European Human Capital Management Focus Day

20th January 2009
Hyatt Regency Birmingham

Focus Day Agenda20 January 2009

08:45

Delegate registration and refreshments

09:15

Welcome address and chairman's introduction

Professor Andy Neely, Chairman, Centre for Business Performance, Cranfield University UK

09:30

Accessing the components of human capital management

Ensuring the strategic management of employees and the overall strategic direction of business goals through human capital management

Reviewing your business and function for HCM success
Planning a strategy to create strategic and performance improvement

10:10

Focusing your staff on business performance management

The power of performance...
Creating meaning - using measures to ensure employee engagement
Developing skills and capabilities - extracting insight from data
Exploring the Performance Planning Value Chain
Looking for connections - links between employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and firm performance

Professor Andy Neely, Chairman, Centre for Business Performance, Cranfield University UK

10:50

Morning refreshments

11:05

Human Capital Strategy

Business transformation - building the adaptive workforce

HR's role of tackling overall business strategy whilst continuing to deliver operationally
Driving more value to the organisation through strategic HR activities

Systems and Tools

Using HR systems to drive your HCM strategy

Aligning the goals of your employees with your companies overall business strategy
Self service systems to boost motivation, productivity, and efficiency of staff

Skills and Investing in HCM

Measuring and valuing human capital competencies

Instilling the correct staff mindset to adhere to company standards
Working within and improving learning in regulated industries

12:05

Human Capital Strategy

Structuring and modelling to add business flexibility

Changing business models to achieve your performance and profitability goals
Gaining advantage through enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and applications

Systems and Tools

Measuring staff performance and patterns

Developing systems for structured appraisal monitoring
Analysing staff patterns through workforce management software to measure staff performance
Case study

Skills and Investing in HCM

Strategies to reduce and manage absence

Valuing the benefit your people bring to your organisation
Promoting the value of staff through health and wellbeing programmes
Effectively investing in your human capital - from the individual to the whole company

13:05

Networking buffet lunch

14:05

Identifying, developing and measuring human capital talent

Assessment tactics to identify individuals for promotion and development
Evaluating all parties involved in the talent process: employees, line managers and external coaches
Measuring ROI through cross departmental working

Jim Butcher, Deputy Director, Talent Management, Ministry of Defence UK

14:45

Human Capital Strategy

Identifying and engaging talent through human capital management

Recruiting and retaining the correct skills for your human capital strategy
Is there now a business case for analytical and conceptual skills in HR?

Systems and Tools

Sharing resources, systems and information to enable efficiency and greater team working

Streamlining services to provide efficiency
Adding effective collaborative tools and systems to aid business performance

Skills and Investing in HCM

Training staff with the required skill set

Creating the correct employee approach and motivation for managing human capital
New skills for leaders - what abilities do leaders require?

15:45

Afternoon refreshments

16:00

Managing human capital through changes in business strategy

Identifying and realising your strategic goals through leveraging your capital and your assets
Using modeling and technologies to adapt seamlessly to change