Buzzing About HR

🎙️ Buzzing About HR

Straight-talking HR for real businesses (the kind where you are doing payroll, sales, and playing therapist before lunch).

From Kate Underwood HR & Training, this podcast makes the people stuff make sense, without the corporate jargon and “synergy” nonsense.

Hosted by award-winning HR expert Kate Underwood, each episode is designed for real life. You know, the moments nobody prepares you for:

• The employee who is brilliant at the job but chaos in the team
• The manager who avoids tough conversations until it turns into a bin fire
• The “it’s only a small issue” grievance that suddenly becomes a formal complaint
• The sickness pattern that is suspiciously linked to Mondays and payday
• The resignation that makes you think, “Wait… what did we miss?”

This is practical HR for small businesses and busy leaders. We talk performance, absence, hiring, retention, culture, motivation, and how to stay on the right side of UK employment law without turning your business into a paperwork museum. Expect straight answers, real examples, and steps you can actually use the same day, not theory that only works in perfect-world HR departments with unlimited budgets.

It’s also a permission slip to lead like a human. Clear standards, fair boundaries, decent communication, and less drama. The goal is a calmer workplace, fewer sleepless nights, and a team that actually wants to stick around.

And yes, Hazel the office dog pops up too, because nothing says “people management” like a judgemental stare from a Wellbeing Officer who has never written a policy in her life.

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