EVENTS


DOING THINGS DIFFERENTLY Debra Corey is the best-selling author of HR, Reward & Leadership Expert and the co-author of Build It: The Rebel Playbook for Employee Engagement. She is responsible for delivering HR strategies and programmes in a rebellious way, pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo to truly drive employee engagement. Ms Corey is a rewards guru, with more than 20 years’ experience as a rewards leader, speaker and teacher. She will explore Being an employee engagement rebel in a fast-changing


global environment and will ask, “What would management look like if we did things differently, shook up the accepted ways of thinking and challenged the status quo?” She says, “We can’t just do things the old way. We need to rethink how employers talk to their staff. My challenge to managers is to stop lying and tell people the truth.” Her extensive research into successful employee reward


programmes has looked at schemes run by companies as diverse as HSBC, Gap and Virgin Group. For example, HSBC has a listening project – officially called HSBC Exchange, but known colloquially among staff as ‘Shut up and Listen’. It involves managers having regular communications with staff so that they can listen to employees talk about “anything and everything” to do with the business. The role of the manager is to listen actively, giving employees space and time to express their views. Gap has introduced a continuous assessment and feedback system,


known as Grow Perform Success (GPS), which aims to nurture and support employees and managers as they move through the organisation. This means managers are supported regularly, rather than just receiving a 360-degree appraisal once a year.


A NEW BLUEPRINT FOR LEADERSHIP Paul Williamson is head of talent development at ATG, the world’s largest live theatre group, with 50 venues in Britain, the US and Germany, and international sales of £155.8 million. He is a chartered member of the CIPD, an experienced presenter and facilitator and an AoEC qualified executive coach. He has developed the Leading Lights leadership development


programme for senior leaders, which includes strategy and purpose, emotional intelligence, coaching skills, resilience, managing and motivating teams, presentation skills and trust. Mr Williamson has also developed Rising Stars, a two-year development programme for emerging leaders. He will look at the way we communicate and the effect that has on other people, with particular emphasis on how leaders can improve their communication skills. “All the work I do in terms of leadership development and coaching


is about heightening people’s awareness of themselves and the impact they have on others,” he says. “Taking the analogy of a film score, I will be asking people to think about what their leadership theme music would be. What signals does it give to the people around you? My work is about helping people to become more mindful about the way they work within teams and how they can create a more inclusive approach.”


He will stimulate discussion around the different ways people


communicate – in terms of emotion, power and meaning. What is your personal style, how does this impact on the success of your leadership and how do other people respond to you? He will examine how leaders can modify their language to communicate effectively with as many people as possible.


INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE CULTURES Teresa Boughey, CEO of award-winning Jungle HR, brings her experience of working with executive boards and leadership teams during times of change and business transformations. She is passionate about enabling organisations to create inclusive workplace cultures. “Modern leadership is about creating a shared purpose with input from staff at every level of an organisation,” she says. She is passionate about inclusive leadership and what that looks like. “It is important because this is about how we attract and retain


people,” she says. “People typically leave organisations because of a leader rather than the company itself. Given that we have a global talent shortfall in the workplace, organisations must take these steps now.”


MAKING THE TRANSFORMATIONAL SHIFT Leading academic and inspirational speaker, Professor Vlatka Hlupic is also the author of best-selling The Management Shift and her latest book, Humane Capital. She argues that companies that fail to adapt to the new way of working will flounder in the new global economy and may not be sustainable in the long run. Change is coming and those companies that don’t make the


switch from the old “command and control” management models to a business that is more collaborative and inclusive will fail to thrive in the future, says Professor Hlupic. She will discuss what companies can learn from start-ups, how organisations can survive the huge technological changes that are taking place and how managers will play a vital role in redesigning workplace culture. Using case studies from Humane Capital, Professor Hlupic will


explain why international executives, HR and mobility professionals and experts need to shift their management mindset to achieve success in the future. She will explain the toolkit that leaders, executives and managers need in this new model of leadership based on people, purpose and collaboration. She will discuss how adopting a new style of leadership will


foster innovation and increase profitability. “Business as usual is not good enough anymore,” she says. “Individuals and organisations need to go through this big shift.”


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