The Modern Employer #wildcards
We explore all things HR and Talent related. We go through the current news and build on specific in-depth topics employers and employees alike need to hear. Keep up to date being a modern employer and join the #wildcards.
Episodes
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Culture Engineering
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Culture as a Product
In this episode, we are chatting with the Founder of Sapien, Luke O'Mahoney.
Who is this for: People-people who wish to approach employee experience as a product and learn product engineering ways so they can adopt it. How do you even talk about agile ways of working without sounding like you are out of your depths?
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Cancer At Work
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Cancer at Work...A difficult topic.How do People teams support employees when they approach them after a diagnosis?Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD has been brave and compassionate to share her personal story with cancer.This episode comes almost 8 months after our last and I am sure you can deduce the reason for that from the title of this episode.The episode will be useful for:- Employees who are dealing with cancer- People professionals who need to support employees with cancerKarthika is offering your insights and personal experience from both perspectives...and I (Olya Yakzhina) am just humbled to be the one asking her to open up about it on this episode.Disclaimer:Every journey is different. This episode covers some sensitive content surrounding cancer. Please listen with open ears and hearts. We realise the comments may come flooding in but be kind and mindful.
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
How to Scale with People at Heart?
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
One of our favourite topics discussed with an awesome and knowledgeable guest Jack Villiers, the Founder & CEO of KULA!This episode will bring the most value to People-people and organisations who are going through a period of growth in their companies or planning for scale and scope.We will discuss how to stay driven as an organisation in a world of building processes and structure. How to create an inspiring workplace and ensure we have the right people on board with us as we grow.As always this podcast is hosted by Olya Yakzhina & Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD, the People - people :)
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Salary Benchmarking Made Easy
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
The Modern Employer is back from a much-needed rest! We missed you so much and decided that the first podcast should focus on something incredibly current, practical and necessary - Salary Benchmarking!In our newest episode "Salary Benchmarking Made Easy" we will talk about:- Why salary benchmarking is important and at what stage it becomes more relevant?- What to watch out for when conducting salary benchmarking?- Practical tips and advice that you can implement tomorrow.Cozy and friendly chat with Olya Yakzhina & Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Making Processes People will Actually Follow
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
MOBILISING TEAMS & EFFECTIVE PROCESSES?Gee, those are some big words right there. Let's unpack them with our wonderful guest Ghilaine Chan as we jump into the world of young startups that scale!If you are a leader who is trying to make processes that people will actually follow while maintaining your values and beliefs - jump on this podcast and get some valuable and actionable advice for where to start and what to consider!As always this podcast is hosted by Olya Yakzhina & Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD, the People - people :)*Find The Modern Employer #wildcards podcast is now on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castro and Soundcloud. Download and listen later.
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Scaling with People at Heart
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
CULTURE when SCALING?Podcast alert: How to Scale with People at Heart?https://lnkd.in/dHnv6NkOne of our favourite topics discussed with an awesome and knowledgeable guest Jack Villiers, the Founder & CEO of KULA!This episode will bring the most value to People-people and organisations who are going through a period of growth in their companies or planning for scale and scope.We will discuss how to stay driven as an organisation in a world of building processes and structure. How to create an inspiring workplace and ensure we have the right people on board with us as we grow.As always this podcast is hosted by Olya Yakzhina & Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD, the People - people :)*Find The Modern Employer #wildcards podcast is now on: Apple podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castro and Soundcloud. Download and listen later.
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Long Term People Strategy
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
PODCAST ALERT: Wanna get some tips from an ex-Googler?In this episode, we are inviting Stephan Thoma to talk us through ways of setting up a Long Term People strategy and making work for your business.https://lnkd.in/dATwSyeThe value of this week's episode is predominantly aimed at People leaders who own their people strategy and function.It would be especially interesting if you are looking at building a long term strategy for your people function or if you’re wondering if your people strategy is even ready for a long term strategy?This podcast episode will help to understand the following: Defining “long-term”, building a strategy that works for your business and your people agenda and the practical approaches you might want to consider.Olya Yakzhina & Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD, the People-people.*Find The Modern Employer #wildcards podcast is now on: Apple podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castro and Soundcloud. Download and listen later.
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Effective People Metrics
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
We are back with Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD & Olya Yakzhina discussing the Effective Metrics to take in 2021!https://lnkd.in/dSBs5WaTo help us have a fruitful discussion we have invited a metric guru Pavel Golenistsev, who helped us unpack the following questions:1. What metrics do we want to be taking?2. How do we develop questions that will measure those metrics?3. What practical tools and actionable ways of working with metrics and analysis are available?We are excited about this episode as it will show that metrics do not have to be boring, they can be empowering, life-changing and transformational to your People Strategy. So let them!*Find The Modern Employer #wildcards podcast is now on: Apple podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castro and Soundcloud. Download and listen later.
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Short Term People Strategy 2021
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
PODCAST ALERT:Are you an HR leader in need of inspiration with your strategy next year? Look no further...https://lnkd.in/di7Jm-DOlya Yakzhina and Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD discuss the 2021 People strategy.On this episode, we look at the HR fundamentals and where to start with your People and Talent roadmaps.Areas to start with:1) Org design and being prepared.2) How to be proactive in 2021 vs reactive.Let's start 2021 strong as a People function! Thank you to all of you for listening to us in 2020! See you all in the New Year. The Modern Employer is signing off for a well-deserved break.*Find The Modern Employer #wildcards podcast is now on: Apple podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castro and Soundcloud. Download and listen later.
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Creating Better Experience with Remote Redundancies
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Boom! Shake the room with a topic no one wants to talk about - Creating Better Experience with Remote Redundancies.- What? How? When? And then?https://lnkd.in/dZm5dQZIn summary, that's the drift of this podcast. With some great wisdom from Karthika Biju MSc, MCIPD, Olya Yakzhina and a surprise guest April Georgia Williams (MCIPD) we are unpacking the meaning of "redundancies" as a process for our mental health, for what it means and how it impacts us and for how to build successful processes now to be able to give your best self later (if need be, and ofc, hopefully, that's never)*Find The Modern Employer #wildcards podcast on: Apple podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castro and Soundcloud. Download and listen later.*

The Modern Employer
The Modern Employer Podcast was born out of frustration Olya Yakzhina and Karthika Baiju had with the current state of play in People functions. Why was it that the function wasn't taken seriously by the leadership? How come employees never know what the People team was there to do? Why was it that the word "HR" became so scary and people with that title unapproachable? They decided to create a podcast channel where they discussed "HOW TO" make sure that the future of the people functions is progressive and outcomes transformational. #wildcards was a symbol of unconformity with the current state of play in the industry.