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 in

#38 Skills v's Attributes

Oct 8th, 2021 19m 27s

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 evidence

#37 EVP

Oct 1st, 2021 24m 16s

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

#35 A year in the life of a podcast

Sep 7th, 2021 14m 53s

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 sharin

#34 Imposter Syndrome

Aug 18th, 2021 20m 32s

Imposter SyndromeAs 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

#33 Resilience

Aug 5th, 2021 25m 8s

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 tes

#32 Mental Health in the Work place…with Grief Recovery Specialist/Mental Health First Aider (Guest)

Jul 28th, 2021 26m 53s

We were joined by another guest this week, which centred around the so very important theme of Mental health in the Work PlaceWe welcomed Chris West.Chris has a huge passion for helping and developing people. Whether this has been supporting te

#31 People are important...

Jul 15th, 2021 21m 29s

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 chatt

#30 A Diverse chat...with Jessica Hornsby (Equalital)

Jun 22nd, 2021 31m 21s

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 s

#29 Does Seasonal change affect employee motivation?

Jun 8th, 2021 17m 6s

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 o

PeopleTalk MORE...The People behind the podcast...meet Rachel

May 18th, 2021 9m 55s

PeopleTalk MORE...The People behind the podcast...meet Paul

May 18th, 2021 11m 11s

PeopleTalk MORE...The People behind the podcast...meet Chris

May 18th, 2021 12m 1s

#28 Is there such thing as reaching the limit in your career?

May 4th, 2021 22m 21s

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 promote

#27 The 'Re-awakening' and its impact on people at work

May 4th, 2021 17m 47s

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 ha

#26 Social Media...How does it impact the World of work??

Apr 27th, 2021 21m 1s

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

#25 Can we build real trust through a recruitment process?

Apr 16th, 2021 25m 37s

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

#24 The importance of working environment on performance

Mar 31st, 2021 23m 15s

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

#23 Team Building...Getting the 'band' back together

Mar 23rd, 2021 21m 29s

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 tea

#22 How do you balance high potential talent with those simply wanting to do their jobs?

Mar 11th, 2021 19m 34s

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

#21 What do you want to be when you grow up?

Mar 4th, 2021 21m 49s

What do you want to be when you 'grow up'We are back for another week of interesting conversation around people in the world of work and this week, as it is National Careers week here in the UK, we are continuing our theme of career development

#20 Should one bad apple spoil the batch

Feb 23rd, 2021 22m 48s

Episode 20!! Today we're talking about the benefits of small teams and the (potentially negative) impact that one person can have on the performance of the team and what happens when you have an employee who isn't happy or not performing at wor

#19 Talent Development through Apprenticeships (featuring Ziggy from Aspire2Learn)

Feb 11th, 2021 28m 59s

So, in the UK it's #NationalApprenticeshipweek which follows on from last week's podcast when we talked about talent engagement and the benefits of young workers in business and rising stars.We were delighted to welcome our first guest!! We fo

#18 High potential talent...what does it mean to your business?

Feb 4th, 2021 22m 4s

This week Paul lead the conversation on a topic we are all hugely passionate about, identifying high potential talent and nurturing the 'stars of the future'. We were all in agreement that those in early stages of career are facing some dauntin

#17 Divergent Teams, Science of Success & Talent Engagement

Jan 28th, 2021 19m 21s

This week we chatted about our weeks just gone, each giving a main topic we are seeing lots of, which meant interesting insight and some live examples and lots of jumping around on topics...nothing new there for us!!!We covered Divergent TeamsC