{"id":211381,"date":"2020-03-09T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letstalktalent.co.uk\/?p=211381"},"modified":"2022-05-19T07:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:37:28","slug":"5-mins-with-lorraine-kelly-kings-college-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letstalktalent.co.uk\/blog\/5-mins-with-lorraine-kelly-kings-college-london\/","title":{"rendered":"5 mins with… Lorraine Kelly – King’s College London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This month we meet up with Lorraine Kelly from Kings College London. We find out a little more about how Lorraine has developed career pathways at Kings College London, who inspired her to get started in HR and what tips she’d give to help adjust to the rapid changes in the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had a wonderful manager that I worked for in the careers service, she had really recognised and developed me and then moved across to HR to lead on the Diversity and Inclusion agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was really inspired by her as like me she was first in her family to get degree level qualifications. She was always approachable and always had time for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
16 years of working in HR I spent 10 years working in Diversity and inclusion and then transferred to Organisational Development 6 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gaining my Fellowship of the CIPD last year \u2013 this symbolised over 15years of hard work from when I started my level 5 qualification while working, studying in the evenings and raising my 2 sons, who are my most proudest achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Created and branded the staff experience hub linking all the support across Kings \u2013 this sounds easy but there was so much going on and it was totally un-coordinated. This involved collaboration, building trust and working in partnership across Kings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The impact of this work was a stronger support strategy for staff development, wellbeing, engagement and empowering our staff to take advantage of all the support that is in offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We worked really closely with Jo and the LTT team to build a philosophy, we then held workshops with HR teams to identify roles and patterns of careers. This was really fun and it was great to get the HR team together to work on this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The output was a set of coaching questions linked to careers, maps of interconnected careers and STAR models for each area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have clear links to all the support available via Organisational Development and Links throughout to Our Principles in Action. We are delighted with what we have achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are still rolling our career pathways across Kings and working with teams through our People Partners to engage and involve, the feedback which we have had to date has been really positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have had huge changes in HR as we are transforming our HR system and digital services, we have seen changes to all our teams including enhanced service offerings from Organisational Development and Diversity and Inclusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have developed our staff wellbeing support and included a new leadership passport programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be kind, don\u2019t be reactive take the time to build team moral and develop your people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In times of change we need to work together even more to understand challenge and build on opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few years ago (maybe 10) I once wrote in an email to a senior manager sorry for my incontinence instead of inconvenience\u2026 mortified but funny ????<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No more than 40, I have a great work life balance, which allows me to be my best self at work and home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lorraine is kindly hosting our next Let’s Talk Talent Roundtable<\/a>: HR Round Table: Are One Company Careers Dead? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Kings College London Director of OD & Let\u2019s Talk Talent would love to debate this topical issue with HRD\u2019s and Talent Directors who are willing to share their tips, advise and journey so others can learn in order to improve productivity and make businesses irresistible for people.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For your business to realise your ambitions, will depend on you identifying and developing your future leaders. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n World\u00a0class\u00a0companies are obsessed by\u00a0Predictive Succession Planning<\/a>. Seeing\u00a0it not just as a notion or a fad,\u00a0but as an essential part of their talent strategy,\u00a0giving it\u00a0the energy it requires.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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