The People Agenda
Real voices. Fresh thinking.
Are you an HR leader grappling with the complexities of HR tech, transformation, or change management?
Listen to The People Agenda podcast (previously the HR on the Offensive) for cutting-edge insights, actionable strategies, and real-world success stories to tackle your biggest HR and Payroll challenges.
In each episode, we dive into the latest trends, expert advice, and practical solutions to help you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving workplace.
Whether you’re looking to drive adoption of new technology, lead organisational change, or simply optimise your HR strategy, you’ll leave every episode with fresh perspectives and tools to take your initiatives to the next level.
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How closely are customer experience and employee experience related?
How can you accurately measure the correlation between employee experience and customer experience? How can you avoid survey fatigue? Chris and Emma are joined by Kevin Campbell from Qualtrics to talk about his perspective on the topic....
Where does HR fit into the DEI agenda?
Chris and fellow LACEr Rebecca Addison talk to Ewart Campbell about a few of the DEI initiatives he’s spearheaded; they also discuss what businesses can do to address their unconscious bias and why it's necessary to maintain DEI initiatives long-term....
The Cost Of Living Crisis: How can businesses help?
As part of a collaboration for financial wellbeing week Chris and Adam Morris from LACE speak to Therese Procter, global advisor at Wagestream about their The Cost of Living Report 2022; which you can download here. What can businesses do to help their employees...
What can businesses do to become more inclusive?
Ahead of national inclusion week, Chris is joined by two LACErs Rebecca Addison and Eve Edmonds to discuss inclusivity in the workplace and why it's important. How can larger businesses create a more inclusive work environment?...
How can businesses improve employee motivation and productivity?
In this podcast we are joined by our HR Transformation Senior Manager Debbie Mitchell to talk about a book she wrote, called 50 Top Tools for Employee Engagement. The book discusses how you don't need expensive interventions to improve employee motivation. Chris...
Why are employers struggling to recruit Gen Z?
Chris is once again joined by Emma Leonis-Hughes as they speak with Steven Rothberg from College Recruiter as they discuss why employers are finding it difficult to recruit Gen Z. Is it due to a shift in attitude towards work? How are employers unknowingly alienating...
What is quiet quitting and what impact does it have on businesses?
Quiet quitting: what is it and why is it becoming more common? Cathy Acratopulo our co-founder was featured in an article around this topic which you can read here. In this episode, Chris and Cathy discuss how quiet quitting doesn't just affect both the employer and...
How can businesses improve their DEI initiatives?
Increasingly businesses are recognising that their policies and culture need to promote the representation and participation of different employees; but how can they do this effectively? We speak to diversity, equity and inclusion expert and speaker Guilherme Klein...
Podcast number 100! Highlights from our series
Today marks our 100th podcast from our HR on the Offensive series! Listen in to hear from the team about which episodes we enjoyed the most, which ones we recommend and also some bloopers from behind the scenes... We've enjoyed the journey so far and have loved...
Who is responsible for good employee experience?
Who is responsible for good employee experience? Can the culture of a company affect it? Does leadership play a role? Chris discusses this with Tope Sadiku from Kraft Heinz. https://soundcloud.com/user-539831783/who-is-responsible-for-good-employee-experience
How can HR create the right conditions to thrive?
The two Chris' from LACE Partners talk to Stephen Ousley from SD Worx about the whitepaper they produced (which you can view here) which looked at how HR has supported post pandemic business model changes, the impact of inaccurate data in payroll amongst other...
How has HR shared services evolved in a post pandemic world?
In this week's podcast Chris speaks with Emma Leonis about her new whitepaper, HR Shared Services Trends 2022 Report. They briefly talk about some of the key statistics from the report....
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