Episode 30: Boosting retention and recruitment with organizational wellbeing

Episode 30: Boosting retention and recruitment with organizational wellbeing

Sarah Beech, the Canadian CEO of Gallagher's HR Consulting Division discusses Gallagher's 2023 Organizational Wellbeing Report that shows many employers had higher than expected turnover in 2022. Where are organizations in terms of their wellbeing and competitiveness in the market, and what factors are impacting turnover and recruitment?

Episode 29: The Mentally Healthy Workplace

Trevor Bogan of the Top Employers Institute talks about how his organization promotes mentally healthy workplaces, best practices to promote them, and the role of HR professionals in creating and maintaining them.

Episode 28: The Top 5 HR Missteps

Krista Siedlak of Turnpenney Milne talks with host Jeffrey Smith about what she sees in her practice as the five most common missteps that HR makes - whether on their own or at the behest of organizational leadership - and how they can mitigate the legal risk for their organizations.

Episode 27: The 4 Day Work Week Trials

A four day work week pilot program involving 41 companies in North America recently wrapped and by most indicators it was a success. Joe O'Connor, Director of the Canadian-based Work Time Reduction Centre of Excellence, discussed the program results, the concept of the four-day work week, and what comes next.

Episode 26: The wacky side of HR

Kiljon Shukullari, HR advice manager at Peninsula Canada, chats with Jeffrey Smith about the importance of dealing with a variety of challenges in the HR role and recalls unusual calls that Peninsula's HR advisors in Canada have encountered.