Free seminars for HRD - day 2

Continuing form our previous post, listed below are the free seminars and workshops available for you to see on day 2 at HRD10.

Thursday 22 April 2010
09:45-10:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone

Introducing 'My HR Map' - CIPD's new online self assessment tool
Discover CIPD's new online self-assessment tool - My HR Map. Learn how you can use it to assess your capability against the activities, knowledge and behaviors in the CIPD HR Profession Map. See how you can plan your professional development with access to recommendations for development. ...more

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

10:00-10:30 Stream: Topic Tasters
Creating a culture of improvement: Trainer assessment and development beyond the happy sheet

Delivered by: Reed Learning

10:00-10:45 Stream: Learning Arena
The Scapegoat, the Trickster and You: navigating organisational change
Working with different organisational characters to deliver an expected happy ending can be a challenge. Whatever your role, join us and ensure you’re the sage, not the scapegoat.

Delivered by: Irving Allan

10:45-11:15 Stream: Topic Tasters
Zen and the Art of Mindless Learning
A short journey of exploration- what kind of learning experiences will create the capacities our organisations will need to prosper in the kind of business "ecosystems" they encounter today?

Delivered by: Jigsaw@work

10:45-11:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
Maximising Your Own Learning
Move beyond action plans to get the most out of development opportunities, whether formal or informal.
Delivered by: MOL

11:00-11:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Unleashing Energy for Change with Physical Intelligence
Can movement transform the way people learn and engage? Learn about the concept of "I", try our body/brain workout, and experience Physical Intelligence, a new high impact development tool.

Delivered by: Companies in Motion

11:30-12:00 Stream: Topic Tasters
Future-Proof Organisations: The changing face of OD
OD must take into account the emerging need for organisations to recognise and embrace social and environmental issues alongside economic ones. We explore ways of achieving sustainable OD through leadership, dialogue and engagement.

Delivered by: Impact International

11:45-12:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
New Look Membership & Qualifications - what's in it for you?
Hear about the new look CIPD membership and qualifications. Find out how they'll help you demonstrate and build your professional competence based on the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be a successful HR practitioner.

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

12:00-12:45 Stream: Learning Arena
The Great Debate- coaching versus mentoring
Join us for an interactive discussion on the differences between Coaching and Mentoring as strategic development tools. Are we using the right tool for the right job?

Delivered by: Centre for People Development

12:15-12:45 Stream: Topic Tasters
Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap
People often know what they should be doing, but still don't do it. Knowing what should be done is not enough! 'FIT Science' is the next evolution in people/business development.

Delivered by: Exemplas Ltd

12:45-13:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
Feedback Skills
Using this vital skill to improve both your own performance and that of others. ...more

Delivered by: MOL

13:00-13:30 Stream: Topic Tasters
It's All About You
Discover your own communication style and improve your understanding of others during this interactive workshop.

Delivered by: Rada Enterprises

13:00-13:45 Stream: Learning Arena
How to Put Your Audience to Sleep in 45 Minutes!
All of us need a little help with our public speaking from time to time. This energetic session offers top tools, tips and techniques to start the session properly, structure and deliver your presentation with the audience in mind and maximise your personal presentation style. ...more

Delivered by: Blue Beetle Limited

13:45-14:15 Stream: Professional Development Zone
Using Your Head at Work; the Hard Case for Soft Skills
The showcase will introduce a range of recent approaches to soft skills highlight some evidence form surveys and review some key issues.

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

13:45-14:15 Stream: Topic Tasters
In Shape for Development?- The experiential component of OD
Representing current and future organisational structure and dynamics using experiential tools allows stakeholders to explore, discuss and understand both the need for change, and the vision that OD is offering.

Delivered by: RSVP Design

14:00-14:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Mediation and Dispute Resolution Training: a drama-based approach
This drama-based presentation brings alive some key approaches to workplace mediation and dispute resolution. Attendees can formulate and even try out a number of approaches to a dramatised dispute.

Delivered by: UK Mediation

14:30-15:00 Stream: Topic Tasters
Not Just a Pretty Interface; aligning e-learning with business goals
Using case studies this session will illustrate how companies are successfully driving business growth and supporting corporate values through strategic implementation of e-learning. Maximizing adoption through stakeholder engagement, learning content design and evaluation. ...more

Delivered by: Information Transfer


14:45-15:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
New Look Membership & Qualifications - what's in it for you?
Hear about the new look CIPD membership and qualifications. Find out how they'll help you demonstrate and build your professional competence based on the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be a successful HR practitioner.

