Building Modern Day Resilience - The HR L&D Podcast featuring Andy Nicol

On this 60th episode of The HR L&D Podcast, Nick Day asks Andy Nicol about his experiences as he transitioned from elite sport to the media and then to the business world.

The HR L&D Podcast is focused on helping HR and learning and development professionals to get the best out of their workforce by providing advice, guidance and best practice initiatives that help develop the skills and capabilities that can drive the performance of a company.  With advice provided by HR and L&D industry leaders, the podcast covers a range of subjects including content curation, leadership practices, technology, organisational development, recruitment, strategy and training practices to help business leaders to get the best out of their workforce.



The podcast aims to help boost company performance by unearthing best practice techniques that will genuinely help HR and L&D professionals to align and execute learning, training and development strategies with the requirements and priorities of their company.


In this 'Building Modern Resilience' episode Nick and Andy explore:


  • What do the words Human Resources mean to you?
  • Could you give us a quick tour of your career to date that led you from the green room to the boardroom?
  • How would you define resilience?
  • How has resilience through the years changed?
  • When did you see this shift start to change and why is it critical that businesses and leaders are aware of this shift and change?
  • Can you share examples of people showing resilience?
  •  The Kübler Ross’ Change Curve – how it can help you to understand resilience and our reactions to setbacks.
  • Andy’s 5 pillars to help build modern-day resilience
  • Tools & techniques to apply to improve our reactions to setbacks
  • Why a “failure is an event, not a person”
  • How does constant change affect resilience?
  • Why understanding your “WHY” is essential.


"I loved every second of this conversation and so I hope you can all take away as much as I did from the interview" - Nick Day



Further episodes of the L&D Podcast can be found here >> https://jgarecruitment.com/the-hr-ld-podcast/

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