In January 2012, 600 leading HR Directors and HR professionals from across the UK and Europe gathered  to examine the latest business and strategic developments affecting the HR function.

The 2012 multi-streamed sessions included:

Social networking and employee collaboration

• Building internal corporate social networks to share information and best practice
• Social media's role in employee and employer branding - examples and pitfalls

HR value and measurement

• Strategic value metrics and the balance against more traditional costs metrics
• Benchmarking people performance levels – understanding measures against internal, external and ‘best in class’ data

Public Sector HR

• Future of HR models, delivery and service
• Talent and capability development while controlling the costs

Form and function of the HRD

• What competencies and delivery tactics should HR now demonstrate?
• True HR business partnering to aid commerciality and business acumen – how is this achieved in many different operations?

Skills Requirements

• What are the current strategic employee needs and gaps in skills?
• How should different generations skills be managed?

Employment law update

• Examples and key learning's from recent HR specific legal cases
• Employee law changes and various actions to avoid dispute resolution

Leadership and people development

• Manage learning services - creating a one stop shop to complement internal learning and development programmes
• Simple processes for using executive qualifications to benefit bottom line performance

For more information, view the latest programme