Episodes

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Powered by the team at Leapgen Australia.

    In this episode we tackle an important topic - Neurodiversity - and are joined by the amazing Julie Cockerill, who is a Leadership, Strengths and ADHD coach. Julie joins our host David Guazzarotto to take us on a very personal journey exploring the nexus of neurodiversity and the workforce, drawing on their own experiences and reflections to help provide insights and understanding on the superpowers and kryptonite of the ADHD brain.

    Be sure to check out Julie's website - https://www.lemon-co.com.au/ to find more resources and to get in touch with her.

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - Humans of HR - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. In this episode Jared and Dave welcome the VP APJ for Cornerstone OnDemand, Paul Broughton to debate the move from job-centric to skills-powered organisations. Paul takes us through his personal career journey as well as bringing great perspectives on how organisations are leveraging digital capabilities to better understand their people and help them to achieve their potential by deploying and developing skills more effectively. And we ask the fundamental question - are we running out of humans? All this and more...

    Here's a link to the Skills Study that Paul referenced in the episode. https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/au/resources/article/2022-global-skills-report/

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - Humans of HR - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

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  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Powered by the team at Leapgen Australia.

    In this episode we welcome back our original co-founder and host of the podcast - Jared Cameron - to a revamped and reinvigated Humans of HR series for 2023. Jared and Dave dive into the world of Generative AI and ChatGPT to explore how this technology works; the impacts it could have on the world of work and the HR function; speculate on whether this could spell the end of humankind; and land at a rather romantic and poetic conclusion. All this and more...

    With thanks to NZ's third most popular folk band The Flight of the Conchords for the snippet of their awesome song Robots.

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - Humans of HR - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Powered by the team at Leapgen.


    In this episode we talk with Nick Freedman, an accomplished leadership coach who is now focused on teaching people how to successfully transition from the end of their career into a great retirement, with renewed purpose, as well as finding and recruiting a successor before departing. Nick and i had a fascinating and salient conversation about what he calls Retirement 2.0 and how individuals should take a proactive approach to managing their own game plan for retirement that isn't just focused on their finances, and how organisations can elevate their EVP and manage succession risk by focusing on the important cohort who are transitioning to retirement.

    Here’s the link for the Spiral Dynamics book that Nick mentions in the episode.

    https://www.booktopia.com.au/spiral-dynamics-prof-don-edward-beck/book/9781405133562.html?


    And if you want to learn more about Nick's work and how to access his programs, here's how to find him.

    https://www.retireonpurpose.co/hr-partner

    Email - [email protected]


    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - Humans of HR - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Powered by the team at Leapgen.

    In this episode we shared Kartik's journey from a "good Indian boy" studying Engineering to charting a career at the leading edge of HR and talent technologies.
    We also chatted about the emergence of AI as a mainstream tool in the recruiter's kitbag to enhance candidate experience. Kartik explained how Paradox's Olivia tool brings Conversational Intelligence to take friction out of the hiring process and increase hiring velocity. All that... and much much more... as always!

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - Humans of HR - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Powered by the team at Leapgen.

    In this episode we talk with one of the leading experts in Employee Experience - Sasha Wight. Sasha is the MD and EX lead at wrkflow, an employee experience design agency based in Singapore. As EX Lead at wrkflow, she supports some of the largest organisations in Asia-Pacific with their employee experience transformations, leveraging design thinking and leading technologies. We had a great discussion about the importance of experience and why it matters so much as we emerge from the disruption of the pandemic.

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - Humans of HR - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Powered by the team at Leapgen.

    In this episode share a great interview with Rich Lewis-Jones from Smart Recruiters where the application of cutting-edge technology to the recruitment process is merely the jumping off point for an entertaining and wide-ranging discussion on all matter of things pertaining to the world of work.

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - Humans of HR - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Powered by the team at Leapgen.

    In this episode our Human Instinct is that "Experience is the New Currency" and we dive into why and how that is the case. Following that is a lively interview with James Natsis from Apricot Consulting who shares his views on all manner of topics not least of which is the role that Environmental, Social or Governance (or ESG) factors should play in today's modern HR world.

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - Humans of HR - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto.

    Inspired by the Olympic Games currently underway in Tokyo, today's episode focuses on "High Performance". In our "Human Instincts" segment Dave G explores the parallels between high performing sports organizations and how great organizations manage their talent to drive high performance. We debut a new segment called "Around the Grounds" welcoming one of Leapgen's own high performing team members, David Nelson, who brings all of the latest news and insights from the world of work and HR Tech scene here in Australia and New Zealand. Later in the episode, in our "Uniquely Human" interview series, we chat to Rob Cassidy from CoachHub who goes deep on how coaching is critical to success for high performing people and teams.... all that and much much more as always....

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. Check out the website - www.humansofhr.com.au - and, of course, post your feedback, comments and topics of interest to the social channels below.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto.

    On today's episode, our "Human Instincts" segment Dave G shares why he thinks the pandemic-disrupted generation ("Gen Covid") are set to be the best workforce we have ever seen - resilient, adaptable, purpose-driven and digitally-capable. Later in the episode, in our "Uniquely Human" interview series, we chat to Josh Grace-Ware - the original HR Tech Groover and one of Australia's leading HR and Change practitioners - who shares his insights on all things digital transformation. We look at the importance of employee experience; the challenge and opportunity for HR in the new world of work; how to deliver project success in your HR transformation initiatives ... all that and much much more as always....

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto.

    After a bit of a hiatus, the Humans of HR team is back to share more real and raw conversations aroound HR and the world of work. We have joined the Leapgen NOW of Work network and will now be playing to a global audience and increasing the frequency of episodes.

