"It was an action packed day with a diverse number of speakers, facilitators, new and existing providers that I will continue to work with or consider for potential and future projects."
Head of Human Resources
Samsung
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Conference
This conference programme aims to give senior L&D and Talent Management practitioners access to new ideas, solutions and innovations to help take their departments and companies forward. Through open discussions on best practice and debate among the industry’s top players, delegates will get a unique insight into strategies being used by their peers.
If you would like to contribute or have any specific questions on 2012 conference sessions then please email the Conference Manager, Victoria Coles who would be delighted to hear from you.
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Opening Address - 2012
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| Profiting from the Truth: Life, Death & Nothing |
| BJ Cunningham, serial entrepreneur and council member of Business Superbrands |
Authentic and powerful branding demands the Truth. The future is about market depth and involvement, not market width and awareness. Communicated with clarity both internally within the organisation and then externally to customers ultimately means treating your customers as you would have them treat you. It means removing the illusion of separation, understanding that you are your customer.
BJ Cunningham is a Visiting Professor at Brighton University, a member of the Super Brands Council and an internationally renowned Key Note speaker.
He uses his own experience as a serial entrepreneur to illustrate his straightforward brand and business thinking, where he advocates the philosophy of ‘Right Thought, Right Word, Right Action’: Know what you are trying to say, say it clearly and then do what you said you were going to do when you said you were going to do it.
BJ uses his experience of establishing the Enlightened Tobacco Company PLC, and then marketing a brand of cigarettes called ‘DEATH’ as ‘the honest smoke’ as a highly entertaining and thought provoking case study. His act of heresy, though enormously successful with consumers, didn’t go down at all well with the tobacco industry. It eventually landed him in the European Court of Justice fighting against not only every Member State of Europe but also the might of the established tobacco industry.
This presentation demonstrates how BJ puts his philosophy into effect in his own companies and the out-of-the-box thinking that a strong brand concept can drive.
• Problems as opportunities
• Thought, Word, Action – branding: a process of conscious evolution
• Belief is everything
• Provocative brand creation and marketing
• The power of juxtaposition in a conservative market
• Reversing Resistance
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Leadership development: what we can learn from high profile leaders
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| Lunch-time Keynote Address |
| Prof. Binna Kandola OBE, Business Psychologist, Senior Partner and co-founder, Pearn Kandola |
The collapse of Lehmann Bros, the failure of RBS, the BP Oil Slick of 2010 – what can be learned about the nature of leadership from such events?
Prof. Kandola has conducted extensive research into these and other high profile events which he will share with the audience during his keynote address. He has specifically looked at the personalities of the leaders involved and the context in which they operated.
Prof. Kandola will address what this means in terms of the type of leaders needed in the future, the qualities which should be looked for and the implications for leadership development as a whole.
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Talent retention & engagement: the things you might not be thinking about but could be….
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| Industry Focussed Session |
| Patrick McMaster, Director Global Learning & Talent Management – EMEA, BlackBerry |
This interactive session will explore some of the key areas for talent management & retention which L&D and TMs should be thinking about including:
- What is talent and what does it really look like?
- How companies can play to their organisational strengths as much as those of individual employees.
- Good HR management; are we too often forgetting the basics?
- ROI, is your organisation retaining the talent it spends its budget on? - How do you spend even more wisely?
- Moving forward, in an ever more demanding talent climate, how to really engage and retain your top talent?
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Digital Connectivity in Talent Development – the Future: Now
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| Industry Focussed Session |
| Perry Timms, Head of Talent & Organisational Development, Big Lottery Fund |
It's an 'always online world out there'.
This session will explore:
- How using social media in Talent Development is no longer a fad or something nice to have. The changing needs of people in a digitally-connected world means that those staff involved in talent development want and need more of their learning outside the classroom and in less formal settings.
- How at the Big Lottery Fund (BIG), digital connectivity is not just exploited as a tool for promoting the great projects funded through lottery money, but forms an ever increasing percentage of learning and talent development activities across the entire organisation.
- And finally - hear how BIG has captured the essence of social media and used it connect, skill and engage staff across the UK with online demonstrations of their own wiki, apps and linking tools.
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70/20/10 – Developing Leadership Differently
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| Industry Focussed Session |
| Stephanie Peskett, Global Learning Manager - Leadership Development, Unilever |
With input from the group, Stephanie will explore a different approach to looking at how we manage and develop leadership talent. Based on the experiences of developing high potentials within the Unilever business, in the session you will:
- Explore the principles of 70/20/10 for development of leadership talent.
- Consider examples of how the principle can be turned into real learning.
- Identify implications around engagement and managing talent.
- Discuss how 70/20/10 impacts on return on investment and measurement of learning.
Expect and be ready to contribute your own thoughts, ideas and experience to this interactive session.
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Inspirational Leadership at the Heart of Business Success
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| Industry Focussed Session |
| Ken Finneran, Chief People Officer - Americas, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics |
Much business literature contends that leadership is primarily about driving extraordinary business results. And while outstanding business results are often the outcome of extraordinary leadership, the essence of that leadership which brings about such success often lies somewhere else. The research is actually quite overwhelming in support of the fact that great leadership is more about inspiration and motivation, which then lead to positive results, than some forceful pursuit of that profit target alone.