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

15:00-15:30 Stream: Learning Arena
'I Want to Give You Some Feedback'
People won't accept feedback if they don't believe it to be credible or accurate. If they won't accept it then has it been effective? How do you therefore encourage acceptance?

Delivered by: Management Pocketbooks

15:15-15:45 Stream: Topic Tasters
The Challenge of the Digital Native Generation
Current and next generation learners will present major challenges to HR over the coming decade. This presentation will stimulate discussion about those challenges and their implications. ...more

Delivered by: Serious Games Institute

15:45-16:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
Buying in Training - How to ensure you get the training you deserve
This lively and interactive session using example, case study and discussion identifies the key issues that need to be addressed and covers the common mistakes L&D departments make when outsourcing.

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

16:00-16:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Green HRD: steps towards a green footprint
HRD now has to play a key role in improving the environmental performance of organisations. This session draws from a recent CIPD award winning paper for Best New Ideas and CETL award for Green Mentoring. Discuss, learn and develop individual and organisational steps to achieving a greener HRD culture.

Delivered by: Middlesex University Business School

HRD10 - this week at Olympia

With HRD 2010 returning to Olympia and only a few short days away have you planned your trip?

Listed below are the free seminars and workshops available for you to see on day 1.

Wednesday 21 April 2010
09:45-10:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone


Introducing 'My HR Map' - CIPD's new online self assessment tool
Discover CIPD's new online self-assessment tool - My HR Map. Learn how you can use it to assess your capability against the activities, knowledge and behaviors in the CIPD HR Profession Map. See how you can plan your professional development with access to recommendations for development. ...more

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

10:00-10:30 Stream: Topic Tasters
Could OD Make You a Better HR Practitioner?’
This session will discuss what is OD and what can it do for HR and the organisation? What makes OD difference from other change management solutions? And what skills do HR practitioners need to make sure they can support and deliver positive OD outcomes? ...more

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

10:00-10:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Communicate Effectively for Fun, For Free, For Forty-Five Minutes…..Fearlessly
Have you heard the one about the actor, the barrister and the magician? They're the team that will share their professional techniques to inspire you to communicate effectively with confidence and passion. ...more

Delivered by: Effective Communication Group,

10:45-11:15 Stream: Topic Tasters
Demonstrating the Non-tangible Benefit of Management Development Programmes
Quantifying the benefit of any management development programme is the hardest part of preparing a business case for the cost. Thames Water report the benefits accruing from an ongoing programme. ...more

Delivered by: Dove Nest Group

10:45-11:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
Presenting your Case with Impact
Making sure your audience understand your message is key -helping them remember what you have said afterwards as they make decisions, accept your recommendations or change their behaviour is crucial. This session explores how to make an impact on your audience and make your message memorable. ...more

Delivered by: MOL
11:00-11:45 Stream: Learning Arena

How To Have A Difficult Conversation - a transactional analysis approach
Join our interactive session and learn how our mind set changes when we experience stress or pressure and how this may negatively impact our communication. Discover how Transactional Analysis can help you and your work colleagues manage this more effectively.
Delivered by: Learning Curve (TLC),

11:30-12:00 Stream: Topic Tasters
Creating 'Anywhere, Anytime' Learning
We will discuss how e-learning and video can help you reach more learners. We'll look at of how organisations, large and small, have reaped business benefits by creating a genuine 'anywhere, anytime' approach to learning. ...more

Delivered by: Video Arts

11:45-12:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
New Look Membership & Qualifications - what's in it for you?

Hear about the new look CIPD membership and qualifications. Find out how they'll help you demonstrate and build your professional competence based on the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be a successful HR practitioner. ...more

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

12:00-12:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Lie to Me - reading emotions and deceit through facial expressions
The ability to read emotions in others through micro and subtle facial expressions can be learned. This session will show you how.

Delivered by: Development Processes Group Plc

12:15-12:45 Stream: Topic Tasters
Self-Leadership- taking the initiative!
Develop your people to make the transition from responsiveness to responsibility; to take the initiative in idea generation, innovation and problem solving; tackle assumed constraints; collaborate; and recognise their Points of Power. ...more

Delivered by: Ken Blanchard Companies

12:45-13:15 Stream: Professional Development Zone
Are There Enough Hours in the Day?
A familiar cry from busy people everywhere, so how can we make best use of our time, achieve what we need and even more. This session considers how we use our time and shares some approaches to self management that can be put into practice straight away. ...more