    On today's episode, we introduce a new segment called "Human Instincts" where we look at something instinctively human that is going on in the world of work. Today we unpack the term WFH - Work From Here and how the three factors of Work- can help us to design a new world of work to enhance performance and engagement in our workforce. Later in the episode, in our "Uniquely Human" interview series, we chat to Frederik Skyggebjerg from Unit4 who shares his personal journey migrating from Copenhagen to Singapore in the midst of the pandemic and also unveils Unit4's next generation ERP platform called ERPx... all that and much much more as always....

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz

  • Day 2 of the HR and L&D Innovation and Tech Fest has shed light on how #hrtech has been changing for the past 10 years, and the 2020 pandemic has served as an accelerant.

    It was exhilarating to catch up with Jason Averbook and discuss how companies need to be even more agile in the #nowofwork and learn to simultaneously play offense and defense. Work-life integration requires us to look beyond the work that people are doing and focus in on the holistic, human experience. This is what will drive a true #digitaltransformation.

    It’s about transparency. 100% of the time. It’s a blend life. A huge thanks to having Jarrod McGrath from SmartWFM tune in and share his take on making work more human.

    If you missed the conference, stay tuned for more great highlights!

    #HR #humanresources #hrtechnology #HRTechFest #LDTECHFEST #digitaltransformation #digitalworkforce #futureofwork #NowofWork #leadership #asiapacific #australia #globalimpact #hrconsulting #mentalhealth #futureplanning #hrleadership #innovation





  • I hope you’ve been enjoying the HR + L&D Innovation & Tech Fest. The first day was action-packed! If you didn’t get to all the sessions, check out our HumansofHR recap with David Guazzarotto and Michelle Farrar-Eagles where we recap Day 1 of the virtual conference and share our thoughts on a range of topics from AI to the Role of HR to Mental Health and much more.

    Recording live from conferences has been our thing over the years, though it's not quite the same as being there we hope to have captured the vibe for those of you who haven't been able to get to the sessions.

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Jared Cameron.

    After a bit of a hiatus, the Humans of HR team is back to share more real and raw conversations aroound HR and the word of work. We have joined the Leapgen NOW of Work network and will now be playing to a global audience and increasing the frequency of episodes. Check out our new landing page here - https://www.leapgen.com/humans-of-hr - for more information and to find out more about the NOW of Work.

    On today's episode, we welcome Jess Von Bank from Leapgen to bring her unique perspective and rich storytelling to the human stories. Mish, Dave and Jess discuss their experiences to date that are informing the evolution of work as we get used to living in a pandemic and we start to shape the world of work in the post-Covid world. We explore the impact of lockdowns on work design, leadership and how to use the positives to make permanent changes that enhance our lives and our societies..all that and much much more as always....

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz @MFarrar_Eagles @Jazzacam @MattSmith_PL

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Jared Cameron.

    This week we welcome a special guest - Jarrod McGrath from SmartWFM - as we ponder the shape of the recovery now that restrictions begin to be lifted in Australia and NZ. We speculate on what changes to working life will become permanent in the new normal; discuss the haves and the have nots of working from home; share our insights on what this means for digital transformation and the future of work..all that and much much more as always....

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz @MFarrar_Eagles @Jazzacam @MattSmith_PL

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Jared Cameron.

    This week we jump back into our Trans-Tasman bubble and discuss the journey so far and the road out. We reflect on the journey so far both in Australia and in NZ and thank our lucky stars we live where we do as the early signs are showing we have flattened the curve; we dive into what the impact has been for people and work; and we get the crystal balls out to give our take on what the road ahead looks like..all that and much much more as always....

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz @MFarrar_Eagles @Jazzacam @MattSmith_PL

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Jared Cameron.

    On this very special Covid19 Lockdown Trans-Tasman Bubble episode, we share our personal experiences to date in navigating through this crazy and challenging time. We touch on the good, the bad and the ugly and realy a sense of hope as we hear all about the announcement that NZ will start to wind back their restrictions in the coming week..all that and much much more as always....

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz @MFarrar_Eagles @Jazzacam @MattSmith_PL

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto and Michelle Farrar-Eagles. On this episode we welcome a special guest human, Alana Bennett, former Head of Employee Experience at Ooh!media now launching a new venture called Connected Experience. Alana is passionate about helping organizations and individuals to thrive at work and achieve their potential. With Alana, we explore human experience from all angles and also discuss how she negotiated a life-changing career break recently...all that and much much more as always....

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz @MFarrar_Eagles @Jazzacam @MattSmith_PL

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto and Michelle Farrar-Eagles. On this episode we welcome back a special guest human, Jarrod McGrath, an expert in workforce management and CEO of SmartWFM. Jarrod helps us unpack the payroll and wage payments issues that are plagueing business, small and large, in Australia. Jarrod can be relied on for uniue insights, salient opinions and a pragmatic approach to resolving the problems, all that and much much more as always....

    You can check out Jarrod McGrath at his website - https://www.smartwfm.com/
    Grab a copy of his book “The Digital Workforce” and look him up on LinkedIn and Twitter.

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz @MFarrar_Eagles @Jazzacam @MattSmith_PL

  • Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto and Michelle Farrar-Eagles. On this episode we welcome a special guest human, Jason Treu, an expert in leadership, teamwork and communications. Jason helps us unpack a broad range of insights on Humans at Work, tells us about a game he invented called Cards Against Mundanity, and shares anecdotes about a number of Silicon Valley luminaries, all that and much much more as always....

    During the show we mention a number of studies and commentators you may wish to find out more about:

    You can check out Jason Treu at his website - https://jasontreu.com/
    Amy Edmondson - expert on psychological safety - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhoLuui9gX8
    To get your hands on the Cards Against Mundanity game - https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/272383/Cards-Against-Mundanity

    We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.

    You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz @MFarrar_Eagles @Jazzacam @MattSmith_PL