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3rd Annual Congress Programme
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HR Strategy in Business
March 11th 2008, The Radisson SAS Portman Hotel

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Programme

08.15 – 09.00 Registration and Refreshments



09.00 – 09.10 Welcome by the Chair
Sharon Mattingly
Principal, Talent and Organisation Consulting Practice,
Hewitt Associates



09.10 – 09.50 Opening Keynote Presentation
Future Value Creation through Effective People Strategy

  • The fundamental role of HR in creating value – the people strategy
  • Aligning the key contributions to the business strategy: Culture, recruitment, training, remuneration, recognition and communications
  • Getting people excited – the importance of employee engagement
  • What does the future hold for HR
Lynda Gratton
Professor of Management Practice 
London Business School



09.50 – 10.25 Keynote Presentation
Developing a High Performance Culture is Mission Critical in Turning an Organisation Around
  • Defining a high performance culture within the public sector
  • From emotions to execution
  • The importance of leaders to drive through change
  • The future role of the HRD – where are they going to add value?
Angela O’Connor
Chief People Officer
National Policing Improvement Agency



10.25 – 11.00 Keynote Presentation
Maintaining Strong Culture and Values to Deliver Continued Profitability and Growth
    Andrew explores the challenge of building and maintaining the Goldman Sachs culture which underpins the success of the organisation. Andrew will explore the tools and techniques used to maintain the culture as the organisation grows across regions

  • The culture of GS
  • The importance of buy in and leadership from the top
  • Developing the culture through continued assessment
  • How are values derived and instilled in the workforce?
  • How is the culture maintained as the company grows across regions?

Andrew McEachern
Managing Director, HCM
Goldman Sachs


11.00 – 11.10 Questions and Answer Session




11.10 – 11.30 Refreshments



Delegates can choose to one of the following 3 streams


STREAM 1

Talent Management

Chaired and facilitated by
Sharon Mattingly
Principal, Talent and Organisation Consulting Practice
Hewitt Associates
STREAM 2

HR Effectiveness

Chaired and facilitated by
Stephen Brooks
Director
PA Consulting
STREAM 3

Future of Reward

Chaired and facilitated by
Chris Bruce
Director of Marketing
and Technology
Thomson Online Benefits
11.30– 12.00








Developing and Implementing Talent Strategies for all levels Within the Organisation

CASE STUDY:Organisational Design: Transforming the Structure and Positioning of HR through Cultural Change CASE STUDY: Using Reward Policy to Drive Business Turnaround

  • Defining the objectives of the talent strategy
  • Talent and leadership is required throughout the organisation – not just at the top
  • Identifying and developing talented individuals without disengaging the team
  • Tools and techniques employed
  • Measuring the results in terms of succession planning and retention

  • Establishing the business objectives and how HR will add value
  • What are the areas of resistance and how do you overcome them
  • It’s about changing the organisational culture
  • The importance of being able to measure and report performance
  • What are the reward packages trying to achieve?
  • Understanding what your employees want
  • Leveraging reward to drive culture change and employee engagement
  • Measuring the impact of the reward strategy





Kate Griffith-Lambeth

HR Director
White & Case LLP




Kerensa Sheen
Corporate Functions and Global People Capability Director, Group HR
Vodafone Group Services Limited




Kate Kelly

Head of Employee
Relations and Reward
Marks & Spencer

12.00– 12.30








CASE STUDY: Aviva
Overcoming the Practicalities of Implementing Talent Strategies

CASE STUDY: Building Trust and Leadership from the Top
CASE STUDY: Designing and Implementing an Effective Benefits Strategy

  • The approach and objectives
  • Building commitment from senior management
  • Integrating talent management with other HR processes (linking with performance management and reward)
  • The challenge of getting line managers on board
  • What were the key lessons learned and what would we have done differently with hindsight
  • Effective HR departments have buy in from the top
  • Understanding HR's roles and responsibilities to the organisation
  • Getting the right people and ensuring they perform and develop at the highest levels
  • Building HR accountability goes beyond simply measuring performance

  • Why adopt a flexible benefits package?
  • What the reward packages comprise of and how they meet the overall strategic aims
  • Overcoming the challenges of implementation
  • Reducing costs through improved metrics





