HR Leaders

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Lisa Calicchio, SVP and Chief Human Capital Management Officer at WCG.Episode highlights[02:20] - Was a career in HR the plan?[03:11] - What was it like taking a role as CHRO at the beginning of a pandemic[04:16] - Did the crisis accelerate your plans?[05:29] - Why empathy is the new competency of leadership[08:43] - How this pandemic has become the great equaliser[13:46] - Why people are our greatest asset[15:54] - Has the crisis made you re-evaluate policies and practices?[19:01] - How are you supporting your people during this time?[23:29] - Why leaders need to be vulnerable enough to say they don't have all the answers [28:47] - What are your hopes for this new world of work?[39:32] - Parting advice for youIf you enjoyed the podcast be sure to subscribe for more content like this. www.hrdleaders.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Chuck Davis, Director of Human Resources at New Balance.Episode highlights[02:14] - How New Balance remain agile[03:57] - How are you supporting your people during the crisis?[06:29] - What is parent's day?[08:26] - How productivity is being measured and a look at pods[12:19] - What is your policy on remote working post COVID?[14:28] - Why stopping an action rather than adding more can lead to more results[15:46] - How have you prepared your leaders to manage remotely?[20:08] - Why burnout could be more of a problem during this crisis[22:42] - What have been your biggest takeaway from this crisis?[25:08] - What about personal learnings?[27:36] - Parting advice for youIf you enjoyed the podcast be sure to subscribe for more content like this. www.hrdleaders.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Vidya Krishnan, Global Chief Learning Officer at Ericsson.Episode highlights[02:00] - Trust barometer - How employee's fear they'll lose their jobs due to a lack of skills[03:08] - How do you build a culture where your people are continuously reinventing themselves?[05:11] - A culture with zero-tolerance for zero learning[05:55] - 5G and what is an empathy engine?[09:33] - Emotional EQ: How systems can be limited by people and not always the systems themselves[11:26] - How have you prepared and supported your leaders through this crisis?[13:33] - How Degreed has helped Ericsson become an empathy engine[15:52] - How do we build the skills we need for the future, now?[20:07] - What are your thoughts on how the learning function has transformed?[25:09] - The relationship between failure and success[27:13] - We need to embed learning in a way that it links to business outcomes[30:13] - What are the challenges that business leaders are coming to you with?[32:44] - Learning doesn't fit with just L&D it's the entire organisation[34:58] - HR Leaders Quick Fire RoundIf you enjoyed the podcast be sure to subscribe for more content like this. www.hrdleaders.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Gustavo Canton, VP of People Analytics at Schneider Electric.Episode highlights[03:36] - Where did the mantra "dare to disrupt" originate[06:11] - Why business continuity should be a top priority for 2020 and beyond[07:19] - How humanity is rising to the challenge during this crisis[09:01] - Why we need technology to empower front line workers[10:34] - People Analytics is currently limited to reporting and descriptive analytics[11:22] - Using A.I to #Freeupyourenergy[13:52] - What next? What are your priorities[17:05] - Showing leaders the gap between what they are seeing and what's actually happening [20:56] - What are the common challenges that leaders come to you with?[23:15] - Giving employees freedom leads to better results[36:00] - Examples of business challenges Gustavo is hoping to solve with A.I.[37:55] - Parting advice for youSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Elaine Mason, Vice President, People and Communities at Cisco.Episode highlights[02:28] - What are Horizontal Communities?[05:35] - What were the trends that motivated this change?[09:00] - This is a big undertaking, how did you go about shifting the mindset?[11:43] - How have current events accelerated this change?[17:52] - Shifting Business partner roles to become the compass of HR[20:32] - How not having to "firefight" allowed leaders to see current trends[22:21] - What does the training and upskilling look like for these leaders?[24:07] - "If you are not a fan of grey space, then you do not belong here"[25:52] - What does success look like for your team?[29:01] - How are you leveraging the venture capital model[32:41] - What's next for you and your team?[37:38] - Parting advice for youEnjoying our content? Access the shows resources and get access to future episodes first by Subscribing to HR Leaders: www.hrdleaders.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Curt White, SVP and CHRO at Array Information Technology, Inc.Episode highlights[02:39] - Why did you make the decision to return to the corporate world?