The HR L&D Podcast

In this episode "Talent Management & the Power of Conversations" of the HR L&D Podcast, I sit down with Hesketh Emden.  Hesketh is a multi-award-winning talent management professional to discuss his experience in developing employee cultures, his passion for promoting and training the power of conversations and of course, to understand more about his learning and development design and strategy implementation expertise. Hesketh has successfully headed and set up a broad range of public and private sector Learning and Development functions, from Commercial Union during one of Europe’s largest mergers, to the Metropolitan Police.   In 2011 he was recruited by NHS England to lead on talent management, identifying future leaders across London’s 70 NHS organisations. As part of government health service reforms, in 2013 Hesketh was brought in to help create the brand-new NHS Property Services, a Limited Company owned by the Secretary of State. In this episode of the HR L&D Podcast, we discover how, despite 3200 staff being TUPE’d overnight, he managed to successfully implement a Talent Management structure that supported building a new organisation with a single culture where there had previously been 161 ways of doing things.   Inspirational stuff! Aside from Hesketh’s passion to promote and train 'the power of conversations', we also learn more about his experience at award ceremonies.  Hesketh was a finalist in the CIPD People Management Award in 2012 – ‘Talent Attraction & Management’; was winner of the Charity Learning Awards in 2014 – for ‘Using e-learning to facilitate change’; Finalist of the PPMA Excellence in People Management Awards in 2015 for ‘Talent Management’ and winner again in the HR Excellence Awards 2017 – for ‘Best CSR Strategy’.  Hesketh is very modest when it comes to his own achievements, but I know that our listeners will be keen to find out more about the man behind the accolades. In this "Talent Management & the Power of Conversations" HR L&D Podcast episode, we discover:   * Hesketh’s work concerning “the power of conversations” and how this work has evolved * The biggest challenges to making this type of training ‘mainstream’ * The tools and processes Hesketh has used to develop successful large-scale talent management programmes * His experience in aligning 161 organisations into one single vision and culture following a 3200 employee TUPE * How Hesketh’s work helped contribute to £5m a year in productivity savings for the NHS! * Practical steps for you to immediately implement so you too can successfully develop positive communications * We learn about his passion for supporting a Substance Misuse Charity and his work concerning the “Lazarus drug” * Hesketh’s view on the impact that technology is having on communications within organisations? * Why every organization should consider entering an industry award. * The main challenges currently affecting Talent Management right now * The key things L&D & HR professionals should be doing now to prioritise and develop talent in their organisations * The reason why all L&D, HR and Talent professionals should embrace communications training? Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | 

This "Content Curation for L&D Professionals" episode of the HR L&D Podcast, is sponsored by Think Learning. Today, we are joined by CEO and Founder of Anders Pink, Stephen Walsh Stephen is an incredibly successful entrepreneur from within the content curation and learning and development space and has successfully co-founded with Steve Rayson, three content curation, e-learning and blended solutions companies including Kineo, BuzzSumo and more recently, Anders Pink Anders Pink aims to help teams stay smart through continuous learning and by curating relevant content. They help find, filter and share the latest content on any topic, client, sector or industry which saves businesses time by locating better content faster and therefore improving engagement. Anders Pink are also able to embed curated content into your Learning Platforms and this is something we find out much more about in this episode of the HR L&D Podcast! In this episode, we take a deep-dive into Stephen's 20-plus years in learning technology and communications to help us understand how learning and development practitioners can achieve a culture of continuous learning and content curation for their businesses. We also discover more about Stephen's book 'Content Curation for Learning' and we explore how L&D professionals can intelligently filter the way people see information and better support organizations by creating habit-forming practices that will help you to improve your processes for continuous learning and content curation. So, fasten your seat-belts for a journey deep into the world of content curation! In this episode of the HR L&D Podcast, we discover: * The biggest challenges to developing content curation processes * Why content curation is important in relation to Learning and Development professionals * The key strategies behind Stephen's "Seek, Sense and Share model".  * The key skills you need to become a successful L&D content curator * The key takeaway practical steps you can immediately implement to successfully curate content * The key strategies you would recommend to help them make their content curation processes more efficient? * How easy is it to automate the content curation process * How you can own the content curation process? * The trends in content curation by sector * The key ‘tangible business benefits’ of a business having a content curation strategy? * How Anders Pink can help you with your content curation objectives To find out more about the companies featured in this episode of the HR L&D podcast: * Find out more at www.anderspink.com * Click the link to access Stephen's book: 'Content Curation for Learning' ...