Thursday 1 October 2009
09:30 – 10:00 Delegate registration
AFTERNOON SEMINARS – Choose between A3 and A4
FUTURE OF LEARNING FORUM A3 13:45 – 14:45
10:00 – 11:00 Developing skills during organisational change
The changing face of L&D in the current
Two case studies illustrate the aspects of developing inhouse
economic climate
skills with different organisational drivers
• Ensuring you are an essential element in your organisation’s business strategy
Chaired by: Adrian Snook, Deputy CEO, The Training Foundation
• How should L&D align itself with changing business priorities?
• Why is talent management becoming a key L&D issue? 13:45-14:15 Integrating learning strategy and talent management
• What role does L&D play in HR issues?
to enhance skills
• Are the boundaries between L&D and HR becoming more blurred?
• Developing a long-term flexible learning strategy around business drivers
• How can L&D take a more integrated approach with HR to
• Embedding ongoing skills development into the organisational culture
increase effectiveness?
• Adding value to business performance by developing inhouse talent
• Ensuring your team has the skills to deliver effective L&D in
• Identifying and escalating skills within your workforce
today’s business environment
• What tools are available for managers to identify talent?
• How can you maintain your motivation in tough circumstances?
• How do you evaluate the outcomes from this activity?
• Focusing on your goals to ensure you achieve results
Jan Spalding, Head of Workforce & Development, NHS Coventry
Martyn Sloman, Visiting Professor, Kingston Business School
(Chair of Coventry & Warwickshire Leadership Management Group)
Penny Tamkin, Programme Director – Management & Leadership,
The Work Foundation
Malcolm Pickup, Head of People Development, TNT UK
14:15-14:45 Re-skilling employees for new roles
Laura Overton, Managing Director, Towards Maturity
• Understanding and enhancing existing inhouse talent
• What is the business case for re-skilling over replacing?

• Identifying new skills within your workforce
• Ascertaining what skills can be introduced, developed or taught
MORNING SEMINARS – Choose between M3 and M4
• How can L&D update old skills to respond to new approaches in
today’s business world?
• How can you access available funding to help re-skill?
M3 11:05 – 12:05
Nicola Holmes, Global Director of Learning & Development, Rolls-Royce

14:45 – 15:05 Break and opportunity to visit exhibition
The L&D challenge – delivering more
effective learning for less
• Examining what you can deliver with fewer resources
• Tips to cut costs without reducing quality
• Encouraging on-the-job and workplace learning
A4 13:45 – 14:00 Break and opportunity to visit exhibition
• What skills do you need in order to provide more internal learning tools?

• What tools are available to update and customise your own
learning programmes? 14:00 – 15:00
• Is there a greater role for e-learning in the current climate?
Leadership development in a changing
• How can you work with HR and line managers to deliver real
performance improvements? business environment
Iain Clements, Learning Management System Specialist, Diageo
• Creating outstanding leaders in times of organisational change – is a new
Bob Bannister, Managing Director, iManage Performance
type of leadership needed?
• How does your leadership programme need to be refined in order to cope
12:05 – 12:30
with today’s economy?
Break and opportunity to visit exhibition
• Equipping managers and leaders with the skills to lead through difficult times
• What new approaches are needed to develop leaders’ capabilities?
• The role of leaders in driving change and engagement
• Building a coaching culture – the leader’s role in creating an environment
M4 11:00 – 11:30 Break and opportunity to visit exhibition
where innovation flourishes
Sarah Henbrey, Director – People & Organisational Development,
Sony Electronics Europe
11:30 – 12:30
Simon Foster, Client Solutions Director,
Utilising coaching as a vital business tool
Centre for High Performance Development
• What is the continued relevance for coaching in the current economic climate?
• How do traditional approaches to coaching need to adapt to make it more
relevant in the current market?
• Incorporating coaching and mentoring to encourage a change in behaviour
CLOSING ADDRESS
and reinforce the training
• What is the role of coaching in up-skilling employees to respond to
15:05 – 15:45
increased competition?
• Utilising inhouse talent – how can you identify and empower
Driving performance improvements through learning
potential coaches?
• What makes for memorable learning?
• How can online coaching and mentoring contribute to effectiveness
• How can L&D ensure learning is retained and transferred?
and efficiency?
• What reinforcements are needed to achieve a change in behaviour in
• Effectively integrating coaching into the blend
the workplace?
Jon Summerson, Career Planning & Development Manager, British Red Cross
• Gaining buy-in from relevant stakeholders to ensure transferral and
Sue Liburd, Coach, Unlimited Potential
implementation of learning
Tim Hawkes, Managing Director, Unlimited Potential
• Making learning relevant to encourage its application
• The challenge of measuring soft learning
• How can you measure increases in productivity and performance
delivered by learning?
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Penny Tamkin, Programme Director – Management & Leadership,
The Work Foundation
Programme and speakers correct at time of press. The organiser reserves the right to substitute speakers or
papers in exceptional circumstances. 15:45 – 15:55 Chair’s summation & close of conference
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