WoodreedHive Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Are you an HR or internal comms practitioner or perhaps a senior, mid-level or team leader struggling with operational, communication and engagement challenges of COVID-19? In the Hive you'll find short, snappy discussions with industry experts, along with practical, immediately actionable takeaways on a range of operational, communication and engagement challenges. Each short episode tackles one subject and provides you with three key action points.
Our regular panel, Jo Dodds, Lorna Leeson and Jo Moffatt discuss this week's topic - how to make virtual workplaces more human.
Sarah Brewster, Lorna Leeson and Jo Moffatt discuss how to improve the feeling of isolation for some working from home.
Sarah Brewster, Lorna Leeson and Jo Moffatt on the panel discuss the idea of 'frightening' people back to the office for fear of losing their jobs.
The Hive, Lorna Leeson, Jo Dodds and Jo Moffatt, discuss the uncertainty of what lies ahead and how we've already learned skills to deal with it
The panel discuss whether we should put values and behaviours on the back burner and focus on commercial survival in the current climate.
Our Hive panel, Jo Dodds, Lorna Leeson and Jo Moffatt, talk about how you can manage the impact of fears of redundancy, and the reality, on your organisation's employee engagement. With three key takeaways.
The Hive panel, Jo Moffatt, Jo Dodds and Lorna Leeson discuss how to support first jobbers when their first experience of work is working from home.
Jo, Jo and Lorna in the Hive this week discussing wellbeing. Is it a bandwagon?
- If wellbeing is about stuff or siloed into a box to tick, then YES, it’s a bandwagon, get off!
- If wellbeing is just about COVID-19 then there’s a risk it’s a bandwagon, so see point 3.
- If wellbeing is integral to how you operate, approached strategically with strong leadership, supported by your culture and values – then NO, it’s not a bandwagon.
The panel (Jo Moffatt, Jo Dodds and Lorna Leeson) discuss how to avoid employee engagement becoming a casualty of any post COVID-19 downturn and leave listeners with three practical takeaways.
Three months since lockdown and the panel are focussing on the three best things, learnings or experiences they've taken from the crisis so far - and wouldn't want to lose. What are your top three?
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With Jo Moffatt, Lorna Leeson and Jo Dodds
Read more on this in the RSA Journal on Regenerative Futures and take a look at the four-box grid here https://medium.com/rsa-journal/regenerative-futures-b245c74b4f27.
This time we’re going to discuss the Mental Health Awareness theme of Kindness and talk about how that manifests in HR & Comms.
With Lorna Leeson, Jo Moffatt and special guest, Sarah Brewster.
"Opening offices will be our decision, when and if our employees come back, will be theirs" Lorna Leeson, Jo Dodds and Jo Moffatt discuss.
What is burn out? Are we seeing it at the moment?
How do we recognise the signs in others? In ourselves?
How can we support people showing signs of burn out? How can we help ourselves?
Listen as our expert panel discuss burn out.
Are we seeing businesses beginning to plan for the post lockdown?
What do the panel think the world of work post lockdown will look like?
What advice does the panel have as we begin planning?
What needs to be taken into account?
Who should be involved in planning?
What are our 3 key takeaways?
Video chat's helping us stay working and connected in lockdown. Many of us were already close to 'peak screen' and many more are now finding the new on-screen workplace exhausting.
Is there really such a thing as Zoom fatigue? if so why is it so tiring and what can we do to counter it?
We share the interim findings from the Institute for Employment Studies Working at Home Wellbeing Survey.
The panel have the answers, but first, why is 'certainty' such an important thing for our physical and mental health?