as a skillset bring for the profession? Does quality of management matter more than any productivity metric? And what does it take for organisations to be bold about AI, without being reckless?Lisa Pearl, People and Change Director at the CIPD, is joined by new CIPD Chief Executive, Neil Carberry.Recorded: 16 October 2026---Your next listen:CIPD Podcast 235: Can AI governance drive innovation?HR People Pod – Ep 59: Strategic workforce planning | Skills forecasting and productivity | Iced coffee debateCIPD Podcast 225: HR’s role in boosting workplace productivityAdditional resources:Explore this year’s CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition programmeResources | AI in the workplaceNeil Carberry: people professionals are central to performance and productivity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago34 min
Podcast 235: Can AI governance drive innovation?
AI governance, the framework that ensures AI is deployed ethically, transparently and with proper accountability, is no longer a secondary concern. It is foundational to organisational stability and trust. Yet governance has not kept pace with implementation, exposing organisations to real business risks: loss of trust, reputational damage or litigation. But good AI governance doesn’t slow innovation. It establishes the foundations that make innovation possible.Join Nigel Cassidy and this month's guests – Helen Dutta, Director of Governance & HR at DACS; Ray Eitel-Porter, AI expert, Senior Research Associate at Jesus College Cambridge and award-winning author; and Sharon Hill, Director of People at Pay.UK, as we explore how organisations can overcome the perception that governance stifles innovation, and instead build the guardrails that make AI investment and exploration sustainable.In this episode, our panel explores:Why AI governance has lagged AI implementation, and the implications for organisations and workforcesThe importance of ensuring AI governance is a continuous, people-centred process that evolves alongside technology and ways of workingWhy effective AI governance acts as an enabler of innovation, through creating confidence and trust---Your next listen:CIPD Podcast 229: From AI experimentation to AI maturityHR People Pod – Ep 57: Innovation | Is ‘resilience’ a tainted word? | Dealing with AI grievancesCIPD Podcast 219: Dealing with AI use in recruitment and job applications More from this episode:AI in the workplace: Insights, guides, case studiesGuide: How people professionals can develop, deploy and use AI in an ethical, legal and sustainable way Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Oct 7, 202631 min
HR People Pod – Ep 59: Strategic workforce planning | Skills forecasting and productivity | The iced coffee debate
The CIPD’s latest Resourcing and talent planning 2026 report, supported by Omni, reveals that an increasing number of organisations are extending their workforce planning timeframes from the short to the medium term. Overall, 24% take a short-term approach (up to six months), down from 31% in 2024. However just a fraction of organisations (16%) are planning more than two years into the future. So how can organisations build a strategic workforce plan for three to five years out, when the pace of change makes even the near future hard to predict? Plus, as recent City & Guilds research suggests that a shortage of so called ‘soft skills’ is restricting productivity and growth – how should we be recruiting and developing those skills in the workforce? And finally, hear more on whether these HR leaders would bring an iced coffee to a job interview... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Sep 23, 202635 min
HR People Pod – Ep 58: Rapid reculturing - with Alex Bailey and Kerri O’Neill
What does it really mean for an organisation to know its culture, and is it possible to borrow the best bits of someone else’s? Who should hold responsibility for shaping culture when roles and structures are shifting so fast? And as AI transforms the workplace, can it be a genuine ally in culture change rather than a threat to it?Leah De Silva, Senior Programme Manager for the CIPD Trust, is joined by authors of Rapid Reculturing, Alex Bailey, award-winning psychologist, and Kerri O’Neill, Chief People Officer at Ipsos UK and Ireland, and two-time CIPD HR30 recipient.Recorded: 18 September 2026---Additional resources:Tool: Quick wins to improve workplace cultureFactsheet: Organisational climate and culturePeople Management: Why measuring organisational culture often goes wrongBook: Rapid reculturing: Transforming organizations at pace and scale Your next listen: CIPD Podcast 220: Do leaders establish culture, or are they a product of it?HR People Pod 46: Measuring culture, driving performance – with Hani NabeelCIPD Podcast 233: Courageous conversations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Sep 16, 202633 min
