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In this episode of the HR in Review podcast, we talk about one of the most important lessons the COVID-19 pandemic taught businesses and HR leaders: the importance of authentic collaboration in the workplace. We consider six elements essential to collaboration in the post-Covid workplace and the tools and strategies to future-proof businesses so they can best manage future challenges.
Guest: Barry Flack
Bill Banham‘s guest this time is Barry Flack, Workforce Strategist and a top 30 global influencer in HR and HR Tech. Barry is an award-winning HR professional who spent many years running large recruitment & HR functions in a variety of global industries, before embarking on a varied portfolio career.
Barry helps organizations adapt to the changing world of work and use advanced HR tech to solve complex people-related business problems. In the past, he’s been a board-level HRD, Head of Talent, Head of ER/IR, Head of Recruitment, OD, and Programme Head. He now spends his time working with HR Technology start-ups, consulting and practicing with Private Equity and Venture Capital businesses to help portfolio companies build for growth and commentating on the developing world of work.
Questions for Barry include:
- In a work context, what does it mean to be truly collaborative?
- How can we maintain company culture and collaboration in a changed world
- How has remote/hybrid changed the landscape?
- What role does HR play in highly collaborative organisations? Please also explain what you mean by the term “sense-making”.
- Lots of companies have returned to the old ways of working. How do we resist the urge to go back to old processes that benefit middle management?
- You help organisations by auditing the existing HR organisational structure and developing a proposed operating model or creating new ways of working for meeting the future needs of the business. What are typical challenges and roadblocks to change? How do you get buy-in from HR?
- What are some of the biggest talent acquisition and retention challenges this year?
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Podcast Host and Guests for this Edition
Host: Bill Banham
Guest: Barry Flack
Barry Flack, Workforce Strategist and a top 30 global influencer in HR and HR Tech. Barry is an award-winning HR professional who spent many years running large recruitment & HR functions in a variety of global industries, before embarking on a varied portfolio career.
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Bill Banham is Editor at HR Gazette, Host of the popular HRchat Podcast, Associate Editorial Director with HRreview, and co-organizer of such HR, Talent, and leadership-focused events as InnovateWork, Hacking HR Toronto, and DisruptHR London. He has interviewed inspiring leaders across the globe from such brands as NASA, the US Government, Simon Sinek, UPS, ADP, SAP, Salesforce, and the United Nations. Bill has 15+ years of experience in editorial, events management, marketing, SEO, advertising, business development, data management, research, and professional development.
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