Delivered by: MOL

13:00-13:30 Stream: Topic Tasters
Brilliant Decision Making
Getting decisions right- the first time- is increasingly important in today's stretched organisational environment. This talk will give potent and practical information to anyone who wants to consistently make top class decisions at work, and to encourage others to do the same.
Venue: Brilliant Decision Making -
Delivered by: NLP School

13:00-13:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Bring Alive and Sustain Learning - naturally!
Dull, boring, predictable- Don't blame the topic, engage the learner. This fun packed informative session is designed for trainers and presenters who dare to be different and have a passion for transformational learning. ...more

Delivered by: Tetramap

13:45-14:15 Stream: Topic Tasters
OD - why bother?
This session will help you to get a clearer fix on what OD is, what it is not and the different ways in which it is practised. Using Roffey Park’s own research and insights from its successful MSc in People and Organisational Development we will help you recognise and articulate the value that OD can bring to your organisation ...more

Delivered by: Roffey Park Institute Limited

13:45-14:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
Buying in Training - how to ensure you get the training you deserve
This lively and interactive session using example, case study and discussion identifies the key issues that need to be addressed and covers the common mistakes L&D departments make when outsourcing. ...more

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

14:00-14:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Putting the Customer First – achieving lasting relationships.
Knowing and understanding your customer helps give you the skills to serve them effectively. How can you build on that success to generate trusting, valued relationships and develop customer loyalty to your business?

Delivered by: Steps Drama Learning Development Limited

14:30-15:00 Stream: Topic Tasters
10 Great Ideas to Turn Classroom Training into Exciting E-learning
With pressure on training budgets, many organisations are looking to convert classroom training to online learning. This session will cover 10 practical tips to help make this transition a success. ...more

Delivered by: Sponge UK

14:45-15:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
Training with Vision – how to enhance your training courses with video
The role of video as a training tool is changing. With content now available in bite-sized chunks focussing on skills rather than a drama, trainer’s need to gain a new skill set of their own to be able to use these resources effectively. Terry Gillen, the CIPD DVDs’ originator and Series Consultant, shows you how to gain maximum value from them. ...more

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

15:00-15:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Why Won't People Listen To Me?
Do your ideas sometimes get dismissed? You have great thoughts but they don't always get taken forward. This session gives you practical tips on influencing others for impact. ...more

Delivered by: Hemsley Fraser Group Ltd

15:15-15:45 Stream: Topic Tasters
Selecting Coaches for the Generation Y Era and Beyond
What will new era coaches need to be capable of to support your emerging young talent? ...more

Delivered by: Unlimited Potential

15:45-16:45 Stream: Professional Development Zone
New Look Membership & Qualifications - what's in it for you?
Hear about the new look CIPD membership and qualifications. Find out how they'll help you demonstrate and build your professional competence based on the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be a successful HR practitioner. ...more

Delivered by: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

16:00-16:30 Stream: Topic Tasters
Create, Load and Deliver Your Learning Content Using New Technologies
A look at how your organisation can begin to build a culture of collaborative and informal learning, engaging learners with your own content and utilising new technologies for learning and delivery. ...more

Delivered by: Working Manager,

The 16:00-16:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Short Activities can Initiate Change and Improve Performance. How?
Experience how short fun activities can, when well facilitated; introduce serious topics, stimulate personal thought, become a platform for personal and organisational change. ...more

Delivered by: MTa Learning

16:45-17:15 Stream: Topic Tasters
Leveraging Diversity for Competitive Advantage
Traditional approaches to diversity have focused on risk avoidance, today we will show you how to proactively create inclusive workplaces that get the best from your people and offer the best to your clients.

Delivered by: Impact International

17:00-17:45 Stream: Learning Arena
Experiential Learning at its Best
This session will facilitate a Teamscapes activity and a debriefing session that will demonstrate the power of Experiential Learning.

Delivered by: Sundial Group

17:30-18:00 Stream: Topic Tasters
The Challenge of the Digital Native Generation
Current and next generation learners will present major challenges to HR over the coming decade. This presentation will stimulate discussion about those challenges and their implications. ...more

Delivered by: Serious Games Institute

What's driving the business context

Bob Morton from Ciba introduced the session and Liam Fahey

Bob Morton from Ciba speciality chemicals opened the session and during his opening he reminded us that while many other speakers at the event had highlighted the current financial situation we should look beyond what is happening in the financial sector and look at the wider picture. His implication being that if you only look at the end of your nose you miss the real issues and more importantly the opportunities.

Liam Fahey (from the leadership forum) 'launched' himself on an unsuspecting audience with the opening line "good afternoon (it was 0935), those of us not in HR are used to an earlier start." - not a ripple from the some what small audience in the large auditorium. Fahey carried on regardless.