Podcast 234: Recruiting and supporting refugee talent in the workplace
According to UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), there are approximately 548,400 refugees in the UK – yet many highly qualified, experienced people remain locked out of meaningful work. Not by ability, but by structural barriers: recruitment processes that filter out valuable candidates, unrecognised or unfamiliar qualifications, and in many cases, a basic misconception among employers about whether refugees can legally be employed at all.Join Nigel Cassidy and this month's guests – Jenny Walton, CEO at Refugee Employment Network; Nikki von Bulow, Director of HR Consultancy Services and CIPD Trust Rebuilding Futures Mentor; and Oksana Hulyk, Legal Adviser and HR Professional – as they draw on lived and professional experience to explore how people professionals can remove these barriers and open up meaningful employment for refugee talent.In this episode, our panel explores:What role people professionals can play in removing barriers to refugee employment, from right-to-work misconceptions to recruitment processes that filter out valuable candidatesWhy supporting refugee employment is a workforce strategy, not a philanthropic gestureHow to equip line managers with the skills and confidence to support refugee talent once they’re in post---Your next listen:CIPD Podcast 226 – Closing skill gaps from within: the case for internal mobilityCIPD Podcast 217 – Willing and able: Unlocking opportunities for prison leavers More from this episode:Guide: Hiring refugees – Guide for people professionals (CIPD Trust)Case study: Rebuilding Futures and forming a friendship that goes beyond mentoring (CIPD Trust)Website: Refugee Employment NetworkRefugee Employment Network: Training for Employers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Sep 9, 202632 min
HR People Pod – Ep 57: Innovation | Is ‘resilience’ a tainted word? | Dealing with AI grievances
When it comes to AI-generated grievances, is this really a new problem for the profession, or a familiar one that AI has simply thrown into the spotlight? Has ‘resilience’ become a bit of a tainted word, quietly placing all the onus on the individual to cope? And during a period of labour market stagnation, how do organisations create the conditions for innovation to thrive without relying on an inflow of new talent?CIPD Head of Membership, Oli Howard, is joined by Rebecca Monk, Chief People Officer at Softcat plc and Trish Hewitt, Founder and Managing Director at Haylo HR and CEO of Resolution at Work.Recorded: 04 September 2026---Additional resources:Report | Labour Market Outlook – Summer 2026Guide | Resilience: Guide for people professionals to support employeesEmployment Law | AI and technology in the workplace: UK employment lawResources | AI in the workplace Your next listen:CIPD Podcast - Episode 233: Courageous conversationsHR People Pod – Ep 39: Rewriting the rules on workplace conflict – with David LiddleHR People Pod – Ep 28: Hilary Scarlett special – Neuroscience for organisational changeCIPD Podcast – Episode 223: Beyond learning - Mobilising L&D for organisational change Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Aug 26, 202618 min
HR People Pod – Ep 56: L&D – Proving impact and preparing for what's next - with David James
Why does the question of L&D's return on investment refuse to go away, decade after decade? What does it really mean to measure success as a learning and development function — and are we often measuring the wrong things entirely? And as organisations transform at pace, what will businesses be asking of L&D professionals in five years' time that they aren't asking today?Jo Squires, CIPD Learning Designer, is joined again by David James, Chief Learning Officer at 360Learning and host of The Learning and Development Podcast, where in part two of this two-part special, they explore how L&D can build credibility and prove its impact, the enduring skills that will keep the profession relevant, and what lies ahead for L&D as the world of work continues to change.Recorded: 7 August 2026---Additional resources:L&D tools: Building your business case – a practical pathwayL&D tools: A performance-led approach to skills and capability planningArticle | Performance focused L&D business partner Your next listen:HR People Pod – Ep 55: L&D – From order-taker to strategic partner - with David JamesCIPD Podcast 202: Evidence-based L&D – Asking the right questionsThe Learning and Development Podcast with David James Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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