By presenting compelling research data, the presenter will make a strong case for inspirational leadership as the driver of organizational success. Moreover, the speaker will facilitate discussions about existing best practices in inspirational leadership as well as details about how a focus on this has led to outstanding, sustainable business results at Hellmann.
Learning Objectives:
1) Understand the overwhelming evidence in support of inspirational leadership as the driver for lasting business success;
2) Identify critical actions that can be taken in support of a culture of inspirational leadership;
3) Utilize tools, discussions, and action plans to set next steps.
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Making internal coaching successful despite budget cuts
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| Industry Focussed Session |
| Ian Paterson, MD, EMCC and Sara Hope, Chair, EMCC Special Interest Group on Internal Coaching |
This session will be run by Ian Paterson, MD of the EMCC and Sara Hope, chair of it’s Special Interest Group on Internal Coaching.
Both Ian and Sara have led coaching teams at leading Professional Services Organisations (Ernst & Young and KPMG) and bring with them a wealth of personal, professional and academic experience in this area.
The session will cover a whole range of areas including:
- Overview of internal coaching: past, present & future.
- The 70/20/10 L&D model and move away from formal learning.
- Global crisis and budget cut backs: the cost of internal coaching.
- Demonstrating ROI.
- The key ingredients of success - top tips from experience.
- Professional development of, and support for, internal coaches.
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Corporate Training Goes Virtual: A Hybrid Approach to Experiential Learning
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| Industry Focussed Session |
| Prof. Michael R. Solomon, Professor of Marketing and Director, Center for Consumer Research, Saint Joseph’s University (U.S.A.) |
Millennials see the world through a digital lens. They often appear to be more comfortable interacting with a colleague’s Facebook page or virtual world avatar than conversing in face-to-face situations. Can traditional “chalk and talk” corporate training techniques accommodate learners who have grown up holding a mouse or joystick rather than a pencil. Forward-thinking organizations from IBM to the U.S. Army already are experimenting with new 3D immersive learning platforms that synchronize with the dynamic recreational environments in which young people immerse themselves every day.
Virtual environments hold tremendous promise for corporate training, but they are not a panacea. Nor is it likely that they will entirely replace traditional in-person techniques (at least in the near future). To reflect this reality, we advocate a hybrid approach to curriculum development that “cherry-picks” the best aspects of each domain for content- and experience-based learning. We will review several applications developed for companies to assist in sales training, internal corporate communications and customer insights research.
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L&D: Starting from scratch
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| Industry Focussed Session |
| Jaimie Stewart, Learning & Development Manager, Whistles |
We all know the importance of developing people, but where do you start when you have nothing, how do you justify this investment when every penny counts and what can established L&D functions learn from conducting this type of activity?
This interactive discussion will allow delegates to share in my personal experience and consider what they can take back to their organisations including:
- Where to start – shaping your vision for L&D.
- Winning Support – getting those that matter on side & positioning the functions within the organisation.
- Matching learning experience to business needs and culture.
- Justifying your existence – how to secure ongoing backing for L&D.
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Discussion Group Topics
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| Interactive peer-to-peer led discussions |
| Sessions to be moderated by delegates |
- How learning can support culture change
- Senior leadership development /enabling line managers in a disparate organisation
- How to gain executive engagement on talent topics
- Realising potential – enabling staff to think outside the box
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Highlights from Past Conference Programmes
Highlights form the 2011 Conference Programme
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| Keynotes, Industry & Non-Industry Specific Sessions |
| Sessions & Speakers |
Keynote Addresses:
- Opening Keynote Address: Many Voices – One Sound - Christian Gansch, Renowned Conductor & Management Consultant
- Lunchtime Keynote Address: the Future of Work - Richard Donkin, independent journalist, commentator, author and public speaker
Seminars, Workshops & Discussion Groups:
- Identification, validation and development of high potentials - Katrine Smith, Senior Manager, HRD and Talent, Panasonic Europe Ltd
- Using talent management strategically: looking at organisational capability & enhancing talent on the exec agenda....-Simon Haben, Group Talent & Leadership Director, Royal Mail
- The learning and development revolution - Heather Corby, HR Director, BT Innovate and Design
- Stand out from the crowd: how to achieve business goals through building differentiating strategic capabilities (DiSCs) -Professor William Scott-Jackson, Chairman, Oxford Strategic Consulting
- The awakening of a coaching culture: an award winning initiative - Kylie Roberts and Claire Davey, Deloitte Learning and Development
- The Harrods degree: innovation, engagement and business results - Arkin Salih, Head of Team Development, Harrods
- Talent development – making it relevant - Jo Henderson, Senior Manager, European Talent Management, KPMG
- HOW to get what you want more quickly - personal development - Claire Howell, Chief Executive, Really Effective Development Co.
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Manager of Strategic Training
EDF Energy
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Senior Learning and Development Manager
RWE npower
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Head of Talent Management
SThree
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Head of Organisational Development & Talent
Volkswagen Group (UK) Ltd
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Director of HR Development
Scottish Power Plc
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