As it's our last podcast of 2024, we thought it was a good idea to have a look at the key trends for HR for the coming year. There are lots of areas where HR is progressing and what works for you will depend on the nature of your business, the maturity of your leaders, and your HR function. But in this episode we're going to look at the key trends that might shape your plans.

Join Disruptive HR’s Lucy Adams and Karen Moran as they explore the transformative trends set to reshape the workplace by 2025. From AI's evolution beyond basic tasks to becoming an essential tool for recruitment marketing and employee retention, hear how industry leaders like Unilever and IBM are pioneering this change. With AI's predictive capabilities, HR teams can make informed decisions and timely interventions, ensuring they stay ahead in the ever-evolving business landscape. For those yet to embrace AI, this is an invitation to start experimenting and harness the potential of this powerful technology.

They also discuss the movement towards a personalized, human-centric workforce, where employees have the power to tailor their work experiences to fit their unique needs. AI-powered talent marketplaces are empowering employees to take control of their own careers enabling greater employee autonomy and aligning personal development with career goals. Additionally, the shift towards agile HR practices is breaking down traditional silos and fostering a culture of experimentation and learning, as exemplified by companies like ING and Spotify.

(00:03) HR Trends for 2025

(08:21) Unlocking Human-Centric Workforce Potential

(15:53) Empowering Agile HR Practices for Growth

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In this episode we explore the crucial and often overlooked issue of supporting family caregivers in the workplace. Stephanie Leung, CEO and founder of Karehero, who shares her personal journey from a high-flying career at Goldman Sachs to becoming an advocate for caregivers. Stephanie opens up about her experiences as a family caregiver from a young age and the challenges she faced balancing work and caregiving duties. With over 7 million people in the UK alone juggling these roles, it's time we address the pressures they face and how employers can step up to support them.

Stephanie's story highlights the pressing need for better support systems for working caregivers. Her experience underscores the often-unrecognized burden many employees carry, dedicating over 33 hours a week to unpaid care on top of their regular jobs. Stephanie emphasizes the need for organizations to adapt to the realities of an aging population and a shrinking birth rate. The importance of understanding individual needs within the workforce is paramount to retaining talent and preventing burnout. We explore how employers can create supportive environments for caregivers, ensuring that employees don't have to choose between their careers and their loved ones.

Chapters

(00:03) - Supporting Family Caregivers in the Workplace

(14:01) - Business Solution for Family Caregiving

(25:14) - Supporting Working Family Caregivers

(33:53) - Future Workforce Care Challenges

Karehero https://www.karehero.com/

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Discover the transformative journey of HR at NatWest through the innovative insights of Katherine O’Callaghan, Head of People Transformation. Katharine shares her experience of reshaping the HR landscape by drawing inspiration from customer experience strategies. We discuss how NatWest has innovatively adopted a "colleague goal and journey model" to enhance the employee experience.

Listen in as we explore the cultural shift in performance management and how HR teams are adapting to new, employee-centered methodologies. Agile practices and design thinking are at the forefront of this transformation, helping align HR strategies with real employee and manager insights. Katharine highlights the importance of leveraging data sources, such as pulse surveys and feedback mechanisms, to effectively capture the employee experience. This transformation reflects a significant shift towards a customer-focused approach, emphasizing experimentation and learning from pilot initiatives as key components of this ongoing cultural evolution.

Discover how technology and simplification are enhancing HR processes and empowering managers at NatWest. We discuss the role of AI tools like Ask Archie, a chatbot that integrates support across HR and IT domains and the removal of unnecessary approval layers so that managers are now empowered to make team changes autonomously.

Chapters

(00:03) Transforming HR With Colleague Goals

(11:17) Cultural Shift in Performance Management

(17:53) Shifting to Agile Performance Management

(22:31) Enhancing HR With Technology and Simplification

Katharine O’Callaghan https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharineocallaghan/

Disruptive HR

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