16 November 2012- London
Learn what inspires people at work and how successful, organisations generate true passion from their employees.
Overview
The importance of ensuring an engaged workforce is rapidly increasing as more work becomes virtual, as well as team and knowledge-based. However, in most organisations, particularly in the UK, engagement has been falling for some years. (Where surveys show engagement increasing recently, this is largely a result of people being worried about losing their jobs and should not necessarily be taken to indicate an increase in their desire to do their jobs or a passion to help their organisations succeed!)
Businesses, governments and academics are now getting worried about this. Gary Hamel, for example, refers to the fact that organisations are more likely to ‘douse the flames of employee enthusiasm than fan them’ as management’s dirty little secret. This secret is now increasingly being openly discussed and this is therefore the right time for HR to offer some alternative solutions to other business leaders.
Attend this seminar to learn and reflect on what does inspire people at work and how some successful, maverick organisations are generating true passion from their employees. Then plan how to adapt these experiences to your own organisation.
Who Should Attend?
- HR practitioners especially those with responsibility for employee engagement or employee relationships
- Talent managers with an interest in gaining deeper understanding and capability in engaging their people
Learning Outcomes
- Be able to define employee engagement and describe what factors engage employees in general
- Have considered the factors which influence engagement within your own organisation and how these factors can be enhanced
- Be able to describe what some leading organisations are doing differently to significantly increase the engagement levels of their employees
- Have planned what you and your organisation can do differently to better understand your own employees’ engagement drivers and to support these drivers and hence increase engagement
Programme
9:30 -10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome, Introductions and Objectives for the day
10:30 – 11:30 The Current Context for Engagement
- Learning from psychology – what we know about engagement
- Changing expectations about work and the need to build trust following the recession
- The MacLeod Review and beyond
11:30 – 11:45 Morning Coffee
11:45 – 12:45 The Role of Engagement Surveys
- What we know generally from engagement surveys and a review of the information these surveys can provide on individual organisations
- Picking the right survey / vendor / delivery mechanism for your organisation
- Other ways of understanding the engagement drivers of your employees
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch and Discussion
13:30 – 14:30 What does Work in Engaging Employees?
- Reviewing what does lead to engagement – a review of recent research and case studies of innovative approaches
- Learning from situations where your employees really are engaged – voluntary and crowd sourced activities, gaming and social media etc
- How these examples can be tailored and applied within your own organisation
14:30 – 14:45 Afternoon Tea
15:45 – 15:45 The role of Leaders, Line Managers and HR
- Why employee engagement is not all down to the line manager
- Developing an organisational focus on engagement
- Actions HR can take to significantly boost engagement
15:45 – 16:00 Conclusions and Action Planning
Trainer
Jon Ingham is an independent strategic people management and organisation development consultant. He regularly speaks and provides training in Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia and has also lectured in strategic management, change management and human resources on executive MBA courses in both West and East Europe.
Jon is also the author of ‘Strategic HCM: Creating Value through People’ (2006) and is currently completing a second book called ‘Social Advantage’. He also posts regularly to blogs with these same titles and has recently been recognised as the top global online influencer in talent management.
Currently working with Strategic Dynamics, Jon was previously with Director of Human Capital Consulting, Europe for Buck Consultants / ACS and as Head of HR Consulting for Penna. Before this he worked as an International HR Director for Ernst & Young, and before that as an IT then change management consultant for Andersen Consulting.
Jon has a BA in Psychology, a Masters in Engineering and an MBA. He is a Fellow of the CIPD.
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Book for the related conference, Employee Engagement Summit 2011, in addition to reserving your place on this workshop and receive £100 off the conference.
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Pricing
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