The Future of Work: Elevate Your Workforce with Transformational Benefits
Optimise Your Workforce: The Game-Changer in Employee Benefits
Employee benefits aren’t just perks—they’re the secret weapon for building a thriving, engaged, and unstoppable workforce! Optimise Your Workforce is the must-listen podcast for forward-thinking businesses ready to rethink, refine, and revolutionise their approach to employee benefits.
Each episode is packed with insights, strategies, and expert advice designed to help you unlock the full potential of your benefits programs. From cutting-edge health and wellness initiatives to retirement planning, financial wellbeing, and beyond, we uncover game-changing trends, best practices, and bold innovations that empower both employers and employees.
If you’re ready to attract top talent, boost retention, and build a workplace that truly works, this podcast is your blueprint for success. Join us as we break down what it takes to optimise your employee strategy for maximum impact. Let’s rethink benefits, because a thriving workforce starts here!
Episodes
30 episodes
Employee Benefits in Scotland: Keeping Employees Engaged Happy and Productive (Communications)
Join Saba Haran and Andy Roddie, as we tackle a crucial topic: How can we keep employees engaged, happy, and productive? We’ll discuss the stats that reveal just how much engagement matters—did you know that engaged employees are 17...
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10:50
Employee Benefits in Scotland: Tackling the Retirement Savings Challenge!
Join Saba Haran and Andy Roddie dive deep into the crucial topic of workplace pensions and the retirement savings gap we’re facing today.In this episode, we explore the surprising statistics about retirement savings in Scotland and why m...
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15:36
Employee Benefits in Scotland: supporting employees through the cost of living crisis
A staggering 74% of Scottish employers recognise the cost of living crisis as the biggest challenge their staff face today.In their latest podcast, Saba Haran and Andy Roddie explore the challenges workers face, from escalating energy bi...
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15:05
Employee Benefits in Scotland: closing the wellbeing gap - Supporting Employee Mental Health
In this podcast episode, Saba Haran and Andy Roddie from Howden's employee benefits team in Scotland explore the challenges businesses face in addressing employee wellbeing, particularly mental health. They discuss the significant financial tol...
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11:38
Employee Benefits in Scotland: Addressing Scotland’s Healthcare - challenges, changes, and what’s next?
In this podcast episode, Saba Haran and Andy Roddie discuss the evolving landscape of healthcare in Scotland, focusing on the challenges faced by employers, especially post-COVID. They highlight the growing shift toward private healthcare, even...
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11:05
Our Benefits Design Research - A 10 Minute Overview
Employers are refining their benefits strategies to enhance recruitment, retention, and employee engagement.With increasing pressure to transform organisations, benefits specialists are now key players in broader HR strategies. Their rol...
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11:09
Don't forget about workplace pensions
Remember to pay attention to your workplace pension. One of the most notable trends in this year’s survey is the inactivity surrounding pension plans. Less than 10% of employers improved their pension offerings in 2023. While nearly 75% of resp...
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11:18
Keeping pace with the scale of transformation
Stay ahead of the rapid transformation in reward strategies. Once you've established a baseline for your program and have a clear understanding of costs and outcomes, leverage this insight to drive your strategic priorities. While many reward t...
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11:41
Get a Better Handle on Your Spend and Forecasting Costs
In the past 12-18 months, many reward professionals and their businesses have faced unexpected cost pressures. This unique set of circumstances has underscored the necessity for robust processes to track spend and understand the factors and tre...
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11:36
How to measure your benefits programme.
Understand What to Measure and Start Measuring It.Assessing the status of your programme is crucial, but the real game-changer lies in measuring its impact on your people strategy. Whether it's engagement, wellbeing, or recruitmen...
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10:55
Normalising men's health - five tips employers can do today
Join Leo Savage and Emma Capper as they discuss men's health in the workplace and what employers can do to support men's health in the workplace.
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18:56
Thriving in Rural Life: Mental Health Insights and Support for Farming Communities
Spend 15 minutes and discover essential insights on mental health tailored for rural and farming communities in our latest podcast. Hosted by Emma Capper, UK Wellbeing Lead, and featuring Alex Tambourides, CEO of Mind in Enfield and Barnet, thi...
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14:55
Pensions and Financial Wellbeing - a new perspective
Join Matthew Gregson and Josh Hayes as they discuss:Why pension should remain high on your agenda for the next 12 to 24 months.Exploring some of the detail and current challengesPitfalls of approaches...
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23:25
Baseline your current benefits programme performance
Is your benefits programme performing as well as it should be? Baseline its current performance to find out! Research shows that employers are at various stages in evaluating their benefits programmes.In this period of cost pressur...
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10:38
Howden’s reflections on Pension Awareness Week: A decade of difference - have we achieved enough?
Howden’s reflections on Pension Awareness Week 2023Join Matthew Gregson and Josh Hayes as they discuss how businesses can support pensions awareness week on 11th -15th September and the theme of a 'decade of difference'. Ar...
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27:14
Supporting women's health - normalising the workplace conversation
Join Emma Capper, UK Wellbeing Leader and Leo Savage, Global Wellbeing Consultant this International Women’s Day as they discuss how employers can support women’s health in the workplace.Find out how businesses can “normalise” conversati...
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19:43
5 top tips for employers looking at pensions in 2023
Welcome to our second podcast of 2023, this time we are focusing on pensions. We will be covering:Knowing your demographicImproving fundingNailing EngagementChanging provider landscapeESG ...
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46:58
Physical Wellbeing: What does success look like for employers looking to support their employees?
Welcome to our first podcast of 2023, we hope you find the content useful. In our first epsiode we will be covering physical wellbeing and how employers can support their employees.Here's what we will be covering:...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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34:17
Social Wellbeing - the forgotten pillar of your wellbeing strategy
For many of us, we focus on the four pillars of wellbeing including mental, physical, financial and social in order to think about and execute our own wellbeing plans internally. Social Wellbeing can often be a forgotten or under-serv...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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25:05
Employee financial wellbeing : Arm your people with the skills they need to make better decisions
Join Matthew Gregson, Executive Director at Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing and Jeremy Beament, Director at nudge Global as they explore how you can support your employees giving them the skills and knowledge for financial wellbeing in...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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31:27
Supporting Women's Health in the Workplace in conversation with HCA Healthcare
Join Matthew Gregson and Dr Jane Benjamin from HCA Healthcare as they discuss women's health in the workplace and what employers can do to support them.About Dr Jane BenjaminDr Jane Benjamin is an experienced general prac...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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23:07
Wellbeing in 2022
Join Matthew Gregson, Executive Director at Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing and Hazel Craig, Senior Data Analytics & Wellbeing Consultant as they explore the importance of wellbeing in businesses and how you can create your strateg...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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18:51
Using governance to stay on top of the programme
In the series so far we have looked at the building blocks of a great benefits programme from setting your strategy to funding, choice, technology and communications.In this episode we look at what the HR team should do once you have you...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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10:23