2012 Conference Programme
“Excellent way of sharing information on cutting edge HR practice & networking with senior HR professionals.”
HR Director, Magnox South Ltd
Programme - Day One24 January 2012
Exhibition Hall
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Conference room 1 - Global research findings from corporate human resource functions.
- How are the results changing year on year?
- Future function and deliverable findings for HR Directors
- Why does HR continue to resist change?
- Talent - The key for HR to having a more strategic remit?
Ed Lawler,
Distinguished Professor of Business at the Marshall School of Business,
University of Southern California USA
Conference room 1
- London 2012 Olympics - Creating winning teams, motivation and business change
- Being the best - Branding and engagement opportunities with employees
- Embedding the values of the games with employees and customers
- Building 'pride' and fans of sports and companies initiatives
- Employee secondments, partnering and delivering the business of the games
Exhibition hall
Young talent – apprenticeships and effective recruitment at Amey

Upskilling the line when implementing GSK’s global business HR model

Holistic and helpful pensions and benefits provision – FirstGroup My Rewards

Our why. Bringing the core purpose of Carphone Warehouse to life
Redeployment and transformation of peoples roles by strengths at Sunderland City Council

HR: Building business credibility through leadership

Excellence in Partnerships and Work Based Learning – taking it global

Embedding your learning and development into apprenticeship programmes

Building behaviours that produce high quality relationships and team performance towards shared goals and visions

How to create a coaching culture and rapid behavioural change using objective data about the skillset of sales forces, and get a minimum 8% increase in revenues in a year

Employee Engagement and organisation performance – The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

Technology – alleviating the absence management headache
The competitive team - Use sport techniques to focus, unite and energise your employees

Enhancing your training and development strategies to reflect emerging technologies and the expectations of the modern workforce

Managing Complexity - Leadership Today

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- Leadership skills - gaining elite performance from talent
- Technical and tactical strategies to improve performance levels of people
- Developing a winning mentality and culture within your organisation
- Analysing everything to perform as best as possible

Knowing your people better – Oracle’s approach to driving business performance through effective talent profiling and management

Change management - implementing a new model for leaders to manage change effectively

Skills, innovation, strategies and funding to help UK businesses compete globally in the future

Developing tomorrow’s leaders today – preparing for global growth at JT

Managing Trust and Trust Repair: Using Human Resources to repair and/or enhance trust at work

Talent management state of the art: a view of the FTSE 100

Sustainable employment – attract, retain and develop a more diverse workforce

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- A decade of development, business partnering, HR metrics, capability development and business turmoil...what's next on the agenda?
- Investigating the form and function of the HR Business Director
- Power to the people - Is the HRD placing too much HR power on middle managers?
- Should the HRD of the future be the business performance advocate on the board?
Ed Lawler,
Distinguished Professor of Business at the Marshall School of Business,
University of Southern California USA
Conference room 1
Exhibition hall
www.hrdistinctionawards.com
| • | HRD of the Year - HR Directors Distinction Award |
| • | Distinction in Talent Management Execution |
| • | Distinction in Employee Engagement |
| • | Distinction in Adding Value |
| • | Distinction in Leadership and Development |
| • | Distinction in HR Technology or Software Usage |
| • | Distinction in Employee Benefits, Rewards and Recognition |
| • | Distinction in Recruitment |
| • | Distinction in Change Management |
| • | Distinction in Diversity and Inclusion |
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Programme - Day Two25 January 2012
Exhibition Hall
Conference room 1
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Recession tends to generate a common response – ‘can we become more effective by improving our systems, creating efficient, effective processes and cutting costs considerably?’ This can help to a point but, as leaders, what can we do to stay ahead of the competition, encourage growth and ensure we come out of recession in a strong, sustainable position?
Recession tends to generate a common response – ‘can we become more effective by improving our systems, creating efficient, effective processes and cutting costs considerably?’ This can help to a point but, as leaders, what can we do to stay ahead of the competition, encourage growth and ensure we come out of recession in a strong, sustainable position?
Director and Executive Planning; a new perspective on motivating and remunerating the senior team

High level skills in your business – bringing higher education to the workplace – the case of the degree in retailing

Applying Ecommerce best practice to HR Self Service

Gaining competitive advantage in senior level succession: risk management and competitor benchmarking

Preparing for the new workplace pension duties

Identifying and mobilising ‘natural’ talent

Fierce Conversations: 4 objectives and 7 principles to get you better results

New Directions in Leadership Development

Ken Starkey
Professor of Management and Organisational Learning
Nottingham University Business School
The realities of automatic enrolment for HR

Patrick Heath-Lay
Director of Finance and Strategic Delivery
B&CE, the organisation behind The People's Pension
Unconferencing the HR Directors Business Conference

Transforming Public Sector HR - supporting real business change

International HR Forum - Challenges for the European HR Director - How do you manage HR effectively across multiple jurisdictions?

Martin Percival
IHRF Member
Designing, merging and integrating T-Mobile and Orange to Everything Everywhere

Can your enterprise engage, empower and retain its employees?

Reforms and ramifications to the employment tribunal process and employment law proposals for the HR Director

Launching a successful salary sacrifice and car scheme

Learning and Analytics- Identifying the link between workforce data, people development and productivity with your bottom line

Social Media and the HRD - policies and positives

How can innovation deliver true cost savings using the SAP HCM Suite?

What business can learn from Olympians and the Olympics

Sarah Winckless
Olympic Rowing Bronze medallist and Chairman
Athletes Commission for London 2012 Olympics
The Challenge of Talent Management: a New Leadership

Joaquín Uríbarri
Director of Marketing & International Development Executive Education
IE Business School
Auto enrolment for pension provision - assessing the impact and changes required for your business

Essential Recruitment Initiatives for 2012:
Discover our top 5 RPO initiatives, discussing cost containment, SLAs and balancing of the candidate supply chain, globalisation and recruitment technologies.

Developing the right leadership capabilities for a changing world - trust, diversity, ubiquity

Improving sales performance: Lessons from the field for HR Directors

Business protection in the age of social media

Unconferencing the HR Directors Business Conference

Building a leadership pipeline to develop and retain key staff

Transformation! And a great place to work … can you have it all?

Change fatigue: Is your organisation at risk?

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- Findings, viewpoints and benefits from the unconference sessions
- Insights, findings and conclusions from this years summit
- Threats and opportunities for businesses in the new era
















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