The HR L&D Podcast is one of the fastest-growing HR podcasts on YouTube (20,000+ subscribers, 3,000+ added in the last 90 days), running since 2018. Hosted by Nick Day, CEO of JGA Recruitment and a Thinkers360 top-ten Global Thought Leader in HR.

HR gets handed the problems nobody else wants to own. The restructure, the grievance, the engagement survey that came back badly. And then gets asked why people are leaving.

I’m Nick Day. I run an HR recruitment agency, which means I spend most of my week on the phone to HR directors, HR leaders and people leaders talking about what the job is actually like rather than what’s written on the job spec. This HR podcast came out of those calls. I kept hearing things worth repeating, and nobody was repeating them.

Every fortnight I sit down with HR leaders, chief people officers, L&D specialists, talent and reward leaders and the occasional academic who has changed how I think about work and people engagement. We get into leadership development, and what happens when someone brilliant at the technical side gets promoted into managing humans.

Employee engagement past the survey score. Diversity, equity and inclusion in a climate where saying those words out loud has become a decision in itself. Pay transparency and reward, talent management, reducing bias in hiring, employment law changes, HR digital transformation and the HCM systems and HR software everyone is being sold. And of course the HR AI tools and platforms flooding the landscape, as AI in HR becomes the topic every people leader is keen to understand and use well.

Wellbeing comes up constantly, and it usually turns into the same question. Who looks after the HR team.

I’m not an HR practitioner and I don’t pretend to be. I’m the person who hires them, which puts me in a useful position. I get to ask the obvious question that everyone in the room already knows the answer to and nobody says.

No script and no polite version. Mostly it’s the conversation you’d have with someone doing your job at a different company, if you ever got the chance to sit down with them.

If you work in HR, people management, talent or L&D, or you’re building a career in it, start by subscribing to The HR L&D Podcast. Guests have included Stephen Covey, Alan Stein Jr, Andrea Wareham and Dr Thom Mayer, among other HR leaders shaping the future of work and leadership.

Need HR staff? I run JGA Recruitment, an HR and payroll recruitment agency. www.jgarecruitment.com or info@jgarecruitment.com

Want to be on the show? Nick@jgadigital.com

If payroll is closer to your world, I also host The Payroll Podcast, the most-subscribed payroll podcast on YouTube and the longest-running in the world.

Topics include HR leadership and strategy, workplace culture, retention, people management, employee engagement and employee experience, diversity, equity and inclusion, DEI strategy, AI in HR, AI recruitment tools, HR technology, talent management, leadership development, HR digital transformation, HCM and HR software, staff wellbeing, pay transparency and reward, employment law, reducing bias, hybrid work, L&D, HR careers and HR recruitment. Sponsored by Deel.