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Authentic Collaboration in the Workplace with Barry Flack

HR in Review
HR in Review
Episode • Mar 15, 2023 • 25m

In this episode of the HR in Review podcast, we talk about one of the most important lessons the COVID-19 pandemic taught businesses and HR leaders: the importance of authentic collaboration in the workplace. We consider six elements essential to collaboration in the post-Covid workplace and the tools and strategies to future-proof businesses so they can best manage future challenges.

Guest: Barry Flack
Bill Banham's guest this time is Barry Flack, Workforce Strategist and a top 30 global influencer in HR and HR Tech. Barry is an award-winning HR professional who spent many years running large recruitment & HR functions in a variety of global industries, before embarking on a varied portfolio career.

Barry helps organizations adapt to the changing world of work and use advanced HR tech to solve complex people-related business problems. In the past, he’s been a board-level HRD, Head of Talent, Head of ER/IR, Head of Recruitment, OD, and Programme Head. He now spends his time working with HR Technology start-ups, consulting and practicing with Private Equity and Venture Capital businesses to help portfolio companies build for growth and commentating on the developing world of work.

Questions for Barry include:

  • In a work context, what does it mean to be truly collaborative?  
  • How can we maintain company culture and collaboration in a changed world
  • How has remote/hybrid changed the landscape?
  • What role does HR play in highly collaborative organisations? Please also explain what you mean by the term "sense-making". 
  • Lots of companies have returned to the old ways of working. How do we resist the urge to go back to old processes that benefit middle management? 
  • You help organisations by auditing the existing HR organisational structure and developing a proposed operating model or creating new ways of working for meeting the future needs of the business. What are typical challenges and roadblocks to change? How do you get buy-in from HR? 
  • What are some of the biggest talent acquisition and retention challenges this year?


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About HR in Review
HR in Review is a podcast produced by the leading UK HR website www.hrreview.co.uk.  

HRreview provides news and advice on HR strategy and practice plus a host or related topics like recruitment, training, diversity, employment law, reward and wellbeing.

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