HRchat Podcast

The pandemic, to put it mildly, shook up the labor market. Millions of people are now moving into new roles and 10,000s of firms are in search of talent.In this HRchat episode, we consider the latest tools and trends for job seekers and those responsible for talent sourcing, attraction, and connection. We also consider what to look for in an employer and how to make the right decisions to further your career.Bill Banham's guest this time is Craig Fisher, Founder, Employer Brand and HR Tech Strategy Advisory at TalentNet Media, Chief Executive Officer at Knack.io, and Strategic Partner at RecruitingAdvisors.Craig helps companies, leaders, and teams with digital brand and inbound marketing strategy and training for recruiting, sales, marketing, and personal branding.In addition to direct consulting, TalentNet Media hosts the largest recruitment conference series in the Southwest of the US - with annual events in Dallas and Austin. The TalentNet Live events started as the first-ever Twitter chat for recruiters in 2008.Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

12 months into the pandemic, many employees have 'hit the pandemic wall', and burned-out workers have said stress is costing them work time. With so many more workers increasingly feeling the strain of pandemic stress, isolation, and uncertainty we need better tech and tools to help workers get out the other side of a very difficult period.Bill's guest in HRchat episode 265 is Dr. Monika Roots, Chief Medical Officer at Sanvello Health, a leading digital mental health care provider of in-app therapy to a network of +90 million people!Listen to the interview with Dr. Roots and get her answers to questions including:What are some of the common causes of stress and concern for employees and how has this changed since the pandemic hit?Why can it be powerful to draw strength from a wider community of people who understand your situation?What would you say to those people suffering at the mo and anxious about opening up?For our leaders and HR pros, what goes into creating a judgment-free, label-free space?What are the steps needed to offer employees the resources required to allow them to be authentic and feel safe to express themselves?Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this special episode, we preview the online 2021 Benefits and Wellness Superhero Symposium produced by Thorpe Benefits and The HR Gazette happening April 7th and 8th.  Bill's guest is Roger Thorpe, Founder at Thorpe Benefits. The symposium is designed to develop the skills HR needs to get proper leadership buy-in on group benefits plans. Over two days attendees will hear from guest experts in panels and join in with lively debate. Register here: eventbrite.ca/e/the-benefits-and-wellness-superhero-symposiumThe agenda includes online presentations and lots of practical takeaways: • Top Trends in Benefits and Wellness• What Companies are Doing to Manage the Area of Mental Health• Strategies for Better Communication of Benefits Plans to Employees• A Proprietary Measurement Tool that Determines the Success of Benefits Programs• How to Control and Understand your Group Benefits Plan PricingSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat, we'll consider the why and how of moving out of the HR trenches and into a consulting role. We'll also talk about ways AI will continue to change the HR function over the coming years. Bill's guest this time is Ben Eubanks an HR analyst, author, fellow podcaster, Chief Research Officer at Lighthouse Research & Advisory, and most recently, Founder of the HR Tech Awards.Ben operates as a human capital management industry analyst - helping companies and vendors with strategy, content, and more. He has been a speaker a decade at events such as the SHRM Annual Conference, ATD TechKnowledge, the HR Technology Conference.Previously, Ben worked as an "in-the-trenches leader in the HR field" within smaller organizations, government contracting firms, and the non-profit sector. This means, says Ben, that "I've had my hands in pretty much everything at some point: recruiting, benefits, training, employee relations, executive coaching, and the rest of the spectrum you run across in an HR shop".Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

There is a paradigm shift in the way work, "works”, as organizations are choosing to collaborate more with the growing global freelance labor market. Our guest this time is Nicholas Schroder, CEO & Co-Founder of ProCollective. He has worked across different industries, ranging from big Pharma to Advertising, but after completing his Master’s at Copenhagen Business School, he focused his efforts on digital solutions for the future of work. At the start of 2020, the vision of building the foundation for work in the decentralized digital future led to the inception of the Copenhagen-based technology startup called ProCollective. Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

While many of us don't necessarily believe that work will ever quite be the same again, we're at a stage where vaccines are being rolled out in many places en masse and, hopefully, sometime soon, the majority of desk-based employees will be able to return to the office. In this HRchat episode, we'll talk about how the pandemic has impacted company culture, operating models, and what areas of the HR department are changed forever. Bill Banham's guest this time is Suzanne Lucas, AKA the Evil HR Lady. Suzanne is a writer and speaker who focuses on Human Resources and Business issues. Before becoming the Evil HR Lady she spent 10 years in corporate HR. Her work focuses on helping people managers manage better and helping employees understand how to navigate the world of work. Her work has appeared in Inc, The New York Times, CBS Moneywatch, Cornerstone's ReWork, and many other places.Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat episode, we consider tactics and tools to help leaders and HR pros build teams quickly while scaling company culture in sustainable ways. Bill Banham's guest this time is Hessie Coleman, Vice President of People at SEDNA Systems, a global firm used in 80 countries offering communication software that brings all conversations, data, and documentation together in one focused, accessible place. Hessie's focus, she says, is "building a world-class team and making sure working at SEDNA is as great an experience as using the product". Prior to joining SEDNA, Hessie scaled award-winning challenger Starling Bank from pre-banking license through hypergrowth, before taking on a Chief of Staff role and running business banking delivery. She gained a solid grounding in all things People during her time at Mercer, British Gas, and Centrica, which also gave her an appreciation for the pitfalls of managing transactions via email in large scale enterprise.Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this special HRchat, we talk about how businesses can apply learnings from sports and science to improve performance and look ahead to the intelliHR Performance Summit happening Feb 24th.The summit, supported by The HR Gazette, is a free virtual event for HR professionals and business leaders who want to empower their teams to reach maximum potential.Bill's guests are Rob Bromage and Glenn Donaldson from intelliHR, a global, cloud-based people management platform that helps organizations to maintain a real-time handle on performance, creating company cultures that make strategic decisions based on data-driven insights.Learn about the intelliHR Performance Summit here: intellihr.com/PerformanceSummit2021Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat episode, we consider what it means to be truly inclusive in your efforts to engage employees and communities whilst living under Covid restrictions. Our guest is Michael Bach, Founder and CEO at the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI). Michael is an internationally recognized thought leader in the fields of diversity, inclusion, and employment equity. He is also a panelist at the Feb 25th Community Builders in Crisis Summit where he'll be contributing to a discussion around ways to reach more business communities. Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

Many leaders and HR professionals working with high performing teams are under lots of pressure and stress right now. So too, are the employees they manage. Trends that come from stress and burnout include low productivity, low employee engagement, turnover, irritability, presenteeism, and greater frequency of mental health challenges.These are signs of impending and existing burnout. And things are likely to get worse unless tackled in the right ways. Fortunately, there is a process to reduce stress and help prevent (or recover from) burnout for your employees and we're going to consider that today.In this HRchat we hear from Laval Martin, Resilience and Performance Trainer and Coach at Laval Martin Consulting Inc., a firm that helps companies to better engage employees and leaders to foster resilience through participatory training workshops, customized workshops, individual coaching, follow-up support, and evaluation.Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events