CIPD Ireland Podcast

The pace of change has never been faster and with it comes a responsibility on our profession to look at digitalisation holistically within our organisations and how we design work.  In this episode we're presenting some highlights from our 2023 annual Wellbeing seminar and part two from our Digital Transformation and Talent session with Kerry Group. From the Wellbeing seminar, Dr. Caroline M...

In October 2023, CIPD had the pleasure of being hosted by Kerry Group for an exclusive in-person event, delving into the heart of digital transformation at Kerry. During this session, we explored such topics as digitalisation and talent development, and benefitted from valuable and practical peer learning. For those who couldn’t attend, we are delighted to bring you a two-part episode featuring hi...

Did you catch up on the nuances of Budget 2024 for HR? Tax, USC and PRSI changes? Extended paternity leave? Increased social welfare payments that reduces costs of top-up payments for protective leave? Increased education skills supports for the labour market? Improvements to the Key Employee Engagement Programme? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Mary Connaughton, Director of CIPD Ireland, and Olivier Dubuisson, Co-Founder of Rythmik, in our latest thought-provoking podcast as they explore the profound impact AI is having on our rapidly changing world of work. Delve into the critical themes of curiosity, experimentation, and continual learning, as they emphasise the necessity of these traits in staying ahead in an AI-driven landscape....

Welcome to our second selection of highlights from our 2023 CIPD Ireland Annual Conference at the RDS in Dublin. We’ve chosen some insights on hybrid working and sustainability to share with you as well as a fascinating excerpt from one of our keynote speakers. You’ll hear contributions on the show from Oliver Dubuisson, co-founder and Chairman of Rythmik who discussed the role of AI and Chat GPT,...

We are delighted to bring you our latest podcast, sharing some of the insights from our 2023 CIPD Ireland Annual Conference at the RDS on May 17th. On this episode, hosted by Meg Dunphy, you’ll hear from special guest Minister of State Neale Richmond, our Director Mary Connaughton who outlined the findings from this year’s HR Practices in Ireland report and an extract from the keynote speech...

In this month’s episode, CIPD Midwest Chair Lavinia Duggan spoke to Gillian Horan, CEO and founder of The Pudding, an expert advisor in employer brand supporting private equity groups, large-scale multinationals and SMEs in driving business growth through inside out branding. In this podcast, we have focused on employer brand strategy and internal/external communications and activation. &nbsp...

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2023, CIPD Ireland Midlands Region hosted a podcast with Breda McCague - Speaker, Emotional Intelligence Coach, Motivator, and Transformational Specialist, and Micheál Fitzpatrick - Boston Scientific's People Leader, Lecturer, and Public Speaker. Listen to this episode where they discussed women feeling empowered in the workplace and being ‘unapologetically a...

In this episode, CIPD Ireland HR Policy & Engagement Manager, Meg Dunphy, spoke to Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisor Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Transformation at CIPD where they discussed the main considerations for EDI in the workplace. Key takeaways were the importance of Allyship and us all taking personal responsibility for ensuring our own behaviour and the accepted culture is one...

In this month’s episode, hear CIPD Ireland Director Mary Connaughton sharing the key findings of the CIPD-IRN Pay and Employment practices survey 2022. Our research published in conjunction with IRN shows the fight to keep staff is contributing to pay increases as three-quarters (76%) of employers view employee retention as one of the biggest drivers of pay policy. Hear the podcast and read the fu...

In this month’s episode, CIPD Ireland HR Policy and Engagement Manager Meg Dunphy spoke to Ian Milton, Senior Director of Work & Rewards at WTW, where they discussed the cost-of-living crisis, and trends in reward and recognition.   Hear how important financial wellbeing can be as a differentiating factor for employers wanting to support and alleviate financial distress. Hosted on Ac...

This episode is kindly brought to you by Insight HR. CIPD Ireland Director Mary Connaughton joined Mary Cullen, Founder/Managing Director of Insight HR, and Eoin Lyons, Communications Manager of Insight HR. In this special episode, Mary Connaughton discussed Gender Pay Gap Reporting, the journey so far, how businesses can prepare for reporting, and key advice on how your company can help tackle th...

On this month’s podcast from CIPD Ireland, Director Mary Connaughton introduces further highlights from our Annual Conference. We’ve included a number of ways in which equality and inclusion got addressed through the day.  Hear insights from guests including:   - Lutfur Ali, CIPD Senior Policy Advisor   - CIPD’s Chief Executive, Peter Cheese   - Chief Executive o...

On this month’s podcast from CIPD Ireland, Director Mary Connaughton is presenting some highlights of our Annual Conference at the RDS, hosted by Colette Fitzpatrick.  This episode features an update on our HR Practices in Ireland research, an excerpt from a panel discussion featuring Chief Executive of United Hardware Paul Candon, a catch up with Professor Na Fu of TCD and an inspirational k...

Within this episode CIPD Ireland Director Mary Connaughton discusses the changing labour market in Ireland and the challenges of a tight labour market. Mary will also share a sneak peak of some of the related findings from the 2022 HR practices in Ireland survey with relation to skills shortages (full report to be release end of May 2022). Find out why the “great resignation” may be a myth in the...

This episode was recorded in celebration of International Women’s Day 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s episode is hosted by the CIPD Ireland Midlands region. Recorded in November 2021, this episode looks at a case study of Shopify’s ‘digital by default’ company model. In this episode regional committee members, Aine Clehane Talent Acquisition Specialist at Boston Scientific and Marta Kenny Human Resources Advisor at Sidero, spoke with Adrienne Kiely, Talent Development Programme Manager fro...

This episode is kindly brought to you by the CIPD Ireland Midlands region. The session was recording in December 2021 and hosted by Orlaith Martin, HR Support with Integra Lifesciences Ireland and Emma Woods HR Services Manager with Collins McNicholas Recruitment and HR Services group. For this episode Orlaith and Emma spoke to Nick Lawlor Managing Director of Employee Financial Wellness and Direc...

This episode of the CIPD Ireland podcast series is brought to you by the CIPD Ireland Midwest region. In this episode Midwest committee member Professor Christine Cross Head of Department of Work & Employment Studies in the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick is joined by Dell Technologies Limerick HR site lead Jemma Carty to discuss what Dell have learned about remote working. Dell...

At CIPD Ireland we listen to what our members tell us you need and responding to those needs in lots of different ways. Today’s podcast, 15 October 2021, looks at a very timely and critical topic – how to understand the impact of digital work on mental health wellbeing. We’ve all lived and experienced the major shifts in how many of our organisations work now and as Ireland’s economy and workplace...