HR Director's Cut HR Director's Cut

Can you really become an L and D specialist overnight?

In this episode, we're talking about Learning and Development. We're giving our tips on creating great strategies for development - especially when all eyes are on you.

How do you teach training to teachers when you don't have any training experience?

Lisa tells us about the pressure of training experienced professionals and what she did to become great!

PLUS: Victoria & Kate debate whether payroll is actually HR or Finance!

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Any actions or risks are your own to take. You should seek legal advice before undertaking anything that may have consequences for yourself, your business, or your employees.

Is there more we can do to support those who are going through, are going to go through or have gone through menopause?

In the this episode of HR Director's Cut, we talk about menopause and introducing wellbeing initiatives that ACTUALLY work.

No more tick box exercises!

Click here for more information on menopause, including:
Myths & Facts
Symptom Checker
Talking to an Employer
& more

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You can submit your questions here Write To Us and the juiciest ones will be read out during each season.

Any actions or risks are your own to take. You should seek legal advice before undertaking anything that may have consequences for yourself, your business, or your employees.

What should you do when your employees are starting to lose faith in the direction of the business?

In this episode, we're joined by Garin Rouch as we talk in-depth about Organisational Development and why EVERYONE should be held accountable.

Lisa tells us about the team meeting names that have stuck with her, Kate shares why it's important to be a team when dealing with conflict and Victoria talks about how to get employee engagement involved.


About Garin:
Garin is an experienced Organisation Development and Design consultant with almost two decades of expertise working with senior leaders and their teams to help them achieve their strategic goals.

Garin is not only an experienced consultant but also a regular speaker and writer. He is HR Zone's OD columnist, and is busy working towards the release of his first book on decision-making early next year.

He's driven change in prominent organisations in Shanghai, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and London His works across diverse sectors, including finance, clean energy, space technology and national charities.

Together with Dani Bacon, he co-founded Distinction Business Consulting. They share a common mission: to elevate the importance of Organisation Development. They firmly believe that adopting an OD mindset significantly transforms the quality of organisational decision-making.

Find Garin on LinkedIn
Check out Distiction Consulting

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You can submit your questions here Write To Us and the juiciest ones will be read out during each season.

Any actions or risks are your own to take. You should seek legal advice before undertaking anything that may have consequences for yourself, your business, or your employees.

In this episode, we talk about the consequences of communicating the wrong way.

Kate shares a particularly bad company update tactic from a past CEO. She talks about the consequences of communicating the wrong way.

Victoria & Lisa share their thoughts on how we need to grab our employee's attention quickly when delivering important company updates.


Send us a letter to your 21 year old self!

Share the career journey you’ve been on, any big wins or big losses, important lessons & what brought you to where you are now.

Send in your letter here.


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We talk about which parts of working in HR we LOVE and which parts we could live without... we're sure you have your project preferences too!

Kate tells us about what led her to Agile HR, Victoria shares her experiences as a reformed people pleaser and Lisa gives her advice for what to do when you just don't have the energy.

PLUS: We dive into the frustrations that come with working in HR - like being the scape-goat for hard decisions.

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You can submit your questions here https://bit.ly/3JUnQYp and the juiciest ones will be read out during each season.

Any actions or risks are your own to take. You should seek legal advice before undertaking anything that may have consequences for yourself, your business, or your employees.

In this episode we talk about the Cost of Living crisis and how you can convince leaders to buy into processes that help their teams.

Lisa tells us about a previous employer who came to the conclusion that it was in fact the employee's personal heaters that were causing the business to lose money.

Kate shares her tips on how you can take advantage of the resources you already have instead of employing 7 people to do 1 job.

Victoria gives us her hard-line on surviving cost saving exercises - she asks CEOs this question: "Do you want your team to succeed and survive or not?"

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You can submit your questions here https://bit.ly/3JUnQYp and the juiciest ones will be read out during each season.

Any actions or risks are your own to take. You should seek legal advice before undertaking anything that may have consequences for yourself, your business, or your employees.