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EMAcast
by EMA
The EMAcast is an EMA podcast about current New Zealand business issues.
Episodes
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Taking a Strategic Approach to Wellbeing, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Kate Bukowski – Strategy and Partnerships Southern Cross HealthcareSouthern Cross Healthy Futures 2022 report provides indepth and longitudinal data on the state of New Zealand’s health and Well Being. Kate Bukowski has a background as a practioner and senior manager in the Healthcare and now…
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Board Members Talk - Sarah Caunter
In our latest EMACAST, we talk to EMA Board member and People and Culture Director with Corys Electrical Sarah Caunter. We explore how Sarah builds culture in a company with employees spread across the country, what businesses need to do to attract and retain top talent and talk about her working...
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What is “employee experience” and why is it so important
Samantha Gadd has a long career in HR, starting in a New Zealand law firm, pursuing a coaching career and then starting up “HR Shop” consulting in Wellington. The success of her consulting business and her exposure to the ideas of employee experience led her to refocus her business on employee...
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LM4s HR journey
LM4 is a family business with three subsidiaries based in the Waikato. Abi Turner joined the business at the start of 2022 and has the goal of making it the Number one place to work in the region. To achieve this Abi and the HR team have worked with senior executives to understand better how they...
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Taking a strategic approach to Well Being and Diversity and inclusion
Southern Cross Healthy Futures 2022 report provides indepth and longitudinal data on the state of New Zealand’s health and Well Being. Kate Bukowski has a background as a practioner and senior manager in the Healthcare and now works alongside the southern Cross Healthcare Human resources team on...
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Trends and new approaches in remuneration and benefits in 2023
Natasha Stone is the Manager of Market information at Strategic Pay. Strategic Pay have the largest data base of New Zealand salary data and Natasha has been working with this for over ten years. As such she is very well placed to advise on current and historical trends in rewards and…
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Perceived Discrimination: The work and well being consequences
Jarrod Harr recently published his research on perceived discrimination of Maori and Pacific employees in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This powerful research found that perceived discrimination has a negative impact on work outcomes and well being outcomes. In this conversation Jarrod discussed the...
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Prioritizing Performance Management
Tony McKenna is a skilled, practical and pragmatic Senior Human Resource Manager who has a track record for “getting things done”. This year Tony has been leading the development and implementation of a new performance management process for Mainstream New Zealand. In this episode he helps us...
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Well Being Leadership
Chris Hewitt is the Commercial Partnerships Manager for Revolutionaries of work (ROW). ROW works with business on their Well Being Strategy. They have worked with many New Zealand businesses using an approach based on professional expertise, lived experience, and human-centred design. In…
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Tailoring your Well Being Strategy
Dr Toma is a research fellow at the University of Auckland, and Founder/Director of Heart and Brain Works. Georgi brings a data-driven approach and her experience as a workplace mental health researcher to the area of Well Being at work. Georgi is an expert in stress, burnout, mental wellbeing…
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Empowering individuals, leaders and teams to improve workplace wellbeing
Zac is the founder of the Awareness Academy, which provides evidence-based leadership and staff training in mindfulness, wellness and resilience. Zac has spent over 25 years working in the business sector with many leading NZ businesses and was also a buddhist monk for six years. In this episode,...
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Making KiwiRail a more diverse and inclusive business
Kim Herrick is KiwiRail’s Diversity and Inclusiveness Business Partner. Prior to working for KiwiRail she had a global award-winning (HRINZ HR person of the year) HR career delivering innovative, strategic and operational HR, Learning, and Organisational Development projects across multiple...
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Immigration Talk - Post Accreditation Employer Checks
In our latest EMACast, Lukas Sousa, Head of Employer Relationships for Malcolm Pacific Immigration, joins Joanna Hall, EMA's Senior Policy Advisor, to discuss the new Post-Accreditation Employer Compliance Checks and explore some of the common themes that members raised during our recent webinar...
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Driving business growth and change using data
Luke was the ANZ Director of a European startup that grew from a tiny team in Europe in 2016 to over 250 employees around the world in 2021 and was acquired by a global business, Workday, for over $1bn NZD. Luke was employee number 16 in Europe in 2016 and spent the last 6.5 years helping to grow...
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Developing a progressive EVP in the utilities industry
Simon Batters is GM of People and Safety at The Lines company, the Waikato-based utility company. Simon has over 20 years of experience in senior People and CEO roles in NZ businesses. We talk to Simon about his core work goal, “To create healthy workplaces that enable people to do great work”…
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Board Members Talk - Alex Zhang
In this informative podcast we interview Alex Zhang, EMA Board member and CEO and Principal Immigration Adviser at Chance Immigration and Education. Alex shares some of his early working history in China, the challenges he faced when he moved to New Zealand and provides insights into how AI...
