All Events
Zoom Interactive Event: The Geopolitical Outlook – How Is It Changing?
- How will the crisis affect the balance of power - weakening some states and strengthening others? - Will the major trading nations return to a broad economic consensus or continue to fragment into hostile tribes, blaming each other? - Will globalisation go into reverse as countries hunker down and seek to be more self-sufficient - or will it herald a new era of international co–operation? - How will the oil price crash affect states that rely on oil wealth to maintain political stability? - How will the hit to the US economy affect Trump’s chances of re-election? - Will countries with weakened economies seek refuge in populism, or revert to ‘safer’ traditional political parties? - Will the crisis change our habits to the point where it has an effect on climate change? - Will agreement on the EU budget and the dispute over central bank intervention stretch EU unity to its limits? - Is a Brexit extension beyond end 2020 inevitable, or will the UK embark on an experiment to run a major economy without trade deals? In this webinar, Professor Amelia Hadfield will assess the impact that the coronavirus pandemic may exert on the geo-political environment. She will provide us with some perspective and insights into what might change and what is likely to stay the same. This session will give you vital information to inform your thinking, and help you prepare now for the challenges that lie ahead in the post-pandemic world.
Zoom Interactive Event: Employee Engagement Through the Crisis
Join Gillian Pillans, CRF’s Research Director, to discuss the challenges of maintaining employee engagement through difficult times, with ENGAGE, Glint and a CRF member case study (details TBC). Questions we will tackle include: - How have organisations’ engagement strategies changed in the short term in response to Covid-19? - What strategies can organisations adopt to maintain employee engagement among virtual teams? - What should companies be doing now to prepare for life after the crisis?
Zoom Interactive Event: What Is Happening To The Economy?
Given the current circumstances we are delighted to open up some of the sessions from our PARC Programme to CRF members. As such you are invited to What is happening in the economy? Join Roger Bootle, one of the UK’s foremost economists as he discusses: • What’s happening to economies now? • What will the eventual impact of the pandemic be? • What kind of recovery can we expect? • What might be some of the lasting impacts?
Zoom Interactive Event: Effective Leadership Development in Disruptive Times
Our 2019 research, <i>Digital Disruption: Exploring the Implications for Leaders and Leadership Development</i>, examined the leadership capabilities required for success in the digital age and the implications for leadership development. In this interactive webinar, attendees will work collaboratively, prompted by the latest thinking in leadership development from IMD faculty, case studies and facilitated discussion among participants. Attendees will have the opportunity to: <ul> <li>• Compare experiences around the critical leadership challenges faced by their organisations and share how they are tackling them.</li> <li>• Gain deeper insights into the principles of effective leadership development and consider how these might be implemented within their organisations.</li> <li>• Discuss how to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of leadership development and how to apply these ideas in practice.</li> <li>• Collaborate with peers in co-creating solutions to leadership challenges in their organisations.</li>
Zoom Interactive Event: Business Partnering In A Crisis
In responding to the coronavirus, we need to be thinking and preparing across three time horizons: • <strong>Survival</strong> – In the short term how do we ensure our organisations continue to operate? • <strong>Reset</strong> – In the medium term how do we reset our strategy to reflect a changed external environment? • <strong>Thrive</strong> – In the long term how do we prepare our organisations to thrive when we come out of this into what will be a new normal? In this webinar we will explore what this means for HRBPs who will be at the sharp end of dealing with the crisis. • How can we help leaders and managers operate from a position of caring? If we don’t, people will remember how they are treated today. • Employee engagement will become strategically critical. How do we drive engagement and feel the pulse of the organisation, so leaders understand how people are feeling – not just what they’re doing? • How can we coach leaders and managers to help them and their people deal with the challenges of social isolation and remote working? • How can we engage in ‘reset’ conversations and begin to translate these into the new skills and culture we will need to thrive in the future? • How can we work across HR to begin to build this future capability? But also, how do we support our HRBPs? They are facing the same challenges and we have to support them so they can support the business – who cares for the carers?
Zoom Interactive Event: Stop Planning, Start Preparing
In a time of unprecedented change and extreme uncertainty, we need to take action, but traditional responses will be less effective; instead, Dr. Stephen Bungay of Ashridge Strategic Management Centre and Dr. Rebecca Homkes of London Business School offer a three-part approach: <strong>Survive</strong> – weather the immediate economic storm and preserve business continuity <strong>Reset</strong> – revisit and reset your strategy to take account of the new reality <strong>Thrive</strong> – set yourself up for growth to take advantage of emerging opportunities In this webinar Stephen and Rebecca will consider what leaders can do to prepare their organisations to survive the current climate, reset the plan, and thrive through a potential downturn.
Zoom Interactive Event: Bringing Down the Walls: Lessons in Social Mobility
Looking at the issues as a series of walls – between generations, between rich and poor, between genders, between economic powers, between people and their leaders and between us and our planet – Bris will examine what it will take to break down the barriers that divide us. Professor Bris will argue that we need a greater sense of urgency to tackle the blocks to our progress. Some walls, such as gender and climate, can only be broken down by a shift in mindset. Others, like trade wars and immigration, require action. Progress will require collaboration: governments, companies and society working together to solve our urgent problems. Underpinning all of this is the need to put technology at the service of people. What’s the way forward? Bris will take a holistic view, with responsibility shared between individuals, governments, and corporate entities. We will have to move towards more inclusive prosperity, which ultimately is the backbone of competitiveness.
Zoom Interactive Event: Navigating the All-Remote Workforce
CRF will host a virtual peer-sharing event for members to share experiences and good practice on Remote Working, with special guest Caroline Arora, People Director at Hoxby. Hoxby, a global community of freelance experts in marketing, HR, PR, creative, admin, and innovation, has had an entirely remote workforce from their founding, and has long experience navigating the challenges around remote working. The agenda will be based on concerns our members have raised and will include: • Good practices for remote working, including communication and practical considerations • Wellbeing for remote workers • Leading remote teams There will be opportunities for attendees to ask questions and share stories/good practices. We will be hosting this event on our Zoom platform.
HR Leaders’ Forum: Building Purposeful Organisations
This is an opportunity for participants to be challenged in their thinking around the role of HR, to share experiences with colleagues and to identify practical steps they can take to increase business impact in their organisation through the translation of strategy, purpose and brand into capability and effective culture. The event will be structured around three key themes: <ul> <li>• HR’s role in creating and executing strategy. We will argue that HR’s role is not just to operate people processes, but to lead an internal process that translates strategy into the organisational capabilities required for successful execution. We will discuss how HR can contribute to the development of company strategy, and explore the practicalities of HR’s role in developing organisational capabilities.</li> <p></p> <li>• Bringing organisational purpose to life. A clear sense of organisational purpose guides the actions of leaders and enables employees to relate their personal goals, values and sense of purpose to the organisation’s mission. To be authentic, the organisation’s external purpose should be reflected in its internal culture and representative of the actual experience of employees. We will discuss how to do this, and how traditional models of careers in companies are being challenged by individuals’ need for purpose.</li> <li>• Aligning employee experience and employer brand. Consistency between espoused brand values, employee experience, organisational culture and environment is essential but hard to achieve in reality, particularly when trying to identify a red thread across multiple units or brands. We will examine how to achieve consistency, the impact of employees on the employer brand, and how to measure and evaluate the employer brand.</li> </ul> <strong>The event will be preceded by dinner on the evening of Wednesday 4th March.</strong> <strong>This event is now fully booked. If you are interested in attending, please contact us and we shall add you to the waiting list.</strong>
