THE CONFERENCE - DAY 2
VIP Conference Day 2
08:50
Chair's opening remarks
WORKPLACE OF THE FUTURE
09:00
The digitally disrupted workplace – how to remain relevant and competitive
- Strategies for competing in the digital age
- Making the transition from traditional office to a next-gen workspace
- The benefits of collecting and analysing workforce data
- The war for talent heats up – dealing with changing expectations and dynamics
- Realising the connection between people, tech and workspaces
- Finding the digital, learning and well-being sweet spot
09:20
How to make todays ever-changing workplace work for you
- Supporting flexible working spaces, hours and structure
- Identifying what’s driving the increasing interest in wellness in the workplace
- Facilitating personalisation through analytics
- Designing spaces that give employees choice and boost productivity
- Tech – bridging generation divides at work
- Considering elements to stimulate innovation and encourage
09:40
Embracing millennial: Their habits, needs and work expectations
- Workspaces for millennials - Catering to a workforce that’s geared towards collaboration
- Attracting and retaining millennials – why workspace design is so important
- Apps, tech and new productive workspace – are we merely getting distracted?
- Incorporating quick and mobile communication into everything
- Doing HR and training differently - productive team networks
- Adapting to a “one digital workspace” approach
10:00
How to deliver the best “future workplace” experience
- Strategic, agile, customer focussed and employee focussed
- Using workplace design to build an engagement culture
- Supporting personalised learning and disruptive technologies
- Leaders and organisations as “learning machines”
- Rethinking, reimagining and reinventing
10:20
Speed Networking
10:40
Morning Tea
WORK SIMPLIFICATION
NEW NORMAL FOR L&D
Track 1
11:20Simplify the work environment: Starting with your employee
- Using technology to your advantage
- Doing away with complex processes and stressful work environments
- Creating more time for creative thinking and increasing productivity
- Building a corporate culture that helps employees focus and be less overwhelmed
- Encouraging work-life balance
Track 2
11:20Cracking L&D: The continuous learning model
- Escaping static learning approaches
- Allowing employees to have access to the learning opportunities they desire when they desire
- Highlighting the methods for doing so
- Monitoring engagement, success and ROI
Track 1
11:50Transformation of workforce
- Transformation as part of workforce, as part of overall company strategy
- Honest engagements with workforce
- On-going communication and positive re-enforcement on creative thinking
- Development of workforce in line with Succession planning
- On- going evaluation of achievements
- WIN-WIN situation: Happy employees leading to happy clients
Track 2
11:50New v old learning methods – bridging the generational gap
- Blended learning concepts for employee training
- Multigenerational considerations
- Building internal knowledge sharing programs
- Highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of emerging methods
ROUNDTABLES
12:20
Adapting to technology disruption: What skills do workers need?
12:20
How people analytics helps you know your workforce
Tami Mashau, Talent Manager, SABC
12:20
Maintaining productivity from a blended workforce
12:20
Prioritising EQ as part of your HR strategy
12:20
The power of influence and millennials
12:20
Tracking HR with real-time feedback. What to do next!
13:00
Lunch
WORK/LIFE
COLLABORATION
Track 1
14:20From work/life balance to work/life blending
- It’s about work/life alignment, not just balance
- Understanding the role of technology and focussing on output quality
- Creating a workplace community that promotes accountability and responsibility
- Flexibility and fundamentals - Intentional structure and time management
- Recognising the cycles and finding balance thereafter
Track 2
14:20Creating a culture of collaborative learning
- Accommodating multigenerational, multicultural, multi-skilled communities
- Maximising efficiency through technology
- Considering social trends
- Shifting the process from productivity to developing people
Nceba Ndzwayiba, Head of Transformation and People Development, Netcare Ltd
Track 1
14:40The benefits of incorporating workplace wellbeing into your HR, people and future work strategy
- Why workplace wellbeing is critical element to attracting new talent
- VR and other innovations that support flexibility
- Leveraging new internal communication tools
- Work-life integration and blended workplaces
- Determining how adopting wellness initiatives can boost productivity
Track 2
14:40Creating collaborative working spaces that won’t break the bank
- hubs
- Collaborative working spaces: Open, but not too open
- Multifunction furniture and stand-up desks
- Modular systems: responsive, sustainable, and affordable
- Sourcing the facilities required
- Turning office commons into social
Track 1
15:00How to secure an overwhelming buy-in into workplace wellness initiatives
- Building brand ambassadors – captivating middle management
- Reviews, performance results, engagement and rewards
- Harnessing desirable employee benefits
- Exciting the workforce and delivering an experience
Track 2
15:00Creating a culture of collaborative teamwork:
- Culture = “the smell of the place”
- Identifying the goal, aligning the team and the focus
- Establishing the language and the way forward
- Using individual differences to the benefit of the team
- Commit and re-align – the continuous focus
WORKPLACE DESIGN
ATTRACT AND RETAIN
Track 1
15:20Sourcing, designing and creating innovative workspaces and locations
- To assign workstation, or not – that is the question
- Density, efficiency and utilisation of space
- Location, location, location
- Hubs, co-working spaces, private retreats
- Driving productivity and managing the costs of alternative work locations
Track 2
15:20The fight to attract and retain talent
- An employer as a brand – marketing to current and potential employees
- Implementing new and innovative ideas
- Sourcing talent internally – an untapped resource
- Utilising big data in HR, talent assessment and learning
- Aligning your people strategy with business needs
Bontle Seele, Africa Sourcing Lead: Talent Acquisition, Philips Health Systems
Track 1
15:40The experiential, next generation workspace
- Behavioural science, change management, performance metrics and technology: how they affect workplace design
- The evolving business world and how workspaces need to change with it
- Design that retains top talent and encourages collaboration
- Boutique workspaces for freelancers
- Activity based work settings
Track 2
15:40Giving HR an upgrade
- Considering the necessary skills of HR teams going forward
- What this means for attracting and retaining talent
- Employing digitally and socially savvy workers to the profession
- Retaining the human factor
- Driving the use of data to make decisions
Track 1
16:00Blurring the physical and digital world: strategic technology for the future workplace
- Working anywhere, any time and from any device
- Transforming the working environment to support enhanced automation and increasing computer power
- Adapting to autonomy
- Intelligent apps – virtual assistants and AI capabilities
Track 2
16:00How to stay relevant and be an employer of choice
- Personalising the recruitment process
- Adopting an open mind to recruitment and the 21st century workplace
- Integrating apps for talent assessment and performance management
- Putting the employee first
- Successful integrating disruptive technologies to support HR and learning
16:20
Chair's closing address and close of conference
16:30
Afternoon Tea, exhibition and networking
last published: 24/Oct/17 10:35 GMT
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