Fahey started to set the scene of what is happening in the world and how this impacts on our future strategy development - not just for hr but HR and business. He asked the rhetorical question "what COULD happen in the future that can screw your organisation?..." "what are humanities greatest needs" Indeed big questions for early on a Thursday morning.

Fahey drew our attention to what he calls the 10 needs of humanity (foci of change):

1. Energy
2. Water
3. Environment
4. Education
5. Poverty
6. Food
7. Disease
8. Terrorism/ war
9. Democracy
10. Population

And asked us how many of us applied this to our organisation when looking at strategy? In conjunction with this he highlighted a range of change domains: Products/ Services, Plans/Strategies, Region/ Global etc.. all of which interact with the global drivers of change. These can create and destroy significant business opportunities. To put these factors into context he pointed out that it did not matter how big or small our organisations were, nor what products or services we offer - regionally or globally, these factors would impact us and our decision making.

We were taken on a whistle stop tour of data and impacts of these ten factors, and shown that it is not difficult to get data on these factors - indeed many of the governmental agencies around the world provide this data for free - all we need to do is use it! This started to make the whole proposition real. No longer were these factors that would impact big and international organisations but each and every one of us.

As an example of using this data Fahey gave a brief case study looking at the mobile phone sector, he showed how the first 1/2 billion users are now changing their phone on average every 12 months, that the second 1/2 billion users have different requirements - and that the further down the user population you go the challenges faces - to the extent that the business model that works for the first 1/2 billion users is completely inappropriate for the second billion users etc... so as organisations we need to adapt to market needs greater than anything we have done before.

Lehey outlined the 10 factors and the potential impacts. He stated that 15% of the worlds population live with an abundance of water - that leave 85% with a water shortage - so their needs will be different, both in terms of services and application of technology and products. In this context he discussed two US based organisations that are pulling their manufacturing out of India and China and relocating them to the US on the basis that the water situation in the two countries will have a significant impact on production capability. So these 10 factors are being used by organisations for strategic decision making.

Food - demand is outpacing supply, and this is an area that needs to be looked at - both use and waste if we are to have a sustainable business model.

Terrorism - this was an interesting one, he asked us on a scale of one to ten of impact on us as a world population and economy where terrorism would be.... then he asked the same of human based viruses...... his answer was that terrorism was -10 and human virus was +100 in terms of impact. he cites SARS which only lasted for a few months and to all intents and purposes only really hit one region - he then asked us to imagine what would happen if a disease really spread and to thing about the impact..... He then asked what sort of effort and priority our governments were putting into protecting us from these factors - he mentioned that the UK only has enough vaccine for 5% of its population for a flu pandemic....

In Disease he looked at the increasing cost and impact of diabetes, both to the health of a population, health care implications and on product R and D. fascinating stuff.

Fahey skirted at a rapid pace on so many areas that I could not do them justice here.

Closing

He closed with challenging HR. HR needs to drive these things (the 10 factors) to influence senior management. We (HR) need to be both overt and subversive, we are potentially hold the key for success for our organisations... no one else is doing it...

Where ideology meets human circumstances ideology always loses.... this is as true in business as it is in politics... so values are all very well but just how far will the organisation go to support them? ( what would you do/ not do for £10m ?).

In the Q&A section in response to a question... You must remember the following two rules:

• Rule #1 you cannot predict the future
• Rule #2 ... remember rule #1

He said it was not about predicting the future - but running scenarios based on the information he has shared to forcast possible situations, he said that incidents like 9/11, the financial crash have been identified by scenario planning and some organisations are better position BECAUSE they had CONSIDERED the possibility... not because the 'predicted it'

He intimated that people are THE strategic asset and as managers we need to ensure that this asset and resources is utilised effectively - whatever that means in a given context.

Summary thoughts

It was a shame that there was a small audience and a a 'reluctant' applause. For me this was one of the most powerful and enlightening session of the conference. For an HR manager or director to be truly strategic we need to look beyond the policy and procedures and develop contingency and strategy to deal with the possible future scenarios. One colleague Fahey mentioned said that in an exercise looking at 'worst possible situation' - over 90% of them had already occurred - so strategic and scenario planning is of critical performance.

Fahey did not 'sell' his own books in fact they were not mentioned in the presentation - I for one will be buying some of them - a highly recommended speaker - in fact I would say mandatory reading/ listening for all CPP and other HR 'students'. I hope the MP3 of this session will be widely available.