Stories from the world of work
Oven Ready HR tells compelling stories from the world of work through a broad HR lens. We convene lively, captivating and thought-provoking conversations with expert analysis and insights.
We’re here to educate, inform, entertain and make what can be a very dry and dusty subject, just that little bit more interesting and relevant for your workplace.
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Looking after workers mental health should be mandatory
Workplace wellbeing continues to be a key theme for Oven-Ready. Increasingly HR practitioners are devoting more of their time tackling a range of complex issues such as mental health provision for employee burnout and additional financial support for workers in financial stress.
LATEST EPISODES
Episode 5
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Season 6
Can HR stop banging on about working from home?
Considered one of the UK’s most influential HR leaders, Neil Morrison often delivers withering and scathing assessments of the professions obsession with self-serving and inward-looking debates.
Episode 4
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Season 6
A Work In Progress – Unlocking wellbeing with Gethin Nadin
I welcome back multi-award winning psychologist and bestselling author Gethin Nadin widely considered as one of the world’s leading employee experience influencers.
Episode 2
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Season 5
A masterclass in creativity from The Brit School
The Brit School for performing arts and technology is perhaps the most creative environment on the planet. Free to attend, inspiration for the school came from the 1980’s move Fame and the spin-off TV show and today The Brit School teacher organisations how they too can be creative.
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Season 5
A masterclass in creativity from The Brit School
The Brit School for performing arts and technology is perhaps the most creative environment on the planet. Free to attend, inspiration for the school came from the 1980’s move Fame and the spin-off TV show and today The Brit School teacher organisations how they too can be creative.
Episode 8
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Season 5
Give wellbeing a board seat
Professor Cooper remarks that a significant driver of the so called ‘great resignation’ was in part employee’s dissatisfaction with their boss. He think this has led some in HR about whether they have right managers or managers with the right skills in place. Sadly he feels too many organisations recruit solely on technical skills and not soft skills or EQ.
Episode 13
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Season 4
Is it time to kill off the HR business partner role?
I don’t want you to be a finance person but you need to be far more savvy in that area I think you need you need secondly to have an external perspective with the role is so busy I know that. But you have got to know what your competitors’ current recruitment programs are. You’ve got to know what your current competitors are doing in the world of development career pathways. You know you’ve got to find out. There’s no point wanting to have a seat at the table if you’ve got damn all to say. “
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