Introducing AHRI’s brand-new podcast, Let’s Take This Offline: conversations to inspire HR.
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Season 2
Episode 5
How to prepare yourself for an HR leadership position
How can emerging HR leaders arm themselves with the necessary capabilities to navigate a complex business landscape?
In this episode, we speak with Tiffany Blight CPHR, First Assistant Secretary People Division with the Federal Government, about the essential skills needed and how HR practitioners can position themselves for leadership opportunities.
Episode 4
Creating inclusive cultures for neurodivergent employees
Around 15 per cent of the population identify as neurodivergent; however, this is sometimes invisible within organisations.
In this episode, we speak with Aron Mercer, founding team member at Xceptional, a social enterprise that creates meaningful careers for neurodivergent individuals, about how to create safe, neuro-inclusive work cultures.
Episode 3
How HR practitioners can become culture leaders
In this episode, Siobhan McHale, Executive General Manager of People, Culture and Change at Dulux, shares how to frame HR roles for greater impact at the executive level.
She also offers insights into her seven-year culture transformation project at ANZ Bank, turning it from Australia’s worst-performing financial institution to one of the best.
Episode 2
Navigating the evolving skills landscape
In this episode, Ravin Jesuthasan, global thought leader and Senior Partner and Global Leader for Transformation Services at Mercer, talks about how HR practitioners can navigate the evolving skills landscape.
You’ll learn how to take advantage of the shift towards skills-based hiring, how AI might reinvent the graduate-level position, and models and frameworks to think about skills and job design as a small, medium or large-sized business.
Episode 1
How can HR care for their own mental health?
HR is an incredibly rewarding profession, tackling some of the most pressing workplace challenges, from navigating layoffs to meeting the high expectations of leaders and employees. But this kind of work can take a toll.
In this episode, we speak with Dr Adam Fraser, peak performance researcher and workplace wellbeing expert, to explore how HR can care for their own mental health and wellbeing as they navigate the ever-evolving business landscape.
Season 1
Episode 4
Building stronger relationships at work with Michael Bungay Stanier
A key part of being an effective HR practitioner is about building strong, strategic and trusting relationships with key stakeholders in order to build your influence and help move your organisation towards its goals.
In this episode, coaching expert and author Michael Bungay Stanier shares insights from his latest book ‘How To Work With (Almost) Anyone’ and provides listeners with insights to make their relationships at work more effective and resilient.
Episode 3
Doing HR differently with Lucy Adams
In a world where the HR profession has been elevated to new heights, how can HR professionals maintain the momentum they’ve gained over the past few years to continue adding strategic value to a business’s long-term goals?
In this episode, we speak with Lucy Adams, CEO of Disruptive HR and former HR Director at the BBC, who shares her thoughts on fresh ways to think about HR, including her EACH framework, (which stands for Employees as Adults, Consumers and Humans), and shares practical examples of different ways organisations are trialling new ways of working.
Episode 2
Rethinking learning and development with Rod Farmer
In episode two of AHRI’s new podcast, we speak with McKinsey and Company’s Expert Associate Partner Rod Farmer about how HR professionals can get cut through with their learning and development programs.
We’re moving from a jobs-based economy to a skills-based economy, says Farmer, which is why we need to rethink how we embed the right skills in our organisations. He shares useful frameworks and an interesting case study from some work he’s done with the Department of Regional NSW to create more digital literacy within its workforce.
Episode 1
Designing a culture journey with Shane Hatton
In the inaugural episode of AHRI’s brand-new podcast, we dive into all things culture with Shane Hatton, a renowned culture and leadership expert and author.
Shane shares a range of helpful frameworks, a case study demonstrating how an organisation got collective buy-in for its new culture, and practical advice that any HR professional listening can take away and apply to their organisation, no matter what industry they work in.
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