The Age of Fluidity - HR's Challenge
The inter-action between demographics, globalization and regulation is creating a fluid market environment in which, the old dictum ‘structure follows strategy' has been turned on its head. As a result, HR professionals find themselves increasingly in a fire-fighting mode to the extent that strategic HR has become a vacuously empty phrase. To make it more meaningful, one needs to understand the nature of the interaction as well as the challenges created by it. This half-day workshop delivered by Prof Amin Rajan will look at some of the key issues that HR need to address to help their businesses succeed in these ever-changing days.
With a high percentage of organisational change efforts failing, this workshop will examine the primary causes of such failures and identify the factors that drive success.
Using the GE and Goldman Sachs approaches to leadership as reference points, Steve Kerr will present a number of models for managing corporate transformations and discuss the role top management must play to ensure their change efforts are a success.
Learning is increasingly seen as a critical element in driving improved performance across an organisation.
Building on CRF's 2005 report on learning and development strategies, this workshop and related research report will examine all aspects of developing and implementing a successful learning strategy, including how to create the right context and support systems, understanding trends in learning techniques and reviewing methods for evaluating the learning strategy's success.
As the rate of change accelerates and operating conditions become tougher, the demands placed on executives are increasingly intense. Yet many potential leaders feel ill-equipped to handle such high pressured roles.
This meeting will debate the role of organisations in nurturing and planning the development of their future leaders and ask whether business schools are equipped to guide leaders of the future.
Building on CRF's 2006 workshop on the subject, this member symposium and new research report will provide an up to date perspective on managing and obtaining value from coaching and mentoring.
We will examine the role of coaching in facilitating improvement and culture change in a multi cultural context and assess the influence of the strengths-based management philosophy, to understand how coaching and mentoring can make a lasting difference for individuals, teams and organisations.
Winning the battle for ‘hearts and minds' is critical to the success of any change programme, yet many business leaders fail to understand and manage the emotional dimensions of change.
With academic input, case studies from O2 and Royal & SunAlliance, and experiential breakout sessions, this workshop will identify and examine the strategies, processes and techniques that can transform employees into enthusiastic advocates for change.
The HR function has a key role to play in shaping and developing an organisation's change, performance and competitive capabilities, yet is it fit to do so?
Expanding on previous CRF work in this field, we will examine HR's contribution to the business strategy and cultural transformation processes, discussing all elements including organisation design and restructuring, creation of talent management frameworks and the management of measurement and evaluation frameworks.