Watt About HR

Claire Watt

Welcome to the ‘Watt About HR?’ podcast for SME business owners and managers. Claire will be talking to a variety of experts about HR-related topics to help you have high performing and motivated employees and answer some of your HR worries that keep you awake at night! After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago. Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects. Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses. Claire has been interviewed by HR Director magazine, spoken on Brooklands Radio about HR and Covid, discussed Covid and remote working on a mental health podcast, been an expert panel member on ’The future of work’ for IRIS, has written a number of HR articles for various publications and is an author for XpertHR. Claire also won the ‘Inspirational Indie’ award at the HR Independents 2022 ‘Supercharge Your HR Business’ conference. The award was peer nominated in recognition for inspiring and supporting other HR Indies and making a significant positive difference towards the HR Indies Community. -- You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting: https://www.dittonhr.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/ and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

  1. 09/16/2024

    Watt About Getting More Clients?

    Are you a small business owner who is wondering how to ensure you have enough clients and work in the pipeline?     What are you doing about connecting with more potential clients?   How do you build relationships with potential clients?   What are you doing to commercialise your relationships?    All these questions have gone through the minds of most small business owners. You are often so busy doing the day to day work that you don’t have time to focus on marketing – but what happens if the work dries up?     In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by James Lyon, The HR Marketing Guy. James works specifically in the area of HR supporting HR consultants market their businesses and engage with more people and potential clients. James has really helped me gain confidence in marketing my business and the advice he gives me is relevant to all small businesses so I thought I would share his words of wisdom with you too!Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your marketing efforts to the next level, I am confident that this podcast will help you move forward with your marketing strategy,.   If you are a HR Consultant and want to arrange a free call with James about your marketing needs, you can contact him james@marketingforhrconsultants.com About Claire After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago. Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects. Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses. You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting: https://www.dittonhr.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/ and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

    14 min
  2. 05/06/2024

    Watt About Team Building?

    In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by Katerina Rose to talk about how team building events can help transform dysfunctional or averagely performing teams into high performing teams.  Katerina is a Performance Coach and Learning Facilitator at Ditton HR.  Katerina also runs her own learning and development business called Inspire Development where she has been providing a full training cycle service to her clients for over 23 years. Her clients include Siemens, Johnson and Johnson, Lighthouse Laboratories, Bristol University and the NHS. Katerina has a passion for supporting her clients build high performing teams and is here today to talk about effective team building events, having successfully designed and facilitated several for Ditton HR over the past few years. About Claire After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago. Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects. Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses. You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting: https://www.dittonhr.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/ and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

    19 min
  3. 02/06/2024

    Watt About Marketing?

    Are you a small business owner who is wondering how to ensure you have enough clients and work in the pipeline? How do you start marketing your business? How do you get relevant content and start building up your followers? How do I make my posts look professional? All these questions have gone through the minds of most small business owners. You are often so busy doing the day to day work that you don’t have time to focus on marketing – but what happens if the work dries up? In this episode of Watt About HR, Claire is joined by Roseanne Myhill, Director and marketing specialist at RHG Communications. Roseanne will be talking about the hot marketing topics on most small business owners to do list. Roseanne is a marketing and social media professional with more than 20 years experience working with small companies through to large corporates. Roseanne and her team support businesses will all aspects of their marketing strategies. To arrange a call with Roseanne about your marketing needs, you can contact her at www.rhgcomms.co.uk or email at roseanne@rhgcomms.co.uk About Claire After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago. Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects. Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses. You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting: https://www.dittonhr.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/ and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

    20 min
  4. 01/06/2024

    Watt About Strategy?

    As a business owner or HR professional, have you been thinking about introducing a new strategy to ensure your business or organisation is moving in the right direction? Taking a step back from the day to day operations of your business to focus on the longer term goals is essential to the success of any business. But where do you start and how do you ensure a positive outcome? In this episode, Claire is joined by Emily Jarman, Strategy, Change and Fundraising Consultant who works with CEOs and business owners to develop strategies. These could be strategies for growth, to drive more value or to adapt to market demands. In this podcast we discuss top tips to kick off your business strategy and setting the right environment for this to be a success! To contact Emily to discuss our business strategy, email her at emily@emilyjarmanconsulting.com About Claire After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago. Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects. Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses. You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting: https://www.dittonhr.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/ and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited

    17 min

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Welcome to the ‘Watt About HR?’ podcast for SME business owners and managers. Claire will be talking to a variety of experts about HR-related topics to help you have high performing and motivated employees and answer some of your HR worries that keep you awake at night! After an 18-year career in companies such as Samaritans, Revlon and Habitat, Claire decided to make the move to being an HR independent and founded Ditton HR 10 years ago. Ditton HR offers operational & strategic HR support to SMEs and assists larger organisations with HR projects. Claire also coaches HR professionals who are thinking about becoming independent or who are already on that road but need guidance and support on how to grow their businesses. Claire has been interviewed by HR Director magazine, spoken on Brooklands Radio about HR and Covid, discussed Covid and remote working on a mental health podcast, been an expert panel member on ’The future of work’ for IRIS, has written a number of HR articles for various publications and is an author for XpertHR. Claire also won the ‘Inspirational Indie’ award at the HR Independents 2022 ‘Supercharge Your HR Business’ conference. The award was peer nominated in recognition for inspiring and supporting other HR Indies and making a significant positive difference towards the HR Indies Community. -- You can find out more about Claire and Ditton HR by visiting: https://www.dittonhr.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-watt-chartered-fcipd-11b77730/ and https://www.facebook.com/dittonhrlimited