[06:14] - Curt shares why he thinks everyone should take time outside of the HR function[09:22] - How has your past experience helped you build successful HR Strategies?[12:46] - What was the challenge your company was facing and how did you help?[15:54] - What did your first few months in the role look like?[17:49] - The importance of having a culture of constant communication[20:07] - How the company employs an ageing demographic[24:20] - Has talent acquisition been a challenge with this demographic?[30:26] - Curt's thoughts on remote work and how it's been adopted[33:22] - HR Leaders Quick Fire RoundEnjoying our content? Access the shows resources and get access to future episodes first by Subscribing to HR Leaders: www.hrdleaders.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Todd Cherches, CEO, Leadership Consultant, TEDx Speaker & Executive Coach at BigBlueGumball.Episode highlights[01:24] - How Todd benefited from a wider global reach as a result of social distancing[03:00] - Todd's journey to today and his love for poetry and literature that ultimately aided his career[04:42] - How drawings helped Todd overcome a language barrier to complete a project in china[09:21] - What is visualeadership? [10:32] - How a public speaking exercise became Todd's inspiration for writing visualeadership[13:19] - 4 strategies you can use to harness visualeadership[19:09] - Why are visuals so effective?[21:10] - Why communication is often the bearer of the communicator [22:18] - Todd shares what he call's "Yellow ball leadership"[26:07] - What is your leadership weather report?[29:32] - Using visual references to reinforce past experience and learningEnjoying our content? Access the shows resources and get access to future episodes first by Subscribing to HR Leaders: www.hrdleaders.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast I'm joined by my guest Michael Walsh, Director, Global Talent Management & Organisational Effectiveness at Eaton.Episode highlights[01:45] - How Michael was focusing on analytics before it was sexy[03:34] - What attracted you to the world of people analytics?[05:11] - How would you describe people analytics?[06:55] - Advice for those looking to get started?[09:52] - Why storytelling is a valuable skill to have when presenting data[12:00] - What are some of the challenges companies want to solve with analytics?[14:12] - What questions should we be asking when partnering with a solution provider?[18:21] - Why it's important that the business taps into the analytics function[20:50] - How are you balancing models that get used and don't (is there a process?)[21:39] - Michael shares his personal project "Nanny Navigator"Enjoying our content? Access the shows resources and get access to future episodes first by Subscribing to HR Leaders: www.hrdleaders.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast I'm joined by my guest Milly Christmann, Vice President, HR at Vistar, A PFG Company.Episode highlights[03:41] - How Vistar became heavily disrupted but managed to pivot[08:52] - Milly shares the immediate changes to their HR function and the importance of communication[12:07] - How Vistar are continuing to keep their people safe[12:54] - How our jobs have shifted to tactical jobs and why there's no time for strategic planning?[14:52] - "if somebody doesn't know clearly who's job it is... it's HR's job"[16:29] - The toll this crisis has taken on Milly and the difficult choices she has had to make[21:02] - How we can 'refuel' each other by taking time out to recognise those around us[26:11] - What are some of the changes that you've made during COVID that you would like to keep?[28:58] - How this crisis has helped us see the talents of our people in a new light[32:13] - How Milly is shifting to a culture of formalised check ins[34:20] - How can we best maintain a connection with our people on the ground?[37:22] - Why we need to get better at goal setting but most importantly checking up on those goals[39:33] - HR Leaders Quick Fire RoundEnjoying our content? Access the shows resources and get access to future episodes first by Subscribing to HR Leaders: www.hrdleaders.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by my guest Paul Knight, Former Chief People Officer at Perform.Episode highlights[03:45] - What was your experience moving from a large multinational to start up environment?[05:32] - You joined when the company was relatively small, what attracted you?[07:24] - How the business grew exponentially when DAZN come up with the "Netflix of Sport"[11:30] - What are some of the challenges working at a start up?[14:57] - The challenge of having high attrition[21:09] - How it was refreshing to have buy in from senior leaders[22:27] - Would you take on a role like this again?[23:59] - Advice for others on how to best work with co-founders?[26:39] - How quickly did you scale as a business?[27:35] - Was attracting new talent a challenge? How we're you competing?[30:12] - How COVID-19 has forced companies to act quicker[37:35] - Paul's parting advice for youSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.