PeopleTalk Podcast
Business & Economics Podcasts
A relaxed, casual and honest review of weekly thinking from people who work with people. Giving thoughts and reflections from their weeks in HR, Learning & Development, People coaching and Recruitment. Guiding people through the full life of their career journey in a 20 minute (ish), in the style of a Friday morning coffee catch up. The PeopleTalk podcast team details are below, we are continually sharing content on our LinkedIn pages so please look us up and join the conversation. Chris Cheesman SisuPeople (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrischeesman/) Paul Marston Eidos Consulting (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-m-b8ba1827/) Rachel Norrington Face2FaceHR (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rnorringtonhr/)
Location:
United States
Description:
A relaxed, casual and honest review of weekly thinking from people who work with people. Giving thoughts and reflections from their weeks in HR, Learning & Development, People coaching and Recruitment. Guiding people through the full life of their career journey in a 20 minute (ish), in the style of a Friday morning coffee catch up. The PeopleTalk podcast team details are below, we are continually sharing content on our LinkedIn pages so please look us up and join the conversation. Chris Cheesman SisuPeople (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrischeesman/) Paul Marston Eidos Consulting (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-m-b8ba1827/) Rachel Norrington Face2FaceHR (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rnorringtonhr/)
Language:
English
Episodes
#39 To Lead or Manage...and does it matter?
11/3/2021
This week, we have a relaxed conversation around identifying what you need as a business - is it management, or is it leadership?
With management being more procedural - what needs to get done and how - versus leadership which focuses more on inspiring your people to produce their best, how do you understand which approach is needed and when?
We start the conversation by defining each and asking how business goes about developing leadership skills and management skills - what programmes...
Duration:00:16:37
#38 Skills v's Attributes
10/8/2021
Skills Vs. Attributes - do you know the difference?
This weeks episode looks at the difference between skills and attributes, how each are developed, and the impact of each on employee capability.
We start off by asking Chris how each is evidenced through the recruitment process and what is best practice around job specifications and assessing skills & attributes at interview.
importantly, we also discuss how individuals demonstrate attributes through 'standard' CV's.
We then go on to...
Duration:00:19:27
#37 EVP
10/1/2021
This week Chris leads us on a great conversation around your Employee Value Proposition (EVP). This is an episode that was recorded a few weeks ago that unfortunately Rachel was unable to join us in recording - don't worry, she is back to full fitness and back with us on the PeopleTalk Podcast!
So what is an employee value proposition?
As a business, your employee value proposition is the value that you are able to offer your employees, including benefits, environment and the like.
This...
Duration:00:24:16
#35 A year in the life of a podcast
9/7/2021
Happy Birthday....to us!!!! This week, 'The Peopletalk Podcast' turns 1!!
We started out 12 months ago as 3 people coming together to talk about our weeks in the World of People and to act as a support network to each other, a way of sharing our thoughts in the midst of a global lockdown. This week we reflect on our first year as a podcast, our favourite episodes and themes and a few thoughts on the next 12 months
Discussing how in years to come these episodes will be like mini time...
Duration:00:18:45
#34 Imposter Syndrome
8/18/2021
Imposter Syndrome
As we do most week, the subject was recommended to us as a topic, so we start with a good old google search to define and give us some starting structure.....
"Imposter syndrome is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud"
Interestingly it went on to say that It disproportionately affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments.
This week we covered a range of areas including
Our personal...
Duration:00:20:32
#33 Resilience
8/5/2021
Resilience
This week we chatted about resilience. A great follow up conversation to lasts weeks focus on Mental Health in the Workplace. Paul lead this week and was honest to say he has had a week to forget...isolating after a family member tested positive for Covid (don't worry, they're fine), a lightning strike leading to no internet and any entertainment for home bound Children and being forced to work from home!!
Paul was reflecting on his tough couple of weeks and was reading this...
Duration:00:31:56
#32 Mental Health in the Work place…with Grief Recovery Specialist/Mental Health First Aider (Guest)
7/28/2021
We were joined by another guest this week, which centred around the so very important theme of Mental health in the Work Place
We welcomed Chris West.
Chris has a huge passion for helping and developing people. Whether this has been supporting team members, peers, graduates, customers or appearing at events and being the one in a group of friends that is there to help. A career in FMCG Sales leadership over nearly 20 years, leading teams, P&L management and national retailer...
Duration:00:27:30
#31 People are important...