Adam Eaton

Director of Group
Management Development
Aviva




Martyn Worsley

Head of International Organisation Development
The Bank of New York Mellon




Trevor Blackman

Head of Remuneration
and Benefit
RBS

12.30– 13.00








Round table discussions and feedback session Round table discussions and feedback session Round table discussions and feedback session


13.00 - 14.00 Lunch


STREAM 4

Employee Engagement



Chaired and facilitated by
Helen Rosethorn
Chief Executive
Bernard Hodes Group
STREAM 5

Leadership Development



Chaired and facilitated by
Penny Ferguson
Penny Ferguson Ltd
STREAM 6

Resourcing and Retention Strategies

Chaired and facilitated by Frederik Ballon, Managing Consultant, EMEA Operations, Peopleclick

14.00 - 14.30








Employer Branding at Philips: Linking Marketing to HR CASE STUDY:
Building a Framework that Identifies and Develops Future Business Leaders

Overcoming the Challenges of Developing an Effective International Resourcing Strategy
  • What we have learned by taking our employer brand global
  • The need for new ways of working between HR and Marketing
  • Creating an attractive, distinctive and authentic employee proposition
  • How our journey has evolved
  • Defining leadership expectations
  • Building a leadership framework around those expectations
  • Aligning development and training to those needs
  • Assessing leadership – who are the people with strengths in key business areas

  • The challenge facing Unilever as a global organisation
  • Devising a strategy that engages line managers
  • Establishing clear and effective hiring processes
  • Ensuring the development plan is part of the recruitment process
  • Measuring and using the metrics





Job Mensink

Senior Director Recruitment Marketing
Philips International



Jill McMillan
VP, EMEA Leadership & Development
Investment Banking
Merrill Lynch Europe




Paul Maxim
Global Resourcing Director
Unilever
14.30– 15.00






Developing a New Employer Brand for a Company that Doesn't Exist - Nokia CASE STUDY: Creating a Leadership Culture Across the Organisation CASE STUDY: Pannone LLP:
Winning a top 3 position in The Times 100 best places to work
  • Building the business case to invest in understanding
  • Investigating what attracts and retains Nokia people
  • Aligning the processes and behaviours of two different companies
  • Building understanding across cultures

  • Achieving a leadership culture in the organisation
  • Devising a strategy that performs across all levels throughout the organisation
  • Rigorously measuring leadership development and its impact on people and business performance
  • Our approach to recruitment and retention
  • Developing a culture that engages and fosters loyalty
  • Establishing a flexible working structure that meets the business objectives
  • Making work fun




Peter Bedford

Head of Resourcing & Employment WSE
Nokia Siemens Networks




Ewan McCulloch
HR Director
Staples UK Retail




Rachel Dobson

Partner and Director of Support Services
Pannone LLP





Jim Lister

Partner
Pannone LLP
15.00– 15.30





Round table discussions
and feedback session
Round table discussions
and feedback session
Round table discussions
and feedback session

15.30– 15.50 Refreshments


15.50– 17.10 Panel Discussion

Effectively Linking Talent Management with Reward, Recognition & Engagement
A strategic discussion on the pay and performance equation

How are organisations accurately assessing talent when many performance mechanisms were originally developed to generate data for reward and recognition? Is it possible to have one system that effectively assesses talent and generates the reward package?

Our panel of experts, drawn from a diverse range of organisations, will present the practical challenges that they have faced in developing and implementing an effective talent management strategy that dovetails with reward and recognition. The discussions will encompass employee engagement, performance measurement and reward – and the interplay between them.

Following the brief presentations, the audience then joins the discussion through a facilitated Q&A session which is followed by the drinks reception where you can network with other HR Directors.

Topics to be discussed include:
  • How do organisations establish the key motivating factors across the entire workforce?
  • Are traditional methods of developing packages ethical and are shareholders going to agree to them?
  • Key elements of progressive compensation and benefits design and implementation
  • Can performance assessments effectively be used to assess both performance and compensation?

Lou Manzi
Vice President, Global Recruitment
GlaxoSmithKline

Richard Smelt
Group HR Director
Carphone Warehouse

John Smythe
Founding Partner
Engage for Change

Andrew Armes
Global Vice President, Talent Management and HR Strategy
Invensys Plc

Lynn E. Vaughan
Compensation & Benefits Director, Europe Group
Coca-Cola Enterprises


17.15 - 17.20 Chairs Closing Remarks


17.20 - 18.30 Drinks Reception



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