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How Standard Chartered Bank is Reimagining Employee Experience

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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by Laura Cole, Managing Director, Head of HR UK & Europe at Standard Chartered Bank, and host of the EXperience Lounge Podcast, to discuss how Standard Chartered Bank is reinventing employee experience.

Laura leads the HR function for the Europe and UK region. She is also accountable for implementing the bankā€™s Employee Experience Strategy and is responsible for designing better experiences for colleagues across the end-to-end employee journey. She has recently led Standard Charteredā€™s Future Workplace Now programme, delivering flexible working at scale to 28 of the Bankā€™s markets, covering 70% of the workforce globally.

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Episode Highlights

00:00 - Intro

04:20 - Laura's journey to where she is now

12:02 - The most effective way of reaching out and engaging employees

15:35 - How Laura has implemented EX strategy

18:54 - The common mistakes Laura sees companies make

21:13 - How Laura managed hybrid work with Future Workplace Now

25:37 - The project that Laura is most proud of

28:47 - Without Covid, how long would it have taken for us to get to this point?

29:57 - Lauraā€™s parting advice for the HR leaders of tomorrow


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