7/15/2021
31st episode of the PeopleTalk podcast and we're talking about all the positives that we feel are here to stay after the last 18 months and how we are seeing them impacting our worlds in HR, L&D and recruitment.....the overriding theme we chatted through....people are key to business success!!
We were are all in agreement that our businesses have sensed and are seeing real positivity and pace in business in the UK in particular, early signs that we may being seeing global talent mobility...
Duration:00:26:28
#30 A Diverse chat...with Jessica Hornsby (Equalital)
6/22/2021
This week's PeopleTalk podcast welcomed a guest to mark our 30th recording to begin the conversation with Paul, Rachel and Chris around Diversity & Inclusion.
Good people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives are vital to an organisation’s success — both inherent diversity (e.g., race, gender) and acquired diversity (experience, cultural background) are associated with more sales revenue, more customers, greater innovation and higher profits (HBR, 2016).
We welcomed Jessica Hornsby...
Duration:00:31:47
#29 Does Seasonal change affect employee motivation?
6/8/2021
This week in the UK the sunshine has made an appearance and as we are lucky enough as individuals to have our own businesses and be able to work around this so, we headed out for the day yesterday and thought it might be topical to reflect up on how the change in the seasons can effect employee motivation.
HR
Recruitment
L&D
Duration:00:14:05
PeopleTalk MORE...The People behind the podcast...meet Paul
5/18/2021
Duration:00:11:11
#28 Is there such thing as reaching the limit in your career?
5/4/2021
This week we reflect upon a topic that Paul came across recently in the Harvard Business Review, the topic of Limits to performance – but more specifically, how some peoples high levels of performance do not translate well when they are promoted. As always, we chat openly around the subject through the lenses of each of Worlds; L&D, Recruitment and HR
People Development- Putting in plans to develop and nature high performing talent is key, but what about raising the conversation with those...
Duration:00:22:09
#27 The 'Re-awakening' and its impact on people at work
5/3/2021
As the World slowly splutters back to life, we chat about the early impact this is having on our Worlds of HR, L&D and Recruitment
As we all feel our way back in to some normal life again, how is this journey looking around work, does anyone have the answers and do we foresee this changing as time goes on??
We meander our way (as usual!) through the subject this week covering off;
- For some businesses, this is feeling like 'start up' territory again...exciting but plenty to do!
- Will a...
Duration:00:17:46
#26 Social Media...How does it impact the World of work??
4/27/2021
This week we attempt to tackle the massive subject that is Social media in 20 minutes!! This will lead to a few spin off episodes to discuss a few topics in more detail. Today, lead by Rachel, we give summary to how Social media impacts each of our Worlds in HR, L&D and Recruitment.
Last year over 70% of 18-34 year olds found their new job via social
We would love to continue this conversation in further episodes and would love to connect with any digital marketing people or employee...
Duration:00:26:29
#25 Can we build real trust through a recruitment process?
4/16/2021
We hit the quarter century this week with the 25th episode of the PeopleTalk podcast.
Today...building trust through recruitment & onboarding, firstly is it possible and more importantly how can we do it. With the changing world of the last 18 months one trend that is shining through currently...the breaking of trust with current or past employers who have gone back on their word and how this is carrying over into recruitment processes for new opportunities...so how so do we build trust...
Duration:00:31:14
#24 The importance of working environment on performance
3/31/2021
This week we're talking about the importance of the working environment to employee performance.
With the World slowly returning some degree of freedom to us....we hope....today we talked specifically around what the working environment can do to impact performance of the business through the eyes of HR, L&D and Recruitment
Rachel started us off defining the 2 aspects to the working environment:
We go on to cover a range of topics (some actually related to the title today!) including;
Duration:00:23:15
#23 Team Building...Getting the 'band' back together
3/22/2021
This week, Paul lead our conversation around the topic of 'Team Building' which saw us focus particular attention on people returning to a physical office in the coming weeks and months.
We feel this is the start in a series of chats around team building , particularly around the building of blended teams, mixing those in office and those remotely joining the set up.
Duration:00:21:25
#22 How do you balance high potential talent with those simply wanting to do their jobs?
3/11/2021
An ongoing theme in the world of people in the workplace is that of talent. We ourselves have talked around this subject quite a bit recently. Businesses are always on the look-out for their next rising star, or are putting considerable effort to talent development within their business.
We discuss this from a slightly different angle today around the question that Paul poses....Is there anything wrong with 'just' being a 'worker'? What does it mean to be an individual that is happy with...
Duration:00:19:25