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Board Members Talk - Hannah Young - People Manager & Board Advisor
In our latest podcast, we talk to EMA Board member Hannah Young and discuss the future of work in New Zealand. With a background in health and her role as HR and Wellbeing Manager with Parallaxx, Hannah offers insights into workplace wellbeing and tips and strategies to keep staff mentally and...
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Board Members Talk - Andrew Hunt
In this insightful podcast, we talk to the Chairman of the EMA Board and owner and Managing Director of Kinetics Group, Andrew Hunt. At fifteen, Andrew developed some software that launched a successful career in IT. We take a look back at his early career, and hear his views on the biggest...
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2023 trends and insights in NZ recruitment
Grant Habgood is the Director of Robert Walters in Auckland. He has worked within the recruitment industry since 2006 in Japan and New Zealand. In this episode, we ask Grant about what trends he has noticed in the New Zealand job market in 2023. We discuss what is similar and different to the...
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Your duty of care for remote workers
The copy would be: COVID-19 forced companies into embracing remote working with little time to consider their responsibilities as an employer. With some alarming case law emerging overseas, this podcast explores the question of 'what is your duty of care for staff working at home' and how best to...
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What we have learnt about the dynamic workplace in 2022
Michael Briggs and John Bradbury, discuss the key themes that have emerged in the dynamic workplace podcasts in 2002 and highlight some of the findings from the discussions and what they mean for New Zealand businesses going into 2023.
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Sealink’s Journey to reimagine their Employee Value Proposition
Sealink New zealand has approximately 130 staff and provides ferries for the transportation of passengers, vehicles, and freight to destinations around the Hauraki Gulf. It is a unionised company, and 70% of the workforce perform in the following types of roles on vessels and shore: skippers,...
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Improving productivity by moving to a “4 day” working week
Blind Low Vision New Zealand have successfully introduced a four-day workweek. In this episode, we look at why they did this, how they implemented it, and the business outcomes. The focus for introducing the four-day work week was to improve the culture, and throughout the implementation,...
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Leadership to improve retention, productivity and performance
Dr Ellen Nelson has a unique lens on leadership from her practical army experience helping evacuate Afghan refugees and her research. In the episode, we discuss the lessons learnt and how these can be applied in the workplace to improve firm performance, staff retention and productivity through...
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4 Day Workweek
The 4 day work week is a global initiative to reduce the number of hours people work, but with no loss in pay, or productivity. It takes a 100:80:100 approach, where pay and productivity remain at 100% but hours worked are reduced to 32 per week. In this podcast Jarrod Harr shares the data on the...
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Moving the Workforce back to the office
Mike Marr, is the entrepreneur driving the TPT group since 1999 TPT Group owns a number of different businesses and Mike have led 10 successful start-up businesses and completed 13 acquisitions. In 2020, like many businesses, the TPT group moved to more flexible and hybrid working. While this was...
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What Hybrid Working has meant for office design
Matt Hockey has over twenty years of experience in commercial property in the UK and New Zealand. We talk to Matt about what Dynamic Workplace means for office space and find out that there is a significant move to focus on the quality of office space. Matt tells us how businesses are moving to...
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New ways of working and new technology
During the lockdown there was a dramatic acceleration in the use of technology to enable people to continue to do their jobs and for businesses to function. Whilst the most common was the use of video technology for meetings, for example, Teams and Zoom, there was a wide range of digital tools...
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How hybrid working and personality interact
Lucy Cennamo Jones is the New Zealand Consulting Director for the global business consulting firm Talogy. Lucy has twenty years experience applying organisational psychology to enable people and organisations to be more productive. Lucy talks about the impacts of the pandemic on individuals and...
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Moving to a four day work week (in manufacturing)
Griffiths Equipment is a manufacturer based in South Auckland. To ensure that the business could operate efficiently and effectively during 2021 the leadership team quickly decided to implement a 4 day working week across a wide range of roles. Gemma Collins takes us through how the leadership…
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What is the impact of Hybrid work on HR professionals
Andrew Steele, known as “Steelie”, is a practical, executive-level Human Resources professional with 20+ years of experience in business transformations. Steelies has held senior positions in a wide range of industries, including dairy, energy, insurance and IT. We asked Andrew to summarise and...
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Recruitment challenges in the hybrid environment and trends
Iain MacGibbon is the owner of Farrow Jamieson recruitment and search, he has been in the business for over twenty years. In this episode, we discuss the current challenges for NZ businesses who are trying to recruit in a market where there is a shortage of candidates and more job adverts than…
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The Dynamic Workplace
The return to the workplace is taking place against a time of economic challenges with the price of daily goods and services moving upwards, and a shortage of labour that is likely to continue even with the government's actions to open borders, and skills exemptions. For organisations that...
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The EMAcast is an EMA podcast about current New Zealand